Richard Shaw wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Mike Bydalek
> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 10:11 AM, John Moorhouse
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm happily using backupPC to backup a number of machine within our home
>>> network, I'm wondering what will happen if I use it to backup
Chris Robertson wrote:
> Ralf Gross wrote:
>
>> Gerald Brandt schrieb:
>>
>>
>>> You may want to look at this thread
>>> http://www.mail-archive.com/backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg17234.html
>>>
>>>
>>&
Ralf Gross wrote:
> Gerald Brandt schrieb:
>
>> You may want to look at this thread
>> http://www.mail-archive.com/backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg17234.html
>>
>>
>
> I've seen this thread, but the pool sizes there are max. in the lower
> TB region.
>
> Ralf
>
Not all of th
Ralf Gross wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm faced with the growing storage demands in my department. In the
> near future we will need several hundred TB. Mostly large files. ATM
> we already have 80 TB of data with gets backed up to tape.
>
> Providing the primary storage is not the big problem. My biggest
>
James Ward wrote:
> I'm trying to figure out how to do something in the GUI.
>
> I have the following exclude: /data0*
>
> Now I would like to add an exception to that rule and back
> up: /data02/vodvendors/promo_items/
>
> Is it possible to set this up in the GUI? I can't figure it out.
$Conf{B
Chris Baker wrote:
> I don't know what your level of expertise is. Please accept my apology if
> you already know this.
>
> The two particular distributions you mentioned are pretty different. Debian
> basically started as its own branch of distribtuion, and other distributions
> like Ubuntu and Me
Dan Smisko wrote:
> Yes, only the backup data (pool, cpool, etc) was on the dead drive. The
> config is in /etc/BackupPC.
> I guess I will try to re-create the backup directories and try another
> backup.
>
> Certainly a RAID is worth considering, but the next question is what to
> put on a RAI
Tino Schwarze wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 12:22:45PM -, PD Support wrote:
>
>
>> We are going to be backing up around 30 MS-SQL server databases via ADSL to
>> a number of regional servers running CentOS (about 6 databases per backup
>> server). 10 sites are 'live' as of now and
Huw Wyn Jones wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I'm trying to recover a BackupPC server which is crashing. The system is
> throwing kernel panics on normal boot up. I can get the system up only when I
> log-in interactively and turn off all services. It looks like a software
> issue rather than hardware, b
Stuart Matthews wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am currently running BackupPC on the following:
> 1.5GB RAM
> older processor - not sure how fast
> 2TB external USB hard drive
>
> Clearly this isn't cutting it, although it was barely cutting it for a
> few months. This wasn't my optimal setup but I have to
Claude Gélinas wrote:
> Le mercredi 23 décembre 2009 22:14:41, Tony Schreiner a écrit :
>
>> I forget if anybody has mentioned wrong file permissions as a
>> possibility. The ~/.ssh directory may not be group or world
>> writable.This will be logged in /var/log/messages if set incorrectly.
>>
>>
Tony Schreiner wrote:
> On 12/23/2009 10:06 PM, Claude Gélinas wrote:
>
>> Le mercredi 23 décembre 2009 21:33:50, Adam Goryachev a écrit :
>>
>>
>>> Les Mikesell wrote:
>>>
>>>
No, it should be the same. Look in the root/.ssh/authorized_keys file to
see if the ssh-
Matthias Meyer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I assume BackupPC_zipCreate read the files from the numbered dump and write
> them local into a .zip file. This local .zip file will be transfered to the
> destination.
> I can't find out where this local .zip file is located.
> Is my assumption wrong?
>
> Does Backu
Matthias Meyer wrote:
> Claude Gélinas wrote:
>
>
>> I'm trying to setup the backup of the localhost with backuppc. I already
>> backup several other linux machine via ssh. I've setuped all them via
>> running the following command as backuppc user:
>>
>> ssh-keygen -t dsa
>> cd .ssh
>> ssh-copy
Claude Gélinas wrote:
> I've setup a new backuppc server on my main workstation which is a FC12.
