Re: [BackupPC-users] Viewing detail of a backup in progress?

2011-04-17 Thread Chris Bennett
e I/O activity on the file pool path, which may or may not be of use to you. Hope that helps. Regards, Chris Bennett (cgb) -- Benefiting from Server Virtualization: Beyond Initial Workload Consolidati

Re: [BackupPC-users] restore file attributes

2010-06-02 Thread Chris Bennett
correct name/group permissions in a partciular corner case, but that's different from having to chown/chgrp the entire restored tree like you're suggesting. I'm curious to know what you've observed for this that required you to reapply per

Re: [BackupPC-users] BPC-wiki on CentOS site that moved

2010-05-19 Thread Chris Bennett
n build on your work to expand the doco. Regards, Chris Bennett cgb -- ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/

Re: [BackupPC-users] How to nice IO ?

2010-05-19 Thread Chris Bennett
wrong ? Check the output of ps with nice value included in output: ps -eo pid,nice,user,args Or use top, which tells you the nice value by default. Regards, Chris Bennett cgb -- _

Re: [BackupPC-users] Forcing a daily archive (rather than just weekly)

2010-05-19 Thread Chris Bennett
that 3-4 hour window, the archive begins, and data gets written to tape. Hope that helps. Regards, Chris Bennett cgb -- ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists

Re: [BackupPC-users] Woe is me

2010-05-01 Thread Chris Bennett
off of old hardware, and during the reboot to cold clone the server, 2 of the 3 disks in the RAID 5 died...! I feel for you... Chris Bennett cgb -- ___ BackupPC-users mailing

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPc Version

2010-04-19 Thread Chris Bennett
reading perl code. Regards, Chris Bennett cgb -- Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See w

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPc Version

2010-04-19 Thread Chris Bennett
$ grep Version /usr/share/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC # Version 3.2.0beta1, released 24 Jan 2010. If BackupPC was installed via your OS's package management system, you should be able to query the version using the OS's management tool. RPM: rpm -q BackupPC DEB: dpkg -l backuppc .. Rega

[BackupPC-users] Website frontpage correction

2010-04-17 Thread Chris Bennett
To whomever has access to updating http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ 'Version 3.2.0beta0 released on April 5th, 2009' needs to be updated to reflect beta1 release on 25/01/2010. Regards, Chris Bennett cgb -

Re: [BackupPC-users] Incremental backup: What files changed?

2010-04-14 Thread Chris Bennett
r and it looks very useful. It doesn't immediately work on a redhat system (/etc/BackupPC, location of BackupPC_zcat) but they are trival things to fix up. Thanks again for sharing it. Regards, Chris Bennett cgb -- Down

Re: [BackupPC-users] Cloning Your BackupPC

2010-04-07 Thread Chris Bennett
tact. That way, you'd get your second copy of data without hitting the source systems twice. Food for thought. Regards, Chris Bennett cgb -- Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for your

Re: [BackupPC-users] Anyone get rsyncd to work on Windows Server 2008

2010-03-31 Thread Chris Bennett
syncserver 873 Trying 5.6.7.8... Connected to rsyncserver. Escape character is '^]'. @RSYNCD: 30.0 Hope that helps. Regards, Chris Bennett cgb -- Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software t

Re: [BackupPC-users] Communicating with a windows laptop on my workgroup

2010-03-18 Thread Chris Bennett
server, and configure your a DNS record for your desktop since it's statically assigned, but all methods above should work they way their advertised to work :) Regards, Chris Bennett cgb -- Download Intel® Para

Re: [BackupPC-users] Trouble setting up backup to a Windows host

2010-03-17 Thread Chris Bennett
end of it. Let me know how you go. Regards, Chris Bennett cgb -- Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for p

Re: [BackupPC-users] Trouble setting up backup to a Windows host

2010-03-17 Thread Chris Bennett
and domain. The password is not specified so that the tool prompts you for the password. I've attached some examples of what the output of this should like like for various cases (bad password, non-existant mount point, successful mount). Hopefully you will see some success shortly :) Re

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backups no longer run automatically

2010-03-16 Thread Chris Bennett
the conversation - BPC is a great engine and some of these more subtle usability could be ironed out to make it have a broader appeal (and enjoyable to use..) Regards, Chris Bennett cgb -- Download Intel® Parallel Studio

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backups no longer run automatically

2010-03-16 Thread Chris Bennett
> The 'host summary' web page shows everything at a glance. Look at > it once in a while if you care what is happening. I was just curious how the unfamiliar admin would be able to determine backups have stopped. From what I can tell, the host summary does not report if backups have stopped du

