Re: [BackupPC-users] Got fatal error during xfer (Call timed out

Craig writes: > Hi, I'm using backuppc 2.1.2-2ubuntu5 on Ubuntu Server 6.06 LTS > > I get "Got fatal error during xfer (Call timed out: server did not > respond after 2 milliseconds opening remote file" which causes the > backup to abort. > > How do I make it just continue on automatically?

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC 3.0 with elinks browser -- "harmless button"

Rob writes: > I just installed BackupPC 3.0 on a new server. I tend to manage my > BackupPC servers over a text-based ssh session, load the elinks browser > on the server, and point it at http://localhost/backuppc. Anyway, it > worked fine on version 2.1.2, but on version 3.0 the link for "Start

Re: [BackupPC-users] restore hangs with permission denied - rsyncd on windows

Rob writes: > BackupPC saved my butt today. I accidentally deleted about 10 GB of > data from a network drive, and restored it in about 10 minutes. > However, the restore process has hung and BackupPC says "backup in > progress". > > I'm using rsyncd on Windows. I performed a direct restore. T

Re: [BackupPC-users] wishlist: full backups whenever incrementals get too large

Jacob writes: > If this is really the way backuppc does incremental backups, I think > backuppc should be a bit more incremental with its incremental > backups. Instead of comparing against the last full, it should > compare against the last full and incremental backups. This would > solve this pr

Re: [BackupPC-users] Wrong report in "File Size/Count Reuse Summary"

Matthias writes: > What it means if backuppc reports after a full backup in secton "File > Size/Count Reuse Summary" in column Totals 34727 #files and in column > Existing Files 35286 #files. > That means that more files are existing than backed up? Strange but true. It's a long standing minor

Re: [BackupPC-users] XferLogLevel

shacky writes: > Even if my XferLogLevel is setted at 1 in my config.pl, backuppc > doesn't log me one line per file, and I cannot view no files logged. > Why? > > # Level of verbosity in Xfer log files. 0 means be quiet, 1 will give > # will give one line per file, 2 will also show skipped file

Re: [BackupPC-users] aborted by signal=PIPE

Keith writes: > Version 2.1.2 using rsync. > > I have a client that intermittently fails with "aborted by signal=PIPE", > which I realise is a common error. I have $Conf{ClientTimeout} = > 72000; the end of the log file (with $Conf{XferLogLevel} = 8;) looks like > this: > > -

Re: [BackupPC-users] wishlist: full backups whenever incrementals get too large

Rob Owens writes: > Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > > It would also be nice at times to be able to one-time-schedule the next > > backup of a particular host to be a full backup (for instance, if you knew > > that you'd just added some data). The way to do this right now is: > > - Start the backu

Re: [BackupPC-users] 100% disk full email notification

therebel writes: > is there a way to send a mail when backuppc is unable to do a backup because > disk is full : > > 2007-09-05 13:18:15 Disk too full (100%); skipping 9 hosts > > Because mail sent only say about hosts that failed before disk was full .. It happens as part of the nightly admin

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsync --compress broken ?

Rich writes: > Whenever I use these options, rsync "seems" to work and transfer > files but nothing ever seems to actually get written to the backup > dirs: > > $Conf{RsyncArgs} = [ # defaults, except I added the compress flags. > '--numeric-ids', > '--perms', > '--owner', > '--group', >

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsync restore fails

Albert writes: > I'm having trouble with rsync restore. I can restore a small number of > files with no problem, but if I try to do a full restore (for example, > replacing a hard drive and then trying to restore to a base linux > install) it always fails with: > > exiting after signal ALRM > res

Re: [BackupPC-users] IncrLevels with rsync

Rob writes: > I just noticed the $Conf{IncrLevels} setting. I'm using rsync and > rsyncd as my transport, and I'd like to minimize my network usage since > I'm backing up over the internet. I don't care about disk or cpu usage. > > Does setting: > $Conf{IncrLevels} = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]; > do

Re: [BackupPC-users] md4 doesn't match

ontents of the directory that fails? Craig -- Forwarded message -- To: Donovan Baarda, Derek Simkowiak Terry Reed From: Craig Barratt Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 00:36:36 -0700 Subj: Re: Problem with checksum failing on large

Re: [BackupPC-users] How to automate deleting of the "new files" during restoration?

