Re: [BackupPC-users] Host key verification failed after update to Fedora 42 - SOLVED

2025-05-16 Thread John Cusick
keep separate notepaper notes :) Regards, John C. On Thu, May 15, 2025 at 9:41 AM Norman J Goldstein wrote: > Perhaps, run rsync_bpc manually at the command line. Sometimes this > yields more error verbiage. > > > ___ Back

Re: [BackupPC-users] Host key verification failed after update to Fedora 42

2025-05-14 Thread John Cusick
this in the logs since Day 1, is this critical?) But thanks to you both once again for the quick replies. Regards, John C. On Wed, May 14, 2025 at 4:41 PM John Cusick wrote: > Hello all, > > After a full update from Fedora 41 to Fedora 42 all client backups are now >

[BackupPC-users] Host key verification failed after update to Fedora 42

2025-05-14 Thread John Cusick
how to troubleshoot the rsync code 255 error and I'm hoping someone else running Fedora 42 has seen, and solved, the problem. Regards, John C. ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforg

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup corrupted, impossible to corect it

2024-09-16 Thread John
+1 from me. ZFS on Linux is also offered with TrueNAS Scale and I doubt those guys would be pushing that out there if they thought there was the slightest chance of tarnishing their product's reputation for rock solid reliability in the Enterprise arena. On 16/09/2024 17:18, Paul Leyland wro

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup problems with /home directory

2024-04-16 Thread John Cusick
running as the user "nobody" which did not work in my case. The next step is to be able to make sure a restore works within home directories, but I think the setting of rsyncd to run as root has solved the problem. Simple, isn't it... arrgh Thanks again for your remote eyeballs an

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup problems with /home directory

2024-04-16 Thread John Cusick
On Mon, Apr 15, 2024 at 8:44 PM Les Mikesell wrote: > On Mon, Apr 15, 2024 at 9:10 PM John Cusick wrote: > > > > I've searched multiple sites and everything I've tried just isn't > working. > > > > I'm using rsyncd > > > > The sys

[BackupPC-users] Backup problems with /home directory

2024-04-15 Thread John Cusick
as I can tell since both the "/usr/local" and "/etc" directories are backed up with no problems (that I worry about :) I'm backing up 4 directories, /etc, /usr/local, /home/john, and /home/backuppc No matter what I've tried so far, even though the "/etc" an

Re: [BackupPC-users] Pool hashing gives XXX repeated files with longest chain 1

2023-03-14 Thread John
That's the sort of attitude that puts genuine people off asking for help on mailing lists. Rather than posting a cutting reply, why not simply ask for a little more information if that's what's needed? Please try to remember that English is not everyone's first language and at the end of the da

[BackupPC-users] btrfs questions

2021-03-06 Thread John Botha (SourceForge)
lve less time doing redundant calculations. Does that make sense? Thanks in advance for constructive input, as I have seen some flame wars around the use of btrfs. 8-) John ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforg

Re: [BackupPC-users] Restoring pool hardlinks (or reconnecting files to backups)

2020-02-16 Thread John McKay via BackupPC-users
les if the hardlink structure has been destroyed?  (And if not, will version 4 prevent this sort of problem?) Thanks. On Friday, February 14, 2020, 05:36:41 PM EST, John McKay via BackupPC-users wrote: Hello, Through a bizarre coincidence of three different mistakes/failures in my backup

[BackupPC-users] Restoring pool hardlinks (or reconnecting files to backups)

2020-02-14 Thread John McKay via BackupPC-users
the future?  (That's assuming I can do as I have done here, i.e., restore all the content of the basic filesystem.) Thanks for any help, suggestions, or other thoughts on this. -John McKay___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourcefo

[BackupPC-users] backup server disks moved to new server

2019-02-12 Thread Cusick, John C CIV NAWCWD, 541300D
the permissions appropriately (I forgot to look first) I attempted to start the server, which failed due to some permission issues, and 2) I then changed nothing but permissions within the BackupPC directory structure. How do I get the server to see the older incremental and full backups? R

