Re: [BackupPC-users] is it possible to verify the cpool?

2007-09-24 Thread David Mansfield
Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > On 09/20 05:31 , David Mansfield wrote: >> At any rate, the disk had some bad sectors so in either case I was going >> to end up with some corruption of the cpool, which is why I want to >> verify it. Do you have any ideas here? > &

Re: [BackupPC-users] is it possible to verify the cpool?

2007-09-20 Thread David Mansfield
Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > On 09/20 09:55 , David Mansfield wrote: >> I have recently had to transfer the entire backuppc installation to a >> new server due to the demise of the old one. I am transferring the >> cpool/ and pc/ directories using tar, > >

[BackupPC-users] is it possible to verify the cpool?

2007-09-20 Thread David Mansfield
I have recently had to transfer the entire backuppc installation to a new server due to the demise of the old one. I am transferring the cpool/ and pc/ directories using tar, which seems to be preserving the hard links (in doing so it's chewing up VAST amounts of memory on the 'create' side,

Re: [BackupPC-users] Hitting link count limit

2006-05-19 Thread David Mansfield
Dan D Niles wrote: I am backing up a machine that has a bunch of files that contain only the word "END" and nothing else. There are enough of these files that I seem to be hitting a resource limit. I am seeing: Unable to link /backup/BackupPC/pc/obfuscated/214/f%2fhome/fpath-to-file to /back

Re: [BackupPC-users] installing BackupPC server on OS X?

2006-05-01 Thread David Mansfield
Tom Trelvik wrote: I've backed up OS X machines before, but has anybody used an OS X machine as a BackupPC *server*? The configure.pl seems to have run just fine, but not all of the web files are installed as I'd expect. My ubuntu install has an index.cgi that gets loaded, but I can't find t

[BackupPC-users] HardLinkMax not working?

2006-05-01 Thread David Mansfield
Hi everyone. I have a file in the cpool with 32000 links. HardLinkMax is set to 31999. Let's assume this is exactly correct, because one link is reserved for the 'pool'. However, last night during the second full backup ever for this host, I got the following kind of error 24081 times: U

[BackupPC-users] overriding compression program for archive host

2006-04-24 Thread David Mansfield
I just started using backuppc so I could be on the wrong track. I'm trying to archive some hosts to tape, and would like to use a specific program (dd) to write to the tape. So I've set up an archive host and all's well, almost. Right now, the command that is actually writing to the tape is