Re: [BackupPC-users] Can't connect to server (unix connect: No such file or direc

2013-06-11 Thread Gary Roach
On 06/11/2013 11:00 AM, hooverj wrote: Every time I try to run a backup from the web interface it tells me 2013-06-11 10:23:21 vmnocfsstorag03: Can't connect to server (unix connect: No such file or directory). Are you on the same system as backuppc when you try this and are you using

Re: [BackupPC-users] Exclude directories

2013-06-07 Thread Gary Roach
I hope this doesn't confuse more than help but I had a problem with the = share notation using rsyncd. The system ignored my exclusions. The instructions say that this happens only if you are using smb (as I remember) but not other transfer protocols. I switched to a streight comma delimited

Re: [BackupPC-users] Start Backuppc on boot (SOLVED)

2013-05-21 Thread Gary Roach
On 05/18/2013 09:02 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 9:48 PM, Gary Roachgary719_li...@verizon.net wrote: Tar -YUK . Yes I am using rsyncd and have checked out communications both ways with all my clients and the server. There seems to be good communications. I've even

Re: [BackupPC-users] Start Backuppc on boot

2013-05-17 Thread Gary Roach
On 05/16/2013 03:39 PM, Michael Stowe wrote: Hi all, I just installed a new 1TB drive and partitioned it into 2 500GB partitions. I have a Debian Wheezy system. One of the partitions is mounted /media/backuppc. This partition contains a directory /backuppc The program resides on another disk

Re: [BackupPC-users] Start Backuppc on boot

2013-05-17 Thread Gary Roach
On 05/17/2013 05:50 PM, Michael Stowe wrote: Ok, I finally just mounted the new storage volume on /var/lib/backuppc and moved the pool files etc to the new disk. This worked but I now have an old problem with rsyncd. This is an unrelated problem, of course, but let's start with the obvious.

[BackupPC-users] Start Backuppc on boot

2013-05-16 Thread Gary Roach
Hi all, I just installed a new 1TB drive and partitioned it into 2 500GB partitions. I have a Debian Wheezy system. One of the partitions is mounted /media/backuppc. This partition contains a directory /backuppc The program resides on another disk drive along with the OS. I pointed backuppc's

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup Data Transfer Speed

2013-04-09 Thread Gary Roach
On 04/08/2013 10:03 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 11:02 AM, Gary Roachgary719_li...@verizon.net wrote: Above, do you really mean that I could expect transfer rates as low as 600 to 800 KB/S. I could carry the data in a bucket faster. I don't have a real good figure for

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup Data Transfer Speed

2013-04-08 Thread Gary Roach
On 04/07/2013 02:26 PM, backu...@kosowsky.org wrote: Gary Roach wrote at about 13:43:28 -0700 on Sunday, April 7, 2013: Hi, I am modifying my whole backup system for greater volume and speed. The new system is as follows: Software - Backuppc using rsync (without

Re: [BackupPC-users] Full restore problem part II(SOLVED sort of)

2012-12-06 Thread Gary Roach
On 12/05/2012 10:18 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 12:57 AM, Gary Roachgary719_li...@verizon.net wrote: While this should work, I'm curious why you don't use rsync over ssh which would be more typical for Linux. It's a small personal network, inside a firewall

Re: [BackupPC-users] Full restore problem part II

2012-12-04 Thread Gary Roach
On 12/03/2012 02:29 PM, Stefan Peter wrote: Dear Gary On 03.12.2012 21:02, Gary Roach wrote: Everything worked fine for /etc. /root and /var. When I tried to backup / home the system chugged along for a long time and then went to sleep. You mean the system went into sleep mode

Re: [BackupPC-users] Full restore problem part II

2012-12-04 Thread Gary Roach
On 12/04/2012 08:37 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 2:10 PM, Gary Roachgary719_li...@verizon.net wrote: OK. On the backup server, I restarted the restore process and it is still running?. But, using KDE's SystemMonitor, the total accumulated CPU time over an hour period

Re: [BackupPC-users] Full restore problem part II

2012-12-03 Thread Gary Roach
Hi Stefan On 12/03/2012 01:42 AM, Stefan Peter wrote: Hi Gary On 01.12.2012 02:35, Gary Roach wrote: Everything worked fine for /etc. /root and /var. When I tried to backup / home the system chugged along for a long time and then went to sleep. You mean the system went

Re: [BackupPC-users] Full restore problem part II

2012-12-01 Thread Gary Roach
On 11/30/2012 05:35 PM, Gary Roach wrote: Debian Wheezy system. Since the last missive I reformatted the bad system and installed a minimal system. I then very carefully set up rsyncd on the system to be backed up. I checked out the rsync connection with: telnet target system 873 I

[BackupPC-users] Full restore problem part II

2012-11-30 Thread Gary Roach
Debian Wheezy system. Since the last missive I reformatted the bad system and installed a minimal system. I then very carefully set up rsyncd on the system to be backed up. I checked out the rsync connection with: telnet target system 873 I then restored one file to the backup

Re: [BackupPC-users] Full restore problems.