Bachir writes: > My goal is simpel: When restoring a fileset for a specified date > (including "most recent"), BackupPC should give me exactly the files > and directories that existed at the time of the last backup prior to > that date. > > According to my several tests this doesn't works even if

Re: [BackupPC-users] Got fatal error during xfer (fileListReceive failed)

Robert writes: > OK. When I try to initiate a backup, it fails, with the following error > message (I included -v to get errors listed): > > Running: /usr/bin/ssh -q -v -l root robert-laptop /usr/bin/rsync > --server --sender --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group -D --links > --times --block-siz

Re: [BackupPC-users] Problem with failed backups

Marty writes: > With one host I intermittently get the following error message with two > different servers running different versions of backuppc: > > Tar exited with error 256 () status > > Judging from the Xferlog contents, the failure seems to occur only after the > last files are tr

Re: [BackupPC-users] Got fatal error during xfer (fileListReceive failed)

Robert writes: > I removed the -v option from config.pl, restarted backuppc, this is the > log: > > Running: /usr/bin/ssh -q -l root robert-laptop /usr/bin/rsync --server > --sender --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group -D --links --times > --block-size=2048 --recursive -D --ignore-times . /home/

Re: [BackupPC-users] 3.1.0beta0 - CGI Column sorting

Michael writes: > The numeric columns appear to sort alphabetically. For example: > > Full Size > (GB) > 0.81 > 1.82 > 14.77 > 2.55 > 3.93 Yes, I noticed that too. I'll fix it in the next version. Craig - This SF.net ema

Re: [BackupPC-users] problem with ${FullKeepCnt} on a per-machine basis

Nicolas writes: > I still have a problem with hosts with a particular ${FullKeepCnt}. > > For example, this host should have no more than 6 full backups because > ${FullKeepCnt} = [4, 2]. > > I had deleted the oldest full backups so that I only have 6. But here is > what I get now (7 full backup

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up one share uncompressed

Mark writes: > I am using compression to backup all my shares on all my pcs. There > is however one share with my music collection on it - I would like > this share only to be backed up uncompressed. Is this possible? What > do I need to do? You could do that as a separate host by setting $Conf{C

Re: [BackupPC-users] 3.1.0beta0

Doug writes: > I've installed the 3.1.0beta0 build on my system, everything seems to be > backing up fine, I am able to traverse the tree, but the summary page is > incorrect: Do you mean just the pool information is missing? > o Pool is 0.00GB comprising 0 files and 1 directories (as

Re: [BackupPC-users] Got fatal error during xfer (fileListReceive failed)

Robert writes: > I have added -x but this makes no difference. I have (I think) disabled > X11 port forwarding in /etc/ssh/ssh_config (on the laptop). Again no > difference. Error is currently: It's still enabled. There might be two ssh_config files - the global one and the per-user one. You

Re: [BackupPC-users] Best way to back up laptops

Mark writes: > However I have to manually edit this file every time a laptop > switches from wireless to wired to change the hostname's IP > address. What's the best way to set and forget this and allow > backuppc to back up the laptops no matter what IP address they > have? I don't want to have t

Re: [BackupPC-users] NMBLookup From Web Interface

Jim writes: > I can log in to my server and run nmblookup with the clients netbios name as > it is configured in the config.pl file for BPC. It finds the client. I can > then always run the full backup from there with: > >BackupPC_dump -v -f > > and it works well. This is a confusing pa

Re: [BackupPC-users] Mangled names in backup browser

Chris, > I've ended up with one backup whose files show as mangled (i.e. preceeded > with "f") in the web interface. > > I'm guessing this happened because the full backup didn't complete and was > saved as a "partial", and I changed the "partial" to "full" in the > pc/hostname/backups file to "