> Everything look fine except I can't backup my workstation as ssh, keep asking
> root password.
>
> I've followed the BackupPC FAQ: SSH Setup for this workstation and a remote
> machine FC9. No prob
Guido Schmidt wrote:
> Matthias Meyer schrieb:
>
>> Guido Schmidt wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Matthias Meyer wrote:
>>>
Guido Schmidt wrote:
> What works? The opening and closing of the tunnel.
> What does not? The connection to it. Nothing in the rsyncd-logs on
>
Kameleon wrote:
> I have a few remote sites I am wanting to backup using backuppc.
> However, two are on slow DSL connections and the other 2 are on T1's.
> I did some math and roughly figured that the DSL connections, having a
> 256k upload, could do approximately 108MB/hour of transfer. With t
M. Sabath wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I use backuppc on Debian 5.
> Since I upgraded from Debian 4 to Debian 5 backuppc doesn't run
> automatically.
>
> Our server runs only during daytime between 7am and 19 pm
>
Let me see if I have this right... Your server is only powered on from
7 am to 7 pm.
Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 02:33:06PM +0100, Holger Parplies wrote:
>
>> Robin Lee Powell wrote on 2009-12-15 00:22:41 -0800:
>>
>>> Oh, I agree; in an ideal world, it wouldn't be an issue. I'm
>>> afraid I don't live there. :)
>>>
>> none of us do, but you'r
sabujp wrote:
> I ran an incremental and it completed but it's not being recorded in backups
> but instead in backups.new. When does backups.new get copied to backups so
> that the new incremental will show up on the webpage or what process causes
> this to happen?
The file backups.new is writt
sabujp wrote:
> The problem seems to be that this file:
>
>
> [r...@gluster3 data_jsmith]#
> /usr/local/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_deleteBackup.sh -c data_jsmith -l
> /usr/local/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_deleteBackup.sh: line 93:
> /glfsdist/backuppc3/pc/data_jsmith/backups: No such file or directory
>
>
ckandreou wrote:
> I have the following files
> /cmroot/ems_src/view/2010_emsmadd.vws/.pid
> /cmroot/ems_src/view/2010_deva.vws/.pid
> /cmroot/ems_src/view/emsadmcm_01.03.006.vws/.pid
> /ccdev10/cmroot/ems_src/vob/mems.vbs/.pid
>
> I would like backuppc to exclude .pid
>
> I used the following exc
Pat Rice wrote:
> HI all
> Well at the moment I an recovering from a flooding situation.
> I had my office flooded to 2.5ft of water. Luckily the Backup server
> (backup pc) was above the water line and also my hard drive for my
> backup server. Unfortunately my machines that were on the ground, we
Timothy J Massey wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I have a shell script that I use to install BackupPC. It takes a standard
> CentOS installation and performs the configuration that I would normally
> do to install BackupPC. There are probably way better ways of doing this,
> but this is the way I've chose
Ian Levesque wrote:
> On Sep 15, 2009, at 7:12 PM, Chris Robertson wrote:
>
>
>> ...even though they have more than a mile of physical separation. I
>> don't currently have good data as to the bandwidth utilization during
>> backups (the DRBD config is set to
Les Mikesell wrote:
> Chris Robertson wrote:
>
>> Les Mikesell wrote:
>>
>>> Chris Robertson wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Read it again. :o) Both the external XFS journal (logdev=/dev/drbd1)
>>>> AND the data parti
backu...@omidia.com wrote:
> So I have a question about email reminders.
>
> I don't see a way to customize who the emails are sent to, short of
> changing the usernames. (I see a way to customize the domain, with
> $Conf{EMailUserDestDomain} = '';, but that's it.)
>
> But I have a user with usern
Les Mikesell wrote:
> Chris Robertson wrote:
>
>> Read it again. :o) Both the external XFS journal (logdev=/dev/drbd1)
>> AND the data partition (/dev/drbd0) are DRBD mirrored. It would be
>> silly to have only one or the other saved in a DR scenario.
