Re: [Dirvish] Errors running dirvish from cron

Trey Blancher wrote: > I ran dirvish-daily using at (which should be functionally equivalent to > running it during cron), with the changes I made to dirvish-runall, and > it seemed to work. I've attached the patch I generated; it applies to > dirvish 1.2.1. > > I'll have to see tomorrow whether

Re: [Dirvish] Problem with dirvish-runall when a vault was not completed last time

o omida parasita wrote: > I have a bank and several vaults. > > Some of the vaults completed the --init successfuly without errors. > Some of them with some files not transfered(Windows boxes) and some of > them with a IO error because of the connection timout. You need to make them complete the

Re: [Dirvish] Separate time for single server backup?

hanj wrote: > This fires off at 3AM, which is great, but now I need to have dirvish > run around 4PM for one particular server backup. I thought it would > be easy creating a new master.conf file (master2.conf) in > /etc/dirvish, and adding that argument to dirvish-runall with > --config option and

Re: [Dirvish] Separate time for single server backup?

Keith Lofstrom wrote: > On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 03:40:15PM +0100, Dave Howorth wrote: >> Does it matter when dirvish-expire runs? Why isn't it sufficient for it >> to do its job on all vaults at 3am? > > I can't speak for hanj, but it is reasonable to run all the ex

Re: [Dirvish] multiple directories

Robin Ericsson wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to pull the trick found on the wiki on how to use multiple > directories per vault. My default.conf looks like this. And yes, /var > is on the same drive as etc and root. > > """ > client: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > tree: / > xdev: 0 > index: bzip2 > log: bzip2

Re: [Dirvish] dirvish: no incremental on Mac OS 10.4

Bernd Haug wrote: > Paul Slootman wrote: >> On Wed 25 Oct 2006, Bernd Haug wrote: >>> What kind of associations do you mean? Date and contents stay the >>> same; and inode isn't the same (or rather, may or may not be the >>> same) on any Unix. >> Again, the resource forks... > > Well, if dirvish d

Re: [Dirvish] dirvish-expire says 'Invalid expiration time'

Daniel Fischer wrote: > Hi, > > I am running dirvish on one central file server to remote backup other > servers. > The setup was working without any problems for about one month. > Since October 28th I am getting the following messages if I run > dirvish-expire: > > anderson:/srv/backup/snapsh

Re: [Dirvish] dirvish over a network

Rémi Boulle wrote: > Maybe it is because in french typography colon are preceded by a non > breaking word space and we have no space in english... Okay, it is a > stupid mistake i give up trying to find excuses :-) That's not stupid. It's something I've learned today :) And interesting to keep in

Re: [Dirvish] Handling shares that may not be there

Chris Dunning wrote: > My question is what happens if the samba share is not there one night? > If it's mounted on Monday, not mounted on Tuesday, then mounted on > Wednesday, will Dirvish treat Wednesday's files as new files and > download them again, or hard-link them to Monday's files? I suspe

Re: [Dirvish] curious problem - dirvish does nothing when run from cron

Eric 'Scanner' Luce wrote: > I would have thought that 1) > dirvish was built with its own absolute path names, Programs are not generally built with absolute paths. Indeed, there's usually a lot of emphasis on making sure that they are independent of where they're installed, to give flexibility f

Re: [Dirvish] curious problem - dirvish does nothing when run from cron

Bernd Haug wrote: > Dave Howorth wrote: >> Programs are not generally built with absolute paths. > > Not in my experience - many custom build scripts modify headers with > absolute paths. > > Or think of even the many automake builds where --prefix influences > th

Re: [Dirvish] Re: ssh as root going away

Ken Dyke wrote: > On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 11:12:35AM +0200, Paul Slootman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: >> Otherwise >> you probably need to connect as some other user and use sudo (without >> password) to run rsync; there was some discus

Re: [Dirvish] Re: curious problem - dirvish does nothing when run from cron

Michael Nelson wrote: > I had this same problem. When dirvish-runall ran from cron it took zero > time to run and did nothing, but produced no errors. If I ran it from > root's shell it ran fine. > > I had installed it in /usr/local/sbin, which seemed like a good place for > something like dirvi