Re: [BackupPC-users] Newbie issue

Jack writes: > Thanks Steven. ... to me it looks like it is getting the list compiled, > Here is what I see in the log: > > > File /var/lib/backuppc/pc/vcch164/XferLOG.bad.z (Extracting only Errors) > Contents of file /var/lib/backuppc/pc/vcch164/XferLOG.bad.z, m

Re: [BackupPC-users] Packet loss on wireless network

Mark writes: > -- > Call timed out: server did not respond after 2 milliseconds > listing \Documents\P\* > -- This error happens when the client responds too slowly for smbclient. Often it is due to anti-virus software spending too long processing directories with large numbers of files. > I

Re: [BackupPC-users] [perl] push client configuration in arrays

Samuel writes: > I dreamt I could do something like this in the client config file: > $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = push ( $Conf{BackupFilesExclude}, > '/home/excludeme' ); While the config files are perl, the CGI editor in version 3.x won't like having perl code, instead of constants, in the confi

Re: [BackupPC-users] (no subject)

Kimball writes: > Hokay, I'm stuck. I give. I need help. > > The documentation for UserCmdCheckStatus says: > > [snip] > > But it still runs the backup (and writes over my mount point for my external > drive) > > I've verified that the script returns a non-zero when the drive is not > presen

Re: [BackupPC-users] IncrLevels with rsync

Carl Soderstrom writes: > On 09/09 06:11 , Craig Barratt wrote: > > Rob writes: > > > I just noticed the $Conf{IncrLevels} setting. I'm using rsync and > > > rsyncd as my transport, and I'd like to minimize my network usage since > > > I'm bac

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC still try to backup a deactivated host.

Cedric writes: > BackupPC is currently running here for quiet a long time now and it works > pretty well. But I have recently encountered a little > problem. I cannot deactivate the backup of a particular host. I have tried > both old and new way to do this: > - $Conf{FullPeriod} = -2 (old way)

Re: [BackupPC-users] failed partial backups deleting files from previous partials

Carl writes: > > It depends on XferMethod. For rsync it should not delete files from a > > partial. For smb and tar, it starts a new transfer, and if any files > > get transfered (even if less than the prior partial), the new partial > > replaces the old. I should change that so it doesn't save

Re: [BackupPC-users] is it possible to verify the cpool?

David writes: > I have recently had to transfer the entire backuppc installation to a > new server due to the demise of the old one. I am transferring the > cpool/ and pc/ directories using tar, which seems to be preserving the > hard links (in doing so it's chewing up VAST amounts of memory on

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up TIVO

Rich writes: > Now that I have your attention =-)... > > I just wanted to report I got it working. > > I got tired of tarring up my /var/hack customizations and ftp'ing them. > I realized rsync would be more efficient and then thought -- heck, if I > find rsync for TIVO, I might was well add it

Re: [BackupPC-users] Error log for pre or post command errors?

Dustin writes: > We noticed that BackupPC never reports any issues with a -pre or -post > command. This is odd. If a -pre command fails, then it is very likely > that the backup will be moot (e.g., if you don't dump a MySQL database). > > Are there any plans to enable reporting for errors in -pre

Re: [BackupPC-users] Regarding mails from backuppc

Rajnish writes: > 1. Whenever backup is complete admin is get mail that backup is complete > 2. IF backup is not done at schedule time one error mail is should be > gone to admin. BackupPC doesn't send emails for either of these cases. If a backup fails due to error then that is included in the

Re: [BackupPC-users] webinterface on diff host

Maikel writes: > i'm trying to run the web interface on a different host then the > backuppc server process. > > what i did configure: > > on the server itself: > i have enabled a tcp port () > i added a secret message > > on the client (web server): > i enabled the

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup Schedule

rajnish writes: > I found every thing i want from backuppc but still > some things are missing might be possible i am not able to see the > things > My query is --- Backup Schedule > 1. full backup start time is -- Monday 1:30 PM > 2. Incremental is every hours except f

Re: [BackupPC-users] restricting cgi users restore to their own files, or how to handle many users.

