Re: [BackupPC-users] ssh+rsync and known_hosts

>On 7/22/23 11:59 AM, Kenneth Porter wrote: >> I'm setting up some Raspberry Pis and I set up BackupPC to back them up >> using ssh+rsync. I installed the key in ~backuppc/.ssh/authorized_keys but >> the initial backup was still failing. So I tried manually ssh'ing into the >> Pi and

Re: [BackupPC-users] Deleting backups

which is not trivial. On August 23, 2022 11:38:53 AM EDT, Norbert Hoeller via BackupPC-users wrote: >I have a home file server that also runs backuppc for a number of other >servers. Backuppc backs up /home (host localhome) on the file server so I can >recover from accidentally dele

[BackupPC-users] Deleting backups

I have a home file server that also runs backuppc for a number of other servers. Backuppc backs up /home (host localhome) on the file server so I can recover from accidentally deleted files. Originally, /var/lib/backuppc was mapped to its own partition which periodically caused space issues. I

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup Data Volumes

John, Craig identified and fixed a problem in File::RsyncP on ARM processors having to do with whether characters are considered signed or unsigned. I did stumble on another problem that I will post to the mailing list shortly. I scanned the mailing list but did not see the email that you

[BackupPC-users] High Backup Data Volumes After Re-adding an Excluded Directory

While trying to diagnose the high backuppc data volumes issue posted to the mailing list on June 14th, I had excluded a directory structure containing about 140MB of data. I removed the exclude once Craig had provided a fix for File::RsyncP and noticed that backup volumes jumped by about

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup Data Volumes

The high backuppc data volumes appear to be a problem with File::RsyncP on the Ubuntu port to the ARM architecture. I have created a small test script that calls File:RsyncP to copy files from one directory to another on the same system. Running the script the first time copies all the files

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup Data Volumes

I discontinued backup of my old web server this weekend and upgraded rsync on the new web server to 3.0.5 to be compatible with the backuppc server. This morning, backup traffic was close to 450MB. I did one full backup (existing files 1492/14MB, new files 12/0MB) and three incrementals

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup Data Volumes

Below are the rsync options - I do not recall making any changes from the defaults. rsync --server --sender --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group -D --links --hard-links --times --block-size=2048 --recursive . /var/symlink/ Aside from backing up a symbolic link rather than the full (and rather

[BackupPC-users] Backup Data Volumes

I have been using backuppc 2.1.2 for a number of years to back up a Linux web server (rsync 2.6.9) to a local server (also running rsync 2.6.9). My recollection was that the amount of data transferred by backuppc was quite low (around 40MB) regardless of whether I was doing a full backup or an

[BackupPC-users] Trick for Restoring Drupal Website via tar File

I tested restoring a Drupal website by having backuppc generate a tar file, uploading the file to the server and then extracting the tar file to the new Drupal directory structure. A large number of files were not restored because a number of Drupal sub-directories are read-only. Errors

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing Up Symbolic Links Using Rsync

What are your rsync options? I'd be curious to see the XferLOG file with $Conf{XferLogLevel} set to 4. Craig, the backup command is: $Conf{RsyncClientCmd} = '$sshPath -q -x -l userid $host $rsyncPath $argList+'; Clearly, I am blind (:-). The symlinks are being backed up, although not

[BackupPC-users] Backing Up Symbolic Links Using Rsync

I am backing up a directory structure on a Linux server running rsync version 2.5.6cvs protocol version 26. Most of the files and subdirectories are symbolic links to a common 'source' directory structure. It appears that backuppc is backing up the symbolic links to files, but the XferLOG

[BackupPC-users] Backuppc Does Not Like Mixed-Case Host Config File?

I created a new share on an existing web server that I am backing up. The host configuration file was called '1and1-MW-common.pl', consistent with the case of the directory that I was backing up. I had added '1and1-MW-common 0 user' to the backuppc 'hosts' file. The backups were not

[BackupPC-users] BackupPC 2.1.2-5 Reporting XferErrs on Successful Local Restore

I installed BackupPC 2.1.2-5 on an Ubuntu 6.10 server system for local backups. The only tailoring I needed to do was: * defined the directories to be backed up * modified $Conf{TarClientCmd} = '/usr/bin/sudo $tarPath -c -v -f - -C $shareName+' . ' --totals'; * added

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC 2.1.2-5 Reporting XferErrs on Successful Local Restore

Craig, fix to Tar.pm worked like a charm! Thanks, Norbert PS. Great application! Does everything I want it to do, with very little effort on my part. I successfully tested out archiving today as a means of creating monthly offline backups. Next step is backing up Windows