Re: [BackupPC-users] [BackupPC-devel] BackupPC 4.4.0 released

2020-06-25 Thread Les Mikesell
> The system got itself into this state from a standard yum update. That's why you want to stick to all packaged modules whenever possible. Over time, dependencies can change and the packaged versions will update together. You can probably update a cpan module to the correct version manually bu

Re: [BackupPC-users] Turn-key backup solution for all-Windows network

2020-11-19 Thread Les Mikesell
d issues depending on what you have connected and your cabling. - Les Mikesell [email protected] ___ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:https:

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc in large environments

2020-12-01 Thread Les Mikesell
e you'll probably need to interact with the database servers with commands backuppc can send to get dumps that won't change during the copy. -- Les Mikesell [email protected] ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupP

Re: [BackupPC-users] Windows (rsyncd) Backup issues

2021-01-02 Thread Les Mikesell
up using BackupPC? Or am I > missing something? VSS gives you a frozen snapshot that you can copy without contention of worrying about changes. It doesn't protect against future corruption or other problems with that disk or filesystem. -- Les

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC 4.x on Raspberry PI?

2021-01-03 Thread Les Mikesell
e the place to start. -- Les Mikesell [email protected] ___ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:https://github.com/backuppc/backupp

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC 4.x on Raspberry PI?

2021-01-04 Thread Les Mikesell
e interferes with wifi - but you'd want to use ethernet for backups anyway. -- Les Mikesell [email protected] ___ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/list

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC 4.x on Raspberry PI?

2021-01-04 Thread Les Mikesell
ill be that helpful. One thing to consider, though, is that the tiny CPU fans that some of the kits provide are remarkably noisy. I ended up swapping with a fanless Flirc case but you might want to check some reviews or youtube demonstrations before picking anything. -- Les Mikesell

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC 4.x on Raspberry PI?

2021-01-07 Thread Les Mikesell
but there are others and you can find some YouTube demonstrations/reviews of them. -- Les Mikesell [email protected] ___ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/

Re: [BackupPC-users] Return to BackupPC

2021-01-09 Thread Les Mikesell
lly need to know anything to build your own package if that is ever necessary. -- Les Mikesell [email protected] ___ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc

Re: [BackupPC-users] Return to BackupPC

2021-01-09 Thread Les Mikesell
going to be too complicated for most casual users to tackle on their own. -- Les Mikesell [email protected] ___ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-user

Re: [BackupPC-users] Return to BackupPC

2021-01-11 Thread Les Mikesell
On Mon, Jan 11, 2021 at 10:49 AM Jan Stransky wrote: > > Sorry, I did not read full thread... But I use a Docker image, that is > very easy at home. Do you lose any efficiency between the docker image and the mounted storage? -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@

Re: [BackupPC-users] Checking rsync progress/speed/status

2021-01-12 Thread Les Mikesell
rpret it. -- Les Mikesell [email protected] ___ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki Projec

Re: [BackupPC-users] Checking rsync progress/speed/status

2021-01-12 Thread Les Mikesell
o a whole lot of reading before it finds something that doesn't match what the server already has. -- Les Mikesell [email protected] ___ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List:https://lists.sourc

Re: [BackupPC-users] OT: To top-post or not?

2021-02-03 Thread Les Mikesell
ntent to ellipses that you can ignore or expand that it doesn't really matter whether the new part is at the top or bottom. But yes if you need to reply to different parts it should be interwoven. -- Les Mikesell [email protected] __

Re: [BackupPC-users] OT: To top-post or not?

2021-02-04 Thread Les Mikesell
o it doesn't matter much whether the new part was on the top or bottom. And when you reply, if you expand the old part it shows as >prefixed if you want to interleave your reply or trim the quoted part. -- les Mikesell [email protected]

Re: [BackupPC-users] Which filesystem for external backup drive?

2021-02-04 Thread Les Mikesell
asional > backuppc gremlin of disappearing files in that I can find the cpool > file and revert it from past snapshots. Are you sure that the disappearing files aren't a quirk of btrfs in the first place? -- Les Mikesell [email protected] _

Re: [BackupPC-users] Which filesystem for external backup drive?