2012-11-26 Thread Gary Roach
On 11/24/2012 03:28 PM, Michael Stowe wrote: I've been using Debian Linux for about 15 year. I spent 5 years as a programmer and about 40 year working with computers. I do no how to read documentation. I wrote enough of it in my work career. My degree in mathematics doesn't hurt either. Tone

Re: [BackupPC-users] Full restore problems.

2012-11-24 Thread Gary Roach
On 11/24/2012 09:32 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 11:57 AM, Gary Roachgary719_li...@verizon.net wrote: PS: I don't want to tease you, but when deploying a backup system, the first thing to check is if restore works as expected and has all the needed stuff. And one should

Re: [BackupPC-users] Full restore problems.

2012-11-23 Thread Gary Roach
On 11/22/2012 12:32 PM, Arnold Krille wrote: Hi, On Thursday 22 November 2012 11:58:16 Gary Roach wrote: This is the second time around for restore problems. I need to do a full restore and am having problems building the tar file. I am no longer willing to fool with the command line

Re: [BackupPC-users] Full restore problems.

2012-11-23 Thread Gary Roach
On 11/22/2012 02:45 PM, Michael Stowe wrote: Hi This is the second time around for restore problems. I need to do a full restore and am having problems building the tar file. I am no longer willing to fool with the command line method. I spent days trying to get things to work. I don't

[BackupPC-users] Full restore problems.

2012-11-22 Thread Gary Roach
Hi This is the second time around for restore problems. I need to do a full restore and am having problems building the tar file. I am no longer willing to fool with the command line method. I spent days trying to get things to work. I don't have time to fiddle with it any more. I find the

[BackupPC-users] Restores only directories and not directory content

2012-11-14 Thread Gary Roach
Hi all Well it finally happened. I got home from vacation, fired up the systems and one of the hard drives was trashed. Two days of recovery attempts didn't work so I reformatted and reinstalled the Debian Squeeze system. I re-established the rsyncd connection to the backup system and started

Re: [BackupPC-users] Restores only directories and not directory content

2012-11-14 Thread Gary Roach
On 11/14/2012 12:00 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Gary Roachgary719_li...@verizon.net wrote: Well it finally happened. I got home from vacation, fired up the systems and one of the hard drives was trashed. Two days of recovery attempts didn't work so I

Re: [BackupPC-users] Restores only directories and not directory content

2012-11-14 Thread Gary Roach
On 11/14/2012 01:42 PM, Bowie Bailey wrote: On 11/14/2012 4:19 PM, Gary Roach wrote: On 11/14/2012 12:00 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Gary Roachgary719_li...@verizon.net wrote: Well it finally happened. I got home from vacation, fired up

Re: [BackupPC-users] Restores only directories and not directory content

2012-11-14 Thread Gary Roach
On 11/14/2012 03:54 PM, Michael Stowe wrote: OK, I did the following: mkdir /tar chown backuppc:backuppc /tara place to store the tar file cd /usr/share/backuppc/bin to get to the BackupPC_tarCreate script su backuppclogged

Re: [BackupPC-users] Restores only directories and not directory content

2012-11-14 Thread Gary Roach
On 11/14/2012 04:01 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 5:42 PM, Gary Roachgary719_li...@verizon.net wrote: OK, I did the following: mkdir /tar chown backuppc:backuppc /tara place to store the tar file cd /usr/share/backuppc/bin to get to the

Re: [BackupPC-users] Errors when backing up another computer (Solved)

2012-04-26 Thread Gary Roach
On 04/25/2012 04:24 PM, Gary Roach wrote: On 04/25/2012 01:56 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Gary Roachgary719_li...@verizon.net wrote: This is the last few lines of the error log. var/spool/openoffice/uno_packages/cache

Re: [BackupPC-users] Errors when backing up another computer

2012-04-25 Thread Gary Roach
On 04/25/2012 12:29 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 9:59 PM, Gary Roachgary719_li...@verizon.net wrote: Well my localhost system is doing fine. Not one error on backup. Unfortunately, I added another host (not localhost) and am getting a lot of errors. What are