Re: [BackupPC-users] Error ' getaddrinfo is not a valid Socket macro' after upgrading to 4.1

2017-03-28 Thread John Barton
Here is info from my machine, currently running CentOS 6.8. I was able to resolve the problem by manually installing both ExtUtils-Constant-0.23 and Socket-2.024 by hand, they would not compile with CPAN. Thanks, -John # perl -v This is perl, v5.10.1 (*) built for x86_64-linux-thread-multi

[BackupPC-users] Error ' getaddrinfo is not a valid Socket macro' after upgrading to 4.1

2017-03-27 Thread John Barton
valid Socket macro at /usr/local/BackupPC/lib/BackupPC/Lib.pm line 1413 John Barton Specialized Tech Solutions, LLC jbar...@sts-llc.net -- Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging

Re: [BackupPC-users] [BackupPC-devel] BackupPC 4.0.0 released

2017-03-05 Thread John Habermann
Thank you for your work towards this Craig it is inspiring. John Habermann IT Officer Cook Shire Council Craig Barratt wrote BackupPC community, I'm happy to announce that BackupPC 4.0.0 has been released on Github<https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/releases> and

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC fails with aborted by signal=PIPE, Can't write to socket

2017-01-24 Thread John Spitzer
Stefan, Les, Thanks you for your excellent suggestions. I have solved the problem by increasing the config value: timeout=2400 in the rsyncd.conf file. I appreciate the time you took to help. John On 01/20/2017 12:18 PM, Stefan Peter wrote: > On 20.01.2017 09:13, Stefan Peter wrote: >&g

Re: [BackupPC-users] Can't write 32786 bytes to socket

2017-01-24 Thread John Spitzer
t my experience. Good Luck, John On 01/23/2017 1:50 AM, absolutely_f...@libero.it wrote: Hi, I got this mail every day: The following hosts had an error that is probably caused by a misconfiguration.  Please fix these hosts:

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC fails with aborted by signal=PIPE, Can't write to socket

2017-01-20 Thread John Spitzer
This is exactly the kind of information I was hoping to get. I had overlooked where these timeout values were configured. I will experiment with these settings and get back with my results. Thank you Stefan for this very helpful information. Kind Regards, John S. On 01/20/2017 12:13 AM, Stefan

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC fails with aborted by signal=PIPE, Can't write to socket

2017-01-19 Thread John Spitzer
On 01/19/2017 1:28 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 2:25 PM, John Spitzer wrote: The most likely suspect is that rsync timeout shown in the log snippet you posted. But you didn't provide any details about why or how your rsync had timeouts enabled. That rsync timeout is

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC fails with aborted by signal=PIPE, Can't write to socket

2017-01-19 Thread John Spitzer
On 01/19/2017 9:41 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 10:16 AM, John Spitzer wrote: >> Because: >> 1. I have a dozen VMs, each of which would need a backup job. Much more >> complicated backup setup. >> 2. The VM would need to be running to backup, > N

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC fails with aborted by signal=PIPE, Can't write to socket

2017-01-19 Thread John Spitzer
t to recover it. 6. If the host disk fails, it would be hugely more difficult to recover the dozen VMs, one at a time. But isn't it much more interesting that I've seem to have found some kind of limit to Backup PC? On 01/19/2017 07:03 AM, G.W. Haywood wrote: > Hi there, > >

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC fails with aborted by signal=PIPE, Can't write to socket

2017-01-18 Thread John Spitzer
x27;t be worked around? I'm I even on the correct track? I really would appreciate hearing from someone that knows this code. Thanks, John On 01/16/2017 12:13 PM, John Spitzer wrote: I have BackupPC setup with three host configurations to backup three separate areas of one system.

