On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 01:03:18PM +0200, Norbert Schulze wrote:
> > Or just post the output of "vmstat 10 10"
>
> r...@server:~# vmstat 10 10
> procs ---memory-- ---swap-- -io -system-- cpu
> r b swpd free buff cache si sobibo in cs us sy
On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 05:02:33PM -0400, Josh Malone wrote:
> >>> OS is Ubuntu 9.04 32Bit
> >>> IMHO it is better to migrate to a 64Bit-System!?
> >>
> >> I don't see an urgent reason to migrate to 64 bit... I would have
> >> installed this machine 64 bit at the beginning, just because it's a 64
On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 12:11:31PM +0200, Norbert Schulze wrote:
> > take a look at what
> > vmstat 10
>
> r...@server:/var/www# vmstat
> procs ---memory-- ---swap-- -io -system-- cpu
> r b swpd free buff cache si sobibo in cs us sy id wa
>
Hi Norbert,
On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 11:34:57AM +0200, Norbert Schulze wrote:
> the BackupPC_nightly takes too much time. Is this too much data for this
> server?
>
> Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPUQ9650 @ 3.00GHz
> Memory: 8GB
>
> General Server Information
> The servers PID is 15477, on host
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 06:22:39PM +0200, Mirco Piccin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> >> In my setup ICMP packets are dropped by the firewall in front of the
> >> machine I need to backup. I have been searching for alternatives but
> >> haven't found anything yet. Any pointers to a fix? Any other way to let
> >
Quick idea: Maybe your hosts file got messed up?
Tino.
On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 08:50:04AM -0600, Nick Hadaway wrote:
> Hello backuppc people :)
>
> I am running BackupPC 3.2.0beta0... and This is the 3rd or 4th time this
> has happened... and i'm not sure why...
>
> Log in to the cgi-bin inter
Hi Chris,
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 11:21:02AM -0500, ckandreou wrote:
> I use BackupPC v.3.0
> I changed the the backup data directory to a new location because of space
> issues. What setting should I set for the pool location to be at the same
> directory as the backup_data?
The easiest and
Hi Sorin,
On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 11:29:11AM +0100, Sorin Srbu wrote:
> I have a server that sits behind a router (server is NAT:ed) and allows ssh
> connections in. That is to say, the *only* thing it allows in is ssh
> connections.
>
> Now, BackupPC uses pings to check if the machine to be bac
On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 04:52:37PM +0100, Sorin Srbu wrote:
> Would I have anything to gain, with respect to BackupPC, if I would mount
> /tmp to a ramdrive with tmpfs?
No. As far as I know, BackupPC does not use /tmp at all.
HTH,
Tino.
--
"What we nourish flourishes." - "Was wir nähren erblü
Hi Huw,
On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 04:23:42PM +, Huw Wyn Jones wrote:
> Both directories are on the same filesystem.
What filesystem type? Which version of BacupPC?
> >> From: "Tino Schwarze"
> >> What happens if you become the BackupPC user and create the har
Hi Huw,
On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 03:01:51PM +, Huw Wyn Jones wrote:
> I built a new backup server last week (CentOS if anyone was following my
> previous thread) and now have everything running nicely. My log files however
> are full of 'error -4' messages. See example below. Am I right in a
Hi Roger,
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 02:57:47PM -0500, toughman wrote:
> I have been looking for a software which will do central backup for our video
> files from different stores.
>
> Each store has Raid1 hotswap driver for backup HD and the HD will be pluged
> into the central backup system on
Hi Nigel,
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 02:40:24PM -, Nigel Kendrick wrote:
> > From: Tino Schwarze [mailto:backuppc.li...@tisc.de]
> > Sent: 27 January 2010 11:27
> > To: backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> > Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Thinking aloud about bac
Hi,
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 10:33:48AM -, PD Support wrote:
> > From: Keith Edmunds [mailto:k...@midnighthax.com]
> > Sent: 26 January 2010 14:00
> > To: backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> > Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Thinking aloud about backup rotation
> >
> > > If I have a source
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 08:24:06PM -0600, Gerald Brandt wrote:
> > Why expire all of January in the first week of February? That means you
> > only have one weeks history? Why not just tell backuppc to keep 5
> > 'weekly' fulls, which means you will always have the ones you want?
