Re: [BackupPC-users] server log : thousands of BackupPC_refCountUpdate: missing pool file

2025-02-07 Thread Tim Connors
'/' -f5) # backup_number=$(echo "$path" | cut -d'/' -f6) host=$(echo "$path" | cut -d'/' -f4) backup_number=$(echo "$path" | cut -d'/

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup corrupted, impossible to corect it

2024-10-24 Thread Tim Connors
ough. *However*, ZFSonlinux has had *plenty* of sparse file related bugs to do with snapshots and similar. It was getting so bad at one point, I nearly stopped trusting the filesystem (my mind has been more at ease since I stopped having the time to follow mailing list discussions). I d

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup corrupted, impossible to corect it

2024-10-24 Thread Tim Connors
try to rename it atomically into the destination file, and fail because that temporary file has been dropped on the floor. But reading the files for backup poses no such problems. -- Tim Connors ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC remembers _everything_

2024-06-21 Thread Tim Connors
s://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/issues/87 Also unfortunately, this will affect all your previous backups, so there's no way of recovering what your filesystem actually looked like lastnight. -- Tim Connors ___ BackupPC-users mailing list Bac

[BackupPC-users] deleting a single file from backuppc v4

2021-12-22 Thread Tim Connors
l the hardlinks. But I suspect here it's a case of finding the mapping of the file from each backup (that info is not in $machine/XferLOG.4218.z, so I don't know where else it would be), and then truncate/remove (since no more hardlinks), while also taking care of legacy v3 files.

Re: [BackupPC-users] What file system do you use?

2013-12-16 Thread Tim Connors
ives, I'd tell backuppc to turn off compression and munging of the pool, and let ZFS do it. I used JFS 10 years ago, and "niche buggy product" would be my description for it. Basically, go with the well tested popular FSs,

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC as a personal backup solution?

2013-06-25 Thread Tim Connors
2.0l/part20d,20h/high-timeres/galout/output/data/pview_columns/g02.processed.followsmc.columns-xproj:yproj:zproj:xscreen:yscreen:vlsr:vgsr:vsub:rp:th_lmc:ph_lmc:x_smc:y_smc:z_smc:x_mw:y_mw:z_mw:x_sun:y_sun:z_sun.pview.dat -- Tim Connors -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http:

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC as a personal backup solution?

2013-06-25 Thread Tim Connors
ally is best with its own server. And with the amount of data > you're quoting, make sure you're using gigabit Ethernet at minimum. Nah, I was running on 100M for a long time quite successfully. The bottleneck is disk on the server anyway. -- Tim Connors ---

Re: [BackupPC-users] Another BackupPC Fuse filesystem

2013-06-04 Thread Tim Connors
ine 130.\x{a}') called at /usr/lib/perl5/Fuse.pm line 130 Fuse::main('mountopts', 'ro,default_permissions,allow_other', 'mountpoint', '/snapshots', 'threaded', 0, 'debug', 1, 'open', ...) called at /home/tconnors/

Re: [BackupPC-users] Put pool on an nfs mounted Solaris zfs share

2011-11-20 Thread Tim Connors
sync usage) might be a big win. I'm sure ZFS is a little quicker than that given that it's not done in perl. -- Tim Connors -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitiv

Re: [BackupPC-users] Fairly large backuppc pool (4TB) moved with backuppc_tarpccopy

2011-09-30 Thread Tim Connors
failures. Slightly different RPMs from the different generations of disks in your Raid10 as someone else suggested, might introduce resonances in your enclosure that would cause more vibration than identical drives. It's all too tricky. I&#

Re: [BackupPC-users] Fairly large backuppc pool (4TB) moved with backuppc_tarpccopy

2011-09-29 Thread Tim Connors
rebuild, suffer the likely consequence of losing another disk when rebuilding raid6, you still have a valid array. Worse case, fairly likely occurence with raid10, lose that second disk and lose all your data. Care for your data ==> don't use raid10. -- Tim Connors --

Re: [BackupPC-users] Search for File

2011-09-28 Thread Tim Connors
when I was doing night shift, this *wasn't* at 4am!), and you won't even notice that it's busy. Then wrap locate up in a simple cgi script to present to your users instead of training them how to use locate on the commandline. -- Tim Connors ---

Re: [BackupPC-users] Restore via rsync gets stuck

2010-04-22 Thread Tim Connors
On Thu, 22 Apr 2010, Les Mikesell wrote: > On 4/22/2010 9:37 AM, Tim Connors wrote: > > > > I've seen this problem too, and it's not filesystem issues. > > > > It's either rsync or the perl library (and I very strongly suspect the > > latter) t