2021-02-05 Thread Les Mikesell
#x27;ve always found its tools to be good at repairs (had trouble with XFS long ago, back when it's speed of creating/deleting files made it seem to be worth using). -- Les Mikesell [email protected] ___ BackupPC-user

Re: [BackupPC-users] Which filesystem for external backup drive?

2021-02-05 Thread Les Mikesell
ad of FUSE or questionable legality. -- Les Mikesell [email protected] ___ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:https://github.com/back

Re: [BackupPC-users] Which filesystem for external backup drive?

2021-02-05 Thread Les Mikesell
1/13/zfs_linux/ Torvalds declared: "Don't use ZFS. It's that simple." So, there's always freebsd... -- Les Mikesell [email protected] ___ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List:https

Re: [BackupPC-users] Which filesystem for external backup drive?

2021-02-06 Thread Les Mikesell
I don't think it was very well publicized. If you connect 2 drives configured as time machine backups and keep them both connected it will automatically alternate between them. Since it runs every hour, I think this is a more robust scheme than using raid for redundancy with the things that

Re: [BackupPC-users] Using BackupPC 4.x with rrsync on the client

2021-02-10 Thread Les Mikesell
fully! – be the > solution. Isn't rrsync just a perl wrapper to start rsync but ensure it is only accessing a permitted subdirectory? If so it should be a matter of tweaking the command to start it to be compatible. -- Les Mikesell [email protected] _

Re: [BackupPC-users] Using BackupPC 4.x with rrsync on the client

2021-02-10 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 1:58 PM wrote: > > 4. Further, along that line, while sudoer has been well-tested, About that https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2021/01/27/cve-2021-3156/ -- Les Mikesell [email protected] ___ BackupPC

Re: [BackupPC-users] Full backups taking a very long time

2021-03-13 Thread Les Mikesell
re sensitive to out-of-spec cables or something and auto-switch down. -- Les Mikesell [email protected] ___ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backupp

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup Stuff on HTTP Servers

2021-03-16 Thread Les Mikesell
em into subversion or cvs (perhaps editing out any timestamps inserted by the retrieval process so only 'real' changes will show as a new commit with differences) and having a viewvc wrapper to make the changes easy to spot. -- Les Mikesel

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup Stuff on HTTP Servers

2021-03-16 Thread Les Mikesell
ry configurable and will notify you about all kinds of things. I used it very extensively, but again it was several years ago - I'm retired now. -- Les Mikesell [email protected] ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-us

Re: [BackupPC-users] Handling machines too large to back themselves up

2021-04-08 Thread Les Mikesell
f tiny files that could feasibly be archived as a tar or zip file instead of stored separately? Also, rsync versions newer than 3.x are supposed to handle it better. Is your server side extremely old? https://rsync.samba.org/FAQ.html#4 -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gma

Re: [BackupPC-users] Renaming clients from IPs?

2021-04-13 Thread Les Mikesell
NS or puts the IP in ClientAliasName he still needs to rename the existing backups made with the IP as the hostname. Does that take more than just changing the host and renaming the directory under pc/ to match? -- Les Mikesell lesmike

Re: [BackupPC-users] Renaming clients from IPs?

2021-04-14 Thread Les Mikesell
lvable name or IP address that will work on your network to reach it. It can also be used if you want to split a single large host into separate runs with subsets of directories. You can make it appear like separate hosts for scheduling while still pointing to the same actual target. -- Les Mikes

Re: [BackupPC-users] Copied config with old hostname and backing up myself by mistake

2021-04-14 Thread Les Mikesell
et using netbios names it would be the client's own idea of its name that matters. -- Les Mikesell [email protected] ___ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo

Re: [BackupPC-users] Problem with WakupSchedule and Backupplan

2021-05-04 Thread Les Mikesell
you only include specific directories you may miss later additions or changes on the host. -- Les Mikesell [email protected] ___ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/l

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC 4.4.0: Incremental smb backup is skipping not backed-up files under certain conditions