[BackupPC-users] BackupPC fails with aborted by signal=PIPE, Can't write to socket

2017-01-16 Thread John Spitzer
/Win 7 Pro VM04/Win 7 Pro VM04.vbox (size=33258) Done: 0 files, 0 bytes 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 0 and 0 files versus 16) Thank you for your help. John S. P

[BackupPC-users] Question on using NAS for Pool

2016-08-05 Thread john boris
es on change that to an NFS mount? Pointers to a how-to for this would be great. TIA -- John J. Boris, Sr. -- ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforg

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2015-08-05 Thread John Benham
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Re: [BackupPC-users] Boot drive failure recovery options?

2014-12-31 Thread John Rouillard
d-line. Another alternative is to use/create a live usb thumb drive to boot the machine into linux without touching the windows disk. Then you should be able to follow Craig's advise to cpan install the perl modules and backuppc software on the drive. -- -- r

Re: [BackupPC-users] Best practice/s for backing up a VM??

2014-10-28 Thread John Rouillard
you may not get a warning about this. If you search the mailing list for windows, VSS and smb/samba you should find a few threads. -- -- rouilj John Rouillard Sys

Re: [BackupPC-users] Compression Experiences?

2014-10-13 Thread John Rouillard
% (data directories with most of the data already compressed). -- -- rouilj John Rouillard System Administrator Dyn Corporation 603-244-9084 (cell) -- Meet PCI DSS 3.0 Compl

Re: [BackupPC-users] Queue Order / Queue Pools

2014-08-28 Thread John Rouillard
allel. http://sourceforge.net/p/backuppc/mailman/backuppc-users/thread/20090319212300.gc20...@renesys.com/ -- -- rouilj John Rouillard System Administrator Dyn Corporation

Re: [BackupPC-users] off-site storage

2014-08-14 Thread John Sellens
ese days. Hope that's useful - cheers! John -- ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc + cubox

2014-06-25 Thread John Smith
Needles to say, I set log level with value 3. John On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 9:46 AM, John Smith wrote: > Helo Holger, > > > thanks for your reply. > > > I set up excludes properly and the full backup was done without any > problems related to exiting. Was it reall

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc + cubox

2014-06-25 Thread John Smith
ee5aa84329e041bb244c16624279d128 vs ee5aa84329e041bb244c16624279d128 [ skipped 1 lines ] var/spool/anacron/cron.weekly got digests ab5963f3bc0ab07d96d0c05a46c8073c vs ab5963f3bc0ab07d96d0c05a46c8073c Thanks. Best, John On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 9:51 PM, Holger Parplies wrote: > Hi, > > Pavel Smejkal wrote on 2

Re: [BackupPC-users] A restore issue creates a tar file that can damage the system

2014-06-20 Thread John Rouillard
or not (it depends on how you are backing up the directory), but check backuppc's config.pl or the documentation for details. -- -- rouilj John Rouillard System Administrator Renesys Corporation 603-244-9084 (cell) 603-643-9300 x 111 ---

[BackupPC-users] Defunct hosts

2014-05-21 Thread John Major
Hi All, Is there a convenient way to disable backups of defunct hosts while keeping their backed up data available for zips / tars without generating admin spam about them? Regards John -- "Accelerate Dev C

Re: [BackupPC-users] possible to re-run BackupPC_link after failures?

2014-02-28 Thread John Rouillard
sible (or practical) to rerun the link process -- > will the wasted space basically gradually go down when future > backups occur (assuming future linking works)? Yes, as your old backups with unlinked files expire, you will reclaim that space. -- -- rouilj

Re: [BackupPC-users] V4 for production?