>>
dan wrote:
>
> On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 3:24 AM, Tino Schwarze <mailto:backuppc.li...@tisc.de>> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 03:12:28PM -0800, Chris Robertson wrote:
>
> > In short, it works for me.
>
> [...]
>
> Wow, thanks for shar
Jim Leonard wrote:
> James Ward wrote:
>
>> I forgot to mention there are 16 disks in the big array. So you'd
>> recommend RAID5 or 6?
>>
>
> I'd recommend RAID1+0 actually (RAID10) if you have that many disks.
> You'll have half the available disk space, but the speed of a stripe.
> Pl
James Ward wrote:
> I forgot to mention there are 16 disks in the big array. So you'd
> recommend RAID5 or 6?
Your best bet is to set it up and run some benchmarks*. Anything else
is just speculation.
For what it's worth, I have a similar setup (Intel Xeon X3320 Quad Core,
8GB RAM, 16 drives
In short, it works for me.
Machine specs:
CPU : Intel Xeon X3320 (Quad Core @2.50GHz)
Memory: 8GB DDR2-667 ECC
Storage Controller: Adaptec 51645 (BIOS & Firmware 5.2-1 17380, driver
1.1-5 2465)
Drives: 16 Seagate ST31000340NS (1TB ES.2) w/AN05 firmware
OS: CentOS 5.3
[r...@archive-1 ~]# uname -
Matthias Meyer wrote:
> Is there a way to retain the job queue? Or to check if anything is in it?
>
Not that I'm aware of.
In theory, storing the job queue over a shutdown shouldn't be tough (it
should just be a matter of writing a construct to a file, and reading it
in on startup). At the
Matthias Meyer wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I plan to periodically e2fsck my /var/lib/backuppc.
> I want to write a bash script which check if BackupPC_dump is running.
> If not, it will stop backuppc, unmount the device and run
> e2fsck -fp $device
>
> What is about BackupPC_link? Should I check for this p
Volker Thiel wrote:
> Am 27.08.2009 um 23:15 schrieb Chris Robertson:
>
>
>> Volker Thiel wrote:
>>
>>> Also, I'd like to know if there's a way to start BackupPC in daemon
>>> mode?
>>>
>> /path/to/installation/bin/Bac
wirehead wrote:
> I've recently been installing backuppc (for the first time) on CentOS 5.3.
>
> I had to set selinux to permissive in order to get it to run - for some
> reason sealert doesn't exist on my system and I couldn't figure out how else
> to view the selinux logs to debug it. However,
txoof wrote:
> Update:
>
> BackupPC sent an email this morning for the system in question. The mail was
> for a system that has had 16.5 days since its last backup. Is there a
> setting that I'm missing? Or is this controlled only by EMailNotifyMinDays?
> From my understanding of the documen
Volker Thiel wrote:
> Hello everyone, I'm currently trying to install BackupPC on the QNAP
> TS-509 Pro NAS system. So far I managed to get through the
> installation and I can start the server by calling the executable as
> user "backuppc": /path/to/installation/bin/BackupPC
>
> This call re
Brent Clark wrote:
> Hiya
>
> I got quite a few servers around the world that I need to backup.
>
> The question I would like to ask is, how does backuppc scale to the other
> backup solutions, in large environments. Also for those running backuppc for
> large scale environment, would you be so k
Adam Goryachev wrote:
> I'm trying to backup a remote host which has recently had a lot of
> changes. Initially it kept getting read errors, but after manually (from
> the command line) re-running the full backup, it almost completed
> (continuing the partial each time). However, eventually the sch
Adam Goryachev wrote:
> I've removed a hosts from backuppc (hosts file, removed the config file,
> done a rm -rf /var/lib/backuppc/pc/hostname and the host no longer shows
> up in the web interface in the dropdown, host summary page, etc.
>
> However, I still get information on the host from this c
Michał Sawicz wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I have a 3.1.0 installation with apache and mod_perl. Everything is fine
> except the messages displayed on the web page.
