Re: [BackupPC-users] host resolution problem

2011-03-20 Thread Travis Fraser
he hosts file on the backuppc server. -- Travis Fraser -- Colocation vs. Managed Hosting A question and answer guide to determining the best fit for your organization - today and in the future

Re: [BackupPC-users] Curious to other users backup "Speed (MB/s) " of Windows computers

2007-12-04 Thread Travis Fraser
n/backuppc/BackupPC_Admin?host=estimate3> comp5 ><mailto:root> auburn 2 6.2 10.98 > 1.256 0.9 0.9 idle > idle > My Windows servers show around 2 MB/s, the same as yours. Travis Fraser

Re: [BackupPC-users] Using NFS share as BackupPC pool

2007-12-04 Thread Travis Fraser
On Tue, 04 Dec 2007 22:45:40 +0100 "Dan S. Hemsø Rasmussen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi... > > Yes... the Synology box is running with Linux.. the box have a mirror > raid, and have just made a firmware with NFS support... So it should > support hardlinks > > Do you have any experience goo

Re: [BackupPC-users] Using NFS share as BackupPC pool

2007-12-04 Thread Travis Fraser
use a NAS box mounted via NFS. It works fine. The underlying filesystem on the NAS must support hardlinks I would think. Does the Synology box use Linux for the OS? Travis Fraser - SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future

Re: [BackupPC-users] Can't get excludes to work

2007-10-27 Thread Travis Fraser
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = { > '\\backup\\*' => [ > '' > ], > '/backup/*' => [ > '' > ], > '*' => [ > '\\backup\\*', > '/backup/*' > ] > }; -- Travis Fraser <[EMAIL

Re: [BackupPC-users] Can't get excludes to work

2007-10-26 Thread Travis Fraser
arator, \ is just an > escape character. > In playing around with excludes a while back, I found it depends on what the transfer method is. For smb, the backslash works for excludes. For rsync, the forward slash. -- Travi

Re: [BackupPC-users] Logwatch rule

2007-10-02 Thread Travis Fraser
written a script for version 2.1.1 that sends me a daily status email as well as generates an RSS feed. It is in the list archives, but if you want I can email it to you. -- Travis Fraser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - This SF.

Re: [BackupPC-users] Error starting a backup

2007-07-17 Thread Travis Fraser
*** > > The /data/BackupPC is directory where I specified I wanted the backups > to be stored. It's owned by the apache user since this is the user > that runs the 'httpd' server. I

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up excluded directories

2007-05-11 Thread Travis Fraser
ne, directories > > excluded in their configuration files are still being backed up. > > > > >From target machine's configuration file: > > $Conf{SmbShareName} = 'sarah'; > > $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = ['/MYMUSI~1','/W

Re: [BackupPC-users] excludedir problems

2007-04-27 Thread Travis Fraser
es in your exclude. Use the curly braces for defining excludes for multiple shares. > > I used forward and back slashes with no luck. /user3 folder is allways > backed up. This is used in test controlled enviroment, backup meets > our needs.

Re: [BackupPC-users] vmware windows problem

2007-04-15 Thread Travis Fraser
On Sun, 2007-04-15 at 12:56 -0400, David Relson wrote: > On Sun, 15 Apr 2007 10:16:55 -0400 > Travis Fraser wrote: > > ...[snip]... > > > > Any thoughts on what I've done wrong? > > > > > Does the backuppc user on the winxp machine have permissions

Re: [BackupPC-users] vmware windows problem

2007-04-15 Thread Travis Fraser
has _no_ files > fDocuments\ and\ Settings/fDavid\ Relson has _no_ files > the other directories are also empty. > > Any thoughts on what I've done wrong? > Does the backuppc user on the winxp machine have permissions to access everything you want to backup? -- Travis

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsync 2.6.9 issues

2007-04-10 Thread Travis Fraser
box. > Almost exactly a year ago this was a popular question. The archives can explain it well, but in summary, replace --devices in the rsync command with -D. -- Travis Fraser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Take Surveys. Earn Cash

Re: [BackupPC-users] More thoughts on Laptop backups

2007-03-04 Thread Travis Fraser
either interface. > Why not assign the same hostname and IP address to either MAC address (assuming your wireless network is bridged to the wired)? -- Travis Fraser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Take Surveys. Earn Cash.

