Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC, rsync & Leopard

2008-04-24 Thread Matthew Metzger
Jean-GĂ©rard, did you ever solve your problem? I'm using a package called xtar that correctly handles OS X resource forks, but it would be great to use rsync instead. Does anyone know if Leopard's rync plays nicer with linux rsync? Almost all of my clients are currently OS X 10.4, but eventuall

[BackupPC-users] permissions problems?

2008-01-17 Thread Matthew Metzger
Hello, I made the mistake of reinstalling backuppc with apt-get when it wasn't needed (I'm still learning, dumb mistake). I think I overwrote some important settings and permissions. Backup Nightly is running, but not removing any files. I think that it should be. Also, my error log is showing

[BackupPC-users] Web interface disappeared, apt-get to reinstall?

2008-01-04 Thread Matthew Metzger
Hello all, I have been happily testing my backuppc installation for about a month. Over Christmas break something went wrong. It seems that the backuppc web interface just stopped working. It just doesn't show up. Instead the contents of /var/www/ are shown. I have restarted the machine and hav

Re: [BackupPC-users] OS X resource forks SOLVED

2007-12-10 Thread Matthew Metzger
acked up with the tar that came with OS X 10.4. I hope this information will be of use to others. -Matthew Matthew Metzger wrote: > Matthew Metzger wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I'm sure this has been covered elsewhere, but for some reason I can't >> find th

Re: [BackupPC-users] OS X resource forks

2007-12-08 Thread Matthew Metzger
Matthew Metzger wrote: > Hello, > > I'm sure this has been covered elsewhere, but for some reason I can't > find the information I need. I have searched this mailing list and the web. > > I have backuppc installed and have backed up a linux system without > prob

[BackupPC-users] OS X resource forks

2007-12-08 Thread Matthew Metzger
7;m testing the backups on is OS X Server 10.4.11. I installed backuppc using ubuntu's package manager (aptitude from the command line) and I'm attempting to configure backuppc from its web interface. thanks for any help you can give. Matthew Metzger ---

Re: [BackupPC-users] File::RsyncP installation problem. SOLVED

2007-12-06 Thread Matthew Metzger
Hello Rich, thanks for the tip. That was it. I just assumed that it was installed and didn't read the errors carefully enough. I appreciate your help. -Matthew Rich Rauenzahn wrote: > > Matthew Metzger wrote: >> /bin/sh: cc: command not found >> > Install a

[BackupPC-users] File::RsyncP installation problem.

2007-12-06 Thread Matthew Metzger
: *** [Digest.o] Error 127 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/sysadmin/File-RsyncP-0.68/Digest' make: *** [subdirs] Error 2 --- I get the same type of errors when trying to install the module from CPAN. Can anyone shed some light on why I'm having a problem ge

Re: [BackupPC-users] how to configure storage?

2007-12-04 Thread Matthew Metzger
John Pettitt wrote: > Matthew Metzger wrote: >> Hello David, >> >> thanks for the response. I did exactly what you suggested with RAID 1 >> and LVM them together to create a large drive. It was fairly easy to >> accomplish with Ubuntu's installer. >> &

Re: [BackupPC-users] how to configure storage?

2007-12-04 Thread Matthew Metzger
Les Stott wrote: > David Nalley wrote: >> Hi Matthew, >> >> I don't think the concern is so much that a client computer's drive and one >> of >> your backuppc box's drive would fail at the same instant, but rather what >> the cost of one drive in the backuppc box's drive would be. >> Loosing

Re: [BackupPC-users] how to configure storage?

2007-12-04 Thread Matthew Metzger
I still think that I would use LVM since it gives you some > flexibility in the future. Red Hat's new LVM guide is pretty decent, gives > lots of real world examples, you may want to check it out as well. > > Hope this helps, > > David Nalley > > > > &g

[BackupPC-users] how to configure storage?

2007-12-04 Thread Matthew Metzger
Hello, I am building a server for BackupPC and I have a few questions concerning what is the best way to set up storage. I have one 80 GB IDE hard disk that will hold the operating system (ubuntu server), /boot, swap, et cetera. I also have four 500 GB IDE hard disks. I'm wondering what you wo

Re: [BackupPC-users] Installing BackupPC on Mac OS X

2007-07-05 Thread Matthew Metzger
OS X files and if that requires me to use tar instead of rsync. thanks for your time, Matthew Metzger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hallo all together, > as I have seen in the README file, BackupPC seems neither tested on Mac OS X > host nor on Mac OS X clients. > Is anybody out there w

Re: [BackupPC-users] Tiger rsync?

2007-06-30 Thread Matthew Metzger
John Pettitt wrote: > James Ward wrote: >> My understanding is that the current Tiger rsync with the -E flag >> will do everything needed to make useful backups with BackupPC? Am I >> wrong? >> >> Thanks in advance, >> >> James >> >> >> >> > The -E flage doesn't work with backuppc - you can