Re: [BackupPC-users] 2 cpool files with same checksum, different (compressed content) but same zcatt'ed content?????

2008-10-31 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote on 2008-10-31 15:26:58 -0400 [Re: [BackupPC-users] 2 cpool files with same checksum, different (compressed content) but same zcatt'ed content?]: Les Mikesell wrote at about 10:27:20 -0500 on Friday, October 31, 2008: Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: Is

Re: [BackupPC-users] Error installing BackupPC: - Bareword compareLOGName not allowed

2008-10-31 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote on 2008-10-31 13:25:20 -0400 [[BackupPC-users] Error installing BackupPC: - Bareword compareLOGName not allowed]: When I run config.pl, I get the following error message: Error loading BackupPC::Lib: Bareword compareLOGName not allowed while strict

Re: [BackupPC-users] Error installing BackupPC: - Bareword compareLOGName not allowed

2008-10-31 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, I wrote on 2008-11-01 02:37:55 +0100 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Error installing BackupPC: - Bareword compareLOGName not allowed]: Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote on 2008-10-31 13:25:20 -0400 [[BackupPC-users] Error installing BackupPC: - Bareword compareLOGName not allowed]: [...] I was

Re: [BackupPC-users] What does BackupPC_link got error -4 when calling MakeFileLink mean?

2008-10-30 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote on 2008-10-30 03:41:39 -0400 [Re: [BackupPC-users] What does BackupPC_link got error -4 when calling MakeFileLink mean?]: Craig Barratt wrote at about 00:07:51 -0700 on Thursday, October 30, 2008: Jeffrey writes: So what does -4 mean and what can cause

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup aborts without apparent reason

2008-10-30 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Anian Wurzenberger wrote on 2008-10-30 09:16:18 +0100 [[BackupPC-users] Backup aborts without apparent reason]: Hi people, I´m getting some strange Error on Fedora 6 (Linux fileserver 2.6.20-1.2948.fc6 #1 SMP Fri Apr 27 18:53:15 EDT 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux) with BackupPC-3.1.0 .

Re: [BackupPC-users] Duplicate files in pool with same CHECKSUM and same CONTENTS

2008-10-30 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote on 2008-10-30 03:55:16 -0400 [[BackupPC-users] Duplicate files in pool with same CHECKSUM and same CONTENTS]: I have found a number of files in my pool that have the same checksum (other than a trailing _0 or _1) and also the SAME CONTENT. Each copy has a few

Re: [BackupPC-users] Duplicate files in pool with same CHECKSUM and same CONTENTS

2008-10-30 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Tino Schwarze wrote on 2008-10-30 11:13:27 +0100 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Duplicate files in pool with same CHECKSUM and same CONTENTS]: [...] Hm. I just took a look in my cpool and found some files which didn't hit the hardlink count yet, but have a _0 and _1: .../cpool/0/0 # ls -l

Re: [BackupPC-users] Duplicate files in pool with same CHECKSUM and same CONTENTS

2008-10-30 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, [could we agree on a subject line without tabs? ;-] Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote on 2008-10-30 20:31:15 -0400 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Duplicate files in pool with same CHECKSUM and same CONTENTS]: Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote at about 20:26:35 -0400 on Thursday, October 30, 2008: It's really

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC quit working

2008-10-30 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Kenneth L. Owen wrote on 2008-10-30 19:49:24 -0400 [[BackupPC-users] BackupPC quit working]: [...] All seemed to be running well until I shut down my LAN rearrange furniture in the room. After placing the LAN back in service, BackupPC no longer worked. [...] it would make things easier

Re: [BackupPC-users] Incremental dumps hanging with 'Can't get rsync digests' 'Can't call method isCached'

2008-10-27 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote on 2008-10-27 01:18:24 -0400 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Incremental dumps hanging with 'Can't get rsync digests' 'Can't call method isCached']: I have been playing with your script and it seems to spit out about 80% of the files/directories (24908/28834) that are

[BackupPC-users] backupcentral.com (was: Re: Incremental dumps hanging with 'Can't get rsync digests' 'Can't call method isCached')

2008-10-26 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote on 2008-10-26 19:36:18 -0400 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Incremental dumps hanging with 'Can't get rsync digests' 'Can't call method isCached']: [...] I tried to find your 'attrib' checking script and found the reference here:

Re: [BackupPC-users] What is the latest on getting cygwin rsync/ssh to work for BackupPC

2008-10-26 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote on 2008-10-26 09:51:06 -0400 [Re: [BackupPC-users] What is the latest on getting cygwin rsync/ssh to work for BackupPC]: Jeffrey J. Kosowsky schrieb: I have googled and read a lot of posts about people having trouble with cygwin rsync/ssh but haven't seen

Re: [BackupPC-users] Where do I report problems with this mailing list?