> >
> > > I f
Hi,
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 12:22:45PM -, PD Support wrote:
> We are going to be backing up around 30 MS-SQL server databases via ADSL to
> a number of regional servers running CentOS (about 6 databases per backup
> server). 10 sites are 'live' as of now and this is how we have started...
>
Hi Don,
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 12:49:28PM -0800, Don Krause wrote:
>
> On Jan 21, 2010, at 11:30 AM, Craig Barratt wrote:
>
> > Don writes:
> >
> >> The numbered directories are gone. I only have "0" from last nights
> >> backup, which is 0.3 days old, and it replaced the one from the day
>
Hi Don,
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 11:54:17AM -0800, Don Krause wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:37:31AM -0800, Don Krause wrote:
> >> Just an update, there are no errors in the logs, and a forced fsck on the
> >> file system is clean..
> >
> > Please post the main logfile of BackupPC and a l
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:37:31AM -0800, Don Krause wrote:
> Just an update, there are no errors in the logs, and a forced fsck on the
> file system is clean..
Please post the main logfile of BackupPC and a logfile of one affected
host - spanning at least 2 days of continuous operation.
Tino.
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:31:26AM -0600, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
> I came to the conclusion that tar was actually a faster way to do backups on
> the local system. Less CPU usage, and bandwidth is not a problem. YMMV.
But tar comes with a price: If you extract an archive, therefore
creati
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 02:43:11AM +, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> What is the best way to backup a folder -
> in fact, my mail folder /home/tim/Maildir -
> with backuppc running on the same computer?
>
> I assume that I need to allow backuppc to read this folder?
The easiest approach is
a) inst
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 09:25:47AM +0100, Thomas Scholz wrote:
> we using backuppc on an quad core system. Our backupprocess using only on
> core
> for poolcompression. Is there a way to get Compress::Zlib working
> multithreaded?
You might want to run multiple backups in parallel... But AFAIK
On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 10:57:13AM -0800, Omid wrote:
[...]
> the idea is to schedule an rsync command to an external drive say every
> wednesday morning at 3 am, instruct the office to plug the drive in on
> tuesday, and to replace it on thursday with next week's drive.
>
> i have the rsync com
On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 06:06:32PM -0500, Alan McKay wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 10:29 PM, Johan Cwiklinski wrote:
> > If you've used the official RPM from Fedora, all configuration files are
> > under /etc/BackuPC. This path and /var/lib/BackupPC (were stands your
> > backups) are normally th
On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 01:11:27AM +0100, Pieter Wuille wrote:
> See attachment. You can run eg.:
>
>./diffsize.pl /var/lib/backuppc/pc/*
>
> to see values per host, and a total.
>
> PS: it actually (correctly) divides by (nHardLinks-1) instead of +1 (what i
> claimed earlier).
I suppose,
On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 05:27:45PM +0100, Sebastiaan van Erk wrote:
> I'm planning to move my backuppc data directory onto ZFS. I will let ZFS
> do the compression (and deduplication) for me, so I want to make sure
> that the cpool stores only the plain files, not altered in any way.
>
> Is the
On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 09:26:26AM -0500, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
> > > As many know, I use rsync in DumpPreUserCmd to run my shadowmountrsync
> > > routine on the remote client. This routine has many legitimate reasons
> > > for not returning success.