>
> Most of the language files are latin1 encoded, except for zh_CN and pl
> which are utf8, because they're incompatible with latin1.
>
> T
Adam Goryachev wrote:
> One of my remote server being backed up had a very large log file, which
> was growing rather quickly (4GB growing at 2k/sec). This caused the
> backup to timeout sometimes...
>
> Anyway, see an extract of the log file which 'causes' the problem:
> Executing DumpPreUserCmd:
Matthias Meyer wrote:
> Adam Goryachev wrote:
>
>
>> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
>> Hash: SHA1
>>
>> Langdon Stevenson wrote:
>>
>>> I have a number of servers at remote sites that get backed up over ADSL
>>> connections. Usually the backups run in an hour or two outside of
>>> busi
Adam Goryachev wrote:
> Chris Robertson wrote:
>
>> This depends on how your backups are set up (smbclient being a special
>> case, apparently), but in general...
>>
>> $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = { '*' => [ '/log' ] };
>>
>&g
glubby wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm a new user of BackupPC. I'm using it to make a backup of some of my linux
> servers. It is working pretty well but there is some large log file on my
> servers I don't need to backup.
>
> I look over the forum but I didn't find anything.
Heh. You might also want to r
Joseph Holland wrote:
> Hi, I have been using BackupPC now for the last year or so but now I
> want to be able to keep more backups. I have read the documentation
> many times, but don't understand exactly which options I need to change
> (and to what). I want to keep the last 7 daily backups
Ted To wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm not sure what the problem is but after reinstalling OS X on my
> wife's laptop, a backup has never been successfully completed. I did
> not change any of the configuration files and am using xtar as
> suggested at: http://wiki.nerdylorrin.net/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=BackupPC
Les Mikesell wrote:
> Matthias Meyer wrote:
>
>> Assumed I have 10 hosts and the maximum number of simultaneous backups to
>> run is 5.
>> Further assumed all 10 hosts have to make a backup today.
>> 4 of them have theire last backup made 2 days ago and 3 of them yesterday.
>> 2 have a partial b
Admiral Beotch wrote:
> I fixed my SELinux problem by changing the context of the mounted
> partition that holds TOPDIR... I can't say for certain that I got the
> context 100% accurate, but it seems to be a secure choice given how
> the httpd process is trying to interact with that part of the
Admiral Beotch wrote:
> It sounds like this might be helpful for me:
>
> You can execute the following command as root to relabel your
> computer system:
> "touch /.autorelabel; reboot"
>
As an aside, you can get the same effect, without the reboot with
"restorecon -R /". Using "rest
Admiral Beotch wrote:
> I recently installed BackupPC (BackupPC-3.1.0-3.el5) on a CentOS 5.3
> server from the epel repo.
>
> It appears that backups are occurring but I am unable to view host
> logs or browse backups.
>
> I can see the data being collected into the TOPDIR/pc directories, but
>
Nick Smith wrote:
> Does anyone know if i can change the password to the backuppc user in linux
> and not have any adverse effects with the backuppc system?
>
Yes, you can. The account doesn't actually NEED a password.
Chris
--
Boniforti Flavio wrote:
>>> Is this meaning that the tarball is gzipped? In that case, what are
>>> the parameter that follow the binary path?
>>>
>> /bin/gzip is the compression program
>> .gz is the extension of the output filename (blah.gz)
>> * I think means all shares...
>>
>> Hope tha
Les Mikesell wrote:
> Chris Robertson wrote:
>
>> error403 wrote:
>>
>>> I'm thinking of installing/using some sftp server sofware on their
>>> computer.
>>>
>>>
>> Better would be an rsyncd service, as that woul
error403 wrote:
> Hi, I want to make backups for some members of my family and I'm trying to
> find a way to use something else than netbios names, but rather
> dynamicdomains like useralias.no-ip.com . Is there any way to do that with
> backuppc?
Define the host as "useralias.no-ip.com instea
error403 wrote:
> Hi, I'm trying to find a way to send an email to the personal email of the
> people I'm doing their backups for. I tried to search but the terms email
> and message are so general it gives me almost all the posts on the forum! :?
