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Re: [flexbackup-help] flexbackup error

[TeckniX _ <lo...@gm...>]

If root has trouble with the file, I would definitely look into what/who
created that file and see what can be done. In the meantime I'll look up
some of my flexbackup scripts and see if I can figure out an exception rule.

On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 12:58 AM, Andrew I. Schein <an...@an...>
wrote:

> I forgot to include the permissions...
>
> dr-x------  2 ais ais    0 2008-06-01 00:56 .
>
>
>
> On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 11:11 PM, Tecknix <lo...@gm...> wrote:
> > How are you running the backup? Root? Also what are the permissions on
> the
> > file?
> >
> >
> >
> > On May 31, 2008, at 9:23 PM, "Andrew I. Schein" <an...@an...
> >
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Hi -
> >>
> >> I am encountering an error with flexbackup caused by the .gvfs special
> >> file in my home directory.  An example is below.
> >>
> >> Is there a way to pass in an argument to "find" to exclude this
> directory?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> Andy
> >>
> >> |------------------------------------------------------------
> >> | Checking /bin/sh on this machine... unknown
> >> |------------------------------------------------------------
> >> | Doing level 0 backup of set all using tar
> >> | All sets = backup
> >> | Found directory index key 200805312021
> >> | Backup set "backup" (/home)
> >> |------------------------------------------------------------
> >> | Backup of: /home
> >> | Date of this level 0 backup: Sat May 31 21:08:39 2008
> >> | Date of last level 0 backup: the epoch
> >> |------------------------------------------------------------
> >> | cd "/home" && /home/tmp/flexbackup.9297.desk/collectexit.9297.sh find
> .
> >> \
> >> |   -depth -xdev ! -type s ! -regex ".*/[Cc]ache/.*" ! -regex ".*~"$ ! \
> >> |   -regex ".*\.gvfs.*" -print0 | \
> >> |   /home/tmp/flexbackup.9297.desk/collectexit.9297.sh tar --create
> --null
> >> \
> >> |   --files-from=- --ignore-failed-read --same-permissions
> --no-recursion
> >> \
> >> |   --totals --label "level 0 /home Sat May 31 21:08:39 2008 tar+gzip
> from
> >> \
> >> |   desk" --verbose --sparse -b 20 --file - | \
> >> |   /home/tmp/flexbackup.9297.desk/collectexit.9297.sh gzip -4 | \
> >> |   /home/tmp/flexbackup.9297.desk/collectexit.9297.sh dd ibs=10k
> obs=10k
> >> \
> >> |   conv=noerror
> of="/media/wdc/linux-backups/home.0.200805312108.tar.gz"
> >> | [ ! -e /home/tmp/flexbackup.9297.desk/exitstatus.9297 ]
> >> |------------------------------------------------------------
> >> find: ./ais/.gvfs: Permission denied
> >> level 0 /home Sat May 31 21:08:39 2008 tar+gzip from desk
> >> ...
> >>
> >>
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Re: [flexbackup-help] flexbackup error

[Tim K. <tim...@sm...>]

Andrew I. Schein wrote:
> I am running the command using sudo on Ubuntu 8.04.  However, this is
> some kind of special file/directory that even root can't rename (use
> mv command) or "chmod u+w".  It has zero bytes, unlike a symbolic
> links or ordinary directories.
>
> If I try to "rm -rf" it, there is a "Device or resource busy" message.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Andy
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You might want to use ls -lO to see if any special chflags have been set 
to prevent the deletion of the files or directory.  From man ls(1):

  -O      Include the file flags in a long (-l) output.  the chflags(1) 
options show up as - or + signs.

I'm using FreeBSD but, I think, Ubuntu supports the same ls(1) options.

Re: [flexbackup-help] flexbackup error

[Andrew I. S. <an...@an...>]

I forgot to include the permissions...

dr-x------  2 ais ais    0 2008-06-01 00:56 .



