That is unbelievable. You backup a windows client, right? There should be a lot of files which can not be backuped because they are in use. Do you use volume shadow copies in windows? But neverthele
Alternatively, you could just exclude the files that tend to be busy. Before I wrote my volume shadow copy script, I had a short list of excludes that eliminated all busy files. -- Let Crystal Repor
Hi all, I have a question... I tried restoring a backup to my system - it kept on failing with aborted by signal=PIPE. I have a feeling it may have been related to corrupt files within the hardlinks,
Author: Matthias Meyer <matthias.meyer AT gmx DOT li>
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 21:59:49 +0200
Which system? Your BackupPC server or your backup client? Probably not much :-( I didn't believe that backuppc will check data consistency. That is the job of a filesystem. e2fsck will do that for ex
Which system? Your BackupPC server or your backup client? My backup client - the backuppc server is still as was... The client was running as (among other things) a samba file server with all data s
Author: Matthias Meyer <matthias.meyer AT gmx DOT li>
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:40:00 +0200
Probably. But as I said, BackupPC didn't check file consistency. You think? Do you really miss one of this 1000 files? Yes. But possible not all the files YOU expected in the backup dataset. How do y
Probably. But as I said, BackupPC didn't check file consistency. Ok... So it could be that the files are corrupt in the database... Though given the positive e2fsck results, that seems unlikely...
Author: "Jeffrey J. Kosowsky" <backuppc AT kosowsky DOT org>
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 20:22:34 -0400
Vetch wrote at about 00:14:06 +0100 on Wednesday, July 22, 2009: Well, with Windows there can be all kinds of reasons for mismatches including: 1. Busy files that can't be backed up (not just .pst fi
Author: Holger Parplies <wbppc AT parplies DOT de>
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 05:47:33 +0200
Hi, sorry for replying so late, busy week. Matthias Meyer wrote on 2009-07-20 21:59:49 +0200 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Restore issues]: How did you create the tar file(s), what was the error reported? Wa
Hi Jeffrey, Thanks for getting back to me... On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 1:22 AM, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky <backuppc AT kosowsky DOT org> wrote: Vetch wrote at about 00:14:06 +0100 on Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Author: Matthias Meyer <matthias.meyer AT gmx DOT li>
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 10:33:18 +0200
You should check the backup log file XferLOG. Each file which can not backup will be logged theire, including the reason. br Matthias -- Don't Panic -- _______________________________________________
Hi Matthias, All my xferlogs say they have 0 errors (apart from one, but that was after the problem occurred anyway)... I've had a look at them, but they are... quite long... Without knowing what to
Author: Matthias Meyer <matthias.meyer AT gmx DOT li>
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 21:00:54 +0200
That is unbelievable. You backup a windows client, right? There should be a lot of files which can not be backuped because they are in use. Do you use volume shadow copies in windows? But nevertheles
Author: "Jeffrey J. Kosowsky" <backuppc AT kosowsky DOT org>
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:19:33 -0400
Matthias Meyer wrote at about 21:00:54 +0200 on Thursday, July 30, 2009: Alternatively, you could just exclude the files that tend to be busy. Before I wrote my volume shadow copy script, I had a sho