Les Mikesell wrote at about 22:13:41 -0500 on Tuesday, June 2, 2009:
> > I current mount the NFS drive as follows:
> >
> > backupdevice1:/shares/internal/PUBLIC /backups nfs
> > rsize=8192,wsize=8192,nosuid,soft 0 0
> >
> > I took a look at the options and there is no async option, just a s
Les Mikesell wrote at about 17:57:41 -0500 on Tuesday, June 2, 2009:
> David Williams wrote:
> > I did finally get around to hacking my drive and enabling NFS. I can now
> > mount it as NFS and backuppc is now working again :)
> >
> > However, there might still be something wrong with my set
David Williams wrote:
>> If you installed from scratch from the sourceforge tarball you would be
>> able to change the storage location, but the location is embedded in the
>> code during the install process. If you are using a version packaged
>> for a distribution, this step has already been
>If you installed from scratch from the sourceforge tarball you would be
>able to change the storage location, but the location is embedded in the
>code during the install process. If you are using a version packaged
>for a distribution, this step has already been done and you can't change
>it
David Williams wrote:
> I did finally get around to hacking my drive and enabling NFS. I can now
> mount it as NFS and backuppc is now working again :)
>
> However, there might still be something wrong with my setup.
>
> I am running Mandriva 2009.0 and installed backuppc from the Mandriva
> res
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David Williams wrote:
> Les,
>
> I believe that under the Mandriva packag
Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
> Tino Schwarze wrote at about 15:56:22 +0200 on Tuesday, April 7, 2009:
> > On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 09:44:48AM -0400, David Williams wrote:
> > > The drive is supposed to be a NAS drive, in that it is connected
> directly to
> > > my router. Hoping that someone else
rom: Tino Schwarze [mailto:backuppc.li...@tisc.de]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2009 9:24 AM
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> Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] External WD Worldbook Device
>
> On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 08:32:33AM -0400, David Williams wrote:
>
> > So
Tino Schwarze wrote at about 15:56:22 +0200 on Tuesday, April 7, 2009:
> On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 09:44:48AM -0400, David Williams wrote:
> > The drive is supposed to be a NAS drive, in that it is connected directly
> > to
> > my router. Hoping that someone else has this kind of drive and has
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Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] External WD Worldbook Device
Quoting David Williams :
> Just trying to follow up on this.
>
>
>
> So, the workbook drive that I have cannot create hard links L so this
means
> I can no longer use this drive for d
Quoting David Williams :
> Just trying to follow up on this.
>
>
>
> So, the workbook drive that I have cannot create hard links L so this means
> I can no longer use this drive for doing backups, since the hardlink check
> will stop this. Is the hardlink issue related to the drive itself, or is
David Williams wrote:
> The drive is supposed to be a NAS drive, in that it is connected directly to
> my router. Hoping that someone else has this kind of drive and has come up
> with a solution to this problem. So far I have not been able to see how I
> can reformat it :( There is a web interf
On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 09:44:48AM -0400, David Williams wrote:
> The drive is supposed to be a NAS drive, in that it is connected directly to
> my router. Hoping that someone else has this kind of drive and has come up
> with a solution to this problem. So far I have not been able to see how I
>
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From: Tino Schwarze [mailto:backuppc.li...@tisc.de]
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To: backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] External WD Worldbook Device
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On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 08:32:33AM -0400, David Williams wrote:
> So, the workbook drive that I have cannot create hard links L so this means
> I can no longer use this drive for doing backups, since the hardlink check
> will stop this. Is the hardlink issue related to the drive itself, or is it
Les Stott [mailto:l...@cyberpro.com.au]
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Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] External WD Worldbook Device
Les Mikesell wrote:
David Williams wrote:
When I original
How do you like yours on the whole? Does it use the WD enterprise drive re3?
