Re: [BackupPC-users] limit bandwith

2009-07-28 Thread Ryan Knapper
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 12:11, Holm Kapschitzki h...@x-provi.de wrote: It is possible to limit bandwith on backuppc? I use tar backup and from server to server i want to limit it to 2 mbit perhaps. Holm You could install Trickle on the client and add it to the BackupPC command.

Re: [BackupPC-users] https for zimbra

2009-07-07 Thread Ryan Knapper
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 06:12, Andrew Libby ali...@xforty.com wrote: It's not up, we should get it up and running. What? -- [EOM] -- Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to

Re: [BackupPC-users] Hardware considerations for building dedicated backuppc server

2009-07-06 Thread Ryan Knapper
I started out with a Dell PowerEdge with a 2.00GHz Intel CPU and 512MB of RAM, backing up to a software RAID 5 of four commodity SATA drives. I later doubled RAM (1 GB total) and the speed increase was at least double. I don't know if additional RAM would increase its performance further, but

Re: [BackupPC-users] MySQL dump backup example scripts request

2009-07-06 Thread Ryan Knapper
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 13:44, Philip Tait phi...@naoj.org wrote: I have done some searching, and have not been able to find a complete working example for properly backing up a MySQL database with BackupPC. If someone would be willing to share their working DumpPreUserCmd and DumpPostUserCmd

Re: [BackupPC-users] problems with linux host - Unable to read 4 bytes

2009-06-24 Thread Ryan Knapper
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 06:46, Nick Smith nick.smit...@gmail.com wrote: It should not change anything, since the BackupPC dæmon is launched by root. However, most installations intentionally do not create a password for the backuppc user for security reasons. From root, running su

Re: [BackupPC-users] problems with linux host - Unable to read 4 bytes

2009-06-23 Thread Ryan Knapper
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 13:40, Nick Smith nick.smit...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone know if i can change the password to the backuppc user in linux and not have any adverse effects with the backuppc system? On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 3:17 PM, Nick Smithnick.smit...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jun

Re: [BackupPC-users] problems with linux host - Unable to read 4 bytes

2009-06-22 Thread Ryan Knapper
Root may be able to log in to the remove system, but can the backuppc user? Try this: r...@backup-server:/root/.ssh# sudo -u backuppc ssh -p 22200 -l root webserver whoami I would bet that it's prompting you to accept the key for this new server. On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 12:35, Nick Smith

Re: [BackupPC-users] Include only specified folders - how

2009-04-08 Thread Ryan Knapper
Unless I'm reading that wrong, if you've specified \\server\D$ then it's going to get all subfolders of D$. Have you specified multiple folders. like \\server\D$\folder1 and \\server\D$\folder2 ? On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 15:04, Bharat Mistry basmis...@googlemail.comwrote: I have set my pc to be

Re: [BackupPC-users] gui exclude

2009-01-06 Thread Ryan Knapper
Maybe you're looking for Restore (http://restore-backup.com/), although their site is down as I write this. Their software looked interesting, but I was unable to get it to work correctly. On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 04:21, cedric briner w...@infomaniak.ch wrote: hello and Happy new year, I'm

Re: [BackupPC-users] backing up an ubuntu machine

2009-01-04 Thread Ryan Knapper
Edit the host config, select the Xfer tab and change RsyncClientCmd and RsyncClientRestoreCmd from -l root to an existing username. Perhaps create a backuppc user with the appropriate permissions. On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 17:45, sergio_101 sergiol...@village-buzz.comwrote: i am currently