2008-10-26 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Peter McKenna wrote on 2008-10-27 16:07:17 +1300 [[BackupPC-users] Where do I report problems with this mailing list?]: I could not find an admin address for this mailing list so hopefully someone knows where this should go. Attached is a bounced message from the sourceforge mail server.

Re: [BackupPC-users] How do you set a command to mount nfs backup share?

2008-10-26 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, dan wrote on 2008-10-26 21:39:46 -0600 [Re: [BackupPC-users] How do you set a command to mount nfs backup share?]: why done you just have the nfs mounted all the time? read the original post again. It helped me when I was about to reply along the same lines. The problem is the NFS server

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc URL : 404 not found

2008-10-20 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, considering this is a reply to a thread apparently resolved two weeks ago, it is really a shame that backupcentral.com forgot the Re in the subject. Thilo wrote on 2008-10-20 09:46:42 -0400 [[BackupPC-users] backuppc URL : 404 not found]: Do the following (for apache2): ln -s

Re: [BackupPC-users] Incremental dumps hanging with 'Can't get rsync digests' 'Can't call method isCached'

2008-10-19 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote on 2008-10-19 14:58:15 -0400 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Incremental dumps hanging with 'Can't get?rsync digests' 'Can't call method isCached']: Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) wrote at about 19:50:35 +0200 on Sunday, October 19, 2008: Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: When

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupFilesExclude strips trailing / on patterns for rsync

2008-10-08 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, John Rouillard wrote on 2008-10-08 20:06:21 + [[BackupPC-users] BackupFilesExclude strips trailing / on patterns for rsync]: [...] I have set up a rule like this to eliminate many gigbaytes of files with the following config file entries: $Conf {BackupFilesExclude} = ...,

Re: [BackupPC-users] Newbie: using a storage server different from BackupPC server

2008-10-07 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Adam Goryachev wrote on 2008-10-07 12:05:53 +1100 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Newbie: using a storage server different from BackupPC server]: Holger Parplies wrote: that doesn't really change anything, does it? I think the point is that backing up to the same server has some dis

Re: [BackupPC-users] suffering from the backups have stopped syndrome

2008-10-07 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Terri Kelley wrote on 2008-10-07 12:28:45 -0500 [Re: [BackupPC-users] suffering from the backups have stopped syndrome]: I doubt it is a time out issue as all of mine is on gig ethernet. On Oct 7, 2008, at 12:22 PM, Nick Smith wrote: Im running into the same thing on ubuntu, from

Re: [BackupPC-users] Problems with user-space NFS (unfs) and symbolic links

2008-10-06 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote on 2008-09-28 16:47:43 -0400 [[BackupPC-users] Problems with user-space NFS (unfs) and symbolic links]: Because of limitations of my NAS, I can only run user-space NFS (unfs) on it. When BackupPC has TopDIR set to the mounted (u)NFS share, BackupPC ends up

Re: [BackupPC-users] suffering from the backups have stopped syndrome/rsyncd connection stalled

2008-10-06 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Terri Kelley wrote on 2008-10-06 00:51:56 -0500 [Re: [BackupPC-users] suffering from the backups have stopped syndrome]: Terri Kelley wrote: I have had a backup running successfully running of a server for some time. [...] However, the backup itself just stays running in the host

Re: [BackupPC-users] Newbie: using a storage server different from BackupPC server

2008-10-06 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, that doesn't really change anything, does it? Regards, Holger Andrei Stebakov wrote on 2008-10-06 09:33:42 -0400 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Newbie: using a storage server different from BackupPC server]: Dan, but what's wrong in having BackupPC on the Web server as long as it's doing the

Re: [BackupPC-users] suffering from the backups have stopped syndrome/rsyncd connection stalled

2008-10-06 Thread Holger Parplies
#!/usr/bin/perl # # Author: Holger Parplies # Version: 0.0001 # Disclaimer: quick-hack without any promises, warranties or anything :). # Copyright: well, GPL, I guess # 07.10.2008 use strict; use Getopt::Std; use lib '/usr/share/backuppc/lib'; # change this if not Debian/Ubuntu use BackupPC

Re: [BackupPC-users] Off-site backup strategies

2008-10-04 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Rob Owens wrote on 2008-10-01 07:54:19 -0400 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Off-site backup strategies]: We have an on-site BackupPC server (2.1.2pl1) backing up 31 hosts, with a total pool size of 1.8 TB. [...] 1. Install BackupPC on the remote server, and do a full backup in the

Re: [BackupPC-users] $Conf{SshPath} and expect script

2008-10-04 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Jean-Michel Beuken wrote on 2008-10-04 21:55:51 +0200 [[BackupPC-users] $Conf{SshPath} and expect script]: When we add a new PC with ssh/rsync transfer method, at the first time, we must accept the public key and then, we must type yes at the question : not really, we can use -o

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc - locale translation

2008-10-04 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Engoulevent wrote on 2008-10-01 04:31:00 -0400 [[BackupPC-users] Backuppc - locale translation]: I use BackupPC on Ubuntu 8.04 in French. [...] Someone knows where to locate the translation? BackupPC::Lang::fr - on Ubuntu that should be /usr/share/backuppc/lib/BackupPC/Lang/fr.pm.