On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 11:11 PM, Tecknix <lo...@gm...> wrote:
> How are you running the backup? Root? Also what are the permissions on the
> file?
>
>
>
> On May 31, 2008, at 9:23 PM, "Andrew I. Schein" <an...@an...>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi -
>>
>> I am encountering an error with flexbackup caused by the .gvfs special
>> file in my home directory.  An example is below.
>>
>> Is there a way to pass in an argument to "find" to exclude this directory?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Andy
>>
>> |------------------------------------------------------------
>> | Checking /bin/sh on this machine... unknown
>> |------------------------------------------------------------
>> | Doing level 0 backup of set all using tar
>> | All sets = backup
>> | Found directory index key 200805312021
>> | Backup set "backup" (/home)
>> |------------------------------------------------------------
>> | Backup of: /home
>> | Date of this level 0 backup: Sat May 31 21:08:39 2008
>> | Date of last level 0 backup: the epoch
>> |------------------------------------------------------------
>> | cd "/home" && /home/tmp/flexbackup.9297.desk/collectexit.9297.sh find .
>> \
>> |   -depth -xdev ! -type s ! -regex ".*/[Cc]ache/.*" ! -regex ".*~"$ ! \
>> |   -regex ".*\.gvfs.*" -print0 | \
>> |   /home/tmp/flexbackup.9297.desk/collectexit.9297.sh tar --create --null
>> \
>> |   --files-from=- --ignore-failed-read --same-permissions --no-recursion
>> \
>> |   --totals --label "level 0 /home Sat May 31 21:08:39 2008 tar+gzip from
>> \
>> |   desk" --verbose --sparse -b 20 --file - | \
>> |   /home/tmp/flexbackup.9297.desk/collectexit.9297.sh gzip -4 | \
>> |   /home/tmp/flexbackup.9297.desk/collectexit.9297.sh dd ibs=10k obs=10k
>> \
>> |   conv=noerror of="/media/wdc/linux-backups/home.0.200805312108.tar.gz"
>> | [ ! -e /home/tmp/flexbackup.9297.desk/exitstatus.9297 ]
>> |------------------------------------------------------------
>> find: ./ais/.gvfs: Permission denied
>> level 0 /home Sat May 31 21:08:39 2008 tar+gzip from desk
>> ...
>>
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Re: [flexbackup-help] flexbackup error

[Andrew I. S. <an...@an...>]

I am running the command using sudo on Ubuntu 8.04.  However, this is
some kind of special file/directory that even root can't rename (use
mv command) or "chmod u+w".  It has zero bytes, unlike a symbolic
links or ordinary directories.

If I try to "rm -rf" it, there is a "Device or resource busy" message.

Thanks,

-Andy

Re: [flexbackup-help] flexbackup error

[Tecknix <lo...@gm...>]

How are you running the backup? Root? Also what are the permissions on  
the file?



On May 31, 2008, at 9:23 PM, "Andrew I. Schein"  
<an...@an...> wrote:

> Hi -
>
> I am encountering an error with flexbackup caused by the .gvfs special
> file in my home directory.  An example is below.
>
> Is there a way to pass in an argument to "find" to exclude this  
> directory?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andy
>
> |------------------------------------------------------------
> | Checking /bin/sh on this machine... unknown
> |------------------------------------------------------------
> | Doing level 0 backup of set all using tar
> | All sets = backup
> | Found directory index key 200805312021
> | Backup set "backup" (/home)
> |------------------------------------------------------------
> | Backup of: /home
> | Date of this level 0 backup: Sat May 31 21:08:39 2008
> | Date of last level 0 backup: the epoch
> |------------------------------------------------------------
> | cd "/home" && /home/tmp/flexbackup.9297.desk/collectexit.9297.sh  
> find . \
> |   -depth -xdev ! -type s ! -regex ".*/[Cc]ache/.*" ! -regex  
> ".*~"$ ! \
> |   -regex ".*\.gvfs.*" -print0 | \
> |   /home/tmp/flexbackup.9297.desk/collectexit.9297.sh tar --create  
> --null \
> |   --files-from=- --ignore-failed-read --same-permissions --no- 
> recursion \
> |   --totals --label "level 0 /home Sat May 31 21:08:39 2008 tar 
> +gzip from \
> |   desk" --verbose --sparse -b 20 --file - | \
> |   /home/tmp/flexbackup.9297.desk/collectexit.9297.sh gzip -4 | \
> |   /home/tmp/flexbackup.9297.desk/collectexit.9297.sh dd ibs=10k  
> obs=10k \
> |   conv=noerror of="/media/wdc/linux-backups/home. 
> 0.200805312108.tar.gz"
> | [ ! -e /home/tmp/flexbackup.9297.desk/exitstatus.9297 ]
> |------------------------------------------------------------
> find: ./ais/.gvfs: Permission denied
> level 0 /home Sat May 31 21:08:39 2008 tar+gzip from desk
> ...
>
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[flexbackup-help] flexbackup error

[Andrew I. S. <an...@an...>]

Hi -

I am encountering an error with flexbackup caused by the .gvfs special
file in my home directory.  An example is below.

Is there a way to pass in an argument to "find" to exclude this directory?