2014-01-28 Thread John Rouillard
however. Having full backups that byte compare the data (rather than pruning by looking at data metadata) on a regular basis I claim is a best practice. -- -- rouilj John Rouillard System Administrator Renesys Corporation 603-2

Re: [BackupPC-users] Recommended CYGWIN SSH & Rsync guide

2013-12-03 Thread John Habermann
de.html#Cygwin > Installation > > > I am also attempting to script the whole installation using Wizard's > Apprentice, Batch, and the 7-zip SFX installer. That way it will > walk you through the whole CYGWIN, SSH, and RSYNC configuration. If > I ever get it finished an

Re: [BackupPC-users] Recommended CYGWIN SSH & Rsync guide

2013-12-03 Thread John Rouillard
separation enabled, the user is unable to access certain folders > with a "Permission Denied" message. Perhaps: http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html may be of use? -- -- rouilj John Rouillard System Administrator Renes

Re: [BackupPC-users] Install guide for BackupPC v3.3.0 in ubuntu/centos

2013-09-27 Thread Squirrel John
Hi, That sounds kinda technical to me. Could you share the steps? Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 28, 2013, at 9:46 AM, Kenneth Porter wrote: > > --On Friday, September 27, 2013 4:23 AM -0700 Prem > wrote: > >> Can anyone point me to where I could find a step-by-step guide to install >> the ne

Re: [BackupPC-users] Issues with a restore

2013-09-09 Thread John Rouillard
On Mon, Sep 09, 2013 at 02:21:27PM -0400, David Williams wrote: > On 9/9/2013 1:53 PM, John Rouillard wrote: > >On Mon, Sep 09, 2013 at 12:07:03PM -0400, David Williams wrote: > >>The single file was just a test...I will want to restore a whole > >>bunch of files. Does

Re: [BackupPC-users] Issues with a restore

2013-09-09 Thread John Rouillard
rick I would think. -- -- rouilj John Rouillard System Administrator Renesys Corporation 603-244-9084 (cell) 603-643-9300 x 111 -- Learn the latest--Visual Studio 2012, SharePoint 20

Re: [BackupPC-users] Moving lots of data on a client

2013-08-20 Thread John Rouillard
claim this should be safe since no data is harmed by the copy/link 8-). Standard disclaimers apply. Let us know how/if it works. -- -- rouilj John Rouillard System Administrator Renesys Corporation 603-244-9084 (cell) 603-643-9300 x 111 -

Re: [BackupPC-users] Outlook files need to be backed up

2013-08-08 Thread John Habermann
ers 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/ -- J

Re: [BackupPC-users] cygwin-rsyncd outdated No recent version ?

2013-07-09 Thread John Habermann
I would be interested in seeing how you do this as well so thank you On Tue, 9 Jul 2013 15:51:37 -0600 Ray Frush wrote: > I have added this task to my list of things to do. I'll try to get > something posted to this list within a week that other folks can use. > > > On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 1:2

Re: [BackupPC-users] cygwin-rsyncd outdated No recent version ?

2013-07-09 Thread John Habermann
for Windows Store. > > http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev > ___ > BackupPC-users mailing list > BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net > List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.

Re: [BackupPC-users] New backup server

2013-05-24 Thread John Rouillard
re. But didn't the op say a lot of files were images? jpeg or png don't compress well. The iso's may depending on what's on them. -- -- rouilj John Rouillard System Administrator Renesys Corporation 603-244-9084 (cell) 603-643-9300 x

Re: [BackupPC-users] Incremental backups, rsync and the exchange mailbox store

2013-04-23 Thread John Habermann
Thanks for your suggestion Igor I wasn't aware of the unxutils software, it looks quite handy. On Mon, 22 Apr 2013 17:25:27 +0200 Igor Sverkos wrote: > > Hi, > > another option: > > Grab a copy of touch win32 and write a script which will touch the > needed files. Execute it before backuppc

Re: [BackupPC-users] Incremental backups, rsync and the exchange mailbox store

2013-04-23 Thread John Habermann
Hi Adam On Tue, 23 Apr 2013 01:18:07 +1000 Adam Goryachev wrote: > On 22/04/13 06:46, John Habermann wrote: > > Hi > > I have an exchange 2003 server which I have set up in backuppc using > > Michael's backuppc rsync based client scripts > > http://www.michaelst