2021-06-11 Thread Les Mikesell
expectations. I think I recall something about the third rsync backup getting a speedup too, where the block checkums are saved on the 2nd run after a file has been copied. Not sure if that still applies to v4. -- Les Mikesell [email protected] __

Re: [BackupPC-users] Lost config.pl file during full backup

2021-08-01 Thread Les Mikesell
u mentioned 'which' system you are talking about. I'd guess it was some linux distribution, but their packaging and updates work differently. -- Les Mikesell [email protected] ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lis

Re: [BackupPC-users] We need excellent and well-written documentation for linux backup software

2021-08-28 Thread Les Mikesell
proach for most people will be to install the packages built for your linux distribution so it will stay updated with the rest of the system along with its dependencies. And then the final configuration will depend somewhat on the package and distribution defaults as well as your local clients. --

Re: [BackupPC-users] Recommend an external drive

2021-10-18 Thread Les Mikesell
escue-data-recovery-services.product.100458004.html I'm not even sure you have to be a member to order it online. I've generally had better luck with Seagate than WD but I think they are mostly the same these days. -- Les Mikesell [email protected] ___

Re: [BackupPC-users] Can't access older backups after upgrade

2021-11-04 Thread Les Mikesell
ting the backuppc pool on NFS. -- Les Mikesell [email protected] ___ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:https://github.com/backuppc/bac

Re: [BackupPC-users] Getting lost in installation following documentation

2022-03-02 Thread Les Mikesell
e: https://kifarunix.com/install-backuppc-on-debian-11/ -- Les Mikesell [email protected] ___ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:htt

Re: [BackupPC-users] Question about full backups

2022-03-03 Thread Les Mikesell
d miss new/changed/moved files in an incremental but get them in a full. -- Les Mikesell [email protected] ___ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/back

Re: [BackupPC-users] Real Time View of What Is Being Copied

2022-03-03 Thread Les Mikesell
be to use windows VSS snapshots. You can search the mail list for other discussions but there is a link here to a tool to do that. https://sourceforge.net/p/backuppc/mailman/message/37189039/ -- Les Mikesell [email protected] ___

Re: [BackupPC-users] Real Time View of What Is Being Copied

2022-03-04 Thread Les Mikesell
y not be large but most tools to copy it will act as though the empty parts were filled with nulls. Rsync might handle them these days but may still take the time to send the stream of nulls. But in any case they are rarely used on Windows. --

Re: [BackupPC-users] Real Time View of What Is Being Copied

2022-03-04 Thread Les Mikesell
at least with the rsync back then and slower CPUs. It could be that rsync tried to write them all at the other end too. -- Les Mikesell [email protected] ___ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List:https:

Re: [BackupPC-users] Import pool or clients

2022-08-04 Thread Les Mikesell
ks with the old drive mounted? Then on the odd chance that you need something from it, just fire up that VM again. -- Les Mikesell [email protected] ___ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List:https://lists.

Re: [BackupPC-users] Import pool or clients

2022-08-04 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Aug 4, 2022 at 11:36 AM backuppc--- via BackupPC-users wrote: > > > Right, I guess I should have mentioned that I don't trust that old HDD > anymore. Plus keeping backups of two old clients that only exist in BackupPC > has been a bad idea because if my backups get corrupted or deleted,

Re: [BackupPC-users] errors on network-mounted pool filesystem

2022-09-02 Thread Les Mikesell
sk operation now has to run the whole contents of each file over the network. -- Les Mikesell [email protected] ___ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backupp

Re: [BackupPC-users] Missing backup files

2022-11-03 Thread Les Mikesell
umentation would be a helpful thing to do -- it was > written for a purpose! The log location is almost certain a distribution-packaging choice, so along with recommending reading documentation you might also point out that the source documentation may not match what is actually installed

Re: [BackupPC-users] Setuid problem

2022-11-05 Thread Les Mikesell
it wasn't. What's > involved in creating it post-hoc? > Is there some reason you don't use the packaged version for your linux distribution? -- Les Mikesell [email protected] ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-user