Re: [BackupPC-users] More thoughts on Laptop backups

2007-03-04 Thread Travis Fraser
owed my wi-fi > card, the visitor's laptop would look like mine to backuppc which > wouldn't be good. Is there a way to associated a backup with a given > machine and not just the mac address? > Use rsync over ssh with a public key. The visitor's laptop will not have

Re: [BackupPC-users] syntax for excluded files

2007-02-18 Thread Travis Fraser
> can't be sure. Any advice would be appreciated. > I think it depends on the transport method. You can have $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} _or_ $Conf{BackupFilesOnly} but not both for smb. Excludes are relative to the share name. Look at the docs. -- Travis Fraser <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC exclusion per-share using arrays in $Conf{BackupFilesExclude}

2007-01-30 Thread Travis Fraser
'/var' => [ > '/log/maillog', > '/lib/mysql/data', > '/lib/mysql/mysql', > '/log/mysql/mysql.log', > '/log/mysql/mysql-bin*', >

Re: [BackupPC-users] Signal =PIPE?

2007-01-27 Thread Travis Fraser
ernet), and I use rsync > over ssh rather than rsyncd. It's not something I'm worried about, but > I was wondering if anyone might have any helpful comments... > Have you tried increasing the client timeout? -- Travis Fraser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC Data Directory on a Network Attached Storage

2007-01-25 Thread Travis Fraser
irectory on the > > > Share with the LOG file in which was an error like bind() failed. Does > > > anybody know why SMB does not work with BackupPC? Or are there any > > > other solutions like to mount a FTP connection? -- Travis Fraser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [BackupPC-users] Email reports

2007-01-15 Thread Travis Fraser
On Tue, 2007-01-16 at 08:24 +1100, Les Stott wrote: > Travis Fraser wrote: > > On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 10:30 +0100, Francisco Daniel Igual Peña wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > Is it possible that Backuppc sends weekly (or daily, dont mind) reports &

Re: [BackupPC-users] Email reports

2007-01-15 Thread Travis Fraser
plements a positive status email and an RSS feed. # # The script is called from BackupPC_nightly. # # AUTHOR # Travis Fraser [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # Credit to Rich Duzenbury for the original idea. # # # Requires XML::RSS # # Edit the variable $serverName to suit depending on DNS status on your # network. #

Re: [BackupPC-users] smb scheduled backup fails, but manual works

2006-12-06 Thread Travis Fraser
from the command line and I can manually > start an incremental backup after which the home page shows 'Pings to > king-graham have succeeded 2 consecutive times.' > > Any help is appreciated. Thanks. > Is this a laptop where it might go into suspend o

Re: [BackupPC-users] Errors on Linux hosts

2006-10-02 Thread Travis Fraser
To follow up my last reply: $Conf{RsyncArgs} is what to edit in the main config file. -- Travis Fraser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsa

Re: [BackupPC-users] Errors on Linux hosts

2006-10-02 Thread Travis Fraser
-l root denali.freelock.lan > /usr/bin/rsync --server --sender --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group > --devices --links --times --block-size=2048 --recursive . /etc/ > Xfer Use -D instead of --devices in the line above. -- Travis Fraser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --

[BackupPC-users] rss and email for backuppc [was Re: Nagios plugin]

2006-08-22 Thread Travis Fraser
This script implements a positive status email and an RSS feed. # # The script is called from BackupPC_nightly. # # AUTHOR # Travis Fraser [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # Credit to Rich Duzenbury for the original idea. # # # Requires RSS::XML # # Edit the variable $serverName to suit depending on DNS statu

Re: [BackupPC-users] Nagios plugin

2006-08-22 Thread Travis Fraser
Duzenbury). Rich's original RSS patch requires using the cgi interface to generate the xml, and I wanted something automated, so months back I wrote a script that is called from backuppc_nightly. If anyone is interested, let me know. -- Travis Fraser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [BackupPC-users] Excluding directories from smb

2006-08-11 Thread Travis Fraser
er-share excludes can be done as well: $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = { 'share1$' => [ '\foo' , '\bar' ], 'share2$' => [ '\foobar' ], }; -- Travis Fraser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --

Re: [BackupPC-users] CIFS/SMB for Data Store (NAS)

2006-07-28 Thread Travis Fraser
s and 1 windows XP workstation. It seems to work fine. The underlying NAS filesystem/OS needs to support hardlinks. -- Travis Fraser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceF

Re: [BackupPC-users] Ubuntu to debian etch

2006-06-22 Thread Travis Fraser
) failed > Done: 0 files, 0 bytes > Got fatal error during xfer (fileListReceive failed) > Backup aborted (fileListReceive failed) > > Any hint? > > -- Travis Fraser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get

Re: [BackupPC-users] Windows client: Unable to read 4 bytes

2006-06-13 Thread Travis Fraser
s means in this context? Have you tried to do a manual rsync e.g. just listing the files in the remote module? -- Travis Fraser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/

Re: [BackupPC-users] Funny ssh Problems

2006-06-12 Thread Travis Fraser
Nils Breunese (Lemonbit Internet) wrote: > Travis Fraser wrote: > > >> What version of rsync are you using? Later versions need --devices >> changed to -D in $Conf{RsyncArgs}. >> > > I guess I need to change this for $Conf{RsyncRestoreArgs} as well?