Thanks,

Andy

|------------------------------------------------------------
| Checking /bin/sh on this machine... unknown
|------------------------------------------------------------
| Doing level 0 backup of set all using tar
| All sets = backup
| Found directory index key 200805312021
| Backup set "backup" (/home)
|------------------------------------------------------------
| Backup of: /home
| Date of this level 0 backup: Sat May 31 21:08:39 2008
| Date of last level 0 backup: the epoch
|------------------------------------------------------------
| cd "/home" && /home/tmp/flexbackup.9297.desk/collectexit.9297.sh find . \
|   -depth -xdev ! -type s ! -regex ".*/[Cc]ache/.*" ! -regex ".*~"$ ! \
|   -regex ".*\.gvfs.*" -print0 | \
|   /home/tmp/flexbackup.9297.desk/collectexit.9297.sh tar --create --null \
|   --files-from=- --ignore-failed-read --same-permissions --no-recursion \
|   --totals --label "level 0 /home Sat May 31 21:08:39 2008 tar+gzip from \
|   desk" --verbose --sparse -b 20 --file - | \
|   /home/tmp/flexbackup.9297.desk/collectexit.9297.sh gzip -4 | \
|   /home/tmp/flexbackup.9297.desk/collectexit.9297.sh dd ibs=10k obs=10k \
|   conv=noerror of="/media/wdc/linux-backups/home.0.200805312108.tar.gz"
| [ ! -e /home/tmp/flexbackup.9297.desk/exitstatus.9297 ]
|------------------------------------------------------------
find: ./ais/.gvfs: Permission denied
level 0 /home Sat May 31 21:08:39 2008 tar+gzip from desk
...

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[П. А. <fo...@gm...>]

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Re: [flexbackup-help] double view of directories in tar backups under mc

[Tim B. <ti...@ne...>]

Sergej Kandyla wrote:
> So, only bad thing that under mc (Midnight commander) tar backups look 
> not very suitable.
If it's coming up OK in other programs, and can be extracted correctly 
by other software, then I'd say the problem is with mc.
If you're running an older version of mc, that could be the problem... I 
don't know because I'm not an mc user.

TB

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[flexbackup-help] double view of directories in tar backups under mc

[Sergej K. <sk...@gm...>]

Hi All.

I've installed flexbackup system on different servers under linux 
(debian, centos) and freebsd but still have some behavior.

I want tar backups without compression, so my settings is:

$type = 'tar';
$set{'backup'} = "/home /root /etc /var /usr/local";
$compress = 'false';
$device = '/mnt/backups/srv9/flexbackup.0';
$buffer = 'false';

Everything looks fine, but if I try see content of tar backups under mc 
I see (for example /etc):

/NetworkManager
/X11
/X11
/acpi
/acpi
/alchemist
/alchemist
/alsa
/alsa
... etc.

(Empty directories don't double).

Also I tried unpack archive from command line, and compare size of 
flexbackup tar backup and manually created backup (tar -cvf etc.tar 
/etc) - they are equal !
I tried copy flexbackup .tar backups  to windows machine and see content 
of tar backups under Total Commander - all ok.

So, only bad thing that under mc (Midnight commander) tar backups look 
not very suitable.

Does anyone face with this problem ?

Thanks!

PS. sorry for my EN

-- 
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[flexbackup-help] extract Errors

[a s. <asy...@ho...>]

Hello,

I have been using flexbackup on multiple servers for a while. 
I have had trouble free running until recently setting up a new server.

Hardware:
Dell 2850 Dual processor, Raid 5 SCSI disk
Fedora 8
LTO2 Tape drive (Powervault 114T rack)
Tape connected direct to onboard SCSI channel.
(I have this setup working on a different server with the only difference being an LTO3 drive and an older version of Fedora)

The backups work without error with various combinations of buffer, blksize, mt_blksize, and pad_blocks.
Test-tape-drive also works without error for various combinations

With the extract command I am getting errors after 200-400MB of data has been extracted
Following  is the various errors changing the buffer flag:(errors are the same for different combinations of the blk flags which work)





Buffer = false 


dd: reading `/dev/nst0': Input/output error

3656+0 records in

3656+0 records out

239599616 bytes (240 MB) copied, 32.0883 s, 7.5 MB/s

dd: warning: invalid file offset after failed read

dd: warning: working around lseek kernel bug for file
(/dev/nst0)

  of mt_type=0x72 --
see <sys/mtio.h> for the list of types

dd: cannot work around kernel bug after all

dd: `/dev/nst0': cannot seek

dd: reading `/dev/nst0': Input/output error

3656+0 records in

3656+0 records out

239599616 bytes (240 MB) copied, 32.1839 s, 7.4 MB/s

dd: reading `/dev/nst0': Input/output error

3656+0 records in

3656+0 records out

239599616 bytes (240 MB) copied, 32.2825 s, 7.4 MB/s

(This cycles through a few times then copies another bunch of files then starts the cyclic error again)


Buffer = mbuffer



mbuffer: error: inputThread: error reading at offset
e480000: Input/output error



(fails after approx 420MB has been restored, flexbackup hangs)



Buffer = buffer



buffer (reader): failed to read input: Input/output error

afio: "-" [offset 216m+64k+0]: Fatal error:

afio: "-": Premature input EOF



gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file(exits gracefully)
Any help or suggestions would be most welcomeGav.