Re: [BackupPC-users] File Size Summary shows too large value for host

2022-12-13 Thread Les Mikesell
them before finding they are duplicates and converting to hardlinks and only skips matches from a previous backup of the same host. Maybe it is calculating sizes from the transfers. -- Les Mikesell [email protected] ___ Ba

Re: [BackupPC-users] Tar causing problems with removable drive on localhost

2023-01-19 Thread Les Mikesell
ly the right idea but also failing and continuing too quickly. 'fdisk -l' might be better but needs to run as root, or maybe just adding ";sleep 2' after your ls command would work. -- Les Mikesell [email protected] ___ Backup

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup strategy for rarely-connected clients

2023-01-31 Thread Les Mikesell
imes? And if the admin gets the email that it hasn't been backed up, he can call the guy up and remind him... -- Les Mikesell [email protected] ___ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List:https://li

Re: [BackupPC-users] Pool hashing gives XXX repeated files with longest chain 1

2023-03-16 Thread Les Mikesell
nts frequently > have duplicated files scattered around. I used BackupPC for website backups; > my chain length was approximately equal to the number of WordPress sites I > was hosting. > Identical files are not collisions to backuppc - they are de-duplicated. -- Les M

Re: [BackupPC-users] Why not use Backuppc to backup server systems?

2023-08-09 Thread Les Mikesell
in a production system you should really have a formal version control system and deployment process to fix that sort of thing. -- Les Mikesell [email protected] ___ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List:

Re: [BackupPC-users] Why not use Backuppc to backup server systems?

2023-08-09 Thread Les Mikesell
reinstall script would pull the backup from backuppc. But there is a little too much black magic dealing with differences in Linux versions for me to trust that it would work if I tried to change it. -- Les Mikesell [email protected] ___

Re: [BackupPC-users] Why not use Backuppc to backup server systems?

2023-08-10 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Aug 10, 2023 at 9:52 AM G.W. Haywood via BackupPC-users wrote: > >> > ... bootable image ... integrate that into backuppc ... > > My head hurts. :) > Saving headaches would be the point... If you've ever had to re-create a one-off custom filesystem layout and get enough stuff installed t

Re: [BackupPC-users] Best Practice to Speedup RSYNC

2023-09-29 Thread Les Mikesell
S, that complete read will be over a network before it can decide how to reduce network use sending to the rsync partner. -- Les Mikesell [email protected] ___ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List:https://

Re: [BackupPC-users] Migrating User Data to New PC via BackupPC or Other?

2023-12-01 Thread Les Mikesell
luttered them up so much with extra utilities etc. that I take the opportunity to start from scratch and just move the documents I know I need. Having a backup of the old machine helps with that since I know I can retrieve anything I missed later.

Re: [BackupPC-users] Setup for Windows backup with rsync

2024-01-19 Thread Les Mikesell
of clients. I was following > this guide but I get this error in the XferLOG.bad.z file: > You are supposed to use the rsyncd backup method in backuppc with that setup, not rsync. The difference is that rsyncd expects to connect directly with a listening rsync daemon, not start one with ss

Re: [BackupPC-users] Setup for Windows backup with rsync

2024-01-20 Thread Les Mikesell
expert on that myself but you can probably find what has previously been posted to this list if you search. -- Les Mikesell [email protected] ___ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List:https://lists.sourcef

Re: [BackupPC-users] error restoring backup

2024-02-03 Thread Les Mikesell
/backuppc/pc/localhost' will tell you. -- Les Mikesell [email protected] ___ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:https://github

Re: [BackupPC-users] error restoring backup

2024-02-08 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Feb 8, 2024 at 2:46 PM daggs via BackupPC-users wrote: > > any ideas? maybe to use the cli interface? > If normal permissions and mount status are OK, the next thing that could be preventing writing is selinux. Is it enabled/enforcing? -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@

Re: [BackupPC-users] error restoring backup

2024-02-10 Thread Les Mikesell
al file. Send it where you have space - or test again restoring only a small directory. -- Les Mikesell [email protected] ___ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listin