Ronny writes: > I am taking backup of a directory /home, containing ~1000 users. > And i want to allow each of the users access to restore his own files. > But NOT to read/restore files that he normaly would not. > > Example: user1 have a file in /home/user1/private.txt that have 600 > permission

Re: [BackupPC-users] Localhost tar back odditie...

Rob writes: > Below is my localhost.pl file, i install this via apt-get on Debian Etc. > But for some reason it still backs up the files i have in the exclude > section... did i miss something? > > $Conf{TarShareName} = > ['/etc','/var/www/ispcp','/var/mail','/usr/local/bin','/var/lib']; > $Conf{

Re: [BackupPC-users] User Controled Exclusions

Paul writes: > Saw a posing from a while back discussing the concept of letting users > touch files to designate items to exclude from the backup. The > discussion doesn't seem to have gotten far as the focus seemed to be on > modifying BackupPC to support it. I've got another approach and wante

Re: [BackupPC-users] failed partial backups deleting files from previous partials

Carl writes: > ah, I see. > I think I see some of the arguments for doing things this way, but what was > *your* reasoning when you first designed this architecture? It's rather > unusual compared to the other rsync-backup programs I've seen (or built). Rsync didn't get added to BackupPC until 2.

Re: [BackupPC-users] failed partial backups deleting files from previous partials

Les writes: > But will you still be able to restore the file state as of each separate > run? Sometimes the reason you are restoring is that the current version > is a mess. The issue could probably be avoided with a complete tree > link copy before starting followed by in in-place update, but t

Re: [BackupPC-users] Fwd: Unable to Browse Backups

Kimball writes: > Update: MacOS X does funky permissions on this drive - when I first > sent the original mail, I was logged in as root, and the ownerships > were appearing as unknown:unknown for everything on this drive - but > when I logged in as the backuppc user, the ownership appears as the

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup 3 times in a day and 1 times in a 7 days

arded message -- To: rajnish kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: Craig Barratt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 04:31:14 -0700 Subj: Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup Schedule rajnish writes: > I found every t

Re: [BackupPC-users] NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE

Regis writes: > I'am using BackupPC-2.1.0 > > With the same config.pl, > Start Full Backup works fine > Start Inc Backup fails every time with the message NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE I believe there was a version (or set of samba versions) that had this bug. I think it was 3.0.23 or so. There was

Re: [BackupPC-users] copy pool to another filesystem formatted differently

Ben writes: > Thanks for the detailed explanation of your strategy. It is very > helpful. Does anyone know if BackupPC_tarPCCOpy will work the same > with BackupPC2.1.2 archive? I guess I will download backuppc 3.0 and > look at the source, but I'm hoping someone will give me a quick answer. Y

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd restore - symlink troubles

Anatoly writes: > My os Debian x64 > I use first backuppc 2.1.2 from apt repositories, and try 3.0 from src now. > When i start restore incremental or full backup, symlinks with relative path > restore broken, without leading slash. for example: > > before restore: > > /etc:# ls -la

Re: [BackupPC-users] Smb // NT_STATUS_NO_SUCH_FILE

Romain writes: > Error of full backups : > > == > Running: /usr/bin/smbclient HOST_NAME\\SHARE_NAME -U USER_NAME -E - N -d > 1 -c tarmode\ full -Tc /PATH_OF_BACKUP/BACKUP_NAME.tar > full backup started f

Re: [BackupPC-users] No stats and information about backups = Files & Compression

Romain writes: > Now Full & Inc backups work correctly. > However, I've got anoter problem because the stats and compression > informations about files of backups are " 0 ". > There isn't information. All the issues you are posting are likely related: it appears no files are backed up. Normally

Re: [BackupPC-users] No stats and information about backups = Files & Compression

