[BackupPC-users] Fwd: Filesystem for OSX/BackupPC external drive

Can anyone help me? -- Forwarded message -- From: "Ward... James Ward" Date: May 15, 2015 6:03 AM Subject: Filesystem for OSX/BackupPC external drive To: Cc: James, First of all, thanks so much for the lovely drop in BackupPC! That's even easier than Linux

Re: [BackupPC-users] apache config?

It was the firewall! Sorry for making you wonder! - Original Message - From: "James Ward" To: "General list for user discussion, questions and support" Sent: Wednesday, May 9, 2012 2:21:31 PM Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] apache config? It does return html.

Re: [BackupPC-users] apache config?

It does return html. :-/ - Original Message - From: "Les Mikesell" To: "General list for user discussion, questions and support" Sent: Wednesday, May 9, 2012 1:46:44 PM Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] apache config? On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 2:28 PM, James Ward wrot

Re: [BackupPC-users] apache config?

Any other ideas? I've lost control of my BackupPC! - Original Message - From: "Les Mikesell" To: "General list for user discussion, questions and support" Sent: Wednesday, May 9, 2012 10:37:23 AM Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] apache config? On Wed, May 9, 201

Re: [BackupPC-users] apache config?

Sadly, apache's error log is silent. :-/ - Original Message - From: "Les Mikesell" To: "General list for user discussion, questions and support" Sent: Wednesday, May 9, 2012 9:01:07 AM Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] apache config? On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 10

Re: [BackupPC-users] apache config?

Sent: Tuesday, May 8, 2012 1:58:53 PM Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] apache config? On Tuesday 08 May 2012 11:27:47 James Ward wrote: > So, apache on my BackupPC system responds to both http and https requests, > but when I try to load the BackupPC interface, it hangs for a long time and >

[BackupPC-users] apache config?

7 and backuppc 3.1.0-9.1. This WAS working for EONs. -- Ward... James Ward Linux System Administrator System Administration Phone: 520-290-0910 ext 268 Fax:520-546-3442 ICQ:201663408 Jabber: ja...@jabber.chino

[BackupPC-users] Fwd: [support.chinoc.net #51633] BackupPC administrative attention needed

Uh, what gives? Since when is 44% close to 95%? Thanks in advance, James Begin forwarded message: > From: "(BackupPC) via RT" > Date: September 10, 2011 4:08:48 AM MST > To: "AdminCc of support.chinoc.net Ticket #51633":; > Subject: [support.chinoc.net #51633] BackupPC administrative attentio

[BackupPC-users] BackupPC creates corrupt zip files

http://www.tolaris.com/tag/backuppc/ I discovered this bug yesterday and am wondering what the best fix is for debian stable? debian squeeze provides: backuppc [3.1.0-9] which I assume doesn't fix the problem? -- Ward... James Ward Linux System Administrator System Administration Phone:

[BackupPC-users] How to hibernate a Windows 7 box from BackupPC?

itself works, I just need it to not hang on the BackupPC server. -- Ward... James Ward Linux System Administrator System Administration Phone: 520-290-0910 ext 268 Fax:520-546-3442 ICQ:201663408 Jabber: ja...@jabber.chinoc.net --

Re: [BackupPC-users] Trying to work around Windows filename too long problem

Trying to work around Windows filename too long problem James Ward wrote: > full backup started for directory cDrive; updating partial #305 > Connected to tartarus:873, remote version 29 > Negotiated protocol version 28 > Connected to module cDrive > Sending args: --server --sen

Re: [BackupPC-users] Trying to work around Windows filename too long problem

ent read EOF from child: fatal error! Done: 380 files, 319900497 bytes Got fatal error during xfer (Child exited prematurely) Backup aborted (Child exited prematurely) Not saving this as a partial backup since it has fewer files than the prior one (got 380 and 380 files versus 12806) ----- Origina

[BackupPC-users] Trying to work around Windows filename too long problem

until now. Any ideas? Thanks in advance, James -- Ward... James Ward Linux System Administrator System Administration Phone: 520-290-0910 ext 268 Fax:520-546-3442 ICQ:201663408 Jabber: ja...@jabber.chinoc.net -

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC file system full, best way to recover?