Re: [BackupPC-users] Trouble setting up backup to a Windows host

2010-03-16 Thread Chris Bennett
test/Temp Samsung_UPD > Mount is "util-linux 2.13-pre7", if that helps? [r...@linux mnt]# rpm -qf `which mount.cifs` samba-client-3.0.28-0.el4.9 > Thanks for your help so far! No problems, hopefully we'll get there :) Regards, Chris Bennett cgb ---

Re: [BackupPC-users] Trouble setting up backup to a Windows host

2010-03-16 Thread Chris Bennett
> Is your smb.conf set up to match? I'm not sure if mounting via cifs reads > it, > but for smbclient you need to have at least the domain and password server > set > in there, and maybe security=server. If this is really Active Directory, it > needs to have the domain compatibility mode set

Re: [BackupPC-users] Trouble setting up backup to a Windows host

2010-03-16 Thread Chris Bennett
could also try using smbclient: # list shared smbclient -L servername -U u...@domain # connect to a share and give you an interactive shell to browse smbclient //servername/share -U u...@domain Report back how these tests goes (preferablly mount.cif

Re: [BackupPC-users] Trouble setting up backup to a Windows host

2010-03-16 Thread Chris Bennett
ommand against the test share. If things continue not to work, then I'd have to ask you for: - version of mount.cifs - Windows OS version and suggest you try updating to the latest version of Samba: http://ftp.sernet.de/pub/samba/3.5/rhel/5/sernet-samba.repo and see if things star

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backups no longer run automatically

2010-03-15 Thread Chris Bennett
threshold has been reached. Thoughts? Regards, Chris Bennett cgb -- Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel

Re: [BackupPC-users] Trouble setting up backup to a Windows host

2010-03-11 Thread Chris Bennett
x27;t connect to a > domain-computer? Shouldn't have anything to do with the machine being domain-connected (except that it may impact what username/password you need to access the resource as). Once you get manual mount working, you c

Re: [BackupPC-users] zfs dedupe test

2009-12-23 Thread Chris Bennett
27;ve thought about backing backuppc onto a lessfs volume (fuse-based inline deduping filesystem) - havn't tried it yet, but if anyone has, I'd like to hear more about it also. Regards, Chris Bennett cgb -- This

Re: [BackupPC-users] a slightly different question about rsync for offsite backups

2009-12-10 Thread Chris Bennett
> perhaps i should be adding the switch that deletes files that are no > longer present as well? hmmm... Yes, you will want this to ensure source & dest are equal, and to avoid the external disk from filling up for the wrong reason... Regards, Chris B

Re: [BackupPC-users] Fatal Error During Xfer. Tar shows 0 errors

2009-11-30 Thread Chris Bennett
arted > for directory /home/newsboy Have you tried running this manually, as the user that backuppc would have been running the above tar command, via sudo, to see what errors you get? Regards, Chris Bennett cgb -- L

Re: [BackupPC-users] Windows bare metal restore

2009-11-25 Thread Chris Bennett
t; live system using some type of shadow copy. You may have realised this already, but the previous suggestion was to just have a minimal clone of an equivalent base Windows system - it doesn't have to be a clone of the server you want to restore. Re

Re: [BackupPC-users] Windows bare metal restore

2009-11-24 Thread Chris Bennett
we'll be closer to restoring Windows systems as easily as a Linux system :) Regards, Chris Bennett cgb -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report

Re: [BackupPC-users] Windows bare metal restore

2009-11-24 Thread Chris Bennett
et me know if you have any > suggestions for improvement. I'll have a play and see if I can replicate your results, as well as try and tie in permissions. I suspect Jeff will be similarly interested in having a look at this. Thanks again for sharing :) Regards, Chris Bennett cgb --

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up many, many files over a medium speed link - kills CPU and fails halfway. Any help?

2009-11-24 Thread Chris Bennett
by pauses. Similarly, running: vmstat 1 in another console and looking at the bi/bo columsn that represent blocks in/out helps you to know whether swap is being heavily used. Good luck and let me know if you find a good solution to your problem. Regards, Chris Bennett cgb -

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up many, many files over a medium speed link - kills CPU and fails halfway. Any help?

2009-11-24 Thread Chris Bennett
rall throughput. Similarly, have you observed excessive swap in/out on your backuppc server? If you strace the rsync process on the remote system, does it appear to be very 'bursty' in I/O activity, and overall throughput just

Re: [BackupPC-users] Windows bare metal restore

2009-11-24 Thread Chris Bennett
want to work out what the minimum amount of work is required before I can restore from my backuppc files / permission dump and have the system functioning as it was at the time of backup. I hope someone out there with the right Windows knowledge can provide some additional answers to the questions

[BackupPC-users] Windows bare metal restore

2009-11-21 Thread Chris Bennett
er the above restore procedure. I do know that a Repair Install of Win2k3 R2 does bring the system back to life, but that seems so invasive on the file-level restore. Any responses / advice / feedback would be much appreciated. Regards, Chris Bennett cgb