> > >
> > > However, the backuppc lo
Hi Holger,
On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 01:21:44AM +0100, Holger Parplies wrote:
> Tino Schwarze wrote on 2009-11-24 23:40:13 +0100 [Re: [BackupPC-users]
> __TOPDIR__ and $Conf{TopDir}]:
> > PS: Maybe there should be a prominent note just at the $Config{TopDir}
> > setting in con
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 08:44:02AM -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
> I agree - almost every "newbie" that picks up BackupPC makes this
> mistake - the more experienced you are with old-school config files
> the MORE likely you are to assume changing this is all you need to do.
> A
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 05:32:14PM -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
> >> I agree - almost every "newbie" that picks up BackupPC makes this
> >> mistake - the more experienced you are with old-school config files
> >> the MORE likely you are to assume changing this is all you need to do.
> >> A note in
PS: Maybe there should be a prominent note just at the $Config{TopDir}
setting in config.pl? And a like to the wiki article?
Tino.
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On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 11:32:09PM +0100, Koen Vermeer wrote:
> What exactly is the difference between __TOPDIR__ and $Conf{TopDir}? It
> seems the former one is set at compile time, while the other is clearly
> a configuration file option, but how do these work combined? For
> example, many of th
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 07:00:09AM -0600, Kameleon wrote:
> I am sure there are others that will chime in on this but as I see it you
> have a few options.
>
> 1. Setup LVM and use the external disk as a permanent addition to the system
> 2. Mount the external disk as the directory that will hous
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 12:24:46PM +0200, Peter Peltonen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to access backups created with another BackupPC installation.
>
> I thought it would just require:
>
> 1. copying the TopDir with rsync -avzH
> 2. changing the ownership of the TopDir to correct user/group
> 3.
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 12:04:07PM +, Tyler J. Wagner wrote:
> > How is that easier than just sending the single line:
> > BackupPC_serverMsg backup HOSTIP HOST 0/1
> >
> > You will need to have ssh connection or vpn anyway if you are
> > remote.
>
> It's not easier, but it is more secure.
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 03:42:53PM -0800, Heath Yob wrote:
> Excellent it looks that fixed it.
>
> That's kinda lame you can't just change the TopDir.
Well it's a typical bootstrap problem. Where are you supposed to find
your configuration file if it's relative to ${TopDir}? Therefore
${TopDir}
On Thu, Nov 05, 2009 at 12:32:10PM -0500, Il Neofita wrote:
> I was wondering if is it possibile to limit the backup space of an
> user like 30Gb or something like that
This is not currently possible with BackupPC. It wouldn't fit the
pooling scheme either - how would you count a file which is sh
Hi Michael,
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 01:15:34PM -0600, Michael Osburn wrote:
> I am trying to generate some tarballs from a few hosts so that I can
> archive them off the server. Unfortunately, the workstation that I have
> does not have a large enough /tmp partition (where firefox stores th
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 05:16:57PM +0200, Cesar Kawar wrote:
> > s...@pm7.ch wrote on 2009-10-16 02:05:07 -0700 [Re: [BackupPC-users]
> > Discrepant file size reports of backups]:
> >> [...]
> >> Both directories are in the same filesystem and the path was most
> >> likely
> >> changed right a
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 11:20:10AM -0400, Robert Kosinski wrote:
> > 1)boot on bios power-on schedule
> > 2)let backuppc process all backups. should automatically happen due to the
> > wakeup schedule though I would shorten that period.
> > 3)run a script to determine if backuppc is doing a backu
Hi Robert,
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 09:11:24PM -0400, Robert Kosinski wrote:
> I have a scenario in my head and am soliciting feedback as to its
> feasibility. Forgive me if this has been discussed before; I searched
> the mailing list and wider Internet but couldn't come up with much
> informatio
Hi Tyler,
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 08:28:04AM +0100, Tyler J. Wagner wrote:
> That is a perfectly normal design for enterprise backup systems. Bacula, for
> instance, allows the execution of arbitrary commands before and after backups
> run, so you can execute scripts to send wake-on-LAN and sh
On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 01:37:00PM -0400, Laura_marpplet wrote:
>
> By the way, if I try the same on Apache I get this error message:
>
> --
> Server error!