255 /etc/init.d/backuppc start On Jun 1, 2010, at 2:48 PM, James Ward wrote: > Thanks, this looks perfect! > > On Jun 1, 2010, at 1:30 PM, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > >> On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 1:46 PM, James Ward wrote: >>> Recently, a new NAS was mounted on sever

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC file system full, best way to recover?

Thanks, this looks perfect! On Jun 1, 2010, at 1:30 PM, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 1:46 PM, James Ward wrote: >> Recently, a new NAS was mounted on several servers and the BackupPC >> filesystem filled before I got the new NAS excluded. What&#x

[BackupPC-users] BackupPC file system full, best way to recover?

Recently, a new NAS was mounted on several servers and the BackupPC filesystem filled before I got the new NAS excluded. What's the best way to get BackupPC moving again. It's 100% full. Thanks in advance, James -- _

[BackupPC-users] BackupPC 3 question

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. Ward... James Ward Tekco

Re: [BackupPC-users] lenny update to BackupPC breaks it?

I figured it out. The apache2 user got changed to nobody from www-data. On Feb 3, 2010, at 9:33 AM, James Ward wrote: > I did routine updates on my servers today and one update was: > > [UPGRADE] backuppc 3.1.0-4lenny1 -> 3.1.0-4lenny3 > > Now, BackupPC is failing: > &

[BackupPC-users] lenny update to BackupPC breaks it?

/share/backuppc/cgi-bin/index.cgi $ ls -l /usr/share/backuppc/cgi-bin/index.cgi -rwsr-x--- 1 backuppc www-data 3993 2009-10-09 13:17 /usr/share/backuppc/cgi-bin/index.cgi Any ideas what the problem is? Ward... James Ward Tekco Management Group, LLC jew...@torzo.com 520-290-0190x268 ICQ: 201663408

[BackupPC-users] catch up hump

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Re: [BackupPC-users] Setting up a new BackupPC server

I forgot to mention there are 16 disks in the big array. So you'd recommend RAID5 or 6? On Sep 14, 2009, at 11:58 AM, Tino Schwarze wrote: On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 11:42:42AM -0700, James Ward wrote: I'm setting up a new BackupPC server as my current one has gotten full. This

[BackupPC-users] Setting up a new BackupPC server

e best way to set up the RAID array for BackupPC? Ward... James Ward Tekco Management Group, LLC jew...@torzo.com 520-290-0190x268 ICQ: 201663408 smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature -- Let Crystal Repo

Re: [BackupPC-users] Debugging backup failure

pPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ Ward... James Ward Tekco Management Group, LLC jew...@torzo.com 520-290-0190x

[BackupPC-users] Debugging backup failure

tes Got fatal error during xfer (aborted by signal=PIPE) Backup aborted by user signal Not saving this as a partial backup since it has fewer files than the prior one (got 4 and 0 files versus 119071) Ward... James Ward Tekco Management Group, LLC jew...@torzo.com 520-290-0190x268 ICQ: 201

Re: [BackupPC-users] 3.1.0 configuration problem

___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ Ward... James Ward Tekco Management Group, LLC jew...@torzo.com 520-290-0

Re: [BackupPC-users] 3.1.0 configuration problem

look like the syntax below, then call it up in the GUI to see the difference. It looks like the excludes are where the shares should be. On Sep 8, 2009, at 8:40 AM, Mark Maciolek wrote: James Ward wrote: From the main config file (/etc/backuppc/config.pl): $Conf{BackupFilesOnly} = {};

Re: [BackupPC-users] 3.1.0 configuration problem

The syntax in those files was created by the GUI, are they wrong? On Sep 8, 2009, at 8:40 AM, Mark Maciolek wrote: James Ward wrote: From the main config file (/etc/backuppc/config.pl): $Conf{BackupFilesOnly} = {}; $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = { '/sys' => [ &#