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[flexbackup-help] dumping a Live filesystem

[Tim K. <tim...@sm...>]

I tried searching the archives but the search function isn't working for 
me right now.

How would I make dump actually do a dump -L on a live filesystem?  I 
created a shell script (dump.sh) that calls dump -L and placed it in the 
configuration file as a replacement path to dump, but I'm still getting 
warnings from dump about the -L flag not being set.

My OS: FreeBSD 6.3-PRERELEASE

Thanks in Advance

Tim Kellers
CPE/NJIT

[flexbackup-help] flexbackup restore

[Dudi G. <du...@ko...>]

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[flexbackup-help] If a backup fails...

[Phil R. <ph...@ti...>]

In the event of a backup failing (because the machine being backed up
crashes during the process), am I right in thinking that
/var/lib/flexbackup on the host where flexbackup is run is where details
of the level and time are kept? Would deleting the last "stamp" for the
affected partition in there be the right way to make the next
incremental backup the same level as the failed one?

(I actually had such a failure this week - a Windows box crashed during
an incremental backup, with no data written.)

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Re: [flexbackup-help] Pruning regexs

[David S. C. <sc...@bn...>]

On Tuesday 23 October 2007, Phil Reynolds wrote:
> How would I specify that I want to prune anything containing
> "Temporary Internet Files", pagefile.sys and RECYCLER?

Phil,

I do not "prune" these files, but rather "exclude" them, as such:

$exclude_expr[0] = '.*~$';
$exclude_expr[1] = '.*/.*[Cc]ache.*/.*';
$exclude_expr[2] = '.*/RECYCLE[RD]/.*';
$exclude_expr[3] = '.*/Recycle[rd]/.*';
$exclude_expr[4] = '.*/[Tt]emp/.*';
$exclude_expr[5] = '.*/[Tt]mp/.*';
$exclude_expr[6] = '.*/TEMP/.*';
$exclude_expr[7] = '.*/TMP/.*';
$exclude_expr[8] = '.*/pagefile\.sys';
$exclude_expr[9] = '.*/Temporary\ Internet\ Files/.*';
$exclude_expr[10] = '.*/Windows\ Update\ Setup\ Files/.*';
$exclude_expr[11] = '.*/hotfixes/.*';
$exclude_expr[12] = '.*/Web/.*';
$exclude_expr[13] = '.*/Offline\ Web\ Pages/.*';
$exclude_expr[14] = '.*/Media/.*';
$exclude_expr[15] = '.*/Clipart/.*';
$exclude_expr[16] = '.*/IE6/.*';
$exclude_expr[17] = '.*/SP4/.*';
$exclude_expr[18] = '.*\$/.*';
$exclude_expr[19] = '.*/Cookies/.*';
$exclude_expr[20] = '.*/History/.*';
$exclude_expr[21] = '.*/Favorites/.*';
$exclude_expr[22] = '.*/WUTemp/.*';
$exclude_expr[23] = '.*/ATI/.*';
$exclude_expr[24] = '.*/BACKUP/.*';
$exclude_expr[25] = '.*/OfficeScan\ NT/.*';
$exclude_expr[26] = '.*/DRIVERS/.*';
$exclude_expr[27] = '.*/I386/.*';
$exclude_expr[28] = '.*/OldVersions/.*';
$exclude_expr[29] = '.*/.*\.bak$';
$exclude_expr[30] = '.*/.*\.msf$';
$exclude_expr[31] = '.*/Program\ Files/.*';
$exclude_expr[32] = '.*/WINNT/.*';
$exclude_expr[33] = '.*/NTUSER\.DAT';
$exclude_expr[34] = '.*/NTUSER\.DAT\.LOG';
$exclude_expr[35] = '.*/ntuser\.dat\.LOG';
$exclude_expr[36] = '.*/System\ Volume\ Information';
$exclude_expr[37] = '.*/hiberfil\.sys';

Adjust as needed.

Cheers,

Scott

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[flexbackup-help] Pruning regexs

[Phil R. <ph...@ti...>]

How would I specify that I want to prune anything containing "Temporary
Internet Files", pagefile.sys and RECYCLER?

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(_)- \/  Waltham 66, Emley Moor 69, Droitwich 79, Windows 95

[flexbackup-help] Backing up a Windows box with cygwin's help?

[Phil R. <ph...@ti...>]

I have made such changes as are necessary to allow me to ssh as root
into a Windows box, with the intention of using my flexbackup setup to
take backups of it. However, it does not work due to a problem with
find.

