On Friday 21 September 2012 16:22:29 Tony Molloy wrote: > On Friday 21 September 2012 16:11:26 Tony Molloy wrote: > > On Friday 21 September 2012 13:17:26 Daniel J. Doughty wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I've got BackupPC running and backing up linux boxes fine. I'm > > > now trying to back up a Windows 2003 box. I've got the SMB > > > shared out and now want to set the password in backuppc but > > > just want to do it for this host. So I went searching for the > > > CONFDIR/pc/ subdir and couldn't find it. All I can find is my > > > TOPDIR/pc/ subdir. > > > > > > Any idea what I'm missing here? > > > > Incredible I am just doing the same thing myself. Installing > > BackupPC-3.2 on a CentOS-6.3 box replacing 3.1 on an old > > CentOS-5.8 box and was just about to ask the same question. > > > > I'm just running a test now. > > > > I created the /etc/BackupPC/pc directory and put a per-host > > config file there so I'll see if the backup kicks off in a few > > minutes and let you know. > > > > Tony >
That's it. Create the directory /etc/BackupPC/pc. owner backuppc:backuppc. Copy the per-host file into it, owner backuppc:backuppc, and away you go. Or you could go with Les's way and configure the web interface, which you'll probably want to do anyway. Thank's Les ;-) Tony > Ok BackupPC seemed to find the per-host config file, just didn't do > any backup. But that could be another problem ;-( > > It created the directory /var/lib/BackupPB/pc/host. So I assume > that meant it found the config file and attempted a backup which > failed. Just an empty LOG file and a LOCK file in the directory. > > Tony > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > >-- ----------- Got visibility? > > Most devs has no idea what their production app looks like. > > Find out how fast your code is with AppDynamics Lite. > > http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;262219671;13503038;y? > > http://info.appdynamics.com/FreeJavaPerformanceDownload.html > > _______________________________________________ > > BackupPC-users mailing list > > BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > List: > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > > Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net > > Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > ----------- Got visibility? > Most devs has no idea what their production app looks like. > Find out how fast your code is with AppDynamics Lite. > http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;262219671;13503038;y? > http://info.appdynamics.com/FreeJavaPerformanceDownload.html > _______________________________________________ > BackupPC-users mailing list > BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net > List: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: > http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net > Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Got visibility? Most devs has no idea what their production app looks like. Find out how fast your code is with AppDynamics Lite. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;262219671;13503038;y? http://info.appdynamics.com/FreeJavaPerformanceDownload.html _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/