Re: [BackupPC-users] Does BackupPC need a bug tracker?

I agree with what Adam said. On 24/05/16 01:30, Adam Goryachev wrote: > I think there are a lot of things that could be better, but up until > now, we only had the mailing list, and that wasn't managed well at all. > I would suggest we focus as much as possible on using the tools that are >

Re: [BackupPC-users] Copyright protection

On 19/05/16 08:41, Lars Tobias Skjong-Børsting wrote: > The CLAs for GNU projects have the FSF as the rights owner. > Linux has The Linux Foundation. I guess this is wrong. Ref. Stefan's mail. -- Best regards, Lars

Re: [BackupPC-users] Copyright protection

On 19/05/16 08:37, Stefan Peter wrote: > This is simply wrong: The Linux Kernel does _not_ require a CLA. But it > requires a Certificate of Origin, also known as Signed-off-by. See > http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/SubmittingPatches?id=HEAD > for

Re: [BackupPC-users] Status on new BackupPC v4

Hi, On 18/05/16 18:50, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 11:16 AM, Richard Alloway wrote: >> I do have some lab resources available to me for standing up and tearing >> down VMs of various OS flavors. >> The resources are not limitless, but more than I have on my

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC futures

Thanks Stephen, :-) comments inline. On 17/05/16 17:42, Mauro Condarelli wrote: > Il 17/05/2016 16:24, Stephen Joyce ha scritto: > >> In the shorter term, my goal is to spend some spare time collecting patches >> for the bugs that have been found in the past ~3 years (which may take some >> time

Re: [BackupPC-users] IRC channel

On 17/05/16 13:37, Mauro Condarelli wrote: > @Lars: are You available? Yes, no problem. >> - it is likely that you are on-line / where there is a high probability >> to meet each other? I use a ZNB bouncer, so I always look online, but I'm only online when I connect to my bouncer. But I will

Re: [BackupPC-users] github setup

On 16/05/16 23:34, Mauro Condarelli wrote: >> It is not possible to *enforce* it on GitHub, but it is possible to have >> it as a policy that one committer should comment LGTM before another >> committer can merge the PR. > Nice. > I am not familiar with github policy setup. > How is that done?

Re: [BackupPC-users] Status on new BackupPC v4

On 16/05/16 20:39, Norm Legare wrote: > Where/when/who/how does the regression testing get done for this project? We have no CI set up yet. Maybe Travis could work. I'm not sure we even have a test suite. We should work on that, definitely. -- Best regards, Lars Tobias

Re: [BackupPC-users] github setup

On 16/05/16 17:57, Mauro Condarelli wrote: >> So, I feel that we would like to enforce some peer review. Perhaps the >> solution is to require 2 maintainers to approve a patch, but I fear that >> increases the workload/makes the process more fragile. > > If You want peer-review we could move to

Re: [BackupPC-users] Status on new BackupPC v4

Norm Legare wrote: > Can I assume that github is very similar to Clearcase? Git is not equal to Github, as Github is a web site that is hosting projects using Git, while Git is the actual version control system. I guess one of the biggest differences with clearcase is that git is a distributed

Re: [BackupPC-users] Status on new BackupPC v4

On 16/05/16 15:33, Adam Goryachev wrote: > Ideally, anyone can submit a patch > Ideally, any "approved" person can commit a patch, as long as it isn't > their own > > Could that be done? Yes, this is done using Pull Requests. The process is described in this article:

Re: [BackupPC-users] Status on new BackupPC v4

On 16/05/16 14:56, Juergen Harms wrote: > Username: I dont remember (-, sorry - found the confirmation mail when I > first joined the list in 2008, but that has no reference to a user name > I used at that time. > > My email address is juergen.ha...@unige.ch - in the past I normally used >

Re: [BackupPC-users] Status on new BackupPC v4

On 16/05/16 13:23, Mauro Condarelli wrote: > My current plans are: > > 1) bring github up to date. I have now finished bringing it up to date and have published it on github: https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc-xs https://github.com/backuppc/rsync-bpc > 4)

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC

On 16/05/16 11:13, Mauro Condarelli wrote: > Il 16/05/2016 10:04, Lars Tobias Skjong-Børsting ha scritto: >> The CVS repo is a mess, so I abandoned a sync. Also, I haven't been able >> to find any signs of where the repo for v4 is. I can only guess that >> Craig keeps it

Re: [BackupPC-users] Per-PC pools

Hi, On 3/13/13 12:52 PM, Stephen Joyce wrote: I'm in a situation where I find myself desiring per-pc pools.[1] [...] The storage to backup this data is also usually funded by individual faculty accounts (sometimes grants) and as such should be dedicated to that faculty's PC(s). I would

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC Pool synchronization?

On 3/4/13 5:20 PM, Mark Campbell wrote: Oh, and while I'm thinking of it, what are your thoughts on using ZFS' dedup feature on a BackupPC pool? I'm aware that a goodly amount of RAM would be required for that feature. But since BackupPC's dedup feature is file-based, and ZFS' dedup

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC Pool synchronization?

On 3/6/13 11:10 AM, Lars Tobias Skjong-Børsting wrote: Also, like Tyler said, you should disable BackupPC's pooling to increase your performance. And you must also disable compression in BackupPC, and enable it in ZFS instead. Compressing the files will destroy your dedup potential. -- Best

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC Pool synchronization?

On 3/4/13 5:38 PM, Tyler J. Wagner wrote: Just disable BackupPC's pooling entirely. You'd have to disable BackupPC_nightlyAdmin, and the link process after completing the dump stage. On 3/6/13 11:10 AM, Lars Tobias Skjong-Børsting wrote: Also, like Tyler said, you should disable BackupPC's

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC Pool synchronization?

On 3/3/13 8:02 AM, Trey Dockendorf wrote: However the checksumming in ZFS only takes place on RAIDZ sets. ZFS actually always checksums and error detection, also on RAID1 and RAID0. For RAID0 there is no redundant data to attempt correction with. For RAID1 there is a copy of the data to use for

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC Pool synchronization?

Hi Mark, On 3/1/13 10:37 PM, Mark Campbell wrote: Question, taking your model here, and applying it to my situation, how well would this work: BackupPC server, with a RAID1 zpool, with the third member being my external fireproof drive. Rather than the rotation you described, just leave

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC Pool synchronization?

Hi, On 3/1/13 12:34 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 3:10 PM, Mark Campbell mcampb...@emediatrade.com wrote: So I'm trying to get a BackupPC pool synced on a daily basis from a 1TB MD RAID1 array to an external Fireproof drive (with plans to also sync to a remote server at

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup aborted: No backup directory /.../new

On 6/21/12 4:55 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 8:57 AM, Aaron Cossey aaron.cos...@gmail.com wrote: I don't think I've seen anything about this problem before, so it may be unique to your system. I have recently experienced this error on incremental backups. Ubuntu 12.04.1

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup aborted: No backup directory /.../new

On 12/19/12 5:48 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: Does this run through a stateful firewall or NAT router? No, directly through a gigabit switch. Instances have been reported where rsync processing had long enough idle periods for the device to time the connnection out. I see. The nas host has a

Re: [BackupPC-users] Next release

Hi, On 3/27/09 7:44 PM, Paul Mantz wrote: On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 8:01 PM, o...@jltechinc.como...@jltechinc.com wrote: Is it possible to get a CVS copy? I tried: cvs -z3.2 -d:pserver:anonym...@backuppc.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/backuppc co BackupPC ...but received the dreaded