Re: [BackupPC-users] error restoring backup

2024-02-10 Thread Les Mikesell
tar image file instead you could use the web interface to download it on some other computer with space. -- Les Mikesell [email protected] ___ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List:https://lists.sourcef

Re: [BackupPC-users] error restoring backup

2024-02-10 Thread Les Mikesell
tput to an appropriate tar restore command. Note that the extract will happen in your current directory unless you include a -C path option, and ownership is going to be set according to the numeric user id on the original file which may not match when on a different machine. -- Les Mikesell

Re: [BackupPC-users] error restoring backup

2024-02-13 Thread Les Mikesell
track. I'm retired and a little fuzzy on this myself.Also, is the drive mounted as /mnt or something under /mnt? I'd cd into the top of that mount point to run the command instead of using -C. Also tar needs a '-' after the

Re: [BackupPC-users] error restoring backup

2024-02-16 Thread Les Mikesell
7;*'. Otherwise it expands to the list of files in your current directory before the command sees it. -- Les Mikesell [email protected] ___ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List:https://list

Re: [BackupPC-users] How to run a manual backup.

2024-03-06 Thread Les Mikesell
e acceptable key pairs for sshd in CS-9. I found this article saying you either have to configure the crypto policy to accept SHA1 or generate new key pairs with an acceptable format. https://serverfault.com/questions/1095898/how-can-i-use-a-legacy-ssh-rsa-key-on-centos-9

Re: [BackupPC-users] PingCmd no longer having effect

2024-04-05 Thread Les Mikesell
able name). -- Les Mikesell [email protected] ___ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki Proje

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup problems with /home directory

2024-04-15 Thread Les Mikesell
you understand the difference between the rsync and rsyncd methods?Rsyncd expects a standalone rsync daemon listening on the client and backs up 'shares' in the rsyncd.conf setup. The rsync method connects over ssh to the client and either needs to connect as root on the client or ha

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup problems with /home directory

2024-04-16 Thread Les Mikesell
eds to run as root to access most files and even then Selinux can prevent access. Try disabling Selinux to see if that allows access. -- Les Mikesell [email protected] ___ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] L

Re: [BackupPC-users] issue with two computers

2024-07-21 Thread Les Mikesell
server are pinging > - first step of backup taakes place (calculating size and files list) > - then timeout. > If the failing hosts are behind a stateful firewall or NAT gateway the connection may be timing out since rsync can have long pauses. Enabling keepalives on the ssh connection might fix

Re: [BackupPC-users] issue with two computers

2024-07-22 Thread Les Mikesell
test, but I think adding -o ServerAliveInterval=60 after $sshPath in $Conf{RsyncClientCmd} should work. Is there some sort of error listed in your Xferlog for the failed backups? Another somewhat remote possibility is that you have some sort of file corruption on the clients causing the remote

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup corrupted, impossible to corect it

2024-08-21 Thread Les Mikesell
l chances of recovery from either a drive or controller issue. And if you have multiple locations with good connectivity, run another backuppc instance in a different location. The price is right for the software. -- Les Mikesell [email protected]

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup corrupted, impossible to corect it

2024-08-22 Thread Les Mikesell
uilding when you replace it. I always liked the simplicity of software raid1 (mirrored) because you could recover from any surviving disk on any computer with a compatible interface or even a USB adapter and a laptop, but realistically most raid controllers are good enough. Also having the s

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup corrupted, impossible to corect it

2024-08-23 Thread Les Mikesell
ad most of the parts necessary to get a bootable system image with its up to date drivers and configuration into a file that backuppc could pick up and some minor tweaks could make it restore itself from backuppc instead of a tar image or the other options it already has.