Something like http://linuxgazette.net/issue7
Tino Schwarze wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 01:30:35PM -0400, Jim McNamara wrote:
>
>>> Have you specifically done a dist-upgrade from etch to lenny?
>>>
>
> [...90 lines snipped...]
>
>
>> By the way, top posting (writing above the previous post) is frowned upon by
>> most mailing
Steve Redmond wrote:
> Hiya,
>
> Thanks for your reply.
>
>
>> I assume this means the main config file. There are also per-host
>> config files that will override the main one.
>>
>
> Correct. I have checked that there were no overriding settings in other
> configuration files. Did a g
Steve Redmond wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've run in to a bit of a strange issue. We have a large number of
> backups running on backuppc and up until recently they have all been
> working fine. Now I see everything as Idle with aging "last backups"
>
> Now, when I attempt to kick backups off manually I get
Scott Edwards wrote:
> Greetings fellow backuppc users,
>
> I have to date not managed backuppc in operation on this box. On May
> 22 the system was upgraded from Debian Etch to Lenny. I recall
> uninstalling it to iron out some upgrade issues, then installing it
> again. Debian doesn't erase co
Skip Guenter wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-06-02 at 16:36 +1000, Adam Goryachev wrote:
>
>> So, using 4 x 100G drives provides 133G usable storage... we can lose
>> any two drives without any data loss. However, from my calculations
>> (which might be wrong), RAID6 would be more efficient. On a 4 drive
Bernhard Ott wrote:
> Ralf Gross wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I use BackupPC since many years without hassle. But something seems to
>> be broken now.
>>
>> BackupPC 3.1 (source)
>> Debian Etch
>> xfs fs
>>
>>
>
> Hi Ralf,
> look for the thread "no cpool info shown on web interface" (2008-04)in
>
Daniel Carrera wrote:
> Yes. I thought BackupPC was more like a cron job that runs once every
> hour. My current script runs every 2 hours, so I always know when it's
> not running. But if BackupPC runs all the time, then that's different.
>
> Are you aware of any backup tool that might be more s
Boniforti Flavio wrote:
>> You will find it in $HOME/pc//backups See backuppc
>> online documentation for a description of this file
>>
>
> Hy Matthias,
>
> the only thing I got in the docs is:
>
> "The file /var/lib/backuppc/pc/$host/backups is read to decide whether a
> full or incremental
Matthias Meyer wrote:
> Chris Robertson wrote:
>
>
>> Matthias Meyer wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I think about an encrypted backup and find rsyncrypto.
>>> Is there a BackupPC_dump support for rsyncrypto?
>>> Or any other w
Holger Parplies wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Boniforti Flavio wrote on 2009-04-29 14:22:36 +0200 [Re: [BackupPC-users]
> Defining data retention periods]:
>
OK, now the main question of my post: data retention.
[...]
>> In my actual setup when the oldest FULL gets deleted (because i
Matthias Meyer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I think about an encrypted backup and find rsyncrypto.
> Is there a BackupPC_dump support for rsyncrypto?
> Or any other way to use rsyncrypto with backuppc?
>
From the looks of it, you would just run the rsyncrypto on the client
as a pre-backup command, and th
Craig Barratt wrote:
> BackupPC 3.2.0beta0 has been released on SF.net.
> 3.2.0beta0 is the first beta release of 3.2.0.
>
> 3.2.0beta0 has several new features and quite a few bug fixes
> since 3.1.0. New features include:
I didn't see any mention of lib/BackupPC/Lib.pm being updated for the
ca
Tino Schwarze wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I've got several retired hosts and want to keep only the latest backup
> from them. I've set $Config{BackupsDisable}=2 in the server's config.pl
> and $Config{FullKeepCntMin}=1 but backups are still kept (I see these
> values if I edit the config via web interfa
Les Mikesell wrote:
> Chris Robertson wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the numbers. I'm starting to think my problems might be
>> related to the kernel I'm running (default Centos 5.2, with xfs-kmod).
