On Mon, Sep 23, 2024 at 9:55 AM G.W. Haywood
wrote:
> Hi there,
> On Mon, 23 Sep 2024, gregrwm wrote:
> > just installed EPEL BackupPC-4.4.0-9.el9.x86_64 on an AlmaLinux release
> 9.4
> > kvm, merged changes into config.pl, and brought forward other .pl files
> &g
just installed EPEL BackupPC-4.4.0-9.el9.x86_64 on an AlmaLinux release 9.4
kvm, merged changes into config.pl, and brought forward other .pl files
from my working opensuse tumbleweed backuppc 4 server. systemctl start
gives no errors, /var/log/BackupPC/LOG reports doing incr backups, manual
run o
BackupPC4 currently shows as unresolvable for tumbleweed on
https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/home:ecsos:Backup/BackupPC4,
something about having choices for sendmail and openssl.
is there hope?
(i never have been particularly interested in it sending mail. or the
gui. i love it for using
On Sat, May 6, 2023 at 11:31 AM G.W. Haywood wrote:
> On Fri, 5 May 2023, gregrwm wrote:
> > if so, umm..!! heck, isn't that one of the times when backups are sorely
> > wanted? when the original flakes or fades and no longer has a valid copy
> > of the fi
hi folks,
i'm curious about the "file removed" messages below, they're from running
"sudo -ubackuppc /u*/s*/b*/b*/*_dump -v $c" [ubuntu focal backuppc 3.3.2-3]
do they mean the backed-up copies were removed? because they no longer
match the "original" file?
if so, umm..!! heck, isn't that one o
i have an old copy of a VM (from before it was migrated to a different
server), and backuppc captured more recent changes, before a problem
occurred on the server the VM has been running on recently.
what's missing is backuppc is capturing the content of the VM, but that's
not quite enough to recr
On Tue, Jun 14, 2022 at 5:25 PM G.W. Haywood via BackupPC-users <
backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> On Tue, 14 Jun 2022, gregrwm wrote:
> > ... interrupted BackupPC_dump. on the next invocation i got:
> > 2022-06-12 21:35:02 Serious erro
actually what was going on was i wasn't putting my hosts.pl files in the
right directory. thanks again for the -v tip.
On Fri, May 6, 2022 at 9:52 PM gregrwm wrote:
> thank you! just what i needed!
>
> in backuppc3 i set BackupsDisable to 1 in config.pl, and set it to 0
i hadn't prepared my config quite as i'd intended, and expected a rather
long wait, so i interrupted BackupPC_dump.
on the next invocation i got:
2022-06-12 21:35:02 Serious error: last backup
/var/lib/backuppc/pc/avocado/32 directory doesn't exist!!! Need to remove
back to last filled backup
2022
i have brought up backuppc4 on a new kvm guest, and still also have
backuppc3 on another kvm guest. but is my assumption correct? i assume
that the backuppc hosts are where it is saved which backups were done last,
and when. i might be wrong tho, maybe these are stored on each client as
they are
man J. Goldstein
wrote:
> I have found it useful at times to run
> /usr/share/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_dump from the command line e.g.
>
>BackupPC_dump -f -v CLIENTNAME
>
> for a full backup with verbose messages. Run this as the backuppc user.
>
>
> On 2022-05-06 16:2
>
>
> On 2022-05-06 15:59, gregrwm wrote:
>
> when i invoke BackupPC_dump it always just says "nothing to do". why
> would it be doing that?
>
>
> On Fri, May 6, 2022 at 4:51 PM gregrwm wrote:
>
>> i'm trying to get backuppc4 working on manjar
when i invoke BackupPC_dump it always just says "nothing to do". why would
it be doing that?
On Fri, May 6, 2022 at 4:51 PM gregrwm wrote:
> i'm trying to get backuppc4 working on manjaro. it's up and sends me mail
> like if i remove a host from the hosts file, b
i'm trying to get backuppc4 working on manjaro. it's up and sends me mail
like if i remove a host from the hosts file, but it's not backing up any
hosts. The logs look mostly normal, mentioning wakeups, nightly, and pool
cleaning, but there's no mention of even trying to do any backups. Any
idea
at this point i'm using blackout to suspend backuppc scheduling, and via a
cron script invoking BackupPC_dump for each host (right after updating its
list of shares to match its current set of kvm guests, and using
DumpPreShareCmd to snapshot and guestmount the guest storage for each
"share").
thi
i'm prepared to try backuppc4, storing to a (rhel8) VDO (block level dedup)
volume, thinking it may dedup significant portions of large files that are
mostly but not completely the same. is this sensible? Why or why not?
Beyond just dedup, should i expect better performance with VDO compression,
i want certain hosts done first, so they are more likely finished when
things get busy in the morning.
i could probably forsake the backuppc wakeup procedure and invoke either
BackupPC_dump or _serverMesg from a script.
but with a tidbit of insider knowledge maybe i could let backuppc initiate
th
is there a way to make guestfish rsync-out work with backuppc?
otherwise i guess the way to backup kvm guests is using guestmount
(preceeded by snapshot-creat-as and followed by blockcommit), which all
works, tho if i could figure out how i would refrain from mounting the
guest filesystems on the
On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 10:50 AM Alexander Kobel wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> On 3/16/21 4:27 PM, gregrwm wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 8:45 AM backu...@kosowsky.org>> wrote:
> > gregrwm wrote at about 19:59:53 -0500 on Monday, March 15, 2021:
> > > i'
On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 8:45 AM wrote:
> gregrwm wrote at about 19:59:53 -0500 on Monday, March 15, 2021:
> > i'm trying to use a double hop rsync to backup a server that can only be
> > reached indirectly. a simple test of a double hop rsync to the target
>
On Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 7:19 PM gregrwm wrote:
> problem: blockcommit only works if the guest is running.