[BackupPC-users] Incremental backups, rsync and the exchange mailbox store

2013-04-21 Thread John Habermann
store that runs full backups only)? Thank you -- John Habermann IT Officer Cook Shire Council -- Precog is a next-generation analytics platform capable of advanced analytics on semi-structured data. The platform includes

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup Data Transfer Speed

2013-04-07 Thread John Habermann
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Re: [BackupPC-users] Keep backup data when source host/directory changes

2013-03-07 Thread John Rouillard
On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 10:10:27AM -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 9:00 AM, John Rouillard > wrote: > > I use cygwin for the sshd/rsync binaries now but I did get it working > > with all native windows versions of tools at one point. > Really? Is the

Re: [BackupPC-users] Keep backup data when source host/directory changes

2013-03-07 Thread John Rouillard
f you need to use VSS (unless there is a VSS aware rsync) but otherwise it works fine. I use cygwin for the sshd/rsync binaries now but I did get it working with all native windows versions of tools at one point. --

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC Pool synchronization?

2013-03-01 Thread John Rouillard
id bog things down a bit though. -- -- rouilj John Rouillard System Administrator Renesys Corporation 603-244-9084 (cell) 603-643-9300 x 111 -- Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your w

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC Pool synchronization?

2013-03-01 Thread John Rouillard
can actually manage (ymmv). > [...] if it's of interest i could share it. I think this fills a useful use case, so yeah I would say send it to the mailing list. -- -- rouilj John Rouillard System Administrator Rene

Re: [BackupPC-users] multi platform backup system

2013-02-27 Thread John Habermann
__ > 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.

Re: [BackupPC-users] Restore only file attributes

2013-01-24 Thread John Rouillard
will have to find/fix those manually. -- -- rouilj John Rouillard System Administrator Renesys Corporation 603-244-9084 (cell) 603-643-9300 x 111 -- Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5,

Re: [BackupPC-users] No more bakup after last partial backup?

2012-12-06 Thread John Habermann
ed, 05 Dec 2012 04:41:32 -0800 arcticeye wrote: > Hi John, > Thanks for your answer. I have copied the script but sh and bash > (either) don't recognize the "declare" command. Is there a way to do > it manually? Should I try to remove the last partial backup manually

Re: [BackupPC-users] No more bakup after last partial backup?

2012-12-04 Thread John Habermann
vers > http://p.sf.net/sfu/logmein_12329d2d > ___ > BackupPC-users mailing list > BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net > List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsync never starts transferring files (but does something)

2012-11-20 Thread John Rouillard
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 03:34:02PM -0500, Bowie Bailey wrote: > On 11/20/2012 3:13 PM, John Rouillard wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 09:46:33AM -0500, Bowie Bailey wrote: > >> On 11/19/2012 4:35 PM, John Rouillard wrote: > >>> What may also work is to use excludes

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsync never starts transferring files (but does something)

2012-11-20 Thread John Rouillard
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 09:46:33AM -0500, Bowie Bailey wrote: > On 11/19/2012 4:35 PM, John Rouillard wrote: > > > > What may also work is to use excludes to do your sharding. I have 4 > > "hosts" now with different excludes. All of them back up the same share: &g

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsync never starts transferring files (but does something)

2012-11-19 Thread John Rouillard
of the various directory trees/files. Hopefully you can create roughly equal sized (either in bytes or in number of files) groups and then make exclude lists that subtract all the subdirectories that do not fit in that group. That may be easier to specify than each individual directory you

Re: [BackupPC-users] Performance reference (linux --(rsync)-> linux)

2012-11-06 Thread John Habermann
C-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/ -- John Habermann IT Officer Cook Shire Council 10 Furneaux St Co

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc slow rsync speeds

2012-09-21 Thread John Rouillard
On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 01:12:56PM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 1:02 PM, John Rouillard > wrote: > > > >> However, I just run into a situation in an rsync restore where both > >> ends were sitting in a select() apparently waiting for each ot