Re: [BackupPC-users] User Permissions

2008-09-17 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Louis-Marie Mouton wrote on 2008-09-17 13:38:38 +0200 [Re: [BackupPC-users] User Permissions]: Dejan Batic a écrit : [...] Now, how can I apply chmod o+x only to folders? Just use find to locate directories and make them executable: $ find /path/to/dir -type d -exec chmod +x {} \;

Re: [BackupPC-users] slow restore

2008-09-16 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, fde wrote on 2008-09-16 14:17:10 +0200 [[BackupPC-users] slow restore]: [...] Can i restore on local than copy the backup on usb disk ? sure, why not? Regards, Holger - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin

Re: [BackupPC-users] Bug#497888: backuppc: please make use of the rsync algorithm, particularly in resuming interrupted backups

2008-09-13 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, [the message I am responding to has yet to hit backuppc-users - I'd guess it's awaiting moderation] Tim Connors wrote on 2008-09-14 02:12:16 +1000 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Bug#497888: backuppc: please make use of the rsync algorithm, particularly in resuming interrupted backups]: [...] By

Re: [BackupPC-users] Full vs. Incremental (was: Backup through slow line?)

2008-09-06 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, dan wrote on 2008-09-05 21:26:25 -0600 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Full vs. Incremental (was: Backup through slow line?)]: the real difference between an rsync full and incremental in backuppc are the 3 following 1) a full has rsync ignore matching mtimes and checksum all files while and

Re: [BackupPC-users] Full vs. Incremental (was: Backup through slow line?)

2008-09-06 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Stephen Vaughan wrote on 2008-09-06 19:11:08 +1000 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Full vs. Incremental (was: Backup through slow line?)]: What about with multiple full backups, say your full backup is 50gig and you do a full backup once a week, will mean each full backup will use 50gigs of space?

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup through slow line?

2008-09-03 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, dan wrote on 2008-09-03 14:17:00 -0600 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup through slow line?]: On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 5:27 AM, Rob Owens [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Christian Völker wrote: [...] again the question what is then the difference between a full rsync backup and an incremental

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup through slow line?

2008-09-03 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Adam Goryachev wrote on 2008-09-04 08:55:51 +1000 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup through slow line?]: [...] BTW, 2 x rsync incrementals of the same level will transfer more data than one full + one incremental. So for example, doing 6 incrementals followed by a full backup can in fact

Re: [BackupPC-users] Ping too slow

2008-09-03 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi Dan, you might consider reading what you're replying to, which very much happens implicitly if you don't top-post. dan wrote on 2008-09-03 19:06:07 -0600 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Ping too slow]: On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 5:17 PM, Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A few days ago I noticed that

Re: [BackupPC-users] NAS performance over NFS

2008-09-02 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Stephen Vaughan wrote on 2008-09-03 09:26:57 +1000 [Re: [BackupPC-users] NAS performance over NFS]: That's cool, I'll work on it. The NAS is fairly big, so I'm thinking if I turn compression completely off it should improve backup times. At the moment it's set to 3, but I don't really

Re: [BackupPC-users] backup specific directory on linux

2008-09-02 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Alex Dehaini wrote on 2008-09-02 15:58:29 + [[BackupPC-users] backup specific directory on linux]: hi Guys, I am trying to backup /backups directory using rsync but when I start the backup, backuppc is backing up the entire / directory of the remote maine. this is my config

Re: [BackupPC-users] ps -ef shows running but no data

2008-08-23 Thread Holger Parplies
, Holger Parplies wrote: Hi, Terri Kelley wrote on 2008-08-22 16:40:44 -0500 [[BackupPC-users] ps -ef shows running but no data]: I have looked in every log I can find and do not see any errors until I cancel the backup. you should be able to BackupPC_zcat the XferLOG while the backup

Re: [BackupPC-users] Exclude and Only combo

2008-08-22 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Craig Barratt wrote on 2008-08-22 13:18:30 -0700 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Exclude and Only combo]: James writes: I need to back up a Zimbra mail server, but I can't get the whole thing in any reasonable amount of time. I want to exclude the usual stuff: $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} =

Re: [BackupPC-users] busybox tar problem?