Re: [Dirvish] Re: curious problem - dirvish does nothing when run from cron

Michael Nelson wrote: > On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 01:26:04PM +0000, Dave Howorth wrote: >> You can change the path in the crontab itself. man 5 crontab > > Oh yes, I know that and have done it now. Good. I'm glad Suse isn't broken after all. >> It does produce

Re: [Dirvish] Re: Use existing backup as initial image

Noel Kelly wrote: > So to get an initial image from a Windows machine onto a Linux server > will mean using the ext2ifs driver? (www.fs-driver.org) Sounds easiest. If you did have to use a FAT32 filesystem to transfer the data, you could always try to fix it up with chmod, chown etc after you got

Re: [Dirvish] dirvish-expire loses on 'summary' directory

Barton C Massey wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: >> On Sat 27 Jan 2007, Barton C Massey wrote: >>> The BUGS section of the dirvish-expire manpage says: >>> "Dirvish-expire will walk the file hierarchy of all >>> banks or the specified vault looking for summary >>> files. Anything

Re: [Dirvish] dirvish-expire loses on 'summary' directory

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 28 Jan 2007 14:51:37 -0800, > "Barton C Massey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> If the consensus among dirvish developers is that this is >> desirable behavior, I guess I'll work around it, at least >> for now. Is this behavior really what folks want? > > Short ans

Re: [Dirvish] dirvish-expire loses on 'summary' directory

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 29 Jan 2007 11:31:08 +, > "Dave Howorth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Did I understand this correctly? You had your backups publically mounted >> read-write for normal users? That sounds like a really bad idea. I >>

Re: [Dirvish] dirvish-expire loses on 'summary' directory

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > dirvish-expire now runs through all images and the "current" directory > where it finds the "summary" file and exits with an error because it is > not what dirvish-expire expects. OK, I understand now, thanks :) I think this can be answered either as Paul suggested or b

Re: [Dirvish] Problem with expire rules

Paul Slootman wrote: > On Mon 05 Feb 2007, Michael Best wrote: > >> I'm having a problem with my expire rules, I can't seem to get it to use >> my first day of the week and first day of the month rules. Is it >> possibly that my file is formatted with spaces instead of tabs? > > That shouldn't

Re: [Dirvish] Local vs remote

Noel Kelly wrote: > I did not think (and nor can I find) any reference that rsync and/or > dirvish change adapt their algorithms for local file systems and remote > file systems. look for --whole-file on the rsync man page :) Cheers, Dave ___ Dirvish ma

Re: [Dirvish] More than on tree per backup?

Kelsey Cummings wrote: > I just wanted to check to see if anyone using dirvish had already hacked > > it to allow specification of multiple trees in a single config yet. > > The method outlined in the url below is not so much and would be a

Re: [Dirvish] More than on tree per backup?

Richard Geoffrion wrote: > Kelsey Cummings wrote: >> I just wanted to check to see if anyone using dirvish had already >> hacked it to allow specification of multiple >> trees in a single config yet. The method > You know... I can't for the LI

Re: [Dirvish] More than on tree per backup?

Thanks to everybody for explaining how complicated the rsync args become :) Now I understand the motivation for the patch! Kelsey Cummings wrote: > On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 07:33:23AM +, Noel Kelly wrote: >>> I do. It only took a couple of minutes to hack into place what I think is >>> a more

Re: [Dirvish] Trouble creating directory names with special characters (rsync error)

Yeray Gutiérrez Cedrés wrote: > System that hosts the files I want to back up: Fedora Core release 3 > (Heidelberg) > System that stores the backup files and from which I run dirvish: Mac OS > X Server 10.4 (Tiger) > Dirvish Version: 1.2 > rsync version: 2.6.3 protocol version 28 That's a fairly

Re: [Dirvish] Trouble creating directory names with special characters (rsync error)

