Re: [BackupPC-users] Find version number?

2010-03-03 Thread Sean Carolan
> Logon to the Web Admin.  It is at the top of the main status page. Ok, I'm a goofball, thanks for pointing that out. I totally overlooked it! -- Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yours

[BackupPC-users] Find version number?

2010-03-03 Thread Sean Carolan
Please forgive me for such a simple question, but is there a way to easily tell what version of BackupPC we are running? I have misplaced the original installation tarball that I used. I think we're on version 3.1.0 but I wanted to confirm this to be sure. ---

Re: [BackupPC-users] Copying BackupPC to tape for off-site storage - very slow

2010-03-02 Thread Sean Carolan
>> Would this go faster if I unmounted the partition and tried to do a >> block-level copy of the entire thing?  How would you handle this? In case anyone else runs into this in the future, Bacula does support block-level backups. I'm running one now and it's much faster than trying to do a file-

Re: [BackupPC-users] Copying BackupPC to tape for off-site storage - very slow

2010-03-02 Thread Sean Carolan
> If you use a file-oriented approach, traversing the directories is very > slow, and the restore will be much worse as it tries to reconstruct the > hardlinks.  An image copy will be much faster, but keep in mind that you > have to load it all back from the tape before being able to access any > o

[BackupPC-users] Copying BackupPC to tape for off-site storage - very slow

2010-03-02 Thread Sean Carolan
Hello BackupPC users: We have a BackupPC system that has been working well for us for the past three years.  There is about 1.2 terabytes of data on our BackupPC partition and we'd like to be able to spool it off to tape for off-site storage.  We have an HP d2d device that gets about 50-60 MB/s th

[BackupPC-users] code 5 error?

2008-07-25 Thread Sean Carolan
I'm trying to backup a Windows Vista host running cygwin-rsyncd, but keep getting this error: kurobox:/tmp# rsync -av [EMAIL PROTECTED]::docs . @ERROR: auth failed on module docs rsync error: error starting client-server protocol (code 5) at main.c(1383) [receiver=2.6.9] Anyone know why this mig

[BackupPC-users] Any way to pause running backups to speed up a restore operation?

2008-06-14 Thread Sean Carolan
I am attempting to restore a backup, however the running backup jobs are making it run extremely slow. Rather than playing whack-a-mole with all the running backup jobs is there any way to simply "pause" all running backups so that the restore can complete more quickly? --

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc stalls during restore operation

2008-06-05 Thread Sean Carolan
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 3:02 PM, Sean Carolan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to restore an entire filesystem, but the restore process > hangs on some directories, such as /home, /usr, /var. Here is an > example of some strace output on the client side while doing a &g

[BackupPC-users] Backuppc stalls during restore operation

2008-05-29 Thread Sean Carolan
I'm trying to restore an entire filesystem, but the restore process hangs on some directories, such as /home, /usr, /var. Here is an example of some strace output on the client side while doing a restore: open("var/www/usage/webalizer.png", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 0 read(0, "\211PNG\r\n\32\n\0\0\

Re: [BackupPC-users] Command line disable?

2008-03-23 Thread Sean Carolan
Thank you for the info, Craig. We really appreciate the work you have put into BackupPC. I use it both at home and at work and it is quite reliable. - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microso

[BackupPC-users] Stop/Dequeue from command line?

2008-03-21 Thread Sean Carolan
Anyone know how to stop a running backup from the command line for a particular host? - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120

[BackupPC-users] Command line disable?

2008-03-21 Thread Sean Carolan
Is there a backuppc command line reference anywhere? I would like to write a script to disable backups on a host until the next wakeup. - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual S

Re: [BackupPC-users] dd/tar/dump

2008-01-06 Thread Sean Carolan
> If you are using lvm2 (which is pretty common, given the necessary > single-filesystem size for backuppc), then you should be able to take a > snapshot of the logical volume, and backup from that. We are using LVM2 for our backuppc partition. How much disk space would you estimate a snapshot

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC-users Digest, Vol 21, Issue 4

2008-01-03 Thread Sean Carolan
> This is topic is discussed pretty regularly on this mailinglist. > Please also search the archives. Thanks, Nils. If the sourceforge.net mailing list search engine were not so broken, I would gladly have combed through the archives. As it stands I was unable to successfully search even for com

[BackupPC-users] Backing up the BackupPC server

2008-01-02 Thread Sean Carolan
Hi folks: We are using backuppc in our production environment and it's working well. I would like to start doing regular backups of the BackupPC server to external USB drives. The problem we've run into is that there are so many files, rsync dies with an 'out of memory' error. I thought about

Re: [BackupPC-users] NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE for all backups [SOLVED}

2007-10-30 Thread Sean Carolan
On 10/30/07, Sean Carolan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've combed the documentation, mailing list, and Google but have not > found an answer to this problem. No matter what I do, I cannot get > the BackupPC server to connect to Windows clients. Here's what I did to fix

[BackupPC-users] NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE for all backups

2007-10-30 Thread Sean Carolan
I've combed the documentation, mailing list, and Google but have not found an answer to this problem. No matter what I do, I cannot get the BackupPC server to connect to Windows clients. Here is my setup: BackupPC server runs CentOS 5 Samba client installed from source, version 3.0.26 Server tes

[BackupPC-users] Non-pingable host

2007-05-30 Thread Sean Carolan
How can I tell BackupPC that one of my machines does not respond to pings? I don't want to disable ping tests entirely, just for this one box. thanks, Sean - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Expr

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC issue with older Red Hat server

2007-05-30 Thread Sean Carolan
> Manually running the rsync --server --sender command alone will > not be very helpful: stdin/stdout need to be connected to the > other end of the rsync connection (specifically, File::RsyncP > on the server). > > What error do you get on this host? You can increase $Conf{XferLogLevel} > to get

[BackupPC-users] BackupPC issue with older Red Hat server

2007-05-30 Thread Sean Carolan
Greetings friends - I have a batch of Linux servers that I'm responsible for. I've managed to get all but one of them set up on backuppc. This particular server has had several failed attempts at full backups. I ran the rsync command manually with strace to try and figure out what's wrong. Mayb