Re: [BackupPC-users] Allow web access to clients to make backups?
B Wooster wrote: Still struggling to get permissions and usernames sorted out, so hoping someone already using BackupPC can help out. Is this tool appropriate to build a private remote-backup service that can be offered to friends and family? So, on my Linux server, I would like to run BackupPC server. Then, would like any remote user, anywhere in the world, to go to a web site, log in using their username/password, and be able to backup their machine specifying folders they want backed up. And restore files as needed. I am not sure yet if this is doable - can anyone shed light on this? No, this is not exactly how it works. The BackupPC administrator (i.e. you) create a list of hosts (hostnames, IP addresses, NetBIOS names) that are backed up by BackupPC. You can give people logins to their backups, but the users don't specify what is backed up. The normal scenario is also that hosts are backed up automatically (say, daily), but I believe that can be changed to an on-demand scenario (no automatic backups). BackupPC can certainly be used as a private remote backup service, but mainly the problem is your 'anywhere in the world', as the hostname/IP address/NetBIOS name is a constant in this system. Nils Breunese. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Allow web access to clients to make backups?
Nils Breunese (Lemonbit Internet) wrote: BackupPC can certainly be used as a private remote backup service, but mainly the problem is your 'anywhere in the world', as the hostname/IP address/NetBIOS name is a constant in this system. If it doesn't handle that now, that seems like an important shortcoming of BackupPC, to be included a feature wishlist. I think it would be a common issue with backing up or restoring to laptops. It might be also exist in corporate WANs or campus area networks. - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Allow web access to clients to make backups?
Hi, If I understand well, this looks very interesting for different reasons : - backup of hosts which are not routable - no open port needed on the client Do you have any tips to do this? Thanks, Samuel Bancal - Uni-GE Les Mikesell wrote: Marty wrote: Nils Breunese (Lemonbit Internet) wrote: BackupPC can certainly be used as a private remote backup service, but mainly the problem is your 'anywhere in the world', as the hostname/IP address/NetBIOS name is a constant in this system. If it doesn't handle that now, that seems like an important shortcoming of BackupPC, to be included a feature wishlist. I think it would be a common issue with backing up or restoring to laptops. It might be also exist in corporate WANs or campus area networks. You could arrange this with a vpn connection like openvpn that presents a known address for the connection, or with dedictated ports for ssh tunnels set up by the client. The web side will already work. If you specify someone as an 'owner' of one or more machines, that is all that the corresponding web login will be able to see. -- / --- \ Mr Samuel BancalMail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Université de GENEVE User = Samuel.Bancal Division Informatique Domain = adm.unige.ch 24 rue Général-Dufour Tel : +4122 379 7506 1211 GENEVE Fax : +4122 379 7986 Suisse www : http://www.unige.ch/dinf \ --- / - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] International Characters
Hello Francis, Same kind of observations but inverse ! Results of some tests with the same server and the same Vista client (XP is same) - configuration of my server : Solaris 10/x86 with samba-3.0.24 (unix charset = UTF-8), BackupPC 3.0.0 - browser under MacOS X (Safari or FireFox) 1) with Xfer = smb - show correctly in the cgi = YES - correct download of one file from browser (respect of accents) = NO - correct restore and decompressed archive ( with 7zip, PowerArchiver, Winzip,...) = NO 2) with Xfer = rsyncd - show correctly in the cgi = NO - correct download of one file from browser (respect of accents) = YES - correct restore and decompressed archive ( with 7zip, PowerArchiver, Winzip,...) = YES last but not least : the only way to restore correctly the file/folders with respect of accents with Xfer = smb, it's to use a MacOS X to unzip the archive ! I think that everything is in UTF-8 encoding but why these kinds of behavior ?? Definitely, rsyncd is the best method for windows client, but it's harm that there is a this problem with accent in browser : not so critical because we can restore with respect of accents ... regards jmb Francis Lessard wrote: Hi ! This software if wonderful ! I have only a small glitch with international characters in french. My test file name have « accents » on my system. I use the rsyncd way of backing up. This file is backed up correctly, shown correctly in the cgi (with all the accents). My only problem is when restoring… The filename is mangled when clicking on the link to download only this file. I havent tried direct restore though… Any idea on how to correct this ? Thanks ! Francis - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] SSH Tunnel HOWTO for BackupPC