Yeray Gutiérrez Cedrés wrote: > I've upgraded rsync: good > But it fails anyway: oops I think the second part of my suggestion comes into play now :) > It's probably also worth searching the rsync site for unicode info. I believe you'll get much better answers searching for that error on the

Re: [Dirvish] Trouble creating directory names with special characters (rsync error)

Yeray Gutiérrez Cedrés wrote: > Before asking on the rsync list I've tried to run the rsync command > that dirvish is supposed to run. Something like: > > admin$ rsync -vrltH --delete -pgo --stats -z -D --numeric-ids > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/yeray/ /Users/admin/rsynctest/ You can see in dirvish'

Re: [Dirvish] Error in http://www.dirvish.org/INSTALL ?

Lynoure Braakman wrote: > Hello, > > I'm puzzling over http://www.dirvish.org/INSTALL > > It says one can have multiple directories as the tree: > >> tree: /e/home /home No, it doesn't. To understand what it means, you need to read the documentation of the tree option at

Re: [Dirvish] disk usage

Pete McEvoy wrote: > I had read through the docs, checked the FAQ etc, I wouldnt go as far as > saying I'm 100% au fait with whats going on, but I do seem to have what > I would consider redundant disk images here: > > /backup/selene# du -csh 2* > 29G 20070227 > 29G 20070228 > 29G 200

Re: [Dirvish] Trouble creating directory names with special characters (rsync error)

thomas maoro wrote: Hello. Please keep correspondence on the list. Others may be able to help and/or benefit from the conversation. > i’m trying to backup a lot of file with special character, from a > network disk to another disk.. > > when I use rsync, I’ve got the following message … > > fil

Re: [Dirvish] multiple path feature (work in progress) to exclusive)

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Instead of hacking dirvish, I've written a perl pre-server script that > takes several paths as arguments, and creates rsync exclude rules to > correctly include only the given paths. It then adds those rules to > dirvish's exclude file, so rsync picks them up automatical

Re: [Dirvish] Suddenly vault getting "ERROR: no images for branch default found"

Johannes Kastl wrote: > Hello, > > although my setup has worked for a long time, I now got an error > Where could I start looking for the problem? The log file? What's in there and what other files are in the failed backup directories? (e.g. rsync-error) Cheers, Dave __

Re: [Dirvish] Suddenly vault getting "ERROR: no images for branch default found"

Johannes Kastl wrote: > > although my setup has worked for a long time, I now got an error Dave Howorth wrote: >> The log file? What's in there Johannes Kastl wrote: > I assume you mean the existing directory, which was created using the > --init command, right? That was

Re: [Dirvish] slow writing to external USB2 hard disc

Gert Brinkmann wrote: > Hello, > > sorry that this posting is somewhat off topic. But maybe someone had the > same problems when using dirvish and did find a solution? > > I am using dirvish to backup files from my Linux system (debian/sid) to > an external USB2 drive (a Seagate disc). I am runni

Re: Solved Re: [Dirvish] slow writing to external USB2 hard disc

Gert Brinkmann wrote: > There are, as I think two problems somewhere in Linux: > > 1) udev (or which layer ever) should mount drives with async,commit=1 as > default instead of using the extremely slow sync mode. > > 2) I understand that sync is slower than async, but IMHO it is a bug, > that it

Re: [Dirvish] Tuning my expiration dates

Petcher, Daniel wrote: > I *REALLY* need to buy and mount more disk space, but I don't have the > budget or time for that project this quarter. I'd guess it's going to cost more of your time (which is also money) to work out a software solution than to buy another disk! False economy? > I saw the

Re: [Dirvish] Re: Tuning my expiration dates

Brian Martin wrote: >> I saw the "dirvish-expire --time time_expression" command, but that >> doesn't >> accelerate the expiry of existing backups, either. > > Some of my back-up strategies involve keeping some back-ups for 6-months or > a year. Since I don't really know if my retention periods m

Re: [Dirvish] Moving Dirvish Vaults (Was: Tuning my expiration dates)

Keith Lofstrom wrote: > On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 07:19:22PM -0700, Andrew Crawford wrote: >> This is probably a FAQ but, I found no answers on dirvish.org. > > You might want to look at: > >http://wiki.dirvish.org/index.cgi?CopyingDisks I added a link to it from the DirvishTips page. Cheers,

Re: [Dirvish] checksum=0 may be causing inaccurate backups!!!