>
> The server encountered an internal error and was unable to complete your
> request.
>
> Error message:
> Pr
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 05:04:24PM -0400, jingai wrote:
> Is it OK to switch between backup methods at any time, or do I need to
> do something beforehand?
You might have to adjust your excludes. Have a look at the Wiki for more
information. Apart from that, there's nothing special to consider.
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 05:51:41AM -0400, Andrew Schulman wrote:
> Here's my problem: I love having online backups, they're very
> convenient. But they're a huge security problem. All of the LAN's
> most sensitive files become readable by user backuppc, who can be
> attacked through the web app
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 12:38:10PM -0400, Ian Levesque wrote:
> > ...even though they have more than a mile of physical separation. I
> > don't currently have good data as to the bandwidth utilization during
> > backups (the DRBD config is set to limit it to 10M, which is about
> > 110Mbit/sec wi
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 03:12:28PM -0800, Chris Robertson wrote:
> In short, it works for me.
[...]
Wow, thanks for sharing your experience. I figure that DRBD is a nice
way to RAID-1 across multiple hosts for failover purposes. I didn't
expect it to perform that well - I'll look into it for Sam
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 11:42:42AM -0700, James Ward wrote:
> I'm setting up a new BackupPC server as my current one has gotten
> full. This system has 2G RAM, quad Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.20GHz and
> a 3ware 6.5T array. I believe the array is currently RAID5 with no
> hot spare. From wha
Hi Dan,
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 01:40:02PM -0400, Dan Pritts wrote:
> > I'd say: Replace that USB 2.0 disk by something else like something
> > connected via Firewire or eSATA. USB 2.0 is very, very slow, especially
> > for random access.
>
> do you have empirical results that show this?
I di
Hi Christian,
On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 09:33:03AM +0200, Christian Völker wrote:
> First, my environment:
> 28 hosts to back up. Mostly idle machines with minor services (so no big
> databases and so on). Partially fileserver with only little daily
> changes. So I expected not too much daily chang
On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 03:27:30PM -0400, Mike Bianchi wrote:
> If you are browsing a backup and click on a filename ("y" in this example)
> you get a pop-up dialog tilted Opening y with the text:
>
> You have chosen to open
> y
> which is a: BIN file
>
On Sat, Sep 05, 2009 at 06:52:35PM -0600, dan wrote:
[...]
> You make a lot more sence here, but I think you overestimate CPU usage.
> backuppc is so IO bound that after your get a 2Ghz+ Dual core and 2GB RAM
> you can pretty much blame your disks for slow performance. I have a dual
> core 2Ghz
On Sat, Sep 05, 2009 at 06:35:16PM -0600, dan wrote:
[...]
> Thinking about the logistics in the method I have thought up a few hurdles.
> The source disks must remain unchanged during the entire sync.
> You would need to either have a spare disk in a raid1 mirror that you
> could remove from
Hi Juergen,
On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 09:01:07AM +0200, Juergen Harms wrote:
> The traffic on this list is becoming overwhelming.
Me too.
[...]
> Suggestion:
> - if this kind of multi-message exchange is necessary, split the list
> into 2 parts - one for people who have time to play that gam
On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 06:49:09PM -0400, swedishorr wrote:
> Thank you for the replies. I came in this morning to find that
> Yosemite / Barracudaware died on me and now I've got to find a new
> solution that doesn't use third-rate software.
You might want to try Bacula...
Tino.
--
"What
On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 04:46:58PM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> > But maybe the global config could be made available as $GlobalConf{xyz}
> > within the per-host config? I remember having tried the same thing -
> > that is, I want a set of default excludes, then extend then for one
> > host. Curre
On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 04:45:48PM -0400, brianbe2 wrote:
> I dunno what happened but the full backup completed in 3 hours and 6
> minutes. 26598.5 MB according to the log. It should run incrementals
> for the next 29 days and back to a full backup on the thirtieth day.
