[BackupPC-users] lastlog

2014-10-30 Thread Moorcroft, Mark (ARC-TS)[ERC, Inc.]
CentOS 6.5 What version of CentOS are your clients? I seem to recall this was a problem with RHEL 4, but has not been a problem on later versions. I use rsync and do not exclude /var/log/lastlog and do not have any problems with it. Tony Schreiner -- Mark Moorcroft ERC Corp.

Re: [BackupPC-users] lastlog

2014-10-30 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 1:46 PM, Moorcroft, Mark (ARC-TS)[ERC, Inc.] mark.moorcr...@nasa.gov wrote: Mine 'have' /var/log/lastlog. Just not the problem with TB+ apparent sizes. Do you have a uid of -1 - or very, very large uids? Every one of my systems list last log at 505GB with a vanilla

Re: [BackupPC-users] lastlog

2014-10-30 Thread Carl Cravens
Why not dump the SQL data live to a text file and back that up? That's what mysqldump is for... you can back up everything you need to restore an entire database without ever taking down the mysql server. And this makes restores much simpler... if a developer drops an table by mistake, you

Re: [BackupPC-users] lastlog

2014-10-26 Thread Adam Goryachev
On 25/10/14 02:18, Les Mikesell wrote: On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 9:54 AM, Holger Parplies wb...@parplies.de wrote: Hi, Moorcroft, Mark (ARC-TS)[ERC, Inc.] wrote on 2014-10-24 03:12:17 + [[BackupPC-users] lastlog]: Can someone please put the situation in Linux with not filtering /var/log

Re: [BackupPC-users] lastlog

2014-10-25 Thread backuppc
Moorcroft, Mark (ARC-TS)[ERC, Inc.] wrote at about 19:25:23 + on Friday, October 24, 2014: All of my systems are 64 bit CentOS, and all have /var/log/lastlog. With various pressure from both the private sector and government demanding some kind of log archiving, I thought some kind

Re: [BackupPC-users] lastlog

2014-10-24 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Moorcroft, Mark (ARC-TS)[ERC, Inc.] wrote on 2014-10-24 03:12:17 + [[BackupPC-users] lastlog]: Can someone please put the situation in Linux with not filtering /var/log/lastlog (sparse file) somewhere in the docs. It comes back to bite me every few years and I waste a bunch of time

Re: [BackupPC-users] lastlog

2014-10-24 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 9:54 AM, Holger Parplies wb...@parplies.de wrote: Hi, Moorcroft, Mark (ARC-TS)[ERC, Inc.] wrote on 2014-10-24 03:12:17 + [[BackupPC-users] lastlog]: Can someone please put the situation in Linux with not filtering /var/log/lastlog (sparse file) somewhere

Re: [BackupPC-users] lastlog

2014-10-24 Thread Moorcroft, Mark (ARC-TS)[ERC, Inc.]
All of my systems are 64 bit CentOS, and all have /var/log/lastlog. With various pressure from both the private sector and government demanding some kind of log archiving, I thought some kind of FAQ or note could save countless man hours for people trying to use BackupPC. I wasted 2 days going

Re: [BackupPC-users] lastlog

2014-10-24 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 2:25 PM, Moorcroft, Mark (ARC-TS)[ERC, Inc.] mark.moorcr...@nasa.gov wrote: All of my systems are 64 bit CentOS, and all have /var/log/lastlog. Mine 'have' /var/log/lastlog. Just not the problem with TB+ apparent sizes. Do you have a uid of -1 - or very, very large

Re: [BackupPC-users] lastlog

2014-10-24 Thread Tony Schreiner
What version of CentOS are your clients? I seem to recall this was a problem with RHEL 4, but has not been a problem on later versions. I use rsync and do not exclude /var/log/lastlog and do not have any problems with it. Tony Schreiner On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 3:25 PM, Moorcroft, Mark

[BackupPC-users] lastlog

2014-10-23 Thread Moorcroft, Mark (ARC-TS)[ERC, Inc.]
Can someone please put the situation in Linux with not filtering /var/log/lastlog (sparse file) somewhere in the docs. It comes back to bite me every few years and I waste a bunch of time figuring out why rsync keeps aborting. Or for that matter just hard code ignoring that file. -- Mark