I can quite happily enter the command:

find . -depth -xdev ! -type s ! -regex ".*/[Cc]ache/.*" ! -regex ".*~"$ -print0

... manually in the relevant directory and the output is right. However,
when I actually try the backup job with flexbackup, this happens:


flexbackup version 1.2.1 (http://flexbackup.sourceforge.net)
/etc/flexbackup.conf syntax OK

|------------------------------------------------------------
| Checking /bin/sh on this machine... bash1
| Checking shell on <<deleted>>... bash1
| Checking for required programs on host <<deleted>>... Ok
|------------------------------------------------------------
| Doing level 0 backup of set <<deleted>> using tar
| Found directory index key 200710021056
| Backup set "<<deleted>>" (<<deleted>>:/cygdrive/c)
|------------------------------------------------------------
| Backup of: <<deleted>>:/cygdrive/c
| Date of this level 0 backup: Sat Oct 20 09:58:01 2007
| Date of last level 0 backup: the epoch
|------------------------------------------------------------
| ssh <<deleted>> 'mkdir -p /tmp/flexbackup.1731.<<host>>
| /tmp/flexbackup.1731.<<host>>/collectexit.1731.sh ssh <<deleted>> 'cd
\
|   "/cygdrive/c" && find . -depth -xdev ! -type s ! -regex \
|   ".*/[Cc]ache/.*" ! -regex ".*~"$ -print0 | gtar --create --null \
|   --files-from=- --ignore-failed-read --same-permissions
--no-recursion \
|   --totals --label "level 0 <<deleted>>:/cygdrive/c Sat Oct 20
09:58:01 \
|   2007 tar+bzip2 from <<host>>" --verbose --sparse -b 20 --file - |
bzip2 \
|   -9' | /tmp/flexbackup.1731.<<host>>/collectexit.1731.sh dd ibs=10k \
|   obs=10k conv=noerror \
|   of="/scratch/backups/<<deleted>>-cygdrive-c.0.200710200958.tar.bz2"
| ssh <<deleted>> 'rm -rf /tmp/flexbackup.1731.<<host>>'
| [ ! -e /tmp/flexbackup.1731.<<host>>/exitstatus.1731 ]
|------------------------------------------------------------
FIND: Parameter format not correct
level 0 <<deleted>>:/cygdrive/c Sat Oct 20 09:58:01 2007 tar+bzip2 from
<<host>>Total bytes written: 10240 (10KiB, ?/s)
0+1 records in
0+1 records out
152 bytes (152 B) copied, 2.21085 seconds, 0.1 kB/s

It would seem, therefore, that it doesn't like having find called by
flexbackup.

Is there a way round this or do I need to find another way to do the
whole job? I can't mount the drive over the network because it gives
ERRnomem when I try to mount any share from the Windows box.

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Re: [flexbackup-help] Large backup job not completing automatically

[Phil R. <ph...@ti...>]

On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 08:00:17PM +1000, Tim Bates wrote:
> 
> Quite possibly it's generating too much output for cron to be happy, and
> cron is killing the job. Incremental backups should in theory have much
> fewer files, so much less output.
> Try running with " > /dev/null" at the end of the command line to stop
> it printing non-errors out.
 
Hmmm... yes, the thought did spring to mind.

I will see about that next month, or if I manage to get the laptop done.
(I need that to be on, at home and running Linux - I have to run Windows
on it for work purposes.)

Of course, I could try putting flexbackup on it too, to generate the
data. I will work on that plan and also see whether I could do something
similar with my partner's Windows box. It does have cygwin on it but I
am having trouble accessing it by smb.

-- 
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Re: [flexbackup-help] Large backup job not completing automatically

[Tim B. <ti...@ne...>]

Quite possibly it's generating too much output for cron to be happy, and
cron is killing the job. Incremental backups should in theory have much
fewer files, so much less output.
Try running with " > /dev/null" at the end of the command line to stop
it printing non-errors out.

TB

On 7/10/2007, "Phil Reynolds" <ph...@ti...> wrote:

>One of my backup sets is designed to back up the whole of four systems -
>the four that are always at home and always on, running a system that
>flexbackup can handle.
>
>A full backup of this set runs OK manually, but when run from cron,
>stopped working during one of the larger filesystems.
>
>An incremental backup of the set runs OK either manually or from cron.
>
>The log for the failed full backup simply came to an abrupt end. The log
>was bounced as "too large to mail".
>
>How can I tell why it stopped? Could it be that it is trying to do too
>much? I am wondering how I can get round this problem, as flexbackup can
>only be run once at any one time.
>
>If it is indeed too large, I will probably need to divide the job, and
>that will need some way to delay the next part until the first part is
>finished. If there is another cause, though, I hope it will be simple
>enough to fix.
>
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[flexbackup-help] Large backup job not completing automatically

[Phil R. <ph...@ti...>]

One of my backup sets is designed to back up the whole of four systems -
the four that are always at home and always on, running a system that
flexbackup can handle.