2008-08-22 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Ward... James Ward wrote on 2008-08-22 08:30:22 -0700 [Re: [BackupPC-users] busybox tar problem?]: On Aug 21, 2008, at 7:04 PM, Holger Parplies wrote: Ward... James Ward wrote on 2008-08-19 16:02:16 -0700 [Re: [BackupPC- users] busybox tar problem?]: $Conf{PingCmd} = '/usr/local/bin

Re: [BackupPC-users] ps -ef shows running but no data

2008-08-22 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Terri Kelley wrote on 2008-08-22 16:40:44 -0500 [[BackupPC-users] ps -ef shows running but no data]: I have looked in every log I can find and do not see any errors until I cancel the backup. you should be able to BackupPC_zcat the XferLOG while the backup is still running, but it may

Re: [BackupPC-users] fileListReceive failed on centos 4.4

2008-08-21 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Matt Chandler wrote on 2008-08-21 13:30:39 -0500 [Re: [BackupPC-users] fileListReceive failed on centos 4.4]: Matt Chandler wrote: [...] full backup started for directory / Running: /usr/bin/ssh -q -x -l backuppc sinope /usr/bin/sudo /usr/bin/rsync --server --sender --numeric-ids

Re: [BackupPC-users] Error restore with rsync and spaces in file names

2008-08-21 Thread Holger Parplies
Lukas Wymann wrote on 2008-08-15 13:23:29 +0200 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Error restore with rsync and spaces in file names]: Holger Parplies schrieb: Lukas Wymann wrote on 2008-08-14 18:05:28 +0200 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Error restore with rsync and spaces in file names]: [...] Now, when I

Re: [BackupPC-users] Error restore with rsync and spaces in file names

2008-08-14 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Lukas Wymann wrote on 2008-08-14 18:05:28 +0200 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Error restore with rsync and spaces in file names]: [...] Now, when I restore file2.doc, it creates the following file: /home/sub-directory/another\ where another\ is the file restored. It does not handle the

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backups seem to work, but don't show up in web

2008-08-12 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Nils summed it up quite nicely. Alan McKay wrote on 2008-08-10 19:09:23 -0400 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Backups seem to work, but don't show up in web]: [...] Do you want to see my config file? No, I'm not really desperate about it. I've got my own config file. Whenever I feel the need to

Re: [BackupPC-users] Wiki instructions for installing/upgrading on Ubuntu 8.04.

2008-08-11 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Paul Schulz wrote on 2008-08-11 15:41:48 +0930 [[BackupPC-users] Wiki instructions for installing/upgrading on Ubuntu 8.04.]: I'm attempting to follow the instructions for installing v3.1.0. I've removed it from the Wiki page. It's a stupid idea to start with, and obviously doesn't even

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backups seem to work, but don't show up in web

2008-08-09 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Alan McKay wrote on 2008-08-09 08:24:36 -0400 [[BackupPC-users] Backups seem to work, but don't show up in web]: I seem to have the backups working fine. And they eventually finish, and if I log into the server via the command line I see : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ls -alh

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backups seem to work, but don't show up in web

2008-08-09 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Alan McKay wrote on 2008-08-09 12:46:32 -0400 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Backups seem to work, but don't show up in web]: is your ls binary having a seriously bad day, or do I really see 101 *giga*bytes of compressed XferLOG? I don't think I can recommend looking at that via the web

Re: [BackupPC-users] How to backup External Hard Drives

2008-08-09 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, naigy wrote on 2008-08-09 17:59:22 -0400 [[BackupPC-users] How to backup External Hard Drives]: [...] I seem to think it had something to do with setting the clientalias. Below is my scenario [...] - I have 5 external hard drives which occasionally get connected to only one of

Re: [BackupPC-users] archive problem

2008-08-08 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Chris Robertson wrote on 2008-08-01 10:30:19 -0800 [Re: [BackupPC-users] archive problem]: The are file test operators. See http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/fto.html for a pretty extensive (and annotated) list. without wanting to be too pedantic, I think it should be pointed out that the

Re: [BackupPC-users] Move BackupPC

2008-08-07 Thread Holger Parplies
Diederik De Deckere wrote on 2008-08-07 19:47:38 +0200 [[BackupPC-users] Move BackupPC]: Hi, Were're about to change one of our backup server from raid1 to raid5. What would be the safest way to backup BackupPC and restore it to the new system?