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc slow rsync speeds

2012-09-21 Thread John Rouillard
.org/lists/html/BackupPC-users/2010-02/msg00075.html http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.backup.backuppc.general/18179 but always when doing a backup not while doing a restore. -- -- rouilj John Rouillard System Administrator R

Re: [BackupPC-users] Per host host.pl not found on new CentOS 6.3 install

2012-09-21 Thread John Rouillard
NFDIR/pc manually (take care to get the owner/group right, use the same as the parent dir). Then put the file there and see if it works. -- -- rouilj John Rouillard System Administrator Ren

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc slow rsync speeds

2012-09-19 Thread John Rouillard
forcing a new full backup gets me past it. -- -- rouilj John Rouillard System Administrator Renesys Corporation 603-244-9084 (cell) 603-643-9300 x 111 -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exc

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc slow rsync speeds

2012-09-19 Thread John Rouillard
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 10:53:52AM -0400, Timothy J Massey wrote: > John Rouillard wrote on 09/17/2012 02:05:28 > PM: > > > On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 12:54:35PM -0400, Timothy J Massey wrote: > > My backup drive is a 1U linux box exporting its disks as an isci > > syst

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc slow rsync speeds

2012-09-19 Thread John Rouillard
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 11:07:18AM -0400, Timothy J Massey wrote: > John Rouillard wrote on 09/17/2012 02:33:34 > PM: > > > I have another system that is lower power: > > > > 2632652.8 MB at 662.5 minutes or 66MB/s > > That's 2.6TB in 11 hours. Tha

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc slow rsync speeds

2012-09-17 Thread John Rouillard
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 06:05:28PM +, John Rouillard wrote: > On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 12:54:35PM -0400, Timothy J Massey wrote: > > No matter the size of the system, I seem to top out at about 50GB/hour for > > full backups. Here is a perfectly typical example: > > &g

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc slow rsync speeds

2012-09-17 Thread John Rouillard
cached checksums. Local clients (we also back up systems over the WAN) are connected over Gig-E. When you see high cpu can you use strace to see what you have for i/o reads/writes? Also have you tried setting this up with a non-compressed pool as an experiment to see if compression is what is k

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc slow rsync speeds

2012-09-17 Thread John Rouillard
cept for the most recently used files. (We also won't discuss having corruption in putting the current bits on disks that trashes the curent backup copy. Which frankly there is very little short of zfs/btrfs type filesystem that can provide some measure of protection/detection.) --

Re: [BackupPC-users] backupPC and backup via VPN connection.

2012-08-07 Thread John Rouillard
a "can not ping" error, or ping is too slow error? If the latter change the PingMaxMsec either globally or in per host settings. See the manual for more info. -- -- rouilj John Rouillard System Administrat

Re: [BackupPC-users] Process for Overriding hosts configuration

2012-07-10 Thread John Rouillard
the real location of those files are pooled together so you won't take twice as much disk space. -- -- rouilj John Rouillard System Administrator Renesys Corporation 603-244-9084 (cell) 603-643-9300 x 111 -

Re: [BackupPC-users] Process for Overriding hosts configuration

2012-07-10 Thread John Rouillard
ludeFiles. I think all it does is creates the /etc/backuppc/pc/host.name.pl file with the overriding config info in it. RTFM: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html#configuration_file for per-PC configuration files. -- -- rouilj John Rouillard Sys

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC_dump syntax

2012-07-09 Thread John Rouillard
on stdout or stderr so you can interrupt it as soon as it starts backing up something you don't want. Not quite as good as just getting a listing but it may reduce your cycle time a little. -- -- rouilj John Rouillard System Administrator Renesys C

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC Errors log

2012-07-09 Thread John Rouillard
_serverMesg should do the trick. -- -- rouilj John Rouillard System Administrator Renesys Corporation 603-244-9084 (cell) 603-643-9300 x 111 -- Live Security Virtual Conference

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC Errors log

2012-07-06 Thread John Rouillard
or lines. If you have your debug settings turned up, there are a lot of lines that aren't errors (they are debug output) but that aren't filtered in the error view. It's been a while since I noted this issue so I don't remeber the details but it may explain the discrepency.