Re: [BackupPC-users] Funny ssh Problems

2006-06-12 Thread Travis Fraser
bytes > >> Got fatal error during xfer (fileListReceive failed) > >> Backup aborted (fileListReceive failed) > >> > >> Has anybody seen this problem before? It seems like it's trying > >> to open > >> up an X window for some

Re: [BackupPC-users] Re: rsync with VSS-support

2006-05-24 Thread Travis Fraser
cause problems with operation; but I did try moving the > c:\cygwin directory out of the way (to the Trash, temporarily) without > success. > > The .msi file is very cool tho, works great, even on a win98 box. Ought to > use that for the

Re: [BackupPC-users] Conf{BackupFilesExclude} not working

2006-05-18 Thread Travis Fraser
what I do it still backs up the WINDOWS directory [or any other > directory I try to exclude]. > > Any ideas? > > Thanks in advance for your help, > > DT > The answer is in the archives (watch out for line wrap): http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.backup.backuppc.gene

Re: [BackupPC-users] Rsync 2.6.7-1 (fileListReceive failed)

2006-05-16 Thread Travis Fraser
Peter Palfrader wrote: On Thu, 30 Mar 2006, Andy wrote: Most of my systems run Debian Sarge with rsync 2.6.4-6, but one runs Debian Etch and last night rsync updated to 2.6.7-1. I havnt been able to do any backups of this box since. I get the following error in the xfer.log: G

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC_nightly admin task failing

2006-05-16 Thread Travis Fraser
On Fri, 2006-05-05 at 14:05 -0400, Travis Fraser wrote: > Hi, > > I have been running BackupPC-2.1.1 on a gentoo system for months and it > has worked fine. Last week I edited the main config file to change the > $Conf{RsyncArgs} to account for an upgrade to rsync-2.6.8 (I cha

Re: [BackupPC-users] Problem with BackupFilesExclude

2006-05-16 Thread Travis Fraser
ta/log/*', '/Data/var/*'] > }; > > So what I'm trying to do is backup the folder "Plone 2" but exclude the > "Data/log" and "Data/var" subfolders. > > Thanks in advance. > > Tony Use a backslash instead of the forward slas

[BackupPC-users] BackupPC_nightly admin task failing

2006-05-05 Thread Travis Fraser
sutils.backup.backuppc.general/6455/match=uninitialized+value+in+chdir -- Travis Fraser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology

Re: [BackupPC-users] cygwin-rsyncd vs. backuppc-rsyncd

2005-11-21 Thread Travis Fraser
ly on Windoze machines. Someone > reported success recently, but I don't know what they did differently. > I think Joe is using rsyncd, not rysnc with ssh transport. Rysnc does not work with Cygwin ssh last I tried. It will work only for small transfers and then cra

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupFilesExclude is not working with SMB Transfer

2005-11-02 Thread Travis Fraser
XP Pro and Server 2003. Some examples: $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = [ '\foo' ] $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = [ '\foo', '\*\bar' ] Per-share excludes can be done as well: $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = { 'share1$' => [ '

Re: [BackupPC-users] Mailing users

2005-10-20 Thread Travis Fraser
tion for this parameter: $Conf{CgiUserUrlCreate} > -- > Alex Schaft > Quick Software > Tel: +27-(0)11-451-9100 > Fax: +27-(0)86-674-6981 -- Travis Fraser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Arc

Re: [BackupPC-users] Excluding files

2005-10-19 Thread Travis Fraser
amba-3.0.14a on a Gentoo box, backing up Windows XP Pro and Server 2003. Some examples: $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = [ '\foo' ] $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = [ '\foo', '\*\bar' ] Per-share excludes can be done as well: $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = { 's

[BackupPC-users] excludes for smb transfers

2005-09-26 Thread Travis Fraser
;\foo' ] $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = [ '\foo', '\*\bar' ] Per-share excludes can be done as well: $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = { 'share1$' => [ '\foo' , '\bar' ], '

[BackupPC-users] Is there a way to schedule dump from command line

2005-09-06 Thread Travis Fraser
I have looked through the docs and found the command BackupPC_serverMesg backup all to queue all hosts for backup, but was wondering how to do this for just one host. I would like to be able to trigger the backup from the server's console. -- Travis Fraser <[EMAIL P