Romain writes: > First, thanks a lot for your help Craig. > > Yes I think that all the issues are related. Maybe there is just one problem > which is locking the good working of BackupPC. > I checked $Conf{BackupZeroFilesIsFatal} and It was set at " 1 ". I changed > this value to " 0 " and I r

Re: [BackupPC-users] No stats and information about backups = Files & Compression

Romain writes: > I checked the permissions and there was a problem with > /usr/local/BackupPC/lib/BackupPC because it wasn't owned > by the user backuppc. > > I changed the values of permissions and I reloaded the configuration via the > interface web but it's the the problem if I do a new back

Re: [BackupPC-users] Status information stuck in the past

Erik writes: > I have recently installed backuppc for evaluation purposes and so far > so good, but somehow that status information has gotten stuck in the > past. As can be seen from the excerpt below, almost everything gets > updated, except for today's and yesterday's max. Obviously today is >

Re: [BackupPC-users] Pre-populate backups? Only incremental?

Toni writes: > PS: maybe this can be FAQ'ed? Please write it up (perl POD - basically plain text) and I will put it in the FAQ. Craig - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual S

Re: [BackupPC-users] Logwatch rule

Travis writes: > I had written a script for version 2.1.1 that sends me a daily status > email as well as generates an RSS feed. It is in the list archives, but > if you want I can email it to you. Rich Duzenbury submitted a CGI RSS feature included in 3.x: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/fa

Re: [BackupPC-users] Custom DumpPreShareCmd error

Toni writes: > Found it. Using " " around parameters, is parsed by the shell when > testing, but is not parsed when used in eg DumpPreShareCmd. > > So never use any quotes in BackupPC *Cmd lines! That's right - you found that BackupPC doesn't use a shell to run the *Cmd lines. It splits the arg

Re: [BackupPC-users] Including .excluding directories

Romain writes: > Ok, I did successfully a full backup in specifying the 2 directories what I > wanted to save. > But, now, I would to save 2 specifics directories ('e$\data' and > 'e$\notes\data') and in one ('e$\notes\data') I would like to filter > the files or the type of file what I want to

Re: [BackupPC-users] Restoring Backups to a different machine

Carl writes: > I've replaced the hard drive, now I'm going to reinstall K12LTSP from > CD's. After that, how do I restore all the home directories and conf > files to the "new" server. If I give it the same IP address/name and just > use the web interface restore function, will everything go in

Re: [BackupPC-users] Does BackupPC do any type of file deletion?

Arch writes: > This morning, many of the files were missing off the root partition of one of > our windows servers. I'm sure this is a stupid question but does BackkupPC do > any type of file deletion (archiving, etc) as part of the backup routine? No! The only time it writes to a client is du

Re: [BackupPC-users] out of memory, and slow backups after moving to 3.0

Ambrose writes: > This has been reported back when 3.0 was first released; it has to do > with the way the nightly job is scheduled, so you certainly are not seeing > something not seen before. I don't have the info offhand, though; but you > should be able to find some info about it in the list a

Re: [BackupPC-users] wiki and forums

Dan & others, Thanks for the healthy and even-handed discussion. I agree a Wiki would be great. I don't like the idea of a forum, for many of the same reasons discussed. The key thing to make a Wiki successful is committed support from a critical mass of people. As you all know, I've never had

Re: [BackupPC-users] wiki and forums

Nils writes: > > http://www.wiki.sourceforge.net/ > > > > (i'm not quite sure how membership/authorization work.) > > I think that might be the option for continuity and everything will > be kept in the backuppc.sourceforge.net space. I think Craig may have > to 'enable' this somehow? I like

Re: [BackupPC-users] wiki and forums

Nils writes: > I don't know if spambots know how to operatie SF wiki's yet, but I'm > sure if they don't it won't be long before they do. But yeah, we can > see how things go... I found the wiki at backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net/>. You do need a SF.net login to edit, so I hope we are safe for now

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup Summary is empty but backups do exist