Re: [BackupPC-users] Problems installing on CentOS 5.2 x64 from testing repo -- can't locate Lib.pm

2008-08-07 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, John Hardman wrote on 2008-08-07 15:24:21 -0700 [[BackupPC-users] Problems installing on CentOS 5.2 x64 from testing repo -- can't locate Lib.pm]: I am trying to get a new install up on a fresh install of CentOS 5.2 x64 from the testing repo from CentOS When I try to start the BPC

Re: [BackupPC-users] Move BackupPC

2008-08-07 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Diederik De Deckere wrote on 2008-08-07 23:08:26 +0200 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Move BackupPC]: Holger Parplies wrote: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html I'm confused. Where did I go wrong? well, there's one currently active thread in the mailing list on this topic

Re: [BackupPC-users] Problems installing on CentOS 5.2 x64 from testing repo -- can't locate Lib.pm

2008-08-07 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, John Hardman wrote off-list on 2008-08-07 21:31:44 -0700 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Problems installing on CentOS 5.2 x64 from testing repo -- can't locate Lib.pm]: One last problem that I did a hack for, but would prefer to have a proper fix... The lang en.pm file. Something in the CGI is/was

Re: [BackupPC-users] userid mismatch error...though uid's are not wrong

2008-08-06 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, James Kyle wrote on 2008-08-06 12:19:38 -0700 [[BackupPC-users] userid mismatch error...though uid's are not wrong]: I'm getting a userid mismatch error using mod_perl and a specialized httpd daemon run as the backppc user. your error message seems to indicate that it is not related to

Re: [BackupPC-users] Just to make sure: How to move/copy /var/lib/backuppc to another place (RAID1)

2008-08-05 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Adam Goryachev wrote on 2008-08-06 01:28:21 +1000 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Just to make sure: How to move/copy /var/lib/backuppc to another place (RAID1)]: Kurt Tunkko wrote: Other options: 1) Using dd and copy the old harddrive to the new one. as Adam pointed out, block device is

Re: [BackupPC-users] DumpPreUserCmd vs DumpPreShareCmd

2008-08-04 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Rob Owens wrote on 2008-08-04 10:45:07 -0400 [[BackupPC-users] DumpPreUserCmd vs DumpPreShareCmd]: I'm not sure what the difference is between these two options, and I can't find it in the docs. Could someone enlighten me? DumpPreUserCmd is run once before the backup. DumpPreShareCmd is

Re: [BackupPC-users] free backup software

2008-08-04 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, drew64 wrote on 2008-08-03 20:55:13 -0400 [[BackupPC-users] free backup software]: I have been looking for some free backup software [...] I have tried Cobian [...] winbackup [...] comodo backup. Any one have any experience with these. is that a question? This is a technical mailing

Re: [BackupPC-users] Problems excluding files.

2008-08-04 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Steve Blackwell wrote on 2008-08-04 18:31:38 -0400 [[BackupPC-users] Problems excluding files.]: [...] I have the following in my host.pl file: $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = { 'system' = [ '/proc', '/sys', '/tmp' ], 'backup' = [ '/media' ] }; but the

Re: [BackupPC-users] Just to make sure: How to move/copy /var/lib/backuppc to another place (RAID1)

2008-08-04 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Kurt Tunkko wrote on 2008-08-04 23:00:35 +0200 [[BackupPC-users] Just to make sure: How to move/copy /var/lib/backuppc to another place (RAID1)]: [...] I found: 'change archive directory' on the backuppc wiki http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net/change+archive+directory Option 1

Re: [BackupPC-users] clustered file system and multiple servers

2008-08-04 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, sabujp wrote on 2008-08-04 23:18:41 -0400 [[BackupPC-users] clustered file system and multiple servers]: Can a dev let me know if the files in the pool are FLOCK'd before writing, use the force, read the source. grep -r flock backuppc-3.1.0 suggests that flock is used, but not on pool

Re: [BackupPC-users] Fatal error (bad version): OpenSSH_5.0p1

2008-08-01 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, brunal wrote on 2008-07-29 13:03:00 +0200 [[BackupPC-users] Fatal error (bad version): OpenSSH_5.0p1]: [...] What is strange is that I can ssh without problem nor error from the backup server to the server to backup (192.168.1.2). I also can run a command like [Code] rsync -t

Re: [BackupPC-users] archive problem

2008-08-01 Thread Holger Parplies
the BackupPC daemon? [...] I think the problem has something to do with what Holger was saying, for some reason the script is trying to create /dev/st0 even though its already there. Sorry for being unclear. Holger Parplies wrote on 2008-07-31 14:58:42 +0200 [Re: [BackupPC-users] archive problem

Re: [BackupPC-users] Why should I use root to connect to host

2008-08-01 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, brunal wrote on 2008-07-30 12:20:38 +0200 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Why should I use root to connect to host]: [...] - MainServer is the server where all important data are store (on a raid-1). It's located inside the building on a internal 1Gbyte network. - BackupServer is a tiny NAS, a

