Re: [BackupPC-users] v4: How can I disable BackupPC but keep the service running? (Read-only BackupPC)

2022-10-27 Thread Jon Daley via BackupPC-users
Can you simply edit the config BlackoutPeriods value to block out all of the time? On Thu, 27 Oct 2022, Rob Sheldon wrote: Hi, I'm in a bit of a pickle. I've been migrating my v4 pool to some new infrastructure for ... a while. It's taking much longer than expected, and now I have a

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC keeping more Fulls than expected.

2022-08-02 Thread Jon Daley via BackupPC-users
I'm sure we all got it. I just don't have an answer. When I did the same upgrade, I went through the whole config file and merged over my changes - it looked to me like there was a lot of stuff that changed, so I wasn't confident that simply using my old config file would work. Since you

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC failed after upgrading client to Debian 11

2022-07-10 Thread Jon Daley via BackupPC-users
Are you using rsync over ssh? If so, one thing I like to try is to ssh manually using the backuppc user. On July 10, 2022 6:23:58 AM EDT, Taste-Of-IT wrote: >Hi all, > >i have latest BackupPC running on Debian 10. I upgraded one system to Debian >11. Backup before running well and without

Re: [BackupPC-users] are 2 backuppc hosts safe from each other's activity?

2022-05-14 Thread Jon Daley via BackupPC-users
They are stored on the host, so "leapfrogging" is fine (probably best to make sure they run at different times to not bog down the network/client). On Sat, 14 May 2022, gregrwm wrote: i have brought up backuppc4 on a new kvm guest, and still also have backuppc3 on another kvm guest. but is

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsync/File::RsyncP conflict

2022-04-11 Thread Jon Daley via BackupPC-users
I'm using 3.1.3.0-3 of backuppc-rsync 3.2.3-4+deb of rsync 4.4.0-3 of backuppc 0.62-1+b1 of libbackuppc-xs-perl successfully. libfile-rsync-perl is not installed Hope that helps. On April 11, 2022 6:35:40 AM EDT, Matthew Pounsett wrote: >I seem to have encountered the same problem described

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsync-bcp problem

2022-04-07 Thread Jon Daley via BackupPC-users
On Thu, 7 Apr 2022, backu...@kosowsky.org wrote: So, I think that proves that it is rsync-bpc that is causing trouble, as `rsync -a Downloads d` works perfectly fine. Nope. Just proves you don't know how rsync_bpc works... True. :) It was described as a "drop-in replacement" for rsync on the

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsync-bcp problem

2022-04-07 Thread Jon Daley via BackupPC-users
() which doesn't seem to help much. Do I need rsync-bpc installed on each backup client as well? On Thu, 7 Apr 2022, Jon Daley via BackupPC-users wrote: I recently upgraded backuppc to V4 and the bcp version of rsync, and I can't get anything to work. The migration to V4 seems to have gone well

[BackupPC-users] rsync-bcp problem

2022-04-07 Thread Jon Daley via BackupPC-users
I recently upgraded backuppc to V4 and the bcp version of rsync, and I can't get anything to work. The migration to V4 seems to have gone well - it took 2-3 days to run through all of the hosts (15 hosts with 105 backups) All backups get an error like this: 2022-04-07 03:02:37 incr backup