Re: [BackupPC-users] New user, few questions

2006-01-23 Thread Richard Smith
> How do I backup f.e. mySQL databases. Does anyone have a good addon > for BackupPC to access MySQL dumps. My other option is ofcourse to > make the dumps in crontab and make BackupPC grab it. I use webmin to create dumps of the databases nightly and then backuppc will grab that data. > Why do I

Re: [BackupPC-users] Junk after my sig

2006-01-19 Thread Richard Smith
> your mail is sent as: > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 > Content-Disposition: inline > > which says that the body of the text is base-64 encoded. why it > is you're sending this way is beyond me. however, sourceforge Its set that way due to th

[BackupPC-users] Junk after my sig

2006-01-19 Thread Richard Smith
It's been brought to my attention that on some of my mails a bunch of junk appears after my sig. My apologies if it's caused anyone issues. Where that's comming from is still unknown. My sig is just a simple one liner with my name and I use my gmail account for several other lists with no appare

[BackupPC-users] Archive output questions

2006-01-19 Thread Richard Smith
I've been using BackupPC for about 2 weeks now and I like it. However, I've got some archive questions: I've got some questions on the Archive outputs. Our previous scheme produced a set of full backup volumes that we (later) dump to DVD and take off-site. This happened automatically every week

Re: [BackupPC-users] bzip2 archives are _very_ slow

2006-01-18 Thread Richard Smith
> > Because I was curious I switched my archives from bzip archives to bzip2. > > You mean gzip to bzip2, right? Yeah. > > Is that the expected response? I knew bzip2 was slower but I didn't > > realize it was _that_ much slower. > > Yes, bzip2 is much slower (a factor of 5-8x slower is expected

[BackupPC-users] bzip2 archives are _very_ slow

2006-01-18 Thread Richard Smith
This is mostly just an FYI and a sanity check. My Backup host is a AMD Sempron 2200. Because I was curious I switched my archives from bzip archives to bzip2. Archive size when down by 10% but the time it took to generate the archives went up by a factor of 5.8. Is that the expected response?

[BackupPC-users] Automatic archives?

2006-01-13 Thread Richard Smith
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Re: [BackupPC-users] Access the web interface from non-localhost

2006-01-12 Thread Richard Smith
> Check for a setting on your Apache config like the one shown below, and > update it is necessary or comment it out altogether: > > # ServerName localhost > > Then restart Apache. Ooops sorry. This was a new install and I forgot to check the apache config. Thanks. -- Richard A. Smith

Re: [BackupPC-users] Adding new shares during incremental backups

2006-01-12 Thread Richard Smith
On 1/12/06, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 01/12 10:02 , Richard Smith wrote: > > Do I have to force a full backup if I add a new share to a host? > > yes. > Ok. Well then is there a way to schedule a full backup to occur? I really don't wan

[BackupPC-users] Access the web interface from non-localhost

2006-01-12 Thread Richard Smith
How do I set up the web interface so that I can access if from a remote pc. I can connect to the web interface from a remote pc but once I try to do something it tries to access localhost and fails. -- Richard A. Smith

[BackupPC-users] Adding new shares during incremental backups

2006-01-12 Thread Richard Smith
I reciently started evalulating backuppc as a replacement for our current backup system. To start with I added couple of hosts and few shares and let it do a full. Satisfied I added more shares to one of the hosts. I assumed the next incremental would just pick up the new files as changed. What