Re: [BackupPC-users] Restore via rsync gets stuck

2010-04-22 Thread Tim Connors
On Wed, 21 Apr 2010, Les Mikesell wrote: > On 4/21/2010 7:47 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > > Philippe Bruhat (BooK) wrote: > >> On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 08:45:29AM +0200, Philippe Bruhat (BooK) wrote: > >>> On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 08:35:03AM +0200, Philippe Bruhat (BooK) wrote: > I understand this

Re: [BackupPC-users] trashClean && backup scheduling

2009-12-22 Thread Tim Connors
On Tue, 22 Dec 2009, Sebastiaan van Erk wrote: > Question 1: > > The first thing I noticed is that trashClean runs every 5 minutes, making it > unable to spindown my disks. I changed the configuration setting to once every > 7 days, but I was wondering if this is likely to cause any problems... I

Re: [BackupPC-users] Unexpected call BackupPC::Xfer::RsyncFileIO->unlink(...)

2009-12-19 Thread Tim Connors
On Sat, 19 Dec 2009, Holger Parplies wrote: > Hi, > > Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote on 2009-12-18 15:36:48 -0500 [Re: [BackupPC-users] > Unexpected call?BackupPC::Xfer::RsyncFileIO->unlink(...)]: > > Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote at about 13:11:37 -0500 on Monday, November 2, > > 2009: > > > Unexpected

Re: [BackupPC-users] Matching files against the pool remotely.

2009-12-18 Thread Tim Connors
On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, Malik Recoing. wrote: > The Holy Doc says ( Barratt:Desing:operation:2 ): "it checks each file in the > backup to see if it is identical to an existing file from any previous backup > of > any PC. It does this without needed to write the file to disk." > > But it doesn't say

[BackupPC-users] RsyncP: BackupPC_dump consumes 100% CPU and progress stalls

2009-12-13 Thread Tim Connors
backuppc has spontaneously a few days ago started getting stuck on a partition on a machine that it has been dealing with fine for 120 days now. The logfile gives: 2009-12-02 08:46:04 incr backup 122 complete, 38 files, 46425552 bytes, 0 xferErrs (0 bad files, 0 bad shares, 0 other) 2009-12-03 0

[BackupPC-users] patch to make more robust against corrupted filesystem

2009-07-08 Thread Tim Connors
I know there have been threads on here debating the relative merit of throwing out all of the data on a backup disk that suffered major filesystem damage, vs trying to fix it and let backuppc regenerate any files that might have corrupted data (via setting a RsyncCsumCacheVerifyProb of 1 and redoi

Re: [BackupPC-users] "unexpected repeated share name"

2009-05-04 Thread Tim Connors
009-05-04 21:14:47 unexpected repeated share name / skipped 2009-05-04 21:14:47 full backup started for directory /boot (baseline backup #89) 2009-05-04 21:15:10 full backup started for directory /dos (baseline backup #89) -- Tim Connors

[BackupPC-users] "unexpected repeated share name"

2009-05-04 Thread Tim Connors
backuppc fails to backup '/' if it is not specified before anything else. In fact, any subtree can't be specified before its parents, or the parents won't be backed up because the directory already exists by the time backuppc performs the test for repeated share name. If it is a wise idea to keep

Re: [BackupPC-users] missing rdev on device...

2009-01-08 Thread Tim Connors
On Wed, 24 Dec 2008, Holger Parplies wrote: > Hi, > > Glassfox wrote on 22.12.2008 at 16:50:24 [[BackupPC-users] missing rdev on > device...]: > > I tried a complete restore on my localhost (which also runs BackupPC) today > > and got a lot of error messages like this: > > > > "2008-12-22 21:54

[BackupPC-users] Changes between two versions

2008-12-23 Thread Tim Connors
Hi, There is a way of finding annotated history of one directory: http:///backuppc/index.cgi?action=dirHistory&host=&share=/&dir=/ But I was wondering whether it was currently possible, or whether it was easy to add support to show the changes of an entire hierarchy (starting from some nominated

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc mirroring with rdiff-backup or not?

2008-11-23 Thread Tim Connors
t should be rebooted and force fscked as soon as possible, as per the thread above). -- Tim Connors - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applicatio

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc mirroring with rdiff-backup or not?

2008-11-23 Thread Tim Connors
x27;t so busy screwing around doing other things. Has anyone done similar? -- Tim Connors - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Mob