Re: [BackupPC-users] Fatal error (bad version): Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server

2008-07-31 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Chris Cross wrote on 2008-07-31 08:15:15 -0400 [[BackupPC-users] Fatal error (bad version): Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server]: Hi, I'm just getting started trying to set up and get the following error in the log. Is the backuppc server trying to start an X program on the backup

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd in linux

2008-07-29 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, fatima ech-charif wrote on 2008-07-29 10:11:34 + [[BackupPC-users] rsyncd in linux]: hi how to configure rsyncd in linux ubuntu same as always ... read the docs and relevant man pages. because i have this problem full backup started for directory docs (baseline backup #18) Got

Re: [BackupPC-users] Fatal error (bad version): OpenSSH_5.0p1

2008-07-29 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Rob Owens wrote on 2008-07-29 10:55:39 -0400 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Fatal error (bad version): OpenSSH_5.0p1]: There was a Debian/Ubuntu bug in ssh a few months back. that is unrelated in this case. Before that, brunal had written: Everything is fine but when I try to launch a (full

Re: [BackupPC-users] Explanation of archiving process

2008-07-29 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Martin Leben wrote on 2008-07-29 16:00:04 +0200 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Explanation of archiving process]: Joanne Cook wrote: The documentation says that the Archive function uses TarCreate, which merges incremental backups automatically. Does that mean that if you create an archive

Re: [BackupPC-users] Why should I use root to connect to host

2008-07-29 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, brunal wrote on 2008-07-29 16:09:12 +0200 [[BackupPC-users] Why should I use root to connect to host]: Indeed, the server i want to backup is the main server of my network, and pretty well secured. That means, hence, that root cannot have access to the server through ssh, only

Re: [BackupPC-users] how to compare the active file system to the last backup

2008-07-27 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Emilie Ann Phillips wrote on 2008-07-27 13:34:13 -0400 [[BackupPC-users] how to compare the active file system to the last backup]: My system just crashed rather nastily and I would like to verify that fsck recovered everything properly. Is there a way to diff the mounted file system vs

Re: [BackupPC-users] how to compare the active file system to the last backup

2008-07-27 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Les Mikesell wrote on 2008-07-27 15:38:36 -0500 [Re: [BackupPC-users] how to compare the active file system to the last backup]: Emilie Ann Phillips wrote on 2008-07-27 13:34:13 -0400 [[BackupPC-users] how to compare the active file system to the last backup]: My system just crashed

Re: [BackupPC-users] [BackupPC-devel] Ubuntu Upgrade from 3.0.0 to 3.1.0 problem

2008-07-26 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Jon Craig wrote on 2008-07-24 11:31:58 -0400 [Re: [BackupPC-users] [BackupPC-devel] Ubuntu Upgrade from 3.0.0 to 3.1.0 problem]: On 7/22/08, Holger Parplies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [referring to mixing package and tarball] There is no simple way to recover from this. Here's what I

Re: [BackupPC-users] Problems with sudo rsync and OpenVZ Containers

2008-07-25 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 2008-07-25 17:03:32 +0200 [[BackupPC-users] Problems with sudo rsync and OpenVZ Containers]: Hi all, I have problems to make rsync-backups inside of OpenVZ-Containers. [...] On the server side, I see the following: [...] Running: /usr/bin/ssh -q -x -l

Re: [BackupPC-users] Change RsyncShareName - will BackupPC reuse existing backup data?

2008-07-23 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Michael Stucki wrote on 2008-07-23 16:49:49 +0200 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Change RsyncShareName - will BackupPC reuse existing backup data?]: Well, so if BackupPC doesn't know it, I should probably follow Adams suggestion and simply rename the directory? I will try that, but maybe someone

Re: [BackupPC-users] [BackupPC-devel] Ubuntu Upgrade from 3.0.0 to 3.1.0 problem

2008-07-22 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, I'm redirecting this to backuppc-users as it's a usage issue. Jon Craig wrote on 2008-07-22 13:42:33 -0400 [[BackupPC-devel] Ubuntu Upgrade from 3.0.0 to 3.1.0 problem]: I started with the Ubuntu backuppc package that is based on 3.0.0. Once I was convinced that BackupPC was the way to go

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc

2008-07-22 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Kurt Tunkko wrote on 2008-07-23 01:36:23 +0200 [Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc]: Paul Mantz wrote: A cursory glance at ntfsclone's man page (available at http://man.linux-ntfs.org/ntfsclone.8.html) states that ntfsclone deals exclusively with the filesystem, and not with the