Re: [BackupPC-users] 3.1.0 configuration problem

I like that idea. I will ponder that if we can't get the exclude override working for some reason. It worked fine in the older version. On Sep 8, 2009, at 8:26 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: James Ward wrote: I recently converted all my BackupPC servers to 3.1.0 and even more recently confi

Re: [BackupPC-users] 3.1.0 configuration problem

ly configured one of them to back up 5 brand new clients. The problem is, BackupPC is not using the Override setting on BackupFilesExclude and is therefore failing trying to rsync several terabytes of Isilon network fileservers mounted on each of the 5 machines. I've reloaded the config fro

[BackupPC-users] 3.1.0 configuration problem

fileservers mounted on each of the 5 machines. I've reloaded the config from Admin Options. What else do I need to do to get BackupPC to exclude those network filesystems? Ward... James Ward Tekco Management Group, LLC jew...@torzo.com 520-290-0190x268 ICQ: 201663408 smim

[BackupPC-users] Tuning for disk contention

The discussion over the various BackupPC scenarios got me to thinking. My server IS disk bound. All the servers it backs up on on at least a 100M network link in the same room and some on 1G. With the default settings (4 simultaneous backups), the system is sitting right now at load aver

Re: [BackupPC-users] 2.x behavior desired on 3.1 install

I third this suggestion. On Sep 2, 2009, at 9:40 AM, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: > Tino Schwarze wrote at about 09:41:46 +0200 on Wednesday, September > 2, 2009: >> IMO the easiest approach would be: >> - if BackupPC_nightly starts, it acquires a lock, then waits for >> backups >> to complete

Re: [BackupPC-users] 2.x behavior desired on 3.1 install

You are correct on both counts. On Sep 2, 2009, at 9:24 AM, Jon Craig wrote: > On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 11:58 AM, James Ward wrote: >> I tried renicing everything: >> >> jew...@kw157:/usr/share/backuppc/bin$ head -2 BackupPC_nightly >> #!/usr/bin/perl >> setpriorit

Re: [BackupPC-users] 2.x behavior desired on 3.1 install

I tried renicing everything: jew...@kw157:/usr/share/backuppc/bin$ head -2 BackupPC_nightly #!/usr/bin/perl setpriority(0, $$, -20); jew...@kw157:/usr/share/backuppc/bin$ head -2 BackupPC_dump #!/usr/bin/perl setpriority(0, $$, 20); The result is, as some predicted, negligible. Also, someone po

[BackupPC-users] 2.x behavior desired on 3.1 install

All, I'm reposting this as I evidently tried to steal a thread before. Since upgrading a very busy BackupPC server to 3.1, it's been falling farther and farther behind due to disk contention between the nightly admin jobs and backups which ran 24x7 on the 2.x set up. I asked for help here and t

[BackupPC-users] 2.x behavior desired on 3.1 install

All, Since upgrading a very busy BackupPC server to 3.1, it's been falling farther and farther behind due to disk contention between the nightly admin jobs and backups which ran 24x7 on the 2.x set up. I asked for help here and the only suggestion I got was to carve out a window of time

Re: [BackupPC-users] Load average 17 since upgrading from BackupPC 2 to 3

I backup 24x7. There is no period I am not doing backups on this server... On Aug 20, 2009, at 8:54 AM, Adam Goryachev wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 James Ward wrote: Hi, I have recently upgraded a long term BackupPC server from 2.x to 3.1.0. Now that the admin

[BackupPC-users] Load average 17 since upgrading from BackupPC 2 to 3

Hi, I have recently upgraded a long term BackupPC server from 2.x to 3.1.0. Now that the admin jobs can run during backups, they start at 01:00 and run many hours. 4 backups are running simultaneously and the load average holds at around 16-17. How is the best way to tune for performan

Re: [BackupPC-users] Upgrading from etch to lenny

Have you specifically done a dist-upgrade from etch to lenny? On Jun 10, 2009, at 8:14 AM, Jim McNamara wrote: On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 6:24 PM, Ward... James Ward wrote: I have two etch BackupPC servers and two lenny BackupPC servers. All were built at the OS level currently running. I