Re: [BackupPC-users] Errors when backing up another computer

2012-04-25 Thread Gary Roach
On 04/25/2012 01:56 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Gary Roachgary719_li...@verizon.net wrote: This is the last few lines of the error log. var/spool/openoffice/uno_packages/cache/uno_packages.db got digests 2869383bdf570b04f3f35472bf852a7e vs

[BackupPC-users] Errors when backing up another computer

2012-04-24 Thread Gary Roach
Well my localhost system is doing fine. Not one error on backup. Unfortunately, I added another host (not localhost) and am getting a lot of errors. Systems Debian Sqooze BackupPC version 3.1.0 Three systems that are nearly identical Using rsyncd The backup of my localhost is working fine. No

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup aborted

2012-04-22 Thread Gary Roach
On 04/22/2012 07:25 AM, Arnold Krille wrote: On Saturday 21 April 2012 16:15:51 Les Mikesell wrote: On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 1:55 PM, Gary Roachgary719_li...@verizon.net Any help will be appreciated Personally I just use rsync over ssh for localhost connections just

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup aborted

2012-04-22 Thread Gary Roach
On 04/22/2012 12:21 PM, Arnold Krille wrote: On Sunday 22 April 2012 09:04:06 Gary Roach wrote: I think we are going a bit astray here. I have two other computers that need backup but am not talking about them because it is useless until I can get localhost to work. I don't want to be using

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup aborted (Solved)

2012-04-22 Thread Gary Roach
On 04/22/2012 05:41 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 7:10 PM, Gary Roachgary719_li...@verizon.net wrote: It's interesting that you should suggest this since I have found several references that say that rsyncd is the best choice if you have mixed machines.

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup aborted

2012-04-21 Thread Gary Roach
On 04/20/2012 05:44 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 7:22 PM, Gary Roachgary719_li...@verizon.net wrote: Still having what looks like permission problems. I changed RsyncShareName to backuppc_setup which is the name of the module in rsyncd.conf. I now get: Contents of

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup aborted

2012-04-20 Thread Gary Roach
On 04/20/2012 09:51 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 10:24 AM, Gary Roachgary719_li...@verizon.net wrote: It shows up as rsyncd (on the drop down menu) in the web interface also. I have been using the web interface after the initial setup. I have attached two screen

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup aborted

2012-04-20 Thread Gary Roach
On 04/20/2012 12:03 PM, Gary Roach wrote: On 04/20/2012 09:51 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 10:24 AM, Gary Roachgary719_li...@verizon.net wrote: It shows up as rsyncd (on the drop down menu) in the web interface also. I have been using the web interface after

[BackupPC-users] Forcing backup now

2012-04-19 Thread Gary Roach
System: Debian Squeeze Backuppc version 3.1.0-9.1 I am still testing a new installation and would like to force Backuppc to run a backup now. I would also like to find a method for completely purging all backups. I've been through all of the documentation and found nothing applicable. Any

[BackupPC-users] Backup aborted

2012-04-19 Thread Gary Roach
Hi all. The saga continues. When I attempt to do a backup I get the following error log. I've double checked my config settings using BackupPC_Admin. I'm not sure what is wrong. I might point out that I have the system set to user rsyncd but it seems to be trying to use tar. Contents of

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup aborted

2012-04-19 Thread Gary Roach
On 04/19/2012 05:26 PM, Rodrigo Severo wrote: On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 9:17 PM, Gary Roach gary719_li...@verizon.net mailto:gary719_li...@verizon.net wrote: Hi all. The saga continues. When I attempt to do a backup I get the following error log. I've double checked my config

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup aborted

2012-04-19 Thread Gary Roach
On 04/19/2012 08:15 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 9:41 PM, Gary Roachgary719_li...@verizon.net wrote: Where does the . at before /etc comes from? Have you entered them? I don't think they should be there but I'm not sure as I use rsync, not tar. Did you set the

Re: [BackupPC-users] Permission to create log file denied (SOLVED sort of)

2012-04-17 Thread Gary Roach
On 04/15/2012 05:46 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Gary Roachgary719_li...@verizon.net wrote: This is a new installation and my first time trying to install backuppc. I have a Debian Linux Squeeze system. Every time I issue service backuppc start from root I

[BackupPC-users] Permission to create log file denied

2012-04-14 Thread Gary Roach
This is a new installation and my first time trying to install backuppc. I have a Debian Linux Squeeze system. Every time I issue service backuppc start from root I get: Starting backuppc...mkdir /var/log/backuppc: Permission denied at /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC line 1813 Line 1813