>> It's been years since I rolled my own kernel, but I might
Mike Dresser wrote:
> Chris Robertson wrote:
>
>> How many hosts do you back up?
>>
>>
> About 30 are active, 12 are sporadic (laptops, etc). Total that gets
> written out to off site backup is about 300GB of data a day, compressed.
>
>> W
Mike Dresser wrote:
> Chris Robertson wrote:
>
>> Hopefully my original message didn't come across as negative of either
>> XFS or BackupPC. Due to how well BackupPC and XFS handled the load I
>> threw at it initially, I expanded the retention policy of m
Les Mikesell wrote:
> Chris Robertson wrote:
>
>>>> I've heard about hardlinks which can be a problem if theire are millions of
>>>> it. Is that true?
>>>>
>>> The file system can become... interesting to fix or backup when you
Mike Dresser wrote:
> Matthias Meyer wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> How scalable is backuppc?
>> Where are the limits or what can produce performance bottlenecks?
>>
>> I've heard about hardlinks which can be a problem if theire are millions of
>> it. Is that true?
>>
>>
> The file system c
Peter Walter wrote:
> All,
>
> I have implemented backuppc on a Linux server in my mixed OSX / Windows
> / Linux environment for several months now, and I am very happy with the
> results. For additional disaster recovery protection, I am considering
> implementing an off-site backup of the back
Nate wrote:
> Yeah, I doubt very much it's a backuppc issue, sorry if I may have
> implied that. I'm fairly confident it's a ext3/driver issue. But as
> this popped up when we began using backuppc I suspect it may have to
> do with the massive quantities of files and had hoped another
> backu
Nate wrote:
> We seem to be routinely having this issue where the server backuppc
> is running on throws a kernel panic and thus hard locks the
> machine. It's completely random, sometimes happens daily, sometimes
> we can have a lucky 2-3 weeks without a lockup. I've taken a
> screenshot and
Tino Schwarze wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 04:58:32PM -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
>
>> Craig Barratt wrote:
>>
>>> I don't think there is a way to transfer a single host's backups using
>>> BackupPC_tarPCCopy.
>>>
>> What happens if you just copy a single host's backup tree withou
Brian Woodworth wrote:
> Yes, I have complete backups. My problem appears to be a known bug as
> stated earlier in the thread. Craig was kind enough to post a
> solution, but the problem is I don't know how to go about following
> his instructions.
>
> thanks for the response
>
First, try...
Odhiambo Washington wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 11:43 PM, Chris Robertson <mailto:crobert...@gci.net>> wrote:
>
> Odhiambo Washington wrote:
>
> > Surprisingly, I am not able to get the CGI interface to show up
> things
> > as beautifull
Chris Baker wrote:
> Which logs should I check?
/var/log/messages
> And what should I look for in these logs?
Run the command dmesg (first, "man dmesg" so you know what this command
does) and take a look at the output. This is the bootup message and
should be replicated in /var/log/messages.
Odhiambo Washington wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> I am new but I am kind of "old hand".
Haven't seen you on the Squid-Users list in a while... :o)
> Surprisingly, I am not able to get the CGI interface to show up things
> as beautifully as I see in the screenshots on the website and I wonder
> what
Alex wrote:
> Hi there,
> i'm not aware using Perl scripting, but ok with bash / php.
> Then, i'd like to know if there's a way to set values for per pc config file
> using command line tool ?
>
> By exemple, like to change only FullKeepCnt value, but, has it is by default
> written that way :
>
thomat...@gmail.com wrote:
> How dangerous is it to run xfs without write barriers?
http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/faq.html#nulls
As long as your computer shuts down properly, sends a flush to the
drives, and the drives manage to clear their on-board cache before power
is removed or the chip s
Anand Gupta wrote:
> Hi Les,
>
> Thanks for the link. I see BackupPC_tarCreate and BackupPC_zipCreate
> for tar and zip. Is there an rsync version ? So instead of creating a
> tar or zip, it can rsync the data over to another location ?