[BackupPC-users] Upgrading from etch to lenny

I have two etch BackupPC servers and two lenny BackupPC servers. All were built at the OS level currently running. I like the new BackupPC interface a lot and would like to upgrade the etch servers to lenny and therefore BackupPC. How smoothly is this likely to go? Any HOWTOs or READMEs

[BackupPC-users] Moving to port 443

I need to move my BackupPC from port 80 to https. I searched in google and tried to search the mailing list archives, but I can't find a guide. I need to move a version 2.1.2pl1 server. It's using stock debian apache 1.3. Thanks in advance, James-

[BackupPC-users] Exclude complexity in version 2.1.2pl1

I have the following config line: $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = ['/proc', '/mnt', '/sys', '/home/ users', ... , '+ /vz/dump', '/vz/*']; But there is no /vz/dump in the backups. What am I doing wrong? Thanks in advance, James

[BackupPC-users] Best way to recover from disk full?

Hi, My largest BackupPC server's disk filled. I had some systems that needed to be archived and removed, which I did, but I only have 2.9G free out of 5T. One of the systems I'm no longer backing up was quite large. What's the right way to clean the pool? Can I run the nightly cleanup

[BackupPC-users] Exclude definitions not used?

Hi, I've recently built a new BackupPC server with Debian lenny and BackupPC version 3.1.0. All my prior BackupPC experience has been with 2.*. The strange problem I am having is that my excludes don't seem to be passed. Here's the relevant section from the main config: $Conf{BackupFi

[BackupPC-users] Exclude and Only combo

a/backup. Is this the right way to go about this: $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = ['/proc', '/sys', '/mnt', '/opt']; $Conf{BackupFilesOnly) = '/opt/zimbra/backup'; I'm using tar as the backup meth

Re: [BackupPC-users] busybox tar problem?

On Aug 21, 2008, at 7:04 PM, Holger Parplies wrote: Hi, Ward... James Ward wrote on 2008-08-19 16:02:16 -0700 [Re: [BackupPC- users] busybox tar problem?]: But here's the problem I'm currently struggling with, here's the config file for this client: $Conf{TarClientCmd} = &#x

Re: [BackupPC-users] busybox tar problem?

= 'etc'; I get "lost network connection during backup"? Ward... James Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Sysadmin (520) 290-0910x268 ICQ: 201663408 On Aug 19, 2008, at 4:02 PM, Ward... James Ward wrote: Okay, here's more information: Here's the script I'm running on

Re: [BackupPC-users] busybox tar problem?

onf{XferMethod} = "tar"; $Conf{BackupFilesOnly} = '/etc'; When the last line contains a '/', I get "no ping response". When I leave it out, I get "No files dumped for share /". What gives? Ward... James Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Sysadmin (

[BackupPC-users] scp as the transfer?

Since I don't have rsync or gnu tar on my busybox console servers, is it possible to configure BackupPC to use scp? Ward... James Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Sysadmin (520) 290-0910x268 ICQ: 201663408 - This S

[BackupPC-users] busybox tar problem?

Any ideas? Thanks in advance, James Ward... James Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Sysadmin (520) 290-0910x268 ICQ: 201663408 - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coo

Re: [BackupPC-users] Why isn't this being backed up?

I sent the config files in a separate e-mail. For linux to linux backups, I'm using: ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] sudo script_calling_rsync Ward... James Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Sysadmin (520) 290-0910x268 ICQ: 201663408 On Jul 25, 2008, at 11:14 AM, Jon Craig wrote: Are you lay

Re: [BackupPC-users] Why isn't this being backed up?