>
> so, not a problem with backuppc, but a problem with how to use it.
>
> currently i'm using:
> DumpPreShareCmd:
> virsh snapshot-create-as --atomic
i'm trying to use a double hop rsync to backup a server that can only be
reached indirectly. a simple test of a double hop rsync to the target
server seems to work:
# sudo -ubackuppc rsync -PHSAXaxe"ssh -xq 192.168.128.11 ssh -xq"
--rsync-path=sudo\ /usr/bin/rsync 192.168.1.243:/var/log/Backup
problem: blockcommit only works if the guest is running.
so, not a problem with backuppc, but a problem with how to use it.
currently i'm using:
DumpPreShareCmd:
virsh snapshot-create-as --atomic --no-metadata --disk-only
--diskspec=
mkdir -p /mnt/point
guestmount -iroallow_root -a /mnt/point
obbit-plugins - plugins for the Xymon network monitor
libbackuppc-xs-perl - Perl module for BackupPC
nagios-plugins-contrib - Plugins for nagios compatible monitoring systems
0#
On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 10:13 AM gregrwm wrote:
> trying to get started with backuppcfs. what and where is Backup
trying to get started with backuppcfs. what and where is BackupPC/XS.pm?
it's not in dpkg-query -L backuppc. is it because the version of
backuppcfs.pl i have is for backuppc4? and not compatible with backuppc3?
if so is there a version for backuppc3?
0# PERLLIB=/usr/share/backuppc/lib ./bac
during a full backup (whether using checksum-seed or not) if file
attributes are unchanged but file content no longer matches, what happens?
does backuppc merely treat it as a changed file, or does it treat this as
an inconsistent situation worthy of admin attention? is something written
to a log?
>
> Where did you get the idea to 4b $s? You might try echo -n ning it
> instead... Hope that helps. Not sure what you are actually trying to do,
> though.
in order to copy my backups through a narrow pipe i just selected all the
most recent full backups and sent them via rsync. later it became
the following commands demonstrate that either Digest::MD5 and gnu md5sum
are not compatible, or that i haven't got the backuppc md5 formula quite
right. can anyone set me straight? the commands below merely use the
filesize, and the whole file since it's <256K, feed them both to md5sum,
and show
i've used BackupPC_fixLinks.pl in the past with success, on RHEL. i'm
trying to use it again, this time on ubuntu:
# sudo -ubackuppc -H ./BackupPC_fixLinks.pl -f -q
> Use of qw(...) as parentheses is deprecated at
> /usr/share/backuppc/lib/BackupPC/Storage/Text.pm line 302.
> Use of qw(...) as p
iiuc backuppc currently has no feature to disperse the likelihood that
several or many full backups will consistently be aligned to occur on
the same day. indeed it's quite likely that many full backups will
consistently align on the same day, eg if they were added on the same
day and follow the s
> > i want a backup of my server as of now, so i start one with
BackupPC_dump.
> > before it finishes, the scheduler starts another one, which executes
> > simultaneously. seems like trouble.
>
> The server/scheduler doesn't know about programs you start from the
> command line. If you are doing
> i want a backup of my server as of now, so i start one with
> BackupPC_dump. before it finishes, the scheduler starts another one, which
> executes simultaneously. seems like trouble.
>
(another simultaneous backup of the same server (localhost))
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i want a backup of my server as of now, so i start one with BackupPC_dump.
before it finishes, the scheduler starts another one, which executes
simultaneously. seems like trouble.
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>
> > i'm using a simple procedure i cooked up to maintain a "third copy" at a
> > third physical location using as little bandwidth as possible. it simply
> > looks at each pc/*/backups, selects the most recent full and most recent
> > incremental (plus any partial or /new), and copies them acros
i'm using a simple procedure i cooked up to maintain a "third copy" at a
third physical location using as little bandwidth as possible. it simply
looks at each pc/*/backups, selects the most recent full and most recent
incremental (plus any partial or /new), and copies them across the wire,
togeth
> > On 6/23/2011 3:59 PM, gregrwm wrote:
> > > is there a command that triggers the equivalent of a wakeup? normally i
> > > only want 1 wakeup per day, yet for special circumstances i often find
> > > myself editing in a wakeup a couple minutes hence and trigge
some of my machines don't respond to ping, i replaced it with "true" in the
config.
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is there a command that triggers the equivalent of a wakeup? normally i only
want 1 wakeup per day, yet for special circumstances i often find myself
editing in a wakeup a couple minutes hence and triggering a reload.
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oops, sorry, one had a filesystem that wasn't mounted, and the other
was off, and no, they don't succeed to run backuppc_dump in that
condition!
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backuppc here backs up localhost, 2 more boxes on the lan, and a centos VPS
over the internet. i just upgraded the 3 local boxes to natty (this all worked
under maverick).
at wakeuptime, only localhost and the centos VPS succeed. the 2 other local
boxes log Unable to read 4 bytes. but they s
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