I would do far more full b
On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 03:00:37PM -0500, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
> On 09/03 08:45 , Davide Brini wrote:
> > I agree that it should work like that. However, if I'm not mistaken, it
> > seems
> > that what's written here still applies:
> >
> > http://osdir.com/ml/sysutils.backup.backuppc.g
On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 01:06:17PM -0400, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
> > I want to schedule one Full backup every Sunday at 21:15 and five
> > Incremental backups at 00:30 on every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday,
> > and Saturday.
> >
> > This is something really, really easy to do usi
On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 11:45:02AM -0400, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
> Stephen Joyce wrote at about 10:31:44 -0400 on Thursday, September 3, 2009:
> > Have you tried ssh -c blowfish?
> >
> > 3des is the default cipher for most ssh implementations and blowfish is
> > much faster than 3des.
>
On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 12:40:45PM -0400, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
> > IMO the easiest approach would be:
> > - if BackupPC_nightly starts, it acquires a lock, then waits for backups
> > to complete
> > - no new backups start until BackupPC_nightly finished
> >
> > This should be rather
On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 02:18:41PM -0600, dan wrote:
> Can I offer an alternative solution? How about using bittorrent?
I don't see the benefits over using the patched rsync... What am I
missing? After all it's still read-all-blocks - compare checksums -
transfer changes, right?
Tino.
--
"Wha
On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 10:31:21PM -0500, Jim Leonard wrote:
> > I'm using bacula to backup the generated tar files and have them deleted
> > afterwards.
>
> This is off-topic, I apologize, but if you are using Bacula, then why do
> you have a BackupPC installation?
There are several reasons:
On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 12:24:09PM -0400, Jon Craig wrote:
> > I tried renicing everything:
> >
> > jew...@kw157:/usr/share/backuppc/bin$ head -2 BackupPC_nightly
> > #!/usr/bin/perl
> > setpriority(0, $$, -20);
> >
> > jew...@kw157:/usr/share/backuppc/bin$ head -2 BackupPC_dump
> > #!/usr/bin/per
On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 04:17:31PM -0400, swedishorr wrote:
> I am currently using BackupPC to backup several servers (20 or so). BackupPC
> is running from a linux box running CentOS 5.3. There is seemingly no issue
> with the BackupPC operations.
>
> However, I am trying to get these backup
On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 01:29:45PM -0400, Steve wrote:
> > > > > Is there a parameter that sets priority of once backup over another,
> > > > > or do all the BackupPC_dump processes start at the same level?
> > Maybe
> > > > > that would be a $Conf that could be added...
> > > > > evets
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 05:14:20PM -0400, Peter Walter wrote:
> I am therefore restricted to copying the primary backup server itself.
> The intent is not to be able to recover the targets directly - the aim
> is to recover the primary backup server, and, from there, recover the
> targets. If
Hi all,
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 04:32:14PM -0400, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
> In a very real sense, the current implementation already uses an
> artificial database structure - albeit it a slow, prorprietary,
> non-extensible, non-optimizable version. To wit, the attrib files
> present in each a
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 05:15:19PM +0200, Christian Völker wrote:
> > With backuppc the issue is not so much fragmentation within a file as
> > the distance between the directory entry, the inode, and the file
> > content. When creating a new file, filesystems generally attempt to
> > allocate
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 11:55:35AM +0100, Nigel Kendrick wrote:
> Does backuppc support the --sparse flag for rsyncd remote backups -
> searching for answers led me to 'probably not' in an old post.
I don't know for sure, but I doubt it since BackupPC_dump will probably
just produce zeroes and co
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 08:59:32PM -0400, huffie wrote:
> Not sure if it's due to config issue (I'm trying to backup localhost) that I
> have this error message. Extracted from XferLOG
>
> Running: /bin/gtar -c -f - -C /samba --totals ./samba
> full backup started for directory /samba
> Xfer PI
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 09:08:33AM +0100, higuita wrote:
> > Also thank you for that tip! I did configure BackupPC as much as
> > possible from the web interface. So indeed I did not look very far in
> > the config.pl.
