Re: [BackupPC-users] Best distro support

2007-12-07 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 07 December 2007, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > On 12/07 03:04 , Samuel Krieg wrote: > > The packages I had to install on a minimal Debian box: > > > > apt-get install backuppc > > apt-get install rsync libfile-rsyncp-perl > > This is a packaging issue, and I'm not sure if it's a good

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC doesn't want to start. Help!

2007-11-13 Thread Frans Pop
Hi, Several things in reply to your request for help... On Tuesday 13 November 2007, Yves Claus wrote: > My OS is Debian 5.2.0-8+Etch4. There is no such thing as "Debian 5.2.0-8+Etch4". That version is from some specific package, not the version of Debian. > apt-get update > apt-get install ba

Re: [BackupPC-users] tar exclude (was: 3.1.0beta1 released )

2007-10-23 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 23 October 2007, Paul Fox wrote: > combining the two, i would conclude that my exclude of files > whose names match '*._nobackup_' should not work. but my > exclude is working fine -- no files or directories with that name > form get backed up. > > so i'm confused. did i "work around t

Re: [BackupPC-users] tar exclude (was: 3.1.0beta1 released )

2007-10-23 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 23 October 2007, Paul Fox wrote: > i missed the discussion of this change, and can't find it in my > > saved mail: > > * Fixed handling of $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} for tar XferMethod. > > Patch supplied by Frans Pop. It's not a change. It's

Re: [BackupPC-users] No stats and information about backups = Files & Compression

2007-10-02 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 02 October 2007, you wrote: > And in my case I changed the 2 command lines to : > > $smbClientPath \\$host\$shareName $I_option -U $userName -E -N -d 1 -c > tarmode\ full -Tc /data/BackupPC/pc/$host/BACKUP_NAME.tar $X_option > -$fileList > $smbClientPath \\$host\$shareName $I_option -U $

Re: [BackupPC-users] No stats and information about backups = Files & Compression

2007-10-02 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 02 October 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > $Conf{TopDir} = '/data/BackupPC/' > > So I don't have /var/lib/backuppc. > What are the folders or files which are in /var/lib/backuppc ? Your setup seems to have /data/BackupPC/ instead of /var/lib/backuppc. Did you change that manually? Che

Re: [BackupPC-users] Rsync incremental backup (Exclude)

2007-09-28 Thread Frans Pop
don't you use the BackupFilesExclude configuration option instead of adding these excludes manually? Should look something like: $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = { '/home' => ['/homes/', '/disk1/', '/samba/'

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc not backing expected directories onLinux Client

2007-09-28 Thread Frans Pop
figuration file - the _full_ log files for the client If you want others to analyze your setup partial information only confuses things. Make sure you check the files for any confidential information! Cheers, Frans Pop - Thi

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc not backing expected directories on Linux Client

2007-09-28 Thread Frans Pop
e for that particular system in the CGI interface. Cheers, Frans Pop - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse01

Re: [BackupPC-users] Problems with CGI setup for backuppc on

2007-09-21 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 21 September 2007, Snider, Tim wrote: > Thanks. Is there a doc / web page / wiki page... that covers the Debian > version of backuppc or at least highlights the differences between the > Debian and the "normal" Linux versions? We'd like to be able to use the > GUI for restore functionalit

Re: [BackupPC-users] [perl] push client configuration in arrays

2007-09-20 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 20 September 2007, Samuel Krieg wrote: > Example: I would like to add "/home/excludeme" in > $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} for the machine client1. > > The relevant line in config.pl looks like this one: > $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = [ '/proc', '/dev', '/lost+found' };

Re: [BackupPC-users] problem with ${FullKeepCnt} on a per-machine basis

2007-09-12 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 12 September 2007, Nicolas STRANSKY wrote: > Le 11.09.2007 11:38, Frans Pop a écrit : > > It looks like the code is only looking at the full backups it "expects" > > to be there given the current settings, and does not allow for the fact > > that the se

Re: [BackupPC-users] problem with ${FullKeepCnt} on a per-machine basis

2007-09-11 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 11 September 2007, Nicolas STRANSKY wrote: > I still have a problem with hosts with a particular ${FullKeepCnt}. > > For example, this host should have no more than 6 full backups because > ${FullKeepCnt} = [4, 2]. [...] > As you can see, full backup 344 was deleted once, even if it was

Re: [BackupPC-users] wishlist: full backups whenever incrementals get too large

2007-08-21 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 21 August 2007, you wrote: > Frans Pop wrote: > >> If this is really the way backuppc does incremental backups, I think > >> backuppc should be a bit more incremental with its incremental > >> backups. Instead of comparing against the last full, it should

Re: [BackupPC-users] wishlist: full backups whenever incrementals get too large

2007-08-21 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 21 August 2007, Jacob wrote: > If this is really the way backuppc does incremental backups, I think > backuppc should be a bit more incremental with its incremental backups. > Instead of comparing against the last full, it should compare against the > last full and incremental backups. T

Re: [BackupPC-users] File "backups" rotated

2007-08-14 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 14 August 2007, Alessandro Corbelli wrote: > Yesterday it was full of my backups (30 backups more or less) and now, > the old file (with 30 backups) is renamed to "backups.old". > I solved renaming the .old file over the new, but the same problem is > happened for the 4th time You'r

Re: [BackupPC-users] questions about rsync excludes

2007-08-10 Thread Frans Pop
x27; => [ > '/not.this.one', > '/or.this.one' > ] > }; Probably not. It is possible to specify something for "all other shares" (using '*' =>), but not a list of supplemental excludes for "any share". Probably a goo