Les Mikesell wrote:
Toni Van Remortel wrote:
Toni Van Remortel wrote:
Anyway, I'm preparing a separate test setup now, to be able to do
correct tests (so both BackupPC and an rsync tree are using data from
the same time).
Test results will be here tomorrow.
So that is today.
BackupPC
Toni Van Remortel wrote:
Anyway, I'm preparing a separate test setup now, to be able to do
correct tests (so both BackupPC and an rsync tree are using data from
the same time).
Test results will be here tomorrow.
So that is today.
BackupPC full dump, with patch which removed --ignore
Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) wrote:
Toni Van Remortel wrote:
How can I reduce bandwidth usage for full backups?
Even when using rsync, BackupPC does transfer all data on a full backup,
and not only the modified files since the last incremental or full.
That's not true. Only modifications
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Now sendmail wil send the mail to your address, instead of the local
mbox of the backuppc user.
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if you use it for eg MySQL,
you will end up with endless counts of open connections and be locked
out of your MySQL (been there, not funny).
But for SSH, that problem does not occur.
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project? An SMB check?
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afraid I
have to create a script for it.
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those files, is outside your document root.
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process?
Although you shouldn't receive the file has vanished error, but rather
Device or resource busy.
I've seen the error too on files that get truncated often (log files,
temp files, files-that-should-actually-be-a-pipe)
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is supported on all sides, you can even backup Chinese
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$MaxBackups and $MaxUserBackups to 1 (I have
them set to 25 and 4).
Can you post your config.pl? Or summarize the content of the 'Server'
tab of the config in the web interface.
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of accessing millions of
small files?
I mount my /backup raid with noatime and notail options.
Works at a very nice speed (backup speed is limited to network
connection, got 80 hosts in backup)
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, I will only be notified of
non-working backups after this huge timeout (4 days I use now), instead
of having a report on really failed backups (transfer stalls etc).
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Rob Morin wrote:
but what would a recommend live cd be?
Anything descent that fits your pocket, like Damn Small Linux.
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in the
authenticated_keys list of the root user.
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Yaakov Chaikin wrote:
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Yaakov Chaikin wrote:
The reason I am asking is that if I back up My Document once, which is
7GB, it's not such a big deal, but if I make it back it up every
night, such that every night there is 7GB
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Install cwrsync of deltacopy, they both use their own private cygwin
libraries without interrupting an existing cygwin installation.
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of the entire share to backup?
Or should I just remove the '-q' option for SSH, and have more overhead
on the transport (I assume it is rsync on the client who produces the
transfer info)?
Please some advice, thanks.
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to backuppc
but im not sure how to do that.
You can use a dynamic DNS service like dyndns.org.
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aborted error,
which is only cause by a low ClientTimeOut value (but 72000 isn't that
low). Stdout seems very quiet during backups.
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Arch Willingham wrote:
I'm using Samba (SMB?).
I have some Win-servers too, but I prefer rsyncd on them. Makes my
entire BackupPC installation more uniform: Windows through rsyncd, Linux
through rsync.
Just my 2 cents :-)
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a network monitor which
can show you the traffic between your backup server and Windows client
(iftop is handy, as you can specify the IP range to show).
Please report this test, it might help us to find the source of the problem.
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Arch Willingham wrote:
Even though the slashes go the other way in Windows
Yes. It's a Unix system that is taking the backups, so you need to use
the Unix way to address directories. So / is the separator, \ is just an
escape character.
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the correct rights on the
client (read rights + ssh access) for your backups.
I've been thinking about that setup too, but as it will result in a way
too complex situation here, I stick to the root account on the clients.
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when the wiki grows.
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on your Windows server?
I've had issues with Panda, who would block file reads until it had
scanned the whole file. So if your rt.jar is quite big, and your server
hasn't too much power to scan it quickly, it might result in this timeout.
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© and è are subject to wrong coding.
So check the UTF8 support.
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compressed (gzip) or not?
I do use compression in BackupPC through ssh (-C option).
My main concern is bandwidth usage, not local filesystem space. So which
option uses the least bandwidth?
Tnx.
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for ubuntu 7.04
and 7.10 and the ever important License!
Cool.
I added the Debian Etch install instructions, and a small proposal for
LoCUS (List of Custom User Scripts) [name to be dfined ;-)]
I'll add some more soon.
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Rodrigo Real wrote:
I added the idea of installing some extra packages in debian.
Those are installed as dependencies ... so no need to install them manually.
Also added a line telling where the main directories will be.
That's a good idea. Tnx.
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based site. Joomla has lots of
Extensions that can provide structured functionality. Sure it needs a
good basic setup, but once that is done, the info stays in that structure.
As last note: a login based system is always needed if you want to put
info online by users.
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of backups over slow lines
2) allows us to follow current log-files by hand.
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much time for it.
Just shout for it ;)
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on the import
source are all OK.
PS: debug started in console with 'BackupPC_dump -v -f clientname' and
'top'.
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Toni Van Remortel wrote:
Any idea where to start debugging?
Seemed to be a .doc file on which it was hanging ... Very weird.
A temporary exclude for *.doc on the specific share allows me to import
the backup. But on other shares I did not exclude anything and the
import does work.
Strange
client? Security! If someone can
get 1 private key from my backup server, he/she can only connect to 1
client instead of all my clients (70 at this moment).
Yes it is a bit more work, but security is always more work.
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/test' ?
I have no experience with rsyncd on Windows, but I guess it uses the
same config file structure as rsyncd on Linux.
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Example 2 if I have set it up successfully here.
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=head1 Importing data in backups
If you want to import a backup snapshot into BackupPC before starting any
backups.
=head2 Prequisites
Before you can start with the import, make sure you
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Toni Van Remortel wrote:
Hi,
I created a script that mounts remote samba shares. On success, it
returns a nice message (just print in Perl) and exit with code 0. On
error, is again prints a message and exits with code 1.
But in BackupPC, I see this:
DumpPreShareCmd returned error
Toni Van Remortel wrote:
Toni Van Remortel wrote:
Hi,
I created a script that mounts remote samba shares. On success, it
returns a nice message (just print in Perl) and exit with code 0. On
error, is again prints a message and exits with code 1.
But in BackupPC, I see
, using rsync or rsyncd you will need to transfer the entire backup
only once.
rsync is the only protocol used (Linux - Linux backups), so that
problem is solved then.
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Adam Goryachev wrote:
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Toni Van Remortel wrote:
Rob Owens wrote:
1) I've successfully pre-populated backups in the following way.
a) Configure backuppc to backup my host machine (myhost.com) over the
internet.
b) Take my host machine
the archives, I'm not a newbee.
I haven't found any solution there that solves my problem.
That's why I ask it here.
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backups to eg USB
disks and use them as 'start point' for incremental backups. Thus
reducing data transfers for the remote servers.
2) is an obvious result of explanation 1) :-)
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available, easy restorable with a live Windows CD (BartPE)
Cons: big, big, very big on disk (as the entire image is always
different each day) on the backuppc server.
But I guess that the solution with NTbackup is more disk friendly :-)
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ideas?
PS: it's a name change that's bothering me. It is in DNS, and no: I
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