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

Re: [BackupPC-users] Include and exclude list trouble

Erik writes: > I am not sure if this is intended behaviour, but it certainly is not > expected. If would expect those rules to accumulate, having rules with * > as a key to apply to all shares -- making it easy to always for instance > exclude temporary directories -- on top of rules specific for

Re: [BackupPC-users] Multiple commands in DumpPreUserCmd

Erik writes: > I did that already, but I was just wondering if this is the only way to > do it or not. It would make administration from the web interface just > that much easier :-) As you discovered, for security reasons BackupPC doesn't use a shell to execute any external commands. Therefore,

Re: [BackupPC-users] Printing the user manual

Peter writes: > How can I get Firefox to print the BackupPC user manual at my choice of font > size? Nothing I can do gets the number of pages down from about 66, which > is far too many. A printer font of 10 or 11 points is quite adequate in, > say, Times. > > Firefox has a setting to allow Web

Re: [BackupPC-users] Sourceforge

Doug writes: > Has anybody noticed that the screen shots on Sourceforge are for > 1.5beta0 If anyone can send me a complete set (plus a new one for the config editor) I will replace them. Note that you might want to obscure information about host names and user names. Craig ---

Re: [BackupPC-users] wiki

Keith writes: > It's going to be very hard for new users to find the Wiki. May I suggest a > link to it in the footer of the mails on this mailing list, and also a > link from http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ ? Done. The latest release, 3.1.0beta1, also replaces the FAQ navigation link with a li

[BackupPC-users] BackupPC 3.1.0beta1 released

BackupPC 3.1.0beta1 has been released on SF.net. 3.1.0beta1 is the second beta release of 3.1.0. 3.1.0beta1 has several bug fixes since 3.1.0beta0. See the ChangeLog below for full details. Craig # # Version 3.1.0beta1, 21

Re: [BackupPC-users] Sourceforge

Doug writes: > Has anybody noticed that the screen shots on Sourceforge are for > 1.5beta0 Actually Jono Woodhouse sent me screen shots from 3.0.0 which were installed on http://backuppc.sourceforge.net. I just updated the SF.net screen shots. Craig

Re: [BackupPC-users] problems while MakeFileLink for localhost backup.

zwiskle writes: > - The disk is a usb-disk (500G, 10%full) mounted to /mnt/backup_platte. > - I've modified in the config to point to /mnt/backup_platte/backuppc > insted of /var/lib/backuppc > ( set using config.pl:$Conf{TopDir} = '/mnt/backup_platte/backuppc'; ) Depending upon your distribution

Re: [BackupPC-users] tar over ssh error

Lai writes: > I am using CentOS as the backup server try to backup a Solaris 5.8 server. > > Below is the output from the logs > > Running: /usr/bin/ssh -q -x -n -l root 10.250.2.200 > /usr/bin/tar -cvf - -C / ./opt/rts/rtd ./etc/hosts ./etc/services > ./var/spool/cron > f

Re: [BackupPC-users] session setup failed: NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE when using PASSWD environment variable

David writes: > Check this page on the wiki > > http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net/brokensambaversion I'm not sure this is exactly the same issue that was being asked about, but this is a great way to respond to a repeated question! Thanks for adding it to the Wiki. Thanks, Craig --

Re: [BackupPC-users] Message: "Got fatal error during xfer" but no error indication

Peter writes: > I got completely stuck with the following Problem: > > "Got fatal error during xfer (Gesamtzahl geschriebener Bytes: 21678080 > (21MiB, 401KiB/s))" BackupPC expects the output of tar to be in English. It doesn't recognize the final total summary, and therefore thinks because tha

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup files disappeared

Yaakov writes: > When I changed which "shares" I wanted to backup (through samba > client), the ones that were there already all backed up disappeared. > They disappeared not just from the web-based interface, but after > checking the actual back up location on the disk, I saw that they > disappea

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc backing up backup directory

Paul writes: > I did a couple of more tests. First I removed > /backup/backuppc/pc/shebop/config.pl, and it backed up normally (backed up > the root filesystem, that is). > > Then I changed the order of $Conf{RsyncShareName}: > > $Conf{RsyncShareName} = [ > '/export/bedr

Re: [BackupPC-users] Changing rsync options for different shares.

