Re: [BackupPC-users] Too long path?!

Check the version of cygwin you are using. There was a 256 character MAX_PATH limit in an earlier version of cygwin which has been lifted in the current version. Mark Potter -- On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 4:10 PM, Boniforti Flavio wrote: > Hello there, > > Backing up remote

[BackupPC-users] IP address in Failures that need attention.

Situation: We use BackupPC to backup all the boxes at this satellite office. Yesterday morning the main office lost network connectivity, thus we lost our Domain server and primary/local DNS server. While the main office was down, we were not able to run any backups (authentication issues), under

Re: [BackupPC-users] IP address in Failures that need attention.

Duh, if all else fails, reboot. That did it, thanks. Mark Potter -- On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 12:02 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 10:15 AM, Mark Potter wrote: > > Situation: We use BackupPC to backup all the boxes at > this satellite office. > >

[BackupPC-users] Boxes with multiple names

Situation: I have BackupPC set up and backup up several Windows boxes on a local network. However, a few of the boxes are dual boot between different versions of Windows, typically Windows XP and Vista. Because we have a Windows domain controller these boxes are known by different names when boo

Re: [BackupPC-users] Boxes with multiple names

e one configuration for cfinley01or02 with: * ClientNameAlias=cfinley01, cfinley02 On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On 7/7/2010 11:26 AM, Mark Potter wrote: > > Situation: > > > > I have BackupPC set up and backup up several Windows boxes on a local >

Re: [BackupPC-users] Btrfs, hardlinks, and BackupPC...

er of hardlinks, a new pool file is created so that new hardlinks can be accommodated. This limit will only be hit if an identical file appears at least this number of times across all the backups. Mark Potter -- On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 9:34 AM, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote: > Hey, all. I jus

Re: [BackupPC-users] copied over files, incremental backup didn't get them

s a little slop, the volume is walked looking for any file that has a modification after this. The problem files that were copied to this server would have their original modification date-time and thus were not considered to need backup. Mark Potter -- On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 6:39 PM, Ch

Re: [BackupPC-users] backing up large files from windows machines

, thinking about it I probably should validate that file. Mark Potter -- On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 12:37 PM, Omid wrote: > so what do we use to back up large files on windows machines? the > documentation implies that samba has a 4 gig limit, and that rsync might > have an 8 gig lim