Re: [BackupPC-users] pool size grow to big

[Jacob S <stormspotter@6Texans.net>]

On Thu, 19 May 2005 10:27:58 +0200
Winston Nolan <winston.nolan@...> wrote:

> hi,
> 
> i want to know how i can limit the pool size?
> unfortionately i dont have to much drive space to play with, but what
> i want to do is replace every weeks backups, so i want to pool to
> replace itself every week
> 
> what is happening currently is the pool will grow till it reach max
> disk space and then none of my backups will work anymore, then i
> delete the whole pool 100gb and start over - this setup is too dodgy
> for me,.
> i would appreciate any help or advice, thank you, and great product

Look at the $Conf{FullKeepCnt} section in your config.pl. You probably
want it set something like this:

$Conf{FullKeepCnt} = [1];

HTH,
Jacob

[BackupPC-users] feature request - general discussion

[Jan Kellerhoff <kelly@vi...>]

Hello everybody,

I want to know if there exists a way to request features, or some
discussion of the layout of BackupPC.
As I think there would be several ways to make it much faster using less
resources, on both,
client and server.

Especially on large networks and on sites backing up large files.

Let's say its just some general Idea I have in my mind, nothing too
detailed.
Maybe some supporters are interested... in ideas and discussion?


Jan Kellerhoff

[BackupPC-users] $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} didn't work with rsync

[zunbeltz <zunbeltz@lc...>]

Hi,

I have some directories defined in $Conf{BackupFilesExclude}, but
they are backup-ed. My config is
Contents of file /etc/backuppc/localhost.pl, modified 2005-05-19 09:44:46

#
# Local server backup of /etc as user backuppc
#
$Conf{XferMethod} = 'rsync';

$Conf{TarShareName} = ['/etc','/home/zunbeltz','/usr/local/cvsroot'];

$Conf{TarClientCmd} = '/usr/bin/sudo $tarPath -c -v -f - -C $shareName+
--totals';

$Conf{RsyncClientCmd} = '/usr/bin/sudo $rsyncPath $argList+';

#'/usr/bin/sudo $rsyncPath $argList+';

$Conf{RsyncShareName} = ['/etc','/home/zunbeltz','/usr/local/cvsroot/'];

$Conf{IncrKeepCnt} = 1;

$Conf{CompressLevel} = 9;

$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} =
['/home/zunbeltz/manuales','/home/zunbeltz/musika']


I use sudo, because i don't have root acount (ubuntu). I'm quite new to
backuppc i don't know how to see why it is doing it wrong.

Any idea?

TIA

Zunbeltz

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[BackupPC-users] pool size grow to big

[Winston Nolan <winston.nolan@gm...>]

hi,

i want to know how i can limit the pool size?
unfortionately i dont have to much drive space to play with, but what
i want to do is replace every weeks backups, so i want to pool to
replace itself every week

what is happening currently is the pool will grow till it reach max
disk space and then none of my backups will work anymore, then i
delete the whole pool 100gb and start over - this setup is too dodgy
for me,.
i would appreciate any help or advice, thank you, and great product

winston

Re: [BackupPC-users] Unable to link

[Peter Padberg <Peter.Padberg@we...>]

Am Mittwoch, den 18.05.2005, 21:53 -0700 schrieb Craig Barratt:
> Peter Padberg writes:
> 
> > > No, make it bigger (eg: 72000).
> > > 
> > > Craig
> > Would you explain me the reason for that, please?
> > 
> > Here is this:
> > # Timeout in seconds when listening for the transport program's
> > # (smbclient, tar etc) stdout.
> > So, 7200 seconds are full 2hours.
> > How can it be, that rsync do not make a output in 2hours in a100Mbit lan?
> 
> There is an unresolved issue that causes this timer to not be
> restarted everytime there is client activity.  So in some
> cases it really refers to the entire backup duration, not
> just the period between client activity.
> 
Ah, okay this is what I need to know. ;)
Thank you for your time!

Viele Gruesse,
Peter
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Re: [BackupPC-users] Unable to link

[Craig Barratt <cbarratt@us...>]

Peter Padberg writes:

> > No, make it bigger (eg: 72000).
> > 
> > Craig
> Would you explain me the reason for that, please?
> 
> Here is this:
> # Timeout in seconds when listening for the transport program's
> # (smbclient, tar etc) stdout.
> So, 7200 seconds are full 2hours.
> How can it be, that rsync do not make a output in 2hours in a100Mbit lan?

There is an unresolved issue that causes this timer to not be
restarted everytime there is client activity.  So in some
cases it really refers to the entire backup duration, not
just the period between client activity.

Craig

Re: [BackupPC-users] Unable to link

[Peter Padberg <Peter.Padberg@we...>]

Am Mittwoch, den 18.05.2005, 20:49 -0700 schrieb Craig Barratt:
> Peter Padberg writes:
> 
> > > > and the Backup stops with:
> > > > backup failed (aborted by signal=ALRM)
> > > 
> > > Have you increased $Conf{ClientTimeout} to a bigger value?
> > I have:
> > $Conf{ClientTimeout} = 7200;
> > 
> > We are here in a 100MBit-LAN,
> > it should be okay, isn't it?
> 
> No, make it bigger (eg: 72000).
> 
> Craig
Would you explain me the reason for that, please?

Here is this:
# Timeout in seconds when listening for the transport program's
# (smbclient, tar etc) stdout.
So, 7200 seconds are full 2hours.
How can it be, that rsync do not make a output in 2hours in a100Mbit lan?

So, I would expect then something is going very wrong in my lan, isn't it?

Viele liebe Gruesse,
Peter
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Re: [BackupPC-users] Unable to link

[Craig Barratt <cbarratt@us...>]

Peter Padberg writes:

> > > and the Backup stops with:
> > > backup failed (aborted by signal=ALRM)
> > 
> > Have you increased $Conf{ClientTimeout} to a bigger value?
> I have:
> $Conf{ClientTimeout} = 7200;
> 
> We are here in a 100MBit-LAN,
> it should be okay, isn't it?

No, make it bigger (eg: 72000).

Craig