Paul writes: > I haven't tested this, but I believe the order is to source the main config > file and then source the config file for the individual host being backed up That's correct. > So you should be able to do something like this: > > $Conf{RsyncArgs} = [ @$Conf{RsyncArgs}, '--copy-links'

Re: [BackupPC-users] Rsync fulls complete, but incrementals don't

Les writes: > My guess is that something in the network is timing out idle connections > after some fairly short (for TCP) interval. If you set the keepalive > option on a connection, the endpoints will exchange packets periodically > even if there is no data to send so the network device should

Re: [BackupPC-users] RE solution for backup Windows

Tuxoide writes: > Thank you! I have this problem, too. Can someone include this patch > into cygwin or rsync? This workaround was proposed a long time ago (~5 years), and more recent versions of cygwin should not have the original problem. What version of cygwin are you running? Craig -

Re: [BackupPC-users] Incremental backup levels not working.

John writes: > Yup, that's the only way I can get it to work. If it's in the main > config file, it doesn't work. Sounds like a bug to me. Yes it is. Since the Config hash is empty when each config file is parsed, this line in lib/BackupPC/Storage/Text.pm incorrectly forces a default value to $C

Re: [BackupPC-users] Incremental backup levels not working.

Craig writes: > Yes it is. Since the Config hash is empty when each config file is parsed, > this line in lib/BackupPC/Storage/Text.pm incorrectly forces a default value > to $Conf{IncrLevels} when it might already be defined in the main config file: > > $conf->{IncrLevels} = [1] if ( !defin

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC Showing 0.00Gb in Pool

Carl Soderstrom writes: > On 11/07 04:25 , Vince wrote: > > Your right. We ran out of space our "/" drive. I made room and > > restarted the backuppc server but it still shows 0.00GB. > > I think that will get fixed up overnight; but it may be that you need to > rebuild the file which contains

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd "file has vanished" error -- but the files have not vanished

Rob writes: > I think I see the problem now. Each of these files contains at least > one "special" character. For instance, a 'u' with two dots over it. It > seems that maybe rsync, windows, and BackupPC are not agreeing on the > spelling of the filenames. Does this sound right? And is there

Re: [BackupPC-users] One long backup holds up the rest

Keith writes: > Backing up multiple systems to one server. If one of the clients has had a > large amount of data added such that the backup takes a long time, > BackupPC_nightly doesn't run as it's waiting for the backup to finish. As > a consequence of that, no further backups will run (they jus

Re: [BackupPC-users] Odd call to $XferLOG->write: unbalanced quotes in BackupPC_dump 3.1.0beta1?

John writes: > Not sure of this is fixed in the latest beta release, but line 779 of > BackupPC_dump looks wierd. It appears to have unbalanced " marks. > It reads: > > $XferLOG->write(\"$logMsg\n"); > > but I claim it should read: > > $XferLOG->write("$logMsg\n"); The original vers

Re: [BackupPC-users] System upgrade -> Errors

Adam writes: > Now when I go to the host page I get an error message: > index.cgi: Can't use an undefined value as an ARRAY reference at > /usr/share/backuppc/lib/BackupPC/CGI/HostInfo.pm line 293., referer: > http://10.1.1.200/backuppc/index.cgi?action=summary > > I've restarted backuppc as well

Re: [BackupPC-users] Rsynch Error

John writes: > What it does not seem to do is give me an option to set > > $Conf{RsyncdUserName} = 'backup'; This is a CGI editor bug in 3.0.0 that is fixed in 3.1.0beta. Craig - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk I