Hi Johan, You document on how to use ssh tunneling with BackupPc is brilliant. I tried it and it works in test, but not in BackupPc. In my shell, loggued as backuppc (I replaced internalip, username, gateway) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home$ /etc/BackupPC/ssh-wrapper -p 3022 -f -L 7001:internalip:873 [EMAIL PROTECTED] sleep 20 works good : SSH Started succesfully After, ONLY this command have worked : [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home$ rsync --port=7001 [EMAIL PROTECTED]::myrsyncservice I tried to used the --port=7001 argument in BackupPC Cgi + several combos, no success, I have not found in logs the complete rsync command that BackupPC sends. Maybe it could me debug... My only hint is the port 3022 I use instead of the standard port 22 on the ssh gateway. Could that mix things up ? Thank you for opinion on that. Regards, Francis -Message d'origine- De : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] De la part de Johan Ehnberg Envoyé : 7 mai 2007 10:13 À : Johan Ehnberg; Craig Barratt Cc : BackupPC Users Objet : Re: [BackupPC-users] SSH Tunnel HOWTO for BackupPC Johan Ehnberg wrote: Dear BackupPC users and developers, I have created a short HOWTO for BackupPC on using SSH tunnels automatically with each job. This is the first version, but it should be complete. The HTML version of the document can be found on: http://www.ehnberg.net/johan/files/docs/backuppc-ssh-tunnel-howto.html Please feel free to try it out and send comments. It can also be added to the SSH FAQ later on, if it is useful. Best regards, Johan Ehnberg I have now been running this model for two weeks and it works like a charm. I consider it production quality and it could be added to the FAQ. It's mature software and a proven model - not much to prove there. If my HOWTO is too long, only section 4 could be merged, of course. Or it could be a page of it's own. In any case, it's free for use and modification as long as my name is in it somewhere ;). BTW. I am going to change my whole backup system from another program to BackupPC; I was simply _very_ impressed by the smart use of rsync and disk oriented intelligence: Bacula: 3606 minutes for Full backup number n BackupPC: 46 minutes for Full backup number 1+n Bacula: 113 GB disk usage for all jobs BackupPC: 63 GB disk usage for all jobs Not to mention BackupPC handles partial backups, which is necessary for the first data set over the Internet for very long jobs. Go BackupPC, and thanks to Craig Barratt! Best regards, Johan -- Johan Ehnberg Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GSM: +358503209688 WWW: http://www.ehnberg.net/johan/ - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] International Characters
Weird thing... On my side, I found that Firefox (PC) handles correctly the direct download (for the file name) My results so far are : On client (windows) conf client charset is cp1252, backup method rsynd On Server (ubuntu LTS) locale is UTF-8 CGI- OK LS directly os server = OK Direct download from CGI = OK in firefox, BAD in IE7 Download Zip = BAD Download TAR = OK Rsync Restore = OK ! Have you specified the clientcharset correctly for your client ? I'm not sure about Macs though... I will post futur results if I solve the zip / IE7! Francis -Message d'origine- De : Jean-Michel Beuken [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Envoyé : 9 mai 2007 16:44 À : Francis Lessard Cc : backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Objet : Re: [BackupPC-users] International Characters Hello Francis, Same kind of observations but inverse ! Results of some tests with the same server and the same Vista client (XP is same) - configuration of my server : Solaris 10/x86 with samba-3.0.24 (unix charset = UTF-8), BackupPC 3.0.0 - browser under MacOS X (Safari or FireFox) 1) with Xfer = smb - show correctly in the cgi = YES - correct download of one file from browser (respect of accents) = NO - correct restore and decompressed archive ( with 7zip, PowerArchiver, Winzip,...) = NO 2) with Xfer = rsyncd - show correctly in the cgi = NO - correct download of one file from browser (respect of accents) = YES - correct restore and decompressed archive ( with 7zip, PowerArchiver, Winzip,...) = YES last but not least : the only way to restore correctly the file/folders with respect of accents with Xfer = smb, it's to use a MacOS X to unzip the archive ! I think that everything is in UTF-8 encoding but why these kinds of behavior ?? Definitely, rsyncd is the best method for windows client, but it's harm that there is a this problem with accent in browser : not so critical because we can restore with respect of accents ... regards jmb Francis Lessard wrote: Hi ! This software if wonderful ! I have only a small glitch with international characters in french. My test file name have « accents » on my system. I use the rsyncd way of backing up. This file is backed up correctly, shown correctly in the cgi (with all the accents). My only problem is when restoring The filename is mangled when clicking on the link to download only this file. I havent tried direct restore though Any idea on how to correct this ? Thanks ! Francis - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] International Characters
Francis writes: On my side, I found that Firefox (PC) handles correctly the direct download (for the file name) My results so far are : On client (windows) conf client charset is cp1252, backup method rsynd On Server (ubuntu LTS) locale is UTF-8 CGI- OK LS directly os server = OK Direct download from CGI = OK in firefox, BAD in IE7 Download Zip = BAD Download TAR = OK Rsync Restore = OK ! I use firefox, so it looks like I need to do more testing with other browsers. Looks like zip needs to be fixed too. Does anyone know the correct charset to use in a zip file, or is it whatever matches the machine that is running unzip? Craig - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