Re: [BackupPC-users] unix bind error on ubuntu 8.04

2008-07-22 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Ray Todd Stevens wrote on 2008-07-22 09:23:18 -0400 [Re: [BackupPC-users] unix bind error on ubuntu 8.04]: On 22 Jul 2008 at 14:08, Joanne Cook wrote: I would think very seriously about double checking that the backuppc user [that attribution is confusing] has full access to the log

Re: [BackupPC-users] The parameter BackupFilesExclude is not recognized

2008-07-22 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Vincent Fleuranceau wrote on 2008-07-22 21:43:10 +0200 [Re: [BackupPC-users] The parameter BackupFilesExclude is not recognized]: Forget what I've written. In fact, the most important thing to remember is Craig's advice (increasing XferDebugLevel to reveal the inxlude/exclude info),

Re: [BackupPC-users] The parameter BackupFilesExclude is not recognized

2008-07-22 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Ray Todd Stevens wrote on 2008-07-22 10:08:30 -0400 [Re: [BackupPC-users] The parameter BackupFilesExclude is not recognized]: [...] I also am not much of a perl expert, but frankly I would suspect that even a perl expert would find the web interface handy. for the record, I *never* edit

Re: [BackupPC-users] Copy last backup files to external HD

2008-07-19 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 2008-07-20 01:54:13 +0200 [[BackupPC-users] Copy last backup files to external HD]: [...] I need to copy the the most recent backup of a given host to an external hard drive. [...] So far, I've played with something like this: BackupPC_tarCreate -n -1 -h

Re: [BackupPC-users] Howto backup BackupPC running on a RAID1 with mdadm for offline-storage

2008-07-18 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Adam Goryachev wrote on 2008-07-16 12:00:23 +1000 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Howto backup BackupPC running on a RAID1 with mdadm for offline-storage]: [...] Holger Parplies wrote: Are you sure you want that Windoze-type-oh-no-feeling when you plug a USB stick with valuable data

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc+rsyncd

2008-07-16 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, fatima ech-charif wrote on 2008-07-16 11:25:05 + [[BackupPC-users] backuppc+rsyncd]: hi i will to backup host windows with protocol rsyncd but i got this problem : 1- Erreur: Backup number for host x.x.x.x does not exist provide more detail. 2-Backup failed on x.x.x.x (Can't

Re: [BackupPC-users] expiring disabled host's backups?

2008-07-16 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote on 2008-07-16 11:42:23 -0500 [Re: [BackupPC-users] expiring disabled host's backups?]: On 07/16 06:13 , Tino Schwarze wrote: [...] Now I would like to expire the old backups from that host. I didn't want to just remove the directories or would that be the

Re: [BackupPC-users] aborted by signal=PIPE errors.

2008-07-14 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Bruno Faria wrote on 2008-07-14 13:11:45 -0500 [[BackupPC-users] aborted by signal=PIPE errors.]: [...] I searched google about this error message, and it seems like many backuppc users have encountered this before, although I could not find any solutions. [...] Please let me know if

Re: [BackupPC-users] Howto backup BackupPC running on a RAID1 with mdadm for offline-storage

2008-07-14 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Kurt Tunkko wrote on 2008-07-15 00:25:27 +0200 [[BackupPC-users] Howto backup BackupPC running on a RAID1 with mdadm for offline-storage]: [...] *** How to use Software RAID1 to get a 3rd drive for offline storage *** This has been tested with Ubuntu Server (in VMWare) [...] 2.

Re: [BackupPC-users] aborted by signal=PIPE errors.

2008-07-14 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Peter Nankivell wrote on 2008-07-15 09:17:48 +1000 [Re: [BackupPC-users] aborted by signal=PIPE errors.]: [...] If it is all due to ssh and hardware it makes me worry about the resilience of ssh. Surely its protocol should be able to retry on corrupted data? I don't know... actually,

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPc fails while restoring on localhost

2008-07-12 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 02:52:31PM +0530, Ishan Patel wrote: [...] BUT I AM NOTABLE TO RESTORE MY DATA THROUGH WEB INTERFACE first of all, thank you for providing detailed information on your setup. Unfortunately, the problem seems to be somewhat obscure, so I agree with Craig that we need

Re: [BackupPC-users] BUPC data on external h.d. produces link errors

2007-11-20 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Rob Owens wrote on 19.11.2007 at 09:15:44 [Re: [BackupPC-users] BUPC data on external h.d. produces link errors]: Wayne Wynn wrote: I have BackupPC (BUPC) running on an Ubuntu Gutsy (7.10) box. The Filesystem is on a 37 GB SCSI RAID array and the BUPC data is on a 160

Re: [BackupPC-users] Garble text after backup

2007-11-20 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Jake Solid wrote on 20.11.2007 at 10:00:16 [[BackupPC-users] Garble text after backup]: [...] when ever I open the messages that are inside new or cur I get garble text like the following: x^ÝVkoâ8ýÜüû­ 5òÌ´Z)´l¡»#­FÈ$²MlÆvèðï÷:W;OcN{(PKE£4æb¬Kâ,Ê#d()g·,d0 have you got compression

Re: [BackupPC-users] Full or Incremental.. What's the point?