>
> IIRC, you can also setup that via the webinterface, no need to
>
Correcting myself...
> If I remember correctly, this should be
> $Conf{BackupFilesOnly} = {
>'cle' => [
> '/stow-1.3.3'
>]
> };
>
> And the second one should be:
The following line needs to have a curly brace, of course. But you could
also specify excludes for
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 09:47:30PM +0200, chin wrote:
> Adam Goryachev wrote:
>
> (...)
>
> > Is it possible for you to send the debug log of the two backup
> > methods... mainly so we can see the rsync commands sent across to the
>
> Of course I could do. I have already set
>
> $Conf{Xfer
On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 11:42:00PM -0400, Mr_T wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm wanting to restore a file via the command line to the machine that is
> running backuppc.
>
> The command I'm using is...
>
> ./BackupPC_tarCreate -t -n 55 -h server1 -s '/etc/mail.rc' > /data/test.tar
>
> However when I ru
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 11:39:28AM +0300, Roman wrote:
> I have installed and configured BackupPC successfully, thank you for
> this great software.
> One small thing I may not fully understand:
> I have made a full backup, but which contained only a few files (just
> for testing), after this I se
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 10:58:19AM -0500, Jim Leonard wrote:
> Tino Schwarze wrote:
> > I'd rule out the network. Samba might be doing fancy things to the TCP
> > level etc. Or you might try establishing an ssh tunnel to the Windows
> > host (or from Windows host to B
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 08:46:50AM -0500, Jim Leonard wrote:
> > I would take a look at a network traffic dump - maybe something is bad
> > there? More suspects: Windows firewall, some other firewall inbeteween?
> > Did you try Windows rsyncd -> Windows rsync (to rule out some strange
> > Linux vs
Hi Jim,
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 07:45:57PM -0500, Jim Leonard wrote:
> > first of all, where are you seeing these figures, and what are you
> > measuring?
>
> Rather than try to convince you of my competence, I will offer up these
> benchmarks for the exact same endpoint machines and file (a
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 12:20:20PM +0200, Michael Aram wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> thank you for your answers. I changed the backupcommand (added -q) and got
> rid of the first error. Thanks.
>
> However unfortunately, my backupserver wasnt able to successfully backup my
> remote machine.
>
> I have
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 02:36:38PM +, Peter Hanston wrote:
> Is there any way I can delete a spesific file from all backups? For some
> reason
> I have a file backed up which is 50gigs in /var/log (/var/lib/smac.log) and
> I'd
> like to delete it from every backup that has been made.
>
>
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 10:19:32AM -0400, Craig Swanson wrote:
> I have created a new installation of BackupPC, attempting to configure
> ssh with sudo, per the BackupPC instructions.
> BackupPC fails, echoing: X11 connection rejected because of wrong
> authentication.
Add a -x to your ssh com
On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 01:50:56PM +0100, Andy Brown wrote:
> Hi All,
> We've started to setup a large multiple server backuppc environment, and
> wanted a few thoughts/ideas/advice.
> We've got a large 2TB nas at the back of it with gig connectivity.
> Filesystem is LVM on top of OCFS2 so we have
On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 01:04:06PM -0500, James Esslinger wrote:
> [...changing the program to output something else...]
> That won't fly. The images are being output by a program that is closed
> source and I have no way of changing it.
Drat. And it doesn't support some compressed image format
Hi Mark,
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 08:28:32AM -0700, Mark Phillips wrote:
> I am looking for inexpensive off-site storage that is compatible with
> backuppc.
In my opinion, off-site storage and backup don't go together. After all,
your backups contain all of your important (and possibly secret) dat
On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 11:44:47AM +0100, Hereward Cooper wrote:
> I'm looking for a way of extract details of backuppc jobs so that I
> can parse them and produce some graphs of usage and general activity.
