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The documentation at http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html
suggests that BackupInfoRead{size} is the "Total file size backed up (as
reported by smbclient, tar, rsync or ftp)".
Is that the total uncompressed pool size used by this host? If not, how
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for the second example above would be:
$Conf{RsyncShareName} += ['/home'];
Is there a way of doing that?
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> I did a "watch tail log.txt"
Next time:
tail -f log.txt
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On Wed, 22 Dec 2010 13:49:23 +, "Tyler J. Wagner"
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> Gimili, you can run this on the target machine:
>
> for i in `ps -ef | grep rsync | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2};'` ; do
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> This will list all open files currently in use by any processes named
> "rsync"
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> Can anyone tell me which method is more affordable and reliable?
An offsite server is the most reliable IMO.
External USB disks is probably "more affordable" if reliability isn't
important.
If your backups are important to you, get/rent a server or virtual server
and set up that as a BackupPC
e of the
transfers.
Is this a valid mechanism? If a large files has a small change, and thus
rsync only transfers a relatively small percentage of the file, does the
transfer log reflect the size of the transfer or the size of the file in
full?
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ak files are simply local copies, just exclude them from
BackupPC altogether, and have BackupPC backup the source instead.
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> Before I propose to my boss that we spend $1100 on new hardware, I
> wanted to get the opinion of the list as to whether this hardware should
> be sufficient for, say, five years to come
If you are serious about backups (and if you're not then simply don't do
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r where i want to restore
> all these files, I changed the IP of the client in bacula-dir.conf
> and I tried to restore but it doesn't work. How can I do this?
Ask on the Bacula mailing list (rather than the BackupPC one)?
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Other than aborting the slow backup, is there anything that can be done to
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similar, depending on how you are doing the
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icient information to be able to determine the problem. When
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not", or do you give them some clues? In this case, what do your log files
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On Tue, 02 Oct 2007 08:45:06 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> No other options?
Yes: read the archives. This has been discussed many times before, and
various solutions put forward. Searching for mails from me will lead to at
least one discussion.
Ke
On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 15:13:47 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> Ideas?
Run the ssh command interactively as the backuppc user on your server:
/usr/bin/ssh -l backuppc $host
then run 'sudo rsync' with no arguments and check that you get a help
screen for
On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 07:13:34 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> lsof -I :8080 returns:
>
> COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE NODE NAME
> java3165 daemon 54u IPv6 9948 TCP *:webcache (LISTEN)
You have something else running on port 8080.
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BackupPC server:
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or
netstat -alnput|grep :8080
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unt /dev/sdb1 /var/lib/backuppc
You'll want to edit /etc/fstab to mount /dev/sdb1 on /var/lib/backuppc at
boot time too.
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> It seems to me that there should be no more than 6 full backups for this
> host, but at the next full backup, this number increases to 7 and the
> oldest backup is not deleted!
Do you have incrementals that depend upon the oldest full backup? If so,
it won't be d
> Is there another way to check whether
> the exits where taken?
Yes: look in the Xfer log file. From one of ours:
Executing DumpPostUserCmd: /etc/backuppc/backuppc_logger (details removed)
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$xferOK "
Where are you expecting those echoes to appear? Try:
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Does the "Read EOF" s
On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 13:25:08 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> Looking at
> the backup log, it shows tarExtract producing a lot of gibberish
I had this recently; the attached mail suggested the solution (which
worked).
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> I'm attempting to back up /home with BackupPC 2.1.2 and I discovered
> yesterday that the following $Conf{RsyncArgs} does not work:
> '--exclude', '/home/music',
See attached mail from this ma
in the hosts entry to the real one.
Or use $Conf{ClientNameAlias} to temporarily point at the temporary
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ention rrdtool). The premise of Linux,
as opposed to some other systems, is that each tool does one job and does
it well. Monitoring disk space is the role of a system monitoring tool,
not a backup utility.
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> Right. Googling for 'filelistreceive backuppc' gets you the answer
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rsync to write files on the client machine...
It's not clear to me what you're asking, but the server accesses the
client (optionally) via rsyncd or ssh/rsync, so you may want to ensure
that only the server and other authorised hosts can access the client via
those protoco
On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 21:48:33 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> Any help would
> be greatly appreciated.
You need something like this:
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
'/home' => [
'/not.this.one',
'/or.this.one&#x
oth the directory and its contents. The
ownership may have changed when the directory was renamed.
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runs the program specified with root
privileges - we backup lots of servers this way.
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> Btw I know it says uid = nobody but that's the default so removing it
> will not fix this.
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any responses which possibly makes it
useful for people experiencing a similar problem in the future. If you
feel that you are not technically competent to be able to use a mailing
list (very unlikely), then it is doubtful whether you'd be technically
competent to manage BackupPC.
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> Typical - you post a message publicly, then realise what is wrong. Looks
> like the SmbClientFullCmd (and IncrCmd) are wrong.
They weren't wrong, so my original problem remains. Any pointers?
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> filenames.
Typical - you post a message publicly, then realise what is wrong. Looks
like the SmbClientFullCmd (and IncrCmd) are wrong. Sorry for the noise.
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> If I use the command form terminal it is successfully
Are you running the commands from the terminal as the user BackupPC runs
under (typically 'backuppc')?
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> But as you see, it doesn't scale very well, because you never know how
> many subdirectories are really there.
man rsync, search for ** (which means you'll probably need to search for
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> Any suggestions how to correct this?
Find the actual command in the log file and try running it interactively.
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=/kae/\*\*.iso --exclude=/kae/tmp/ . /home/
No -c option, so I would not expect every file to be checksummed, but
rsync pauses for a time approximately proportional to the file size on
each unchanged file, so I'm assuming that it /is/ checksumming
So are we saying that for an rsync incremental backup, we really expect
rsync to examine every file on the client? That does seem odd to me.
Keith
> My understanding is that when BackupPC is doing an incremental backup via
> rsync, only the files that have changed attributes since the las
ur, or is there potentially a problem? What is
really concerning me is how long the backup is taking, and I suspect the
above is the reason why. From reading the documentation, I'd expect the
above behaviour for full backup, but not an increme
> How can I tell BackupPC that one of my machines does not respond to
> pings? I don't want to disable ping tests entirely, just for this one
> box.
Change the ping command in the client-specific configuration file to,
say, /bin/echo (as suggested in the default conf
Answering my own posts: it appears that the original steps I took DID
work, except that the directory under 'pc' had its ownership changed to
root. Once I chown'd it to be owned by backuppc:backuppc, all appeared to
> What I've done so
> far:
I forgot to add that I've also added to the per-client configuration file:
$Conf{ClientNameAlias} = 'a.very.long.hostname';
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On Wed, 16 May 2007 17:16:40 -0500
Les Mikesell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Something like backup-rdiff might be
> better for huge files with small changes.
Small correction: it's actually rdiff-backup
(http://rdiff-backup.nongnu.org/).
Keith
Is there a way for a script to retrieve the "Full Size/GB" as reported on
the Host Summary page? I want to write a script that checks that users
haven't exceeded their backup quota.
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isn't, would doing a local backup (server to server) of that directory
tree help, in that when the client is backed up, the files are already in
the pool? Or is there a better way?
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failed)
Backup aborted (fileListReceive failed)
Does any one have any idea's what could be causing this. I'm running
backuppc 2.1.2pl1 on centos 4.3 and rsync-2.6.7-2 on my server and clients.
Thanks for any help and suggestions..
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