2007-11-18 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Les Mikesell wrote on 11.11.2007 at 12:24:16 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Full or Incremental.. What's the point?]: Gene Horodecki wrote: [...] what's the point of having both full and incremental backups? [...] But with the awesome efficiences offered by BackupPC, it seems to me

Re: [BackupPC-users] NT_STATUS_BAD_NETWORK_NAME

2007-11-18 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Hwee Yiap wrote on 12.11.2007 at 13:18:06 [[BackupPC-users] NT_STATUS_BAD_NETWORK_NAME]: I got a question regarding the NT_STATUS_BAD_NETWORK_NAME. I have read the archives and understand that as long as backuppc cannot connect to a share, it will label the error as bad network

Re: [BackupPC-users] Hierarchy/Groups

2007-11-17 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Gene Horodecki wrote on 15.11.2007 at 11:26:41 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Hierarchy/Groups]: If you choose this route, what you may want to try is setting permissions on the 'master' config file to '555' to prohibit any kind of writing to it. that is principally a good idea, except that,

Re: [BackupPC-users] adjusting compression level

2007-11-15 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, dan wrote on 14.11.2007 at 22:17:46 [Re: [BackupPC-users] adjusting compression level]: actually, i would consider it some level of bug that SMB can beat rsync in certain tasks in backuppc. I think the thing you're misunderstanding is that SMB has a higher transfer rate simply *because*

Re: [BackupPC-users] how to restore without using root

2007-11-12 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Les Stott wrote on 12.11.2007 at 18:22:51 [Re: [BackupPC-users] how to restore without using root]: Nelson Serafica wrote: [...] backuppc ALL = NOPASSWD: ALL [...] Anyone has an alternative or a remedy? I don't allowed root to access directly via ssh for security purposes [...]

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup failed with error can't find Compress::Zlib

2007-11-11 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Ed Burgstaler wrote on 11.11.2007 at 13:24:42 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup failed with error can't find Compress::Zlib]: It appears that the YUM update upgrade my perl version as indicated in log file Nov 09 04:47:04 Updated: perl.x86_64 3:5.8.5-36.el4_5.2 If I go to CPAN to

Re: [BackupPC-users] how many increment levels can i use / how to schedule backups for last day of month

2007-11-10 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, dan wrote on 10.11.2007 at 08:53:45 [Re: [BackupPC-users] how many increment levels can i use / how to schedule backups for last day of month]: yes, but this doesnt choose to backup on the last day of the month. i wish cron could do a: 0 13 * * lastday command since you had first had 11

Re: [BackupPC-users] how to add hosts

2007-11-10 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Nelson Serafica wrote on 07.11.2007 at 20:41:34 [Re: [BackupPC-users] how to add hosts]: I'm just wondering how can I login as backuppc user? I create user using htpasswd htpasswd -c /var/www/cgi-bin/.backuppcpsswd admin htpasswd /var/www/cgi-bin/.backuppcpsswd backuppc That seems

Re: [BackupPC-users] Question about LVM restore

2007-11-10 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Paul Archer wrote on 08.11.2007 at 11:23:48 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Question about LVM restore]: If I understand you correctly (you have LVM volumes on disks other than the failed one), then during a reinstall (or even just booting off a live CD) those volumes will be recognized. If you

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup files disappeared

2007-11-10 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Yaakov Chaikin wrote on 31.10.2007 at 15:45:05 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup files disappeared]: Yes, the numbered backup is completely deleted. Backup #0 under the directory '0' is now the backup of the new configuration. wouldn't this happen if the 'backups' file were deleted, truncated

Re: [BackupPC-users] Restore via rsync stalls

2007-11-10 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Thilo-Alexander Ginkel wrote on 04.11.2007 at 19:10:53 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Restore via rsync stalls]: Thilo-Alexander Ginkel wrote: at the moment, I am attempting to restore a file backed up earlier using backuppc. Unfortunately, the restore stalls before completion and I am

Re: [BackupPC-users] Is there a command line reporting tool for backuppc?

2007-11-07 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, John Rouillard wrote on 08.11.2007 at 01:52:01 [[BackupPC-users] Is there a command line reporting tool for backuppc?]: I am looking for a command line reporting tool that can give me csv/tabular output like: hostname sharename date/time size level duration(min) I don't

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