Barton C Massey wrote: > It seems like it can be heavily optimized, is all I was > thinking. If a new file is created with the same metadata > as some old file, you just need to checksum the old and new > files to see if they're the same? In other words, the ctime > should save you here? I don't

Re: [Dirvish] move/rename files/folders

Eric Wilhelm wrote: > # from Marco Jackel > # on Thursday 21 June 2007 01:43 am: > >> what happen if I move or rename files or folders in a directory that >> gets backuped every night. Are those "new" files/folders hardlinked to >> the existing ones in the backup, too? > > No. The backup linkage

Re: [Dirvish] Tips for low-bandwidth backups

Asheesh Laroia wrote: > I have one server whose upload speed is only about 40 KB/s. I want to > back it up to a remote server despite the slow link. I want to start by > asking generally: Does anyone have any tips for this sort of slow > scenario? There used to be a saying that the highest ba

Re: [Dirvish] Dirvish list - working now?

Keith Lofstrom wrote: > The dirvish list has been down for perhaps up to four weeks. I thought it was quiet :) Thanks for repairing it. > And if you /really/ want to help, you can sign up for the new testing > list at http://www.dirvish.org/mailman/listinfo/test , and start > posting messages t

[Dirvish] problems initializing image

I'm glad the list is working, because I have a problem of my own to ask about :) I'm having problems initializing a 60 GB image. I'm still investigating but wondered if anybody recognized what I'm doing wrong. I use dirvish to mirror a remote archive, so I get a history of the archive as it change

Re: [Dirvish] Tips for low-bandwidth backups

Asheesh Laroia wrote: > The initial image is done, it's just that the other site generated a lot > of data that should get backed up. Most days there will be a tiny > differential, but some days there will be a huge differential - so big > that it could take around a week to push it all up. Ah

Re: [Dirvish] problems initializing image

Asheesh Laroia wrote: > Are you using rsync over SSH? No, it's an rsyncd server. I should have mentioned that. Cheers, Dave ___ Dirvish mailing list Dirvish@dirvish.org http://www.dirvish.org/mailman/listinfo/dirvish

Re: [Dirvish] problems initializing image

Paul Slootman wrote: > On Mon 06 Aug 2007, Dave Howorth wrote: >> Asheesh Laroia wrote: >>> Are you using rsync over SSH? >> No, it's an rsyncd server. I should have mentioned that. > > Then you could remove the "rsh: ssh" line from the config :) Hm

Re: [Dirvish] problems initializing image

I wrote: > Paul Slootman wrote: >> One thing you could try: remove the zxfer option, there have been case >> known that requesting the compression leads to mutual timeouts. > > I'll try that, thanks. Most of the files are .gz so I don't suppose > compression is very helpful anyway. Here's a littl

Re: [Dirvish] Offsite Disks

Steve Ramage wrote: > everyday after dirvish is done running > doing an rsync of the vault with the external USB disk to sync them up > (I'm hoping this would preserve the hardlinking structure). Sadly not, in my experience. I have dirvish make a vault (it's actually a local historical mirror o

Re: [Dirvish] run from cron fails

Kevin Foote wrote: > Hello all - very quirky situation here. I have a proper dirvish setup > which works ... > bank and valuts defined correctly etc.. > > I am trying to run via cron at the wee hours of night and it fails with > dirvish error 127 .. this is a rsync error supposedly. > > I have ve

Re: [Dirvish] Multiple /etc/dirvish/master.conf and bank definition

Eric Searcy wrote: > Next, dirvish-runall doesn't even need to know the bank setup. The only > configuration this script looks at is `Dirvish:' (the path to dirvish) > and the `Runall:' block. So, you don't need the redundant bank > declarations, just specify them (and all your expire rules, etc)