Re: [BackupPC-users] odd ping error - threshold is 0msec

Matthew writes: > I'm getting an odd ping error and looking for some help. > > I'm getting this on only one machine: > * Last status is state "idle" (no ping) as of 11/19 14:22. > * Last error is "ping too slow: 1.339msec (threshold is 0msec)" > > Even though the config.pl is: > $Conf{PingMaxMse

Re: [BackupPC-users] Problem using --cvs-exclude and the BackupFilesExclude option

Cameron writes: > $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = { >'home' => ['/tmp'], > }; > > Connected to module home > Sending args: --server --sender --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group > -D --links --hard-links --times --block-size=2048 --recursive > --checksum-seed=32761 . . > Checksum caching enabled

Re: [BackupPC-users] Upgrade from very old version

Jeffrey writes: > I have recently upgraded from a really old version of BackupPC to 3.0.0 > (don't remember exactly what version, but at least 4+ years old I > believe). Because of this, when I upgraded I wanted to keep using my > current directory structure and config.pl files, so I changed useF

[BackupPC-users] BackupPC 3.1.0 released

BackupPC 3.1.0 has been released on SF.net. This release contains a few new features and bug fixes. Some of the new features are: * Added new script BackupPC_archiveStart that allows command-line starting of archives. * Added sorting by column feature to host summary table in CGI interface.

Re: [BackupPC-users] [BackupPC-devel] BackupPC 3.1.0 released - no zombie resolution?

John writes: > Cool. Can't wait to get this into production, but I notice that there > is no mention of a fix for the zombie processes left around for every > share until the backup of a host completes. E.G. It didn't make the 3.1.0 release - it's still on my todo list. Craig --

Re: [BackupPC-users] Full backup bandwidth reduction

Toni writes: > BackupPC full dump, with patch which removed --ignore-times for a full > backup: > Done: 507 files, 50731819 bytes > full backup complete > real13m39.796s > user0m4.232s > sys 0m0.556s > Network IO used: 620MB > > 'rsync -auvH --ignore-times' on the same data: > sent 48

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsync error causes web interface not to show backup file even though it exists

Les writes: > perhaps its a bug?? I believe it is the same bug that was fixed in 3.1.0. In certain cases the attrib file doesn't get written correctly when there is an md4 error in rsync. One workaround is to simply remove the attrib file in the offending directory (if you try that, please m

Re: [BackupPC-users] Upgrade to 3.1, Hosts Summary disappeared

Chris writes: > I have upgraded from backupppc 3.0 to 3.1 on Redhat (RHEL 4) and > also lost my Hosts Summary...all of the other links appear to be > working. Apache logs don't seem to show an error. Anyone else > having this problem? > > I ran my upgrade using perl configure.pl and pointing to

Re: [BackupPC-users] Upgrade to 3.1, Hosts Summary disappeared

daniel, > I have the same problem. I have upgraded 3.0 to 3.1 on CentOS5. I > edited the lines above from the lib/BackupPC/Lang/en.pm, restarted > the backuppc but is not working for me. The Hosts Summary is a blank > page. I also edited the ib/BackupPC/CGI/Lib.pm. It's the same error > after

Re: [BackupPC-users] Upgrade to 3.1, Hosts Summary disappeared

daniel writes: > I have the same problem. I have upgraded 3.0 to 3.1 on CentOS5. I > edited the lines above from the lib/BackupPC/Lang/en.pm, restarted > the backuppc but is not working for me. The Hosts Summary is a blank > page. Can you send me a screen dump too? Is the entire page blank,

Re: [BackupPC-users] Direct restore / Multiple hosts

Trygve writes: > Direct restore has been disabled for host . Please select > one of the other restore options. > > ... this message will always specify the same hostname even though I > want to restore a different host. > > If I change /etc/backuppc/hosts to contain only one host --- > regardles

Re: [BackupPC-users] Incremental forever.

bt writes: > Would it be possible to do incremental forever with BackupPc like you > can do with TSM, or if it is not possible, do you plan to implement it > in the future ? > > I understand it can/will be cpu intensive, but such a feature would be > nice with some servers. > > Thanks for a grea

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