Sorry, no rsyncd involved. I'm backing up as UID 0 over an ssh connection. Ward... James Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Sysadmin (520) 290-0910x268 ICQ: 201663408 On Jul 24, 2008, at 12:18 PM, Jon Craig wrote: On 7/24/08, Ward... James Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -rwxr-

[BackupPC-users] Why isn't this being backed up?

s shaky at this point. I looked in all the logs I can find and I see no excuse for files to be missing? Help? Ward... James Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Sysadmin (520) 290-0910x268 ICQ: 201663408- This SF.Net email is sponsore

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC crashing

My concern is that it's been running perfectly for two years and suddenly it's crashing every 24 hours Ward... James Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Sysadmin (520) 290-0910x268 ICQ: 201663408 On Jul 8, 2008, at 11:31 AM, Evren Yurtesen wrote: Ward... James Ward wrote: I'

[BackupPC-users] BackupPC crashing

found BackupPC completely stopped. Can anyone help me? I'm running version 2.1.2pl1. I get this line in the log: Can't fork at /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC line 512. Ward... James Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Sysadmin (520) 29

[BackupPC-users] Error messages after upgrading client to Debian Etch

Hi, I'm getting errors like this after upgrading a client from sarge to etch: Unexpected call BackupPC::Xfer::RsyncFileIO->unlink(etc/init.d/stop-bootlogd) I've upgraded over 20 clients so far and this is the only one to exhibit these errors. Any idea how to correct these? --

[BackupPC-users] Strange errors after debian sarge->etch upgrade

Anyone know what's causing this? Running: /usr/bin/ssh -c arcfour -p 8889 -q -x -l backup ip5.chinoc.net sudo /var/backups/rsyncSend --server --sender --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group -D --links --times --block-size=2048 --recursive --exclude=/proc --exclude=/sys --exclude=/vol01 --exclude=/v

Re: [BackupPC-users] Strange OSX tar errors

This is OS X Tiger tar, so nothing new until Leopard... Does anyone know if OS X Tiger rsync takes care of resource forks? James On Jul 3, 2007, at 1:13 PM, Craig Barratt wrote: > James writes: > >>> What version of tar is this? >> >> Tomm:/Users/user root# tar --version >> tar (GNU tar) 1.14 +

Re: [BackupPC-users] Strange OSX tar errors

Maybe I should just exclude the winxp.hdd? But I'm sure the vice president of the company wants his virtual Windows machine backed up... I wonder if I can reach the virtual machine and back it up separately? (I answer your questions below) On Jul 2, 2007, at 5:38 PM, Craig Barratt wrote:

[BackupPC-users] Strange OSX tar errors

Any ideas on this? This Mac was backing up fine, but recently I'm getting lines like this in the log: /usr/bin/tar: ./Users/user/Documents/Parallels/Microsoft Windows XP/ winxp.hdd: file changed as we read it [ skipped 1 lines ] /usr/bin/tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors Tar exited

[BackupPC-users] Tiger rsync?

My understanding is that the current Tiger rsync with the -E flag will do everything needed to make useful backups with BackupPC? Am I wrong? Thanks in advance, James - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Down

[BackupPC-users] (no subject)

The servers PID is 3784, on host gorleben, version 2.1.2pl1, started at 2/26 13:55. Host User#Full Full Age/days Full Size/GB Speed MB/ sec #Incr Incr Age/days State Last attempt gorgon backuppc3 12.2

[BackupPC-users] Unexpected instant exit?

I'm backing up over 200 hosts to three big BackupPC servers. I added 5 new clients today and all five are exhibiting the same strange exit with no discernable errors. All machines concerned are running debian sarge and BackupPC is 2.1.1. The config file shared for the five boxes: $Conf{Ba

[BackupPC-users] FullKeepCnt confusion

I'm running 2.1.2pl1 on debian sarge and have one big BackupPC server backing up three big fileservers. I noticed today that the BackupPC filesystem is 91% full: Pool file system was recently at 91% (2/20 23:00), today's max is 91% (2/20 08:54) and yesterday's max was 91%. And I see that I

[BackupPC-users] 2.1 versus 3.0

I have three servers (2.x) in production. One of them is backing up three big fileservers. Any one of these backups can take more than 24 hours. I recently started full backups of each of the servers on different days to see if I could stagger the network load, but it looks like they're

[BackupPC-users] Syntax error?