A full backup of this set runs OK manually, but when run from cron,
stopped working during one of the larger filesystems.

An incremental backup of the set runs OK either manually or from cron.

The log for the failed full backup simply came to an abrupt end. The log
was bounced as "too large to mail".

How can I tell why it stopped? Could it be that it is trying to do too
much? I am wondering how I can get round this problem, as flexbackup can
only be run once at any one time.

If it is indeed too large, I will probably need to divide the job, and
that will need some way to delay the next part until the first part is
finished. If there is another cause, though, I hope it will be simple
enough to fix.

-- 
Phil Reynolds
 o  ____ mail: ph...@ti...
|L_ \  / Web: http://www.tinsleyviaduct.com/phil/
(_)- \/  Waltham 66, Emley Moor 69, Droitwich 79, Windows 95

Re: [flexbackup-help] Differing tar command requirements

[Daniel R. <dr...@dt...>]

Phil Reynolds wrote:
> Due to the fact that one of my real machines runs FreeBSD and the  
> others run Debian GNU/Linux, they need different tar commands.
>
> Is there any better means of dealing with the differing tars than  
> making a symlink /bin/gtar to /bin/tar on the Debian machines?
>
>   
Now I'm no expert, but what could be simpler?

[flexbackup-help] Differing tar command requirements

[Phil R. <ph...@ti...>]

Due to the fact that one of my real machines runs FreeBSD and the  
others run Debian GNU/Linux, they need different tar commands.

Is there any better means of dealing with the differing tars than  
making a symlink /bin/gtar to /bin/tar on the Debian machines?

-- 
Phil Reynolds
  o  ____ mail: ph...@ti...
|L_ \  / Web: http://www.tinsleyviaduct.com/phil/
(_)- \/  Waltham 66, Emley Moor 69, Droitwich 79, Windows 95

[flexbackup-help] flexbackup- backing up of windows content containing spaces

[<apr...@co...>]

So i moved from rdiff-backup which atm isn't suiting my needs to flexbackup hoping it would work out of the box. Did it? Of course not! After all... what is life with out some challenge.

My set up is pretty simple. I have 1 machine (my back up box) that contains several windows and unix network mount points. /mnt/pc /mnt/unix etc... I wanted to use rsync since it seemed to work nice in rdiff and fast for transfers. My first attempt on getting a back up of the unix systems was no issue. But when I tried it on the Windows back up... well I had lots of changes to do...

Anyway I figured out (being very small perl coder) that flexbackup should require some form of escape when it came upon a directory with spaces. The conf takes in several directories sorted by a space. In order to over come this I had to place the "" container under a '' container.

Code:
$set{'anthony'} = '"/mnt/anthony/Documents and Settings/anthony ry/My Documents/" "/mnt/anthony/Documents and Settings/anthony ry/Start Menu/" "/mnt/anthony/Documents and Settings/anthony ry/Desktop/"';


Now I finally got flexbackup to work using this. The challenge which I haven't figured out was to get rsync to do the same.

Code:
flexbackup version 1.2.1 (http://flexbackup.sourceforge.net)
/etc/flexbackup.conf syntax OK

Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//) at /usr/bin/flexbackup line 5718.
Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//) at /usr/bin/flexbackup line 5718.
Use of uninitialized value in split at /usr/bin/flexbackup line 5727.
|------------------------------------------------------------
| Checking /bin/sh on this machine... bash2
|------------------------------------------------------------
| Doing level 0 backup of set anthony using rsync
| Found directory index key 200706250533
| Backup set "anthony" ("/mnt/anthony/Documents and Settings/anthony ry/My Documents/" "/mnt/anthony/Documents and Settings/anthony ry/Start Menu/" "/mnt/anthony/Documents and Settings/anthony ry/Desktop/" "/mnt/anthony/Documents and Settings/anthony ry/Local Settings/Application Data/Adobe/" "/mnt/anthony/Documents and Settings/anthony ry/Local Settings/Application Data/VanDyke/" "/mnt/anthony/Documents and Settings/anthony ry/Local Settings/Application Data/Mozilla/" "/mnt/anthony/Documents and Settings/anthony ry/Local Settings/Application Data/Thunderbird/" "/mnt/anthony/Documents and Settings/All Users/Application Data/nView_Profiles/" "/mnt/anthony/Documents and Settings/All Users/Application Data/Apple Computer/" "/mnt/anthony/Documents and Settings/All Users/Start Menu/" "/mnt/anthony/Fonts/" "/mnt/anthony/MSArt/" "/mnt/anthony/WINDOWS/Fonts/")
|------------------------------------------------------------
| Backup of: /mnt/anthony/Documents and Settings/anthony ry/My Documents
| Date of this level 0 backup: Mon Jun 25 14:05:13 2007
| Date of last level 0 backup: the epoch
|------------------------------------------------------------
| No pruning defined for this tree.
| cd "/mnt/anthony/Documents and Settings/anthony ry/My Documents" && \
|   find . -depth -xdev ! -type s ! -regex ".*/[Cc]ache/.*" -print | sed -e \
|   "s/\.\///g" | rsync --include-from=- --exclude=* --archive --verbose \
|   --delete --delete-excluded /mnt/anthony/Documents and Settings/anthony \
|   ry/My Documents/ /mnt/fantom/flexbackup.anthony/mnt-anthony-Documents \
|   and Settings-anthony ry-My Documents.0
|------------------------------------------------------------
building file list ... rsync: link_stat "/mnt/anthony/Documents" failed: No such file or directory (2)
rsync: link_stat "/mnt/anthony/Documents and Settings/anthony ry/My Documents/and" failed: No such file or directory (2)
rsync: link_stat "/mnt/anthony/Documents and Settings/anthony ry/My Documents/Settings/anthony" failed: No such file or directory (2)
rsync: link_stat "/mnt/anthony/Documents and Settings/anthony ry/My Documents/ry/My" failed: No such file or directory (2)
rsync: link_stat "/mnt/anthony/Documents and Settings/anthony ry/My Documents/Documents/." failed: No such file or directory (2)
rsync: link_stat "/mnt/fantom/flexbackup.anthony/mnt-anthony-Documents" failed: No such file or directory (2)
rsync: link_stat "/mnt/anthony/Documents and Settings/anthony ry/My Documents/and" failed: No such file or directory (2)
rsync: link_stat "/mnt/anthony/Documents and Settings/anthony ry/My Documents/Settings-anthony" failed: No such file or directory (2)
rsync: link_stat "/mnt/anthony/Documents and Settings/anthony ry/My Documents/ry-My" failed: No such file or directory (2)
done

sent 29 bytes  received 20 bytes  2.65 bytes/sec
total size is 0  speedup is 0.00
rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at main.c(980) [sender=2.6.9]

ERROR: non-zero exit from:
cd "/mnt/anthony/Documents and Settings/anthony ry/My Documents" && find . -depth -xdev ! -type s ! -regex ".*/[Cc]ache/.*" -print | sed -e "s/\.\///g" | rsync --include-from=- --exclude=* --archive --verbose --delete --delete-excluded /mnt/anthony/Documents and Settings/anthony ry/My Documents/ /mnt/fantom/flexbackup.anthony/mnt-anthony-Documents and Settings-anthony ry-My Documents.0

ERROR: exiting
|------------------------------------------------------------
| Backup start: Mon Jun 25 14:05:13 2007
| Backup end:   Mon Jun 25 14:05:31 2007
|------------------------------------------------------------
| Linking anthony.latest -> anthony.0.200706251405
|------------------------------------------------------------


Which doesn't work at all. I then decide to just use a -type "copy" to get the back up done at least.

Code:


Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//) at /usr/bin/flexbackup line 5718.
Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//) at /usr/bin/flexbackup line 5718.
Use of uninitialized value in split at /usr/bin/flexbackup line 5727.
<---- SNIP---->
|------------------------------------------------------------
| Backup of: /mnt/anthony/Documents and Settings/anthony ry/My Documents
| Date of this level 0 backup: Tue Jun 26 05:26:17 2007
| Date of last level 0 backup: the epoch
|------------------------------------------------------------
| No pruning defined for this tree.
| cd "/mnt/anthony/Documents and Settings/anthony ry/My Documents" && \
|   find . -depth -xdev ! -type s ! -regex ".*/[Cc]ache/.*" -print0 | cpio \
|   -o -0 -H newc -v | (mkdir -p \
|   /mnt/fantom/flexbackup.anthony/mnt-anthony-Documents and \
|   Settings-anthony ry-My Documents.0 ; cd \
|   /mnt/fantom/flexbackup.anthony/mnt-anthony-Documents and \
|   Settings-anthony ry-My Documents.0 ; cpio -i -m -d )
|------------------------------------------------------------
mkdir: cannot create directory `and': Permission denied
mkdir: cannot create directory `Settings-anthony': Permission denied
mkdir: cannot create directory `ry-My': Permission denied
mkdir: cannot create directory `Documents.0': Permission denied
<-- SNIP BUNCH OF FILES HERE --- >

ERROR: non-zero exit from:
cd "/mnt/anthony/Documents and Settings/anthony ry/My Documents" && find . -depth -xdev ! -type s ! -regex ".*/[Cc]ache/.*" -print0 | cpio -o -0 -H newc -v | (mkdir -p /mnt/fantom/flexbackup.anthony/mnt-anthony-Documents and Settings-anthony ry-My Documents.0 ; cd /mnt/fantom/flexbackup.anthony/mnt-anthony-Documents and Settings-anthony ry-My Documents.0 ; cpio -i -m -d )

ERROR: exiting
|------------------------------------------------------------
| Backup start: Tue Jun 26 05:26:17 2007
| Backup end:   Tue Jun 26 05:45:58 2007
|------------------------------------------------------------
| Linking anthony.latest -> anthony.0.200706260526
|------------------------------------------------------------



This time it seemed like it was backing up the data but it wasn't. It definatly wasn't using the full directory it is suppose to be in and at the end errored out removing what it actually did grab.