Re: [BackupPC-users] How to submit changes

2012-05-22 Thread John Habermann
Hi Brad This is something that I would certainly find useful so +1 for it being added to BackupPC. cheers John On Tue, 22 May 2012 15:48:46 -0600 "Brad Morgan" wrote: > I've added a "BlackoutFulls" config option to my local copy of > BackupPC. This fu

Re: [BackupPC-users] encrypted pc and pool directory

2012-05-17 Thread John Hutchinson
ok That answers my question. The issue is that we are looking at backing up clients machines and my boss wanted to be able to tell them that even we can not see their files. I did not think it was possible but thought it was worth asking. John On 5/16/2012 7:05 PM, Arnold Krille wrote: On

[BackupPC-users] encrypted pc and pool directory

2012-05-16 Thread John Hutchinson
Is there any way to setup backuppc so that the pc and the pool directory are encrypted so they can only be accessed by the web interface with a valid user? John -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event

Re: [BackupPC-users] trying to improve the speed at which backuppc rsync back up processes a large binary file in incremental backups

2012-01-10 Thread John Habermann
s a 150 Mbps capacity. > > Sent from my galaxy tab 10.1. > On Jan 8, 2012 10:05 PM, "Les Mikesell" wrote: > > > On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 4:48 AM, John Habermann > > wrote: > > > > > > You can see that the backup of the /opt share takes nearly

Re: [BackupPC-users] trying to improve the speed at which backuppc rsync back up processes a large binary file in incremental backups

2012-01-10 Thread John Habermann
Thank you for your reply Les On Sun, 8 Jan 2012 16:00:02 -0600 Les Mikesell wrote: > On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 4:48 AM, John Habermann > wrote: > > > > You can see that the backup of the /opt share takes nearly the total > > time of the incremental taking about 8 an

[BackupPC-users] trying to improve the speed at which backuppc rsync back up processes a large binary file in incremental backups

2012-01-08 Thread John Habermann
incremental backup of this file take so much longer than a full backup of it or a plain rsync of this file? Thank you -- John Habermann IT Officer Cook Shire Council 10 Furneaux St Cooktown 4895 ph 40820577 -- Ridiculously

Re: [BackupPC-users] Let me get to the real point

2011-11-17 Thread John Rouillard
upgrade than there were in prior os install? I assume this is rsync over ssh and the rsync process in enumerating the files can run out of memory on the client. Are you dumping the entire system (say /) or just a small part of it (e.g. /etc). -- -- rouilj John Rouill

Re: [BackupPC-users] Let me get to the real point

2011-11-15 Thread John Rouillard
.. > > It just hangs. > > No useful log messages on client or server. What does lsof against the rsync on the client side show as open files? If you run strace against rsync on the client side is it sitting in a select loop? Is the server side perl process accumulating any time?

[BackupPC-users] How to choose files to backup?

2011-10-29 Thread John Smith
I have Backuppc running on Debian Lenny. I can see that backuppc is backing up /etc to /var/lib/backuppc but where in the configuration is /etc set as the directory to be backed up? -- Get your Android app more play: B

Re: [BackupPC-users] What is the simplest solution for single PC and USB external HD ?þ

2011-10-20 Thread John Smith
sbackup is on SID and I have Lenny(I want to backup to dist-upgrade) so I would prefer backuppc forthis reason alone. Also, I hope to use backuppc for a more complicated configuration so I would like to play around withit for this simple configuration. I did spend some time trying to figure o

[BackupPC-users] What is the simplest solution for single PC and USB external HD?‏

2011-10-20 Thread John Smith
I have dual boot computer with two hard drives. One drive has a Vista install and the other has Debian, Swap and two more partitions. I installed using aptitude. The program now works and backs up /etc to /var/lib/backuppc. I would like to be able to back up Vista using MS backup program

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC to NFS then to tape via DPM

2011-10-19 Thread John Rouillard
plete? Do you have backuppc customized to perform a PITR backup? If you aren't doing one of these three things your postgres backups are pretty much worthless and won't be able to be restored. Given this is your first foray into backups I thought these may be important things to check.