Re: [Dirvish] Seeding vault

Roberto Mello wrote: > I am --init'ing my vaults, and I have one that is particularly large. > I have an existing rsync backup with the contents of what's going into > the vault. > > Is there a way to pre-seed the vault with the files I already have? Yes :) I have done this. I just constructed t

Re: [Dirvish] Runall Fails

Arno Wald wrote: > Kenneth Lerman wrote: >> Today is 2007-11-11, so I wouldn't think that the existence of 20071110 >> would matter. > > You should be able to run dirvish multiple times per day. The name of > the image (or whatever it is called) should contain the timestamp hh:mm, > too. Here e.

Re: [Dirvish] implementing new dirvish features

Jacki wrote: > hello dirvish users and developers > > i am an excessive dirvish user and think about implementing some > improvements. please let me known your opinion about the following ideas: Hello Jacki, Lots of good ideas for improvements and I've made some individual comments below. There

Re: [Dirvish] implementing new dirvish features

Roberto Mello wrote: >> # >> # dirvish-runall vaults on command line # >> # >> >> #current state# >> dirvish-runall executes dirvish on all vaults within master.conf and >> "runall:" >> if you split your backup, for in

Re: [Dirvish] implementing new dirvish features

Richard Geoffrion wrote: > Dave Howorth wrote: >>> I implement this through passing different --config parameters to >>> dirvish-runall. >>> >>> dirvish-expire however, has no such option, so I end up calling >>> dirvish-expire on all the vaults i

Re: [Dirvish] Dirvish backup controlled by client?

Frank Lüken wrote: > Hi! > > Can i config dirvish that way, that i can initialize the backup from > the client-pc? > > Still i use a Dirvish backup server which connect to some client pc's > and start the backup process. But in my network are notebooks too and > these notebooks have a dynamic ip

Re: [Dirvish] Dirvish backup controlled by client?

Noel Kelly wrote: > Dave Howorth wrote: >> Frank Lüken wrote: >>> Hi! >>> >>> Can i config dirvish that way, that i can initialize the backup from >>> the client-pc? >>> >>> Still i use a Dirvish backup server which connect to some

Re: [Dirvish] Dirvish backup controlled by client?

Dave Howorth wrote: > Frank Lüken wrote: >> the main Problem is, we have only a few free ip's and many laptops. > > So perhaps another way to solve your dirvish question is to make this > problem go away. Just switch to using private ip addresses

Re: [Dirvish] Dirvish backup controlled by client?

Frank Lüken wrote: > the main Problem is, we have only a few free ip's and many laptops. So perhaps another way to solve your dirvish question is to make this problem go away. Just switch to using private ip addresses (i.e. RFC 198 :) Cheers, Dave ___

Re: [Dirvish] dirvish for backing up W$

Niels Jende wrote: > a friend of mine needs a backup-system for his home-office. His machine > is a W$ Box running XP-Pro. Now here comes my question: > > Will it be easy to do that with dirvish? If so, has anyone of you > somewhere some links to one or more HowTo's? To answer this question, I

Re: [Dirvish] Diff of two images

Wouter Gazendam wrote: > Hi, > > I have a repository of a machine with about 100Gb of data per image. > My problem is that for about any given day, the next image uses up > 20Gb of more data. > > I'd like to see what is different between the two images, to see what > data keeps changing. Is there

Re: [Dirvish] Expire removes most recent backup?

Keith Lofstrom wrote: > On Friday 04 Jan 2008, Barton C Massey spake thus: >> That's very helpful---thanks much! I imagine I'll go ahead >> and just make dirvish-expire do the right thing here, > > On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 02:08:56PM +0100, Eric Mountain wrote: >> I disagree with your perception o

Re: [Dirvish] Expire removes most recent backup?

