Re: [BackupPC-users] how to rebuild pc/hostname/backups file

2006-10-12 Thread Stian Jordet
Craig Barratt wrote: Stian Jordet writes: Umm, sorry to nag you with this again, but I haven't taken a backup for almost two weeks, trying to get this fixed first. Was this the only way, and what am I doing wrong? What info does it need that it doesn't find? I think I found why it wasn't

Re: [BackupPC-users] how to rebuild pc/hostname/backups file

2006-10-11 Thread Stian Jordet
On man, 2006-10-02 at 09:56 +0200, Stian Jordet wrote: Thanks! But this doesn't really seem to work... Doing host pontiac Reading LOG Got full backup 38 at 2006-09-03 02:05:43 Got incr backup 39 at 2006-09-05 20:00:37 Got incr backup 40 at 2006-09-09 13:00:36 Got

Re: [BackupPC-users] how to rebuild pc/hostname/backups file

2006-10-11 Thread Stian Jordet
On ons, 2006-10-11 at 22:54 +0200, Stian Jordet wrote: And so on. While this may seem right (for what I know, that is), I wonder why they are sorted wrong, and fillFromNum on fulls are totally weird, but that doesn't matter, probably? Ah, crap. The sorting issue was my fault. Sorry. -Stian

Re: [BackupPC-users] how to rebuild pc/hostname/backups file

2006-10-11 Thread Stian Jordet
On ons, 2006-10-11 at 22:56 +0200, Stian Jordet wrote: On ons, 2006-10-11 at 22:54 +0200, Stian Jordet wrote: And so on. While this may seem right (for what I know, that is), I wonder why they are sorted wrong, and fillFromNum on fulls are totally weird, but that doesn't matter, probably?

Re: [BackupPC-users] how to rebuild pc/hostname/backups file

2006-10-11 Thread Craig Barratt
Stian Jordet writes: Umm, sorry to nag you with this again, but I haven't taken a backup for almost two weeks, trying to get this fixed first. Was this the only way, and what am I doing wrong? What info does it need that it doesn't find? I think I found why it wasn't working. You (seem)

Re: [BackupPC-users] how to rebuild pc/hostname/backups file

2006-10-02 Thread Stian Jordet
Craig Barratt wrote: In BackupPC 3.0.0 an additional copy of the per-backup information is stored in each backup directory, which readily allows the backups file to be re-created. Also, the writing of these files is now verified by writing to a temp file, re-reading and checking the contents,

Re: [BackupPC-users] how to rebuild pc/hostname/backups file

2006-10-01 Thread Stian Jordet
tir, 13,.09.2005 kl. 22.38 -0700, skrev Craig Barratt: Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom writes: I'm running out of disk space on my backup server, and it's run out of space on a couple of occasions. when it does this, some hosts 'forget' all their old backups -- those backups no longer appear

Re: [BackupPC-users] how to rebuild pc/hostname/backups file

2006-10-01 Thread Craig Barratt
Stian Jordet writes: tir, 13,.09.2005 kl. 22.38 -0700, skrev Craig Barratt: Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom writes: I'm running out of disk space on my backup server, and it's run out of space on a couple of occasions. when it does this, some hosts 'forget' all their old backups --

Re: [BackupPC-users] how to rebuild pc/hostname/backups file

2005-09-14 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 09/13 10:38 , Craig Barratt wrote: Anyhow, this is something I should work on. Do you need a solution quickly? no, it's not critical. just wanted to let you know that there are some failure modes that make certain backup information difficult to access. if nothing else, I should be able

Re: [BackupPC-users] how to rebuild pc/hostname/backups file

2005-09-14 Thread Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu
On Tue, 2005-13-09 at 22:38 -0700, Craig Barratt wrote: Anyhow, this is something I should work on. Do you need a solution quickly? I know Carl said it's not urgent, so how about setting the target for the next BackupPC release? Regards, Ranbir -- Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu Systems Aligned Inc.

Re: [BackupPC-users] how to rebuild pc/hostname/backups file

2005-09-14 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 09/14 10:09 , Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote: On Tue, 2005-13-09 at 22:38 -0700, Craig Barratt wrote: Anyhow, this is something I should work on. Do you need a solution quickly? I know Carl said it's not urgent, so how about setting the target for the next BackupPC release? it would be

Re: [BackupPC-users] how to rebuild pc/hostname/backups file

2005-09-14 Thread Trey Nolen
On the subject of notifications...My wish list item would be to have the option of sending a summary report on SUCCESSFUL backups. Sometimes users just like to get that email to have a nice warm and fuzzy feeling. Trey Nolen On 09/14 10:09 , Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote: On Tue, 2005-13-09

[BackupPC-users] how to rebuild pc/hostname/backups file

2005-09-13 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
I'm running out of disk space on my backup server, and it's run out of space on a couple of occasions. when it does this, some hosts 'forget' all their old backups -- those backups no longer appear in the pc/hostname/backups file. I know the backups.old file has a copy of the last known-good

Re: [BackupPC-users] how to rebuild pc/hostname/backups file

2005-09-13 Thread Craig Barratt
Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom writes: I'm running out of disk space on my backup server, and it's run out of space on a couple of occasions. when it does this, some hosts 'forget' all their old backups -- those backups no longer appear in the pc/hostname/backups file. I know the backups.old file