>
> The reason i asked is because the amount of data i am
dan wrote:
> I guess that updatedb thing reinforces my arguement about not seeing
> any mixed load tests. ext3 handles these situations pretty good,
> maybe XFS does not...
Write barriers really harmed XFS performance on my setup (16 Seagate
ES.2 spindles attached to an Adaptec 51645 utilizin
dan wrote:
> If the disk usage is the same as before the pool, the issue isnt
> hardlinks not being maintained. I am not convinced that XFS is an
> ideal filesystem. I'm sure it has it's merits, but I have lost data
> on 3 filesystems ever, FAT*, XFS and NTFS. I have never lost data on
> rei
Thomas Smith wrote:
> Hi,
>
> No, it continues to take 22 hours or so each day.
>
> -Thomas
How is your XFS volume mounted? Did you add the "noatime" and
"nodiratime" directives? If you have battery backed storage, I would
highly recommend using "nobarrier" as well
(http://oss.sgi.com/project
Kameron Gasso wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> Apologies in advance if this is covered somewhere in the documentation,
> but I couldn't find any mention of it in the docs, wiki, and mailing
> list archives.
>
> We have a host for which a backup process is currently running (weekly
> incremental, using rsync)
Lofton H Alley Jr wrote:
> Its been a small struggle with slow progress. I am stymied over this one
> though.
>
> Here is the network layout: two desktops and a lappie on wifi. This
> should be easy right? One deskie has an 80 GB primary and a 320G storage
> HDD divided into 3 partitions. The ot
dtktvu wrote:
> Hmm, I see...
>
> Thanks very much for pointing that out.
>
> BTW, what do you mean by "You might run into some other problems if using GPL
> code in a C# environment if you are using shared libraries that are not GPL"?
>
If you are statically linking libraries that do not use
James Sefton wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Please excuse me if I am using this wrong, in all my years in IT, it
> seems this is the first time I have used a mailing list for support.
> (I’m usually pretty good at the whole RTFM thing)
>
> We have a backup box (FC6) that is running backups from a lot of
> w
Ray Todd Stevens wrote:
> We have a backuppc system setup that has been running for a while now. We
> are
> expanding the office and I am going to need more storage space. To do this I
> will need to
> copy the data off, reconfigure the array with more drives and then reload the
> system.
>
John Goerzen wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I installed BackupPC to try it out for backing up Linux systems, and I
> have a few questions about it.
>
> First, the on-disk compression format makes me nervous. It appears to
> use the deflate algorithm, but cannot be unpacked with either gzip or
> unzip.
Les Mikesell wrote:
> Christian Völker wrote:
>
>> |> If the full backup fails, does it start from scratch every time or are
>> |> some files already stored in the backup and used during the next try, so
>> |> it'll finish some day?
>> | If you are using rsync as the transfer method it will cont
Les Mikesell wrote:
> Matthew G. Ayres wrote:
>
>> Thanks Les no I do not see any logs and I can send email from the
>> command line I if I run the. I checked the maillog and see the messages
>>
>> Aug 28 01:00:04 matt-pc sendmail[15653]: m7S504bk015652:
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED], ctladdr=<[EMAIL PR
Jeff Rippy wrote:
> yes I had thought of that too and have already added the backuppc user
> to the "tape" group. permissions are 660 or rw-rw with owner root
> and group tape. Also the backuppc documentation and even the default
> configuration uses /dev/st0 so why exactly do you recommen
brunal wrote:
> Hi,
>
> One question that I dont understand : can I use another user than
> root to connect to my host?
>
The only reason to connect as root is to make sure you have access to
all the files you want to back up.
> And to my host side, a user backuppc exist and have access to
Kurt Tunkko wrote:
> Hello Holker,
>
> Holger Parplies wrote:
>
>
>>> 3. Mirror partition tables from one of the existing disks:
>>>
>>> # sudo sfdisk -d /dev/sda | sfdisk /dev/sdc
>>>
>> apart from something having been mangled ("???"), I tend to wonder why you
>> need root permissio
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