Steve Ramage wrote: > I don't believe that only the most recent should be the only preserved > backup, but I fail to see the harm in having an option to set this. > Different setups require different needs. I would personally also like > to see dirvish-expire carry forward or backwards the expir

Re: [Dirvish] Dirvish Expiry problem

Paul Slootman wrote: > Well, the summary file shows a successful image, so I think that the > warning is irrelevant -- dirvish-expire only looks at the summary file, > not the log file to see if there were any errors. The summary file says: Status: warning (24) -- file vanished on sender Summary

Re: [Dirvish] Dirvish Expiry problem

fsdfds fdsf wrote: > Status: warning (24) -- file vanished on sender I just had a quick look at the code and I don't think there's anything odd about what's happening. I guess there are three choices: (1) Hack dirvish so it outputs a 'success' status in this circumstance (2) Hack dirvish-expire s

Re: [Dirvish] Backup multiple server at the same time

Red Mop wrote: > On Friday 08 February 2008 09:34:28 am Jarkko Ypäjä wrote: > In your case, I would make a single cron entry for dirvish-expire at, say, > 8pm , then at 9pm or so, run 'dirvish --vault (vaultname) for each vault. I > would avoid trying to run more than one vault at a time on any

Re: [Dirvish] Can Vaults in Different Banks Have the Same Name?

Andrew Crawford wrote: ... > If I rename the vault to something unique (/backup/server2/vault1b), the > init works fine. > > So, am I missing something or, is there a bug that makes it impossible > to have vaults with the same name in multiple banks? It's not a bug. It's just a fact. Vault names

Re: [Dirvish] Dirvish does not continue after rsync-error

Matthias Bachert wrote: > Hi > > We had an rsync error in one of our vaults and after that all other > vaults which are listed after that "faulty" vault in the master.conf > were not backed up. If you're using dirvish-runall that shouldn't happen. I regularly have individual backups fail but subs

Re: [Dirvish] Dirvish does not continue after rsync-error

Matthias Bachert wrote: > Hi > > In the log file "log" the error reads: > > archive.pst failed verification -- update discarded (will try again). > > And in the "rsync_error" it reads: > > archive.pst failed verification -- update discarded. > rsync error: some files could not be transferred (

Re: [Dirvish] Dirvish does not continue after rsync-error

Matthias Bachert wrote: >> Sorry, I should have been more explicit. I meant the logs in >> the other vaults and the output of dirvish-runall. > > There are no logs in the other vaults. There isn't even a directory > created for that particular day. That's weird. The process isn't still running,

Re: [Dirvish] Dirvish does not continue after rsync-error

Matthias Bachert wrote: >>> There are no logs in the other vaults. There isn't even a directory >>> created for that particular day. >> That's weird. The process isn't still running, is it? > > It doesn't seem so. ps axu|grep dirvish and ps axu|grep rsync yields > nothing. > >>> What do you mea

Re: [Dirvish] Dirvish does not continue after rsync-error

Brian wrote: > Dave Howorth wrote: >> Matthias Bachert wrote: >>>>> There are no logs in the other vaults. There isn't even a directory >>>>> created for that particular day. >>>> That's weird. The process isn't still running,

Re: [Dirvish] Dirvish speed and security

Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda wrote: > A Dimecres 28 Maig 2008, Leopold Palomo Avellaneda va escriure: >> A Dimarts 27 Maig 2008, Shawn (Red Mop) va escriure: >>> Paul pretty much covered everything I would say. Don't do the >>> compression settings, as they won't help enough to be worth it in this >

Re: [Dirvish] Dirvish speed and security

Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda wrote: > A Dimecres 28 Maig 2008, Dave Howorth va escriure: > The icy box _only_ offer network connection. So, maybe one option should be > use another box (with a Linux) and this external hd connected via nfs. Then I > could have a bot with ram and cpu

Re: [Dirvish] Dirvish speed and security

Shawn (Red Mop) wrote: > This also suggests making your rsize/wsize smaller... > http://osdir.com/ml/nfs/2003-03/msg00119.html I think that's past its sell-by date :) AFAIK, current NFS uses TCP by default and the rsize and wsize are optimal as Leopold has them in most circumstances. So I'd do car

