Re: [BackupPC-users] how read .z log files ?

2010-09-13 Thread Mike Bydalek
zcat or you can gunzip Regards, Mike On Sep 13, 2010, at 1:20 AM, IvyAlice wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I got some problems with backuppc and I want to read the XferLOG.z file. > I can't read it either with vim or nano and I can't extract the file with > uncompress, gunzi,zcat or tar (it t

Re: [BackupPC-users] Incremental Seems To Backup Whole System

2010-03-03 Thread Mike Bydalek
I hate bring this up again, but after taking advice from Les and John, I'm not seeing what I think I should be seeing. After changing my current config to the one below, I started to have incr, incr, full, incr, incr, full, but the full's were doing the entire 600G. Here's what I have for my Host

Re: [BackupPC-users] Using BackupPC to backup virtual hard discs

2010-02-19 Thread Mike Bydalek
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 10:11 AM, John Moorhouse wrote: > I'm happily using backupPC to backup a number of machine within our home > network, I'm wondering what will happen if I use it to backup the file on the > host machine that is the virtual disc for a number of virtual box VM, will it > ha

Re: [BackupPC-users] Incremental Seems To Backup Whole System

2010-02-19 Thread Mike Bydalek
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 9:53 AM, Timothy J Massey wrote: > Mike Bydalek wrote on 02/19/2010 > 11:28:25 AM: > >> Thanks for all the input.  I'm starting to fully understand how >> BackupPC scheduling is working now.  My apologies for not stating that >> I was/

Re: [BackupPC-users] Incremental Seems To Backup Whole System

2010-02-19 Thread Mike Bydalek
All, Thanks for all the input. I'm starting to fully understand how BackupPC scheduling is working now. My apologies for not stating that I was/am using rsync as it is the only choice that makes sense =) On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 12:15 AM, Craig Barratt wrote: > Mike, > >> Backup#         Type  

Re: [BackupPC-users] Incremental Seems To Backup Whole System

2010-02-18 Thread Mike Bydalek
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 12:04 PM, John Rouillard wrote: > On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 07:51:13AM -0700, Mike Bydalek wrote: >> My question is, why did backups 13 and 14 backup all that data?  Same >> with 2 and 7 for that matter. > > What level are your incremental backups? if ba

[BackupPC-users] Incremental Seems To Backup Whole System

2010-02-18 Thread Mike Bydalek
Hello. Recently I've started using BackupPC to backup my file server and am seeing some things that just don't quite make much sense. Lately backups have been taking quite some time, in fact the current one started on 2/16 @ 11pm and is still running. I do have a lot of data, around 330G, but no