agreed. an off-topic section should be on the wiki though it should be
limited to some basic backup related stuff. i think it is more important
to know the available disk space on a backup server than most any other. it
is also more likely to be used up!
will add to wiki.
On 10/11/07, Nils Br
Peter Kuennemann wrote:
dan wrote:
put this basic script in your cron to run once daily
df -h|grep /thedirectory|awk '{print $5" used on the "$6"
mountpoint, "$4" available"}'|mail youusernamei get this output
mailed to me
Hey, that's great :-) ... it's going into crontab right a
i should have also noted that i use some clunky
grep -v -e { -e } -e "# " > /tmp/output
sort /tmp/output > /tmp/output2
before viewing!
On 10/11/07, Peter Kuennemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> dan wrote:
> > put this basic script in your cron to run once daily
> >
> > df -h|grep /thedirect
dan wrote:
> put this basic script in your cron to run once daily
>
> df -h|grep /thedirectory|awk '{print $5" used on the "$6"
> mountpoint, "$4" available"}'|mail youusernamei get this output
> mailed to me
>
Hey, that's great :-) ... it's going into crontab right away!
>
> 38% us
i did an upgrade and did a
sort /etc/backuppc/oldconfig.pl > /tmp/oldconfig.pl
sort /etc/backuppc/config.pl > /tmp/config.pl
diff /tmp/oldconfig.pl /tmp/config.pl > /tmp/diffedconfig.pl
then i can take a look at the diffedconfig.pl to see changed. i sort the
files so i dont have to jump back and
On 10/11 11:29 , Peter Kuennemann wrote:
> I am currently running 2.1.2, I am having some fear to migrate backuppc
> to the current version. I think I need to check for the risks :-(
it's pretty straightforward and harmless; I've done upgrades on several of
my installations.
Mine are all debian-
put this basic script in your cron to run once daily
> df -h|grep /thedirectory|awk '{print $5" used on the "$6" mountpoint, "$4"
> available"}'|mail youusername
i get this output mailed to me
> 38% used on the /shared mountpoint, 174G available
its simple but effective. this is an old vers
Peter writes:
> I looked into the appropriate backuppc subdirectory and found an
> empty 'backups' files and a 'backups.old' file with some content.
> When I copied the 'backups.old' to 'backups', my backup summary appears
> to be OK
For some reason the new backups file wasn't written successfull
Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
> On 10/11 10:50 , Peter Kuennemann wrote:
>
>> I looked into the appropriate backuppc subdirectory and found an
>> empty 'backups' files and a 'backups.old' file with some content.
>> When I copied the 'backups.old' to 'backups', my backup summary appears
>> to b
sorry to drop this tidbit after your disaster, but i have my server run a
cron job hourly to check drive space and it emails me at 80%. maybe
something to consider in the future. sorry to here about the issue.
On 10/11/07, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On 10/11 10:50 , P
On 10/11 10:50 , Peter Kuennemann wrote:
> I looked into the appropriate backuppc subdirectory and found an
> empty 'backups' files and a 'backups.old' file with some content.
> When I copied the 'backups.old' to 'backups', my backup summary appears
> to be OK
This often happens when your backup
Hi all,
I am about to recover from a disaster. A Laptop crashed
and I need to restore the last backup to another drive.
Looking into the appropriate host's backup summary shows
NO entries under Backup Summary. (Disaster Nr 2 !!!)
The last log entries are:
2007-09-13 10:19:13 incr backup 31 comple
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