Re: [Dirvish] cannot open config file: default.conf

Lynoure Braakman wrote: > On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 4:57 AM, Colin Ingram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Stymie:/home/colin# cat /etc/dirvish/master.conf > >> bank: >>/backup/Stymie >>/backup/Fileserver/ > >> Stymie:/home/colin# dirvish --vault /backup/Stymie/stymie-home --init >>

Re: [Dirvish] default.hist: EXPIRES Never

Paul Slootman wrote: > On Wed 09 Jul 2008, Andre Loss wrote: > >> expire-rule: >> >> >> # MinHr Dom Mon Dow STRFTime_FMT >> ** 1 * * + 3 months > > It's not a strftime format, it's a Time::ParseDate format, so the > comment is wrong. Addit

Re: [Dirvish] rsync command being called twice in one take

Jenny Hopkins wrote: > Hullo there, > > I'm trying to find out why dirvish is running the rsync call twice in one > take? > > Server is running debian linux. The file /etc/dirvish/dirvish-cronjob > is called from cron.d, and dirvish-cronjob uses master.conf. > All are pretty standard, and haven

Re: [Dirvish] Administrivia: Yahoo

Keith Lofstrom wrote: > Recently, Yahoo has decided to block email from my virtual hosting > service, rimuhosting.com . Many hours of filling out endless forms > have apparently not changed their decision. This is supposedly a > spam prevention measure. Meanwhile, my server gets over 300 spams >

Re: [Dirvish] Dirvish expiring newer images

Loren M. Lang wrote: > I have an old backup drive that I just put back into the rotation. It > had some old images that are all now expired. Since the vaults still > use the same configuration, I decided to just run dirvish-expire > followed by dirvish-runall and was surprised to see that dirvish

Re: [Dirvish] Ideas for cool running external hard drives

Loren M. Lang wrote: > It appears that USB does not offer any mechanisms to power down the > drives when they are not in use. I don't know much about USB drives but we did have the reverse problem with a Seagate FreeAgent, which would spin down by itself even when in use. Luckily we found some pos

Re: [Dirvish] emailing log files

dfirth wrote: > I wish to email the Dirvish log file each time a vault is created to show me > how many new files were created. Dirvish log files are placed in new > directories named by the date and time they were created. How can I do this > when I do not know the path for the file? > > I tried

Re: [Dirvish] Permissions

Paul Slootman wrote: > On Fri 31 Oct 2008, dfirth wrote: >> I have got myself confused. >> I am running dirvish locally. (I rsync to a directory on this linux box, and >> then run dirvish using this directory as the client files). > > You mean you're doing it in 2 stages? I.e. at the end you have

Re: [Dirvish] Permissions

dfirth wrote: > Samba is set so that all files are "force user" myname which is the log on > user name of all the linux boxes. I have no need to preserve windows pcs > ownership or permissions. I don't use Samba so I don't really understand what this means. > What happens is two things. First, on

Re: [Dirvish] Permissions

dfirth wrote: > Excuse my ignorance. I can excuse ignorance - we all have to learn. But I can't help you until you provide the information I asked for. I'd agree with what Richard wrote, as well. Regards, Dave ___ Dirvish mailing list Dirvish@dirvish.or

Re: [Dirvish] documentation for 'exclude:' -or- *SUCCESS the hard way*

Richard Geoffrion wrote: > So, my question is, "Where in the documentation would I have been > able to find that when a dirvish user is wanting to exclude a directory > that contained spaces (such as "System Volume Information") that the > user should just add the directory name under the ex

Re: [Dirvish] documentation for 'exclude:' -or- *SUCCESS the hard way*

Richard Geoffrion wrote: > OK... well I have a situation now where the source path (tree: ) > contains a space. I can't get the quotes passed to the rsync command > line. So far, the following attempts to specify the path have not worked. > tree: "/home/database backups" > tree: /home/"databas

Re: [Dirvish] Expiry problems

Fionn Behrens wrote: > And are there any simple means to "manually" remove unwanted backup > steps before they are due to expire without compromising the integrity > of the whole vault? rm -r :) There's no problem with just deleting any image that you don't want. Remember that it's using hard l

