Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up a BackupPC host - *using rsync+tarPCCopy*

2009-09-28 Thread Fernando Laudares Camargos
Hello Holger and Les, Holger Parplies a écrit : > Hi, > > [can we agree on avoiding tabs in subject lines?] > > Les Mikesell wrote on 2009-09-25 23:25:35 -0500 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing > up a BackupPC host - *using rsync+tarPCCopy*]: >> Fernando Laudares Camargos

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up a BackupPC host - *using rsync+tarPCCopy*

2009-09-26 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, [can we agree on avoiding tabs in subject lines?] Les Mikesell wrote on 2009-09-25 23:25:35 -0500 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up a BackupPC host - *using rsync+tarPCCopy*]: > Fernando Laudares Camargos wrote: > > [...] > > I'm doing two things (altough I'm

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up a BackupPC host - *using rsync+tarPCCopy*

2009-09-25 Thread Les Mikesell
Fernando Laudares Camargos wrote: > >> Fernando Laudares Camargos wrote: >>> * Why BackupPC_tarPCCopy sometimes produces big tar files ? * >> Are you doing something to control the timing of your copies compared to >> the changes backuppc would be making? The files in cpool need to be >> exa

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up a BackupPC host - *using rsync+tarPCCopy*

2009-09-25 Thread Fernando Laudares Camargos
Hello Jeffrey, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky a écrit : > I have written a program BackupPC_fixLinks.pl that will go through > both your pool and pc chain to find (and fix) duplicate pool files and > missing links. Part of the fix is to run an equivalent to > BackupPC_Link on missing/broken links. > > Note

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up a BackupPC host - *using rsync+tarPCCopy*

2009-09-25 Thread Fernando Laudares Camargos
Hi Les, Les Mikesell a écrit : > Fernando Laudares Camargos wrote: >> >> * Why BackupPC_tarPCCopy sometimes produces big tar files ? * > > Are you doing something to control the timing of your copies compared to > the changes backuppc would be making? The files in cpool need to be > exactl

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up a BackupPC host - *using rsync+tarPCCopy*

2009-09-25 Thread Steve
It might be nice if some of the repair tools you guys create were shipped as part of the whole package, maybe even accessible through "Admin Options" ... just a suggestion. steve On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 10:47 AM, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: > I have written a program BackupPC_fixLinks.pl that wi

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up a BackupPC host - *using rsync+tarPCCopy*

2009-09-25 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
I have written a program BackupPC_fixLinks.pl that will go through both your pool and pc chain to find (and fix) duplicate pool files and missing links. Part of the fix is to run an equivalent to BackupPC_Link on missing/broken links. Note you can't just run BackupPC_Link (or its analog) unless yo

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up a BackupPC host - *using rsync+tarPCCopy*

2009-09-25 Thread Les Mikesell
Fernando Laudares Camargos wrote: > > > * Why BackupPC_tarPCCopy sometimes produces big tar files ? * Are you doing something to control the timing of your copies compared to the changes backuppc would be making? The files in cpool need to be exactly in sync with the directory snapshots ma

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up a BackupPC host - *using rsync+tarPCCopy*

2009-09-25 Thread Fernando Laudares Camargos
Hello, I beg your pardon for bringing this topic to the table again. I have read this entire thread (even the scientific debate around thrusting probabilities calculus) and have tried the main suggestions detailed by you to solve this problem (except the use of raid mirror detailed by Les Mikes

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up a BackupPc host

2009-03-10 Thread Tino Schwarze
Hi Peter, On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 02:15:56PM -0400, Peter Walter wrote: > All I have access to is "cloud storage" offsite - running a remote > backuppc server is not an option. Basically, I have access to rsync / > sftp / scp as file transfer protocols. What do you think about running a > dire

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up a BackupPc host

2009-03-10 Thread Les Mikesell
Peter Walter wrote: > Les, > > All I have access to is "cloud storage" offsite - running a remote > backuppc server is not an option. Basically, I have access to rsync / > sftp / scp as file transfer protocols. What do you think about running a > directory change monitor based upon the Linux ke

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up a BackupPc host

2009-03-10 Thread Peter Walter
Les, All I have access to is "cloud storage" offsite - running a remote backuppc server is not an option. Basically, I have access to rsync / sftp / scp as file transfer protocols. What do you think about running a directory change monitor based upon the Linux kernel inotify() facility, such

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up a BackupPc host

2009-03-10 Thread Les Mikesell
Peter Walter wrote: > I checked the cpool directory on my server and it contained 803,023 > files in the directory tree. If rsync is not a scaleable solution for > backing up a backuppc pool over the internet, does anyone have a > suggestion for a better solution? What matters more is how many

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up a BackupPc host

2009-03-10 Thread Peter Walter
I checked the cpool directory on my server and it contained 803,023 files in the directory tree. If rsync is not a scaleable solution for backing up a backuppc pool over the internet, does anyone have a suggestion for a better solution? Peter Les Mikesell wrote: Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up a BackupPc host

2009-03-10 Thread Les Mikesell
Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: >> Is there a problem with my approach? > > The problem with rsync'ing a backuppc data pool is the sheer number of > files. you'll run your machine out of space with the lists as they get > loaded into memory. > > up to a certain point it will work; and with newer

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up a BackupPc host

2009-03-10 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 03/09 06:03 , David Lasker wrote: > Is there a problem with my approach? The problem with rsync'ing a backuppc data pool is the sheer number of files. you'll run your machine out of space with the lists as they get loaded into memory. up to a certain point it will work; and with newer versions

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up a BackupPc host

2009-03-09 Thread David Lasker
ort Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up a BackupPc host Peter Walter wrote: > All, > > I have implemented backuppc on a Linux server in my mixed OSX / Windows > / Linux environment for several months now, and I am very happy with the > results. For additional disaster recover

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up a BackupPc host

2009-03-09 Thread Chris Robertson
Peter Walter wrote: > All, > > I have implemented backuppc on a Linux server in my mixed OSX / Windows > / Linux environment for several months now, and I am very happy with the > results. For additional disaster recovery protection, I am considering > implementing an off-site backup of the back

[BackupPC-users] Backing up a BackupPc host

2009-03-07 Thread Peter Walter
All, I have implemented backuppc on a Linux server in my mixed OSX / Windows / Linux environment for several months now, and I am very happy with the results. For additional disaster recovery protection, I am considering implementing an off-site backup of the backuppc server using rsync to syn