--- On Thu, 3/26/09, David Williams wrote:
> From: David Williams
> Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] External WD Worldbook Device
> To: "'General list for user discussion, questions and support
Craig Barratt wrote:
Les writes:
I would absolutely love it if the top level directories were still
created by backuppc first before doing the hardlink test. If those
directories are created because they dont exist and the hardlink
test fails then just remove the directories. Or leave them t
Les writes:
> I would absolutely love it if the top level directories were still
> created by backuppc first before doing the hardlink test. If those
> directories are created because they dont exist and the hardlink
> test fails then just remove the directories. Or leave them there,
> all you've
Les Mikesell wrote:
David Williams wrote:
When I originally started Backuppc
it was complaining that it could not create a hardlink under
/backups/pc/ and /backups/cpool. It wasn't looking at
/var/lib/backuppc. Even with version 3.0 I had TopDir set to /backups and
backups were being cr
David Williams wrote:
> Les,
>
> I believe that under the Mandriva package we are allowed to change the
> TopDir and it is in the config.pl file.
That's not likely. When you install from source, the configuration
process modifies the code, embedding this location elsewhere. If you
don't re-run
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David Williams wrote:
> The top level directory is mounted to /backups
>
> There
Tino Schwarze [mailto:backuppc.li...@tisc.de]
Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 12:53 PM
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Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] External WD Worldbook Device
Hi David,
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 12:02:16PM -0400, David Williams wrote:
> I'm not sure what the filesystem i
David Williams wrote:
> The top level directory is mounted to /backups
>
> There is no symlinking going on. I have changed the appropriate config to
> point to /backups.
You can't change the location in the config in pre-packaged versions.
There have been about a million discussions on this lis
Hi David,
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 12:02:16PM -0400, David Williams wrote:
> I'm not sure what the filesystem is. I suspect it is NTFS. I guess
> whatever these drives come as.
>
> I did try what Tino suggested and this is what happened:
>
> [r...@dtwconsulting backups]# echo hello > testfile
>
: Les Mikesell [mailto:lesmikes...@gmail.com]
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David Williams wrote:
> Permissions seem to be fine. User
David Williams wrote:
> Permissions seem to be fine. User and group are showing up as backuppc.
Is the top level directory symlinked or mounted where the packaged
backuppc install expects it?
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Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] External WD Worldbook Device
Tino Schwarze wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 10:03:03AM -0400, David Williams wrote:
>> All,
>>
>> Up until very recently I have had BackupPC 3.0 working with my 1TB
>> external
>&g
Hi David,
Check your permissions on your backup folders. There is a chance that
your new installation create your BackupPC user and group with a
different numerical id than your previous install. If you do a ls -la
on /backups and get a number back instead of a user/group name that is
your
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Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] External WD Worldbook Device
Hi David,
Check your permissions on your backup folders. There is a chance that
your new installation create your BackupPC user and group with a
different numerical id than your
Tino Schwarze wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 10:03:03AM -0400, David Williams wrote:
>> All,
>>
>> Up until very recently I have had BackupPC 3.0 working with my 1TB
>> external
>> WD Mybook world edition device, which is connected to my LAN and
>> which I
>> mount via cifs. I recently had
s and support'
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] External WD Worldbook Device
How does your Mybook connect to your machine? Is it USB, Firewire, or eSATA?
Chris Baker -- cba...@intera.com
systems administrator
INTERA -- 512-425-2006
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From: Davi
Hi David,
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 10:03:03AM -0400, David Williams wrote:
> All,
>
> Up until very recently I have had BackupPC 3.0 working with my 1TB external
> WD Mybook world edition device, which is connected to my LAN and which I
> mount via cifs. I recently had to upgrade my machine to a
Thursday, March 26, 2009 9:03 AM
> To: backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [BackupPC-users] External WD Worldbook Device
>
> All,
>
> Up until very recently I have had BackupPC 3.0 working with my 1TB
> external WD Mybook world edition device, which is con
All,
Up until very recently I have had BackupPC 3.0 working with my 1TB external
WD Mybook world edition device, which is connected to my LAN and which I
mount via cifs. I recently had to upgrade my machine to a newer version on
Linux (Mandriva 2009.0) and with that comes BackupPC 3.1.
Once I ha
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