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup corrupted, impossible to corect it

2024-08-23 Thread Les Mikesell
ed to fix anyway. If you are going to mention every possible obscure problem, I once (long ago) had a machine where the RAM had a stuck bit making everything it wrote to disk unreliable including the mirroring process. But I think modern hardware makes that unlikely. -- L

Re: [BackupPC-users] backup never finishes

2014-05-07 Thread Les Mikesell
tefirewalls between the server and target? Sometimes those will time out and block an established connection that appears to be idle for some time - and sometimes rsync can appear idle for a long time. -- Les Mikesell [email protected]

Re: [BackupPC-users] backup never finishes

2014-05-08 Thread Les Mikesell
ly way to copy them involves reading through the unused space. You might be able to identify these files, exclude them, and find a better backup approach (for example databases usually have their own way to make a consistent backup). -- Les Mikesell [email protected] --

Re: [BackupPC-users] Out of memory, backuppc_dump with rsyncd

2014-05-08 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 8:52 AM, Philippe MALADJIAN wrote: > Le 07/05/2014 15:06, Les Mikesell a écrit : > >> On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 1:22 AM, Philippe MALADJIAN >> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> My backuppc server a 6Go of RAM, I've 118 751 files for 9,1

Re: [BackupPC-users] Manual restore

2014-05-14 Thread Les Mikesell
latest copy (filled with the backing full if it is an incremental) and you get all the shares. -- Les Mikesell [email protected] -- "Accelerate Dev Cycles with Automated Cross-Browser Testing - For FREE Inst

Re: [BackupPC-users] Have to set Apache User to BackupPC?

2014-05-15 Thread Les Mikesell
up, if that is what you mean about the other web site. However, if you have installed the backuppc package from the EPEL repository, it should take care of everything for you, including making the cgi script setuid.All you should have to do is follow the instructions in /etc/httpd/conf.d/Back

Re: [BackupPC-users] Help before giving up on BackupPC

2014-05-15 Thread Les Mikesell
the case of large files with changes. The server has to uncompress the previous version to copy it while merging in the new changes. Also note that if you use the checksum-seed option, the 3rd full backup will be faster than the 2nd since the server won't have to uncompress the matching unc

Re: [BackupPC-users] Files being skipped

2014-05-15 Thread Les Mikesell
; I001.FCS and that is the last one it shows in the backup. The folder > contains a LOT of files with names starting with J-Z, but none of those are > getting backed up. What does the Xfer Error Summary for that backup run say was the reason they were skipped? -- Les Mikesell

Re: [BackupPC-users] Files being skipped

2014-05-15 Thread Les Mikesell
is if I002.FCS is locked, it should just skip and move > to the next file...not sure what I am doing wrong. It did move on. But note that the next thing was an unsucessful listing of the rest of the files. I don't know what that means either. Maybe filesystem corruption or conten

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsync file list "myth"?

2014-05-15 Thread Les Mikesell
to downgrade and send the whole list. -- Les Mikesell [email protected] -- "Accelerate Dev Cycles with Automated Cross-Browser Testing - For FREE Instantly run your Selenium tests across 300+ browser/OS combo

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup destination is another server

2014-05-19 Thread Les Mikesell
e you really want the remote server to run backuppc (over a vpn if necessary) using rsync or rsyncd as the transport. -- Les Mikesell [email protected] -- "Accelerate Dev Cycles with Automated Cross-Browser Te

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc won't backup a remote system

2014-05-29 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 10:53 AM, J.L. Blom wrote: > > Thanks for the quick reply. I assume I have to login to the backup > server as root and then generate the keys as backuppc has no password > for logging in as user backuppc. Log in as root, then "su - backuppc', or if your installation does n

Re: [BackupPC-users] Restore from commandline

2014-06-11 Thread Les Mikesell
folder . >/restore/restore.tar where '.' will match all the files/directories and the /restore folder has to already exist. -- Les Mikesell [email protected] -- HPCC Systems Open Source Big Da

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsync file is vanishing

2014-06-12 Thread Les Mikesell
"/cygdrive/c/shadow/d/svn_backup/Daily/svn(10.06.14).tgz" > > Is it the extra dots or brackets in the file path or name? If so, how can I > get around this? My clients last backup had 349416 "vanishing" files. > What that is 'supposed' to mean is that s

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsync file is vanishing

2014-06-12 Thread Les Mikesell
ript that deletes the shadow copy after the backup completes and check later to see if it is still there with files the backup says went missing. -- Les Mikesell [email protected] -- HPCC Systems Open Source B