Re: [BackupPC-users] restore from a read only file system possible?

2011-10-11 Thread John Rouillard
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 09:14:33PM +0100, Tim Fletcher wrote: > On Tue, 2011-10-11 at 19:57 +0000, John Rouillard wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 01:10:30PM +0200, Frank Wolkwitz wrote: > > > After raid controller failure the pool file system is running in read > > >

Re: [BackupPC-users] restore from a read only file system possible?

2011-10-11 Thread John Rouillard
kupsDisable} = '2' in the config.pl file to prevent backups from running. I am not sure how to disable the nightly housekeeping routines and trash clean operations. Have you tried running BackupPC_tarCreate without the daemon running to see if you can extract data? --

Re: [BackupPC-users] Bad md5sums due to zero size (uncompressed) cpool files - WEIRD BUG

2011-10-06 Thread John Rouillard
-r 0 and got as a summary: 39000 files in 16 directories checked, 4 had wrong digests, of these 0 zero-length. running it with -r "1,2" now. -- -- rouilj John Rouillard System Administrator Renesys Corporation 603-244-9084 (cell) 603-643-9300 x 111 ---

Re: [BackupPC-users] serial or parallel backups

2011-06-26 Thread John Rouillard
run 10 backups in parallel and have 132 hosts being backed up nightly and I only have one or two still running in the morning when we have a heavy data churn (> 1/2 TB). My pool reports: 1258 full backups of total size 61013.99GB. So I have a pretty small average full backup size. --

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup of VM images

2011-06-03 Thread John Rouillard
unsuspend the system. This should reduce your service interruption to under a minute. Then back up the snapshot. Worst case just try to make sure you aren't backing up the system while it's doing a lot of disk activity on the file you are trying to back up. --

Re: [BackupPC-users] BlackoutPeriods seemingly ignored

2011-06-02 Thread John Rouillard
t; transfer is. Also you can implement a semaphore/queuing system similar to: http://www.mail-archive.com/backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg13698.html So only 1 backup runs at a time for a site. -- -- rouilj John Ro

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC_dump hangs with: .: size doesn't match

2011-05-29 Thread John Goerzen
process is eating CPU, it isn't making system calls. That is, strace on it shows no calls happening, so I don't believe it's a kernel-level problem. I believe it's a BackupPC bug of some sort. -- John -

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC_dump hangs with: .: size doesn't match

2011-05-27 Thread John Goerzen
Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom real-time.com> writes: > > On 05/27 07:56 , John Goerzen wrote: > > So far I have only observed the problem with the rsync backend; tar > > seems to work. > > Pardon me if I didn't read and understand your problem sufficiently; but

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC_dump hangs with: .: size doesn't match

2011-05-27 Thread John Goerzen
erved the problem with the rsync backend; tar seems to work. This is becoming a deeply concerning problem and help would be appreciated. Thanks, -- John -- vRanger cuts backup time in half-while increasing security.

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC_dump hangs with: .: size doesn't match

2011-05-26 Thread John Goerzen
=> 0,'ExistFileCompSize' => 0,'TotalFileSize' => 0) finish: removing in-process file . Child is aborting Got exit from child Done: 0 files, 0 bytes Got fatal error during xfer (aborted by user (signal=INT)) Backup aborted by user signal Any ideas? -- John On 05/26/

[BackupPC-users] BackupPC_dump hangs with: .: size doesn't match

2011-05-26 Thread John Goerzen
e with ALRM otherwise. This is BackupPC 3.1.0 on Debian squeeze. What can I do to help track down this problem? John Rouillard, did you ever find a solution to your issue? Thanks, -- John -- vRanger cuts backup time i

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