So the questions are:
a) What am I doing wrong?
b) Is there any easier way to specify lots of directories for back up besides listing them all inside the set with a space like im doing?
c) What do I need to do to resolve these issues above?

Thanks guys.

-anthony

[flexbackup-help] new to backups

[Martin K. <mar...@gm...>]

Hi,
I'm new to backups. Could someone please tell me how this all works. I 
want to do a full backup of all my data in my home directory and then 
have flexbackup execute an incremental backup once per day, ideally on 
shutting the machine down, i.e. everytime i shut the machine down, it 
should be checked whether a backup was already done on the same day and 
if not, start the backup. I also want old backups to be deleted, i.e. 
all backup older than five days. Of course I wouldnt want to have a full 
backup deleted if the latest incremental backup depends on it, so these 
things should also be checked. Also I want to know how I can restore 
backed up data.
I've done an experimental full backup of my /home/sancho directory and 
saw that the file created is even bigger (60 GB) than the whole original 
directory it was meant to backup (49.4 GB). Whats the reason for that?
Hope to find help in here!
Thanks,

Martin

[flexbackup-help] Use 7z with Flexbackup

[Alexandre B. S. <ib...@th...>]

Hi there !

This is my first post to the list, have searched the message history and
found nothing relevant. Please excuse and point me to the right place if
this is FAQ.

I was playing with flexbackup for a few days, I had a look on the source
(but I don't code on perl) and I think it should not be hard to implement.

Anyone had tried it ? If so, is the numbers found good enough to try it ?

Is this trivial as I suppose ? (something like search for "gzip" and add
logic to handle .7z)

Any advices against or pro ?

see you !

-- 
Alexandre Benson Smith
Development
THOR Software e Comercial Ltda
Santo Andre - Sao Paulo - Brazil
www.thorsoftware.com.br

Re: [flexbackup-help] Problem using -pipe

[Steven W. O. <st...@sy...>]

On Thursday, May 10th 2007 at 21:55 +0100, quoth Paulo da Silva:

=>If I use -pipe (flexbackup -dir foo -pipe | split -b ... -
=>/bar/SomePrefix_) how do I then extract files using flexbackup?
=>
=>This does not work:
=>cat /bar/SomePrefix_* | flexbackup -extract -onefile SomeFile -pipe

I didn't know about the -pipe option and I had my hopes up that this would 
fix my problems, but -pipe is incompatible with -set (which I use).

I reported back a long time ago about how on occasion my flexbackup 
cronjob would make its backup files and then hang. Here's the relevant 
process info I get:

 3480 ?        Ss     0:01 crond
16571 ?        S      0:00  \_ crond
16572 ?        Ss     0:00  |   \_ /usr/bin/perl -w /usr/bin/flexbackup -set backup -incremental
16846 ?        Z      0:00  |   |   \_ [sh] <defunct>
16573 ?        S      0:00  |   \_ /usr/sbin/sendmail -FCronDaemon -i -odi -oem -oi -t
21193 ?        S      0:00  \_ crond
21194 ?        Ss     0:00  |   \_ /usr/bin/perl -w /usr/bin/flexbackup -set backup -differential
21377 ?        Z      0:00  |   |   \_ [sh] <defunct>
21195 ?        S      0:00  |   \_ /usr/sbin/sendmail -FCronDaemon -i -odi -oem -oi -t
17332 ?        S      0:00  \_ crond
17333 ?        Ss     0:00      \_ /usr/bin/perl -w /usr/bin/flexbackup -set backup -incremental
17705 ?        Z      0:00      |   \_ [sh] <defunct>
17334 ?        S      0:00      \_ /usr/sbin/sendmail -FCronDaemon -i -odi -oem -oi -t

526 > ps -ef | grep gzip
root     16860     1  0 Nov24 ?        00:00:01 gzip -9
root     21419     1  0 03:31 ?        00:00:03 gzip -9
steveo    5813  9890  0 10:28 pts/3    00:00:00 grep gzip
527 > 

Does anyone have a clue what can be done or is this really just a dead 
unsupported utility?

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