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Firstly, what a fantastic piece of software BackupPC is, well done Craig and co!

When I run BackupPC_archiveStart from the command line it's not using compression for the backup, the backup file is created using "raw", however if I start the archive job via the web-interface it uses compression (gzip by default).

The command I am running is:

/usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_archiveStart offsite-archive backuppc nphts

config:

$Conf{ArchiveComp} = 'gzip';
$Conf{CompressLevel} = '1';

thanks
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Best Regards,
Stephen

I take it nobody knows?

On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 3:28 PM, Stephen Vaughan <stephenvaughan < at > gmail.com ([email]stephenvaughan < at > gmail.com[/email])> wrote:
Firstly, what a fantastic piece of software BackupPC is, well done Craig and co!

When I run BackupPC_archiveStart from the command line it's not using compression for the backup, the backup file is created using "raw", however if I start the archive job via the web-interface it uses compression (gzip by default).

The command I am running is:

/usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_archiveStart offsite-archive backuppc nphts

config:

$Conf{ArchiveComp} = 'gzip';
$Conf{CompressLevel} = '1';

thanks
--
Best Regards,
Stephen




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Best Regards,
Stephen

Stephen writes:

When I run BackupPC_archiveStart from the command line it's not
using compression for the backup, the backup file is created using
"raw", however if I start the archive job via the web-interface it
uses compression (gzip by default).

The command I am running is:

/usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_archiveStart offsite-archive backuppc nphts

Looks like a typo in bin/BackupPC_archiveStart. This line:

compression => $bpc->{Conf}{CatPath},

should be

compression => $bpc->{Conf}{ArchiveComp},

Or slightly more correctly, if $bpc->{Conf}{ArchiveComp} is "none"
you should set compression to $bpc->{Conf}{CatPath} instead.

You might also want to change the value of compext
when compression is on.

Craig

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hmm okay. That sort of worked, I did the first change now I'm getting an error for gzip:

2008-10-13 11:44:56 Archive failed (Error: gzip is not an executable program)$Conf{ArchiveComp} = 'gzip';
$Conf{CompressLevel} = '1';
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 11:28 AM, Craig Barratt <cbarratt < at > users.sourceforge.net ([email]cbarratt < at > users.sourceforge.net[/email])> wrote:
Stephen writes:

When I run BackupPC_archiveStart from the command line it's not
using compression for the backup, the backup file is created using
"raw", however if I start the archive job via the web-interface it
uses compression (gzip by default).

The command I am running is:

/usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_archiveStart offsite-archive backuppc nphts


Looks like a typo in bin/BackupPC_archiveStart. This line:

compression => $bpc->{Conf}{CatPath},

should be

compression => $bpc->{Conf}{ArchiveComp},

Or slightly more correctly, if $bpc->{Conf}{ArchiveComp} is "none"
you should set compression to $bpc->{Conf}{CatPath} instead.

You might also want to change the value of compext
when compression is on.

Craig



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Best Regards,
Stephen

Stephen writes:

hmm okay. That sort of worked, I did the first change now I'm getting an error for gzip:

Set it to the full path, eg: /bin/gzip.

Craig

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Still seems to be creating a .raw archive:

backuppc 25740 0.0 0.5 8724 5628 ? S 11:51 0:00 /usr/bin/perl /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_archive offsite-archive archiveReq.25739.0
backuppc 25851 0.0 0.4 7320 4568 ? S 11:57 0:00 /usr/bin/perl /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_archiveHost /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_tarCreate /usr/bin/split localhost 24 /bin/gzip .raw 0000000 /data/NAS-Mount-MaxBackups/offsite 0 *
backuppc 25852 0.0 0.1 4132 1212 ? S 11:57 0:00 /bin/csh -cf /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_tarCreate -t -h localhost -n 24 -s * . | /bin/gzip > /data/NAS-Mount-MaxBackups/offsite/localhost.24.tar.raw
backuppc 25853 19.6 1.4 17240 14576 ? D 11:57 0:34 /usr/bin/perl /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_tarCreate -t -h localhost -n 24 -s * .

nphts.24.tar.raw

On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 11:50 AM, Craig Barratt <cbarratt < at > users.sourceforge.net ([email]cbarratt < at > users.sourceforge.net[/email])> wrote:
Stephen writes:

hmm okay. That sort of worked, I did the first change now I'm getting an error for gzip:


Set it to the full path, eg: /bin/gzip.

Craig



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Stephen

Stephen writes:

Still seems to be creating a .raw archive:

Yes. The archive is now compressed, in spite of the extension:

/bin/csh -cf /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_tarCreate -t -h localhost -n 24 -s \* . | /bin/gzip > /data/NAS-Mount-MaxBackups/offsite/localhost.24.tar.raw

The extension name is hardcoded too. In my earlier reply I said:

You might also want to change the value of compext
when compression is on.

Currently in bin/BackupPC_archiveStart:

compext => '.raw',

Craig

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Yep you're right, thanks.

On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 12:12 PM, Craig Barratt <cbarratt < at > users.sourceforge.net ([email]cbarratt < at > users.sourceforge.net[/email])> wrote:
Stephen writes:

Still seems to be creating a .raw archive:


Yes. The archive is now compressed, in spite of the extension:

/bin/csh -cf /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_tarCreate -t -h localhost -n 24 -s * . | /bin/gzip > /data/NAS-Mount-MaxBackups/offsite/localhost.24.tar.raw


The extension name is hardcoded too. In my earlier reply I said:

You might also want to change the value of compext
when compression is on.


Currently in bin/BackupPC_archiveStart:

compext => '.raw',

Craig



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Best Regards,
Stephen