I'm getting: - charles (Can't read PC's config file: Couldn't execute /var/lib/backuppc/pc/charles/config.pl: syntax error at /var/ lib/backuppc/pc/charles/config.pl line 4, near "$Conf") with this config file: $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = ['/Volumes', '/Network', '/automount']; $Conf{RsyncCli

[BackupPC-users] BlackoutPeriod not respected?

Hi, I'm running version 2.1.1 and have the following config file for one machine, but the BlackoutPeriod doesn't seem to be respected. Is there anything wrong with this? Contents of file /var/lib/backuppc/pc/charles/config.pl, modified 2007-01-04 12:29:12 $Conf{BackupFilesExclude}

[BackupPC-users] tar versus rsync on internal network

Hi, I have ~160 servers connected on a high speed internal network which I use to do backups. Additionally I have ~50 remote servers which I back up over the external network. It's taking about a week to make the rounds of all the systems. Would it make more sense to use tar on the int

[BackupPC-users] Tuning BackupPC

In an effort to reduce the time spent doing the BackupPC_nightly, I upped the number done in parallel from 2 to 8. Now the system is 99% wait. What is the best mix, half wait and half CPU bound? I'm concerned about performance because I am backing up over 200 machines and so far, I'm only

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC stopped queueing

k what has happened is that it spends all it's time trying to complete backups on the Windows machines (which always fail) and then never gets a chance to start anything else due to the blackout period?On Oct 27, 2006, at 11:31 PM, James Ward wrote:On Oct 27, 2006, at 5:07 PM, Stephen Joyce wrote:I

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC stopped queueing

On Oct 27, 2006, at 5:07 PM, Stephen Joyce wrote:It looks like it actually performed full backups of some hosts (kw33,kw109, kw124, kw9) normally between 1am and 3am, then linked them at 4am.The BackupPC_nightly task took the next ~8 hours, during which no backupsoccurred. Then, it tried to link th

[BackupPC-users] BackupPC stopped queueing

Okay, I do have a problem:# Version 2.1.1, released 13 Mar 2005.[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/pc$ df -hFilesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on/dev/md1               69G  1.1G   65G   2% /tmpfs                 507M     0  507M   0% /dev/shm/dev/md0              118M   18M   94M  16% /boot/dev/s

[BackupPC-users] backuppc stopped queueing

My server is debian running 2.1.2-5 backuppc and today, it stopped queueing new backups.  I have restarted backuppc twice and no change?- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done

[BackupPC-users] backing something up once a month

I have two ~180G NFS filesystems I'm backing up, but they take a lng time. My boss says they only need to be backed up once a month. What's the easiest way to get them to schedule only once every four weeks? - Usin

[BackupPC-users] Xlib error on backuppc ssh?

I just installed a second backuppc server after giving up trying to mirror my 1.5T USB RAID arrays. It's almost identical to my first one, but on several *nix hosts, I'm getting: Running: /usr/bin/ssh -q -x -l root apollo /usr/bin/rsync --server --sender --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group --de

[BackupPC-users] Syncing pool to remote disk

Hi, I have two 1.5T USB RAID arrays separated by 100 meters and a wireless 10M connection. What is the best way to sync them? rsync consumes all available memory and craters the system. What is the best alternative for synching such a huge amount of data? Thanks in advance, James ___

[BackupPC-users] Strange rsync error on OS X G5 QUAD

Remote[1]: rsync: opendir "/dev/fd/3" failed: Bad file descriptor (9) Xfer PIDs are now 30450,30452 This is the initial backup. That's not trying to back up a non-existent floppy, is it? __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best sp

[BackupPC-users] Endless link process?

Hi, I've been using an Ubuntu server with a 1.75TB USB RAID array to back up ~1TB of data for a few months now, but I seem to have a problem. One of my biggest and most complex systems to back up is a big Apple G5. The link process has been running since 8/22 13:56 and shows no sign of ever fini