Re: [BackupPC-users] Deleting files from a backup

2008-07-21 Thread Peter Nankivell
On Tuesday 22 July 2008 01:39:57 Bowie Bailey wrote: > Joe Bordes wrote: > > Bowie Bailey escribió: > > > I forgot to exclude a directory from my backup and now I have an > > > extra 115GB of files backed up that I don't need. Is it safe to go > > > into the pc directory for the backup and delete

Re: [BackupPC-users] aborted by signal=PIPE errors.

2008-07-16 Thread Peter Nankivell
On Thursday 17 July 2008 00:46, Les Mikesell wrote: > Peter Nankivell wrote: > > No problems. Thanks to everyone who contributed. There were plenty > > who did so unwittingly through their posts to other lists. > > > > As a measure of how happy I feel about the so

Re: [BackupPC-users] aborted by signal=PIPE errors.

2008-07-16 Thread Peter Nankivell
No problems. Thanks to everyone who contributed. There were plenty who did so unwittingly through their posts to other lists. As a measure of how happy I feel about the solution, my first successful full dump of this machine took 22 minutes compared to 137 minutes when I had to use the "--whole-

Re: [BackupPC-users] aborted by signal=PIPE errors.

2008-07-15 Thread Peter Nankivell
er-gather: on tcp segmentation offload: off udp fragmentation offload: off generic segmentation offload: off For the client "tcp segmentation offload" was "on". Turning it off using # ethtool -K eth0 tso off worked! The test "rsync" now works wonderfully. Pe

Re: [BackupPC-users] aborted by signal=PIPE errors.

2008-07-14 Thread Peter Nankivell
hanks, Peter. On Tuesday 15 July 2008 13:17:16 Adam Goryachev wrote: > Holger Parplies wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Peter Nankivell wrote on 2008-07-15 09:17:48 +1000 [Re: [BackupPC-users] aborted by signal=PIPE errors.]: > >> [...] > >> If it is all due to ssh a

Re: [BackupPC-users] aborted by signal=PIPE errors.

2008-07-14 Thread Peter Nankivell
't it? Cheers, Peter. On Tuesday 15 July 2008 10:02:42 Holger Parplies wrote: > Hi, > > Peter Nankivell wrote on 2008-07-15 09:17:48 +1000 [Re: [BackupPC-users] aborted by signal=PIPE errors.]: > > [...] > > If it is all due to ssh and hardware it makes me worry about > &g

Re: [BackupPC-users] aborted by signal=PIPE errors.

2008-07-14 Thread Peter Nankivell
Bruno, I have been chasing this problem also, but I have additional problems. One is that the backup occasionally hangs without any error message, the other, more frequently, is that the backup fails with an additional message "corrupted MAC on input". The "MAC" is not the address of the NIC, but