Hello Tino
Thanks for all the answers there, they all worked. I wasnt getting my
hopes up with BackupPC actually running after the changes, sure enough
it didnt.
However I can now see all the hosts via the GUI. However when I ran
the backups I am back to receiving the 'Fatal' or 'aborted' errors on
two of the hosts and the 3rd host errors out as it cannot ping, which
is strange as you can ping the host. Havent come across the 'no ping
response' before.
This is occurring on two of the hosts...i recall this happening when I
first setup Backup PC, but for the life of me its all blurry and cant
remember.
I did move the .ssh dir which for me is located in /var/lib/backuppc.
There is no home directory called backuppc.
(2008-04-07 13:41:58 Got fatal error during xfer (No files dumped for
share /home/)
2008-04-07 13:42:03 Backup aborted (No files dumped for share /home/))
One step closer
ashley
On 7-Apr-08, at 1:00 PM, Tino Schwarze wrote:
Hi Ashley,
On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 11:32:49AM -0700, Ashley Paul James wrote:
> I am running backupPC on a ESX VM using an attached (via switch)
LaCie
> NAS drive mounted using SMB. Being a low cost drive this does not
> support NFS or Hardlinks or much else really.
Uh-oh. Poor-man's SAN? ;-) This isn't going to scream, performance
wise.
> The setup:
> OS:Ubuntu
> NAS mounted using smb
> 273gig backuppc.img file formatted as ext2 and mounted on /var/lib/
> backuppc (this is a 'work around')
You should use ext3 since you'd want to avoid fsck'ing that 273 gig
over
the network as far as possible. Unmount, run tune2fs -j on the image,
then remount as ext3.
> The latest problem is what seems a very basic problem, Im am
receiving
> the 'Error:Unable to connect to BackupPC server' on all my hosts
when
> the .img file is mounted as /var/lib/backuppc
> As soon as I unmount the backuppc.img file from /var/lib/backuppc
> everything works fine.
Ah, you need to stop backuppc, then mount, then start it again.
> These are my two mount points:
> //192.168.10.70/backuppc on /mnt/net-storage type smbfs (rw)
> /mnt/net-storage/backuppc.img on /var/lib/backuppc type ext2
(rw,loop=/
> dev/loop0)
>
> And this is what I am running to mount these.
> smbmount //192.168.10.70/backuppc /mnt/net-storage -o
> username=backuppc,password=backuppc,uid=backuppc,gid=backuppc
> mount -o loop /mnt/net-storage/backuppc.img /var/lib/backuppc
Looks good to me.
> I copied over the pc directory from the local /var/lib/backuppc
> directory thinking that BackupPC requires this directory, but this
did
> not work.
> I noticed that when I create files on the *.img file it uses root
so i
> tried to run 'mount -o loop /mnt/net-storage/backuppc.img /var/lib/
> backuppc' using username/password=backuppc but this did not work.
ext3 (which is ext2 plus a journal) preserves the user id and file
permissions of files stored on it (the uid/gid option is a workaround
for Samba->Linux integration), there is no point in setting one at
mount
time. You have to copy the pc directory with "cp -a" or "rsync -aH",
if I
remember correctly, so all file permissions etc. are preserved.
> I feel so close to actually running a backup. As I said earlier,
one
> door shuts and another one opens.
You are very close. :-)
HTH,
Tino.
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