>
> The second part I am happy doing, however getting hold of the data is being a
> bit m
Hi Benedict,
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 09:05:36AM +0300, Benedict simon wrote:
> i am using BackupPC to succesfully backup up linux client and working fine.
>
> i also have 2 novell Netware servers which i would like to backup with
> backuppc
>
> does backuppc support backin up Novell Netware ser
Hi Magnus,
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 09:05:26PM +, Magnus Larsson wrote:
> What I would like is to have it as a separate host, and then do manual
> backups when I want to. Can I do this even though the host it is
> connected to already is a backuppc host? This would mean defining one
> host as
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 01:30:35PM -0400, Jim McNamara wrote:
>
> > Have you specifically done a dist-upgrade from etch to lenny?
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> By the way, top posting (writing above the previous post) is frowned upon by
> most mailing lists. Most mail programs handle it well, but p
On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 09:36:33AM -0400, ckandreou wrote:
> The log from the host that I am trying to backup to tape is as follow:
> 2009-06-05 01:00:08 full backup started for directory / (baseline backup #368)
> 2009-06-05 11:23:12 full backup 369 complete, 216652 files, 43976121396
> bytes, 0
> Thanks for the info. I continue to get the same message. BackUpPC web
> interface for "tape_archive" indicates that the backup failed, with
> the error message the same as above,
You need to look closer. The "type 8" messages are noise (and should
probably be suppressed if possible). Please pos
Hi Flavio,
On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 12:03:07PM +0200, Boniforti Flavio wrote:
> > My advice: Just account on total amount of data backed up.
> > And this is the number you get in the host summary page as
> > "Full Size(GB)" and in host status page in the "File
> > Size/Count Reuse Summary" tabl
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 10:25:01PM -0400, jbk wrote:
> I am trying to understand this subject heading so that I can
> correct my backup archive. I have been running backuppc for
> over a year now and the backed up data appears to be good. I
> have done individual file restores without issues. W
Hi Flavio,
On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 08:23:36AM +0200, Boniforti Flavio wrote:
> > Q: Does anyone know?
> > A: Yes
>
> Maybe I'm the only human which thinks a bit more "elastically", but if
> anybody asks:
>
> "Anybody knows why there's difference between the above 2 values?"
>
> I'm prone to ex
Hi there,
(I already felt like I was going to look dumb or anxious by writing what
I wrote...)
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 01:09:38PM -0400, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
> Tino Schwarze wrote at about 18:39:26 +0200 on Wednesday, June 3, 2009:
> > > > I recently heard about lessfs, wh
> > I recently heard about lessfs, which runs on top of FUSE to provide
> > a file system that does block-level de-duplication. See:
> >
> > http://www.lessfs.com
> > https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=257120
> > http://tokyocabinet.sourceforge.net/index.html
> >
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 05:04:26PM +0100, G.W. Haywood wrote:
> There have been a few hiccups since I subscribed to the digest list
> but until now they haven't been remarkable. However yesterday there
> were thirteen daily digests. So far today there have been four.
>
> Is there any chance tha
Hi,
> Another solution to the two hard drives backing up might be to use Raid
> 0 (striping). This does not allow redundancy but it does let you
> combine the drives so the system sees them as one drive.
One should only use RAID0 if he/she doesn't care for it's data. It might
double throughput,
On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 10:06:40AM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> >> Still, it would be awesome to combine the simplicity and pooling
> >> structure of BackupPC with the flexibility of a database
> >> architecture...
> >>
> > I, for one, would be willing to contribute financially and with my very
On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 06:27:35AM -0400, Peter Walter wrote:
> As a Linux newbie, I have only a partial understanding of the technology
> underlying Linux and BackupPC, but I get the impression that the problem
> with a rsync-like solution is that processing hardlinks is very
> expensive in te
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