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc and nfsv4 symlink problem

2014-06-19 Thread Les Mikesell
lib/backuppc/cpool/test > root@backuppc:/var/lib/backuppc/pc/localhost# ls -l /var/lib/backuppc/cpool/ > total 0 > -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 0 Jun 19 2014 test > > > > My backuppc server is Debian wheezy and the nfs server is Centos 6 > > > > any help or hint will

Re: [BackupPC-users] Dificulties

2014-06-20 Thread Les Mikesell
loads what I believe is a cgi. That means apache really isn't configured with a scriptalias or handler for the cgi. > > Using Ubuntu 14 & Xampp lamp distro. > What do you mean by xampp lamp? Ubuntu should have a package in the distribution repository.

Re: [BackupPC-users] Dificulties

2014-06-20 Thread Les Mikesell
not php. Are you using the ubuntu deb package? It should set the web server up for you but I'm only familar with the rpm version. -- Les Mikesell [email protected] -- HPCC Systems Open Source Big Data Platf

Re: [BackupPC-users] Dificulties

2014-06-20 Thread Les Mikesell
backuppc package from the EPEL yum repository - specifically because they rarely update things in non-backward compatible ways to minimize that kind of breakage. -- Les Mikesell [email protected] -- HPCC Systems Open

Re: [BackupPC-users] Dificulties

2014-06-20 Thread Les Mikesell
what > could be the issue. > Are you using the /BackupPC urrl as set up by the ScriptAlias in /etc/httpd/conf.d/BackupPC.conf? You'll also need to set up authentication with the htpasswd command mentioned there in a comment near the top. -- Les Mikes

Re: [BackupPC-users] Dificulties

2014-06-20 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 3:19 PM, Francisco Suarez wrote: > Les, I got it working on CentOs, thanks lot. configured apache with all > dependencies. > You may also need the perl-suidperl package if you have trouble with permissions. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@

Re: [BackupPC-users] Dificulties

2014-06-20 Thread Les Mikesell
quire valid-user' in the section. Note that your browser will cache your credentials if you haven't completely closed it, though. -- Les Mikesell [email protected] -- HPCC Systems Open Source Big Data Platf

Re: [BackupPC-users] Dificulties

2014-06-20 Thread Les Mikesell
nUsers} = to the user that will have admin rights in /etc/BackupPC/config.pl. Then you can do everything else in the web interface. -- Les Mikesell [email protected] -- HPCC Systems Open Source Big Data Pla

Re: [BackupPC-users] Dificulties

2014-06-23 Thread Les Mikesell
ce downloads is open/insecure) This means you configured backuppc to use rsyncd with a login and password but you configured an rsync to run in standalone/daemon mode on the target host without requiring a login/password. --

Re: [BackupPC-users] Uneffective rsync transfers?

2014-06-26 Thread Les Mikesell
configure backuppc to transfer > only changed files and merge them with the previous backup? I want to backup > 200GB of email files. Yes, that is the way it is supposed to work. If the files are mbox format (many messages in one file) it can be rather slow to merge the changes but it does

Re: [BackupPC-users] Uneffective rsync transfers?

2014-06-27 Thread Les Mikesell
lot more. If they aren't being linked into the next backup number's tree (like they should be), where are they? And if they are, why can't you see them? -- Les Mikesell [email protected] -- Op

Re: [BackupPC-users] BUG (IMHO): BackupPC_Dump on QNAP QTS 4.1

2014-06-28 Thread Les Mikesell
iguration problem cause rsync based backups to hang and fail. I'm missing something here. The smb config has nothing to do with rsync based xfers.Does the xfer log show any files copied? Maybe the box is just very slow at compressing files and wa

Re: [BackupPC-users] Uneffective rsync transfers?

2014-06-28 Thread Les Mikesell
has not changed during the backups 1,2,3... I think you are the first person to report anything like that, at least without seeing errors in the logs. I don't know where to start to debug it. I'd be inclined to start with a fresh install in a VM to get something that works nor

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