Re: [Dirvish] filesystem full - but thats wrong

Frank Lüken wrote: > Hi i get everyday this message after my backupserver starts the daily backup: > dirvish ubuntu:default fatal error: write error, filesystem probably full > dirvish ubuntu:default fatal error: filesystem full > dirvish ubuntu:default fatal error (12) -- filesystem full > > If i

Re: [Dirvish] dirvish-expire very slow

Arjan Schrijver wrote: > The backup sizes vary from a few hundred MB's to a few GB's per server. > The speed of the backup itself is quite good, but after the backup we > start dirvish-expire, which takes about 6 hours, and sometimes even up > to 10 hours or more. > Is this normal? I don't know

Re: [Dirvish] Calling dirvish by cron doesn't backup

Rolf-Werner Eilert wrote: > Having cron calling this script, it will just list the vaults and mail > "done". Calling the script manually as root will make a backup as expected. > > Any idea? Well, you don't give us the contents of your dirvish config and you don't give us the output from either

Re: [Dirvish] Calling dirvish by cron doesn't backup

Rolf-Werner Eilert wrote: > > 09:55:02 dirvish --vault backup-klein > 09:55:02 dirvish --vault backup-opt > 09:55:02 dirvish --vault backup-root > 09:55:02 dirvish --vault backup-usr > 09:55:02 dirvish --vault backup-var > 09:55:02 done > > As you can see, dirvish doesn't take any time making a b

Re: [Dirvish] sending mail on any failure

fostandy wrote: > Hi, I'm new to this backup game. I'm wondering if there is a straightforward > way I can make dirvish (or it's pre/post exec scripts) send an email if any > stage of the backup process fails? My cron is set up to mail me with whatever output the job produces. So there's no need f

Re: [Dirvish] solution for "ERROR: no master configuration file"

san...@3dicom.es wrote: > Hello everybody. I'm a new user of dirvish and I had this error and > looking for in the code of dirvish.pl I knew that the var CONFDIR was > null, so I've included this line in the beginning: > > $CONFDIR = "/etc/dirvish"; > > So, it finds the file master.conf and I hav

Re: [Dirvish] singling out crucial data

Loren M. Lang wrote: > I don't use dirvish-runall because I am unaware > of a way to control which vaults are run. I have different schedules > for certain less critical vaults. Might need to be a future feature of > dirvish-runall. I can post my script if anyone's interested. Just create anoth

Re: [Dirvish] Development of Dirvish

Matthias Taube wrote: > So I take it "as it is" and write own scripts to add features. Or ask here about your particular requirements and people may be able to suggest ways of using the configuration options and/or point out existing scripts. Cheers, Dave _

Re: [Dirvish] password-file option may only be used when accessing an rsync daemon

datenritter wrote: > Any ideas? Trust the error message? Read the rsync man page? > The --password-file option may only be used when accessing an rsync daemon. > the important part of the default.conf looks like this: Well the important part of your config would be the part that confirms you re

Re: [Dirvish] Too much disk space for images

Jenny Hopkins wrote: > does this mean that the directory size of 20090712 is 0.2G PLUS the > 31.7G from 20090705, then in turn the 20090719 is 1.8G PLUS the > 31.7G PLUS the 0.2G? > > So that when image 20090705 is deleted, the du for 20090712 will show 31.9G? > > And so on down the line, so t

Re: [Dirvish] Cleaning Up A Repeating Error

Rich Shepard wrote: > = > Rsync-Errors > (/media/hd0/backup/dirvish/server/a-tmp/20091227-2200/tree/../rsync_error): > = > RSYNC_ERR: > RSYNC_ERR:

Re: [Dirvish] How to keep monthly backups

Ali Jawad wrote: > Hi > My dirvish keeps backups for the last 14 days. I need it to keep the > monthly backups as well. > Regards http://www.dirvish.org/dirvish.conf.5.html#EXPIRE%20RULES ___ Dirvish mailing list Dirvish@dirvish.org http://www.dirvish.or

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