[BackupPC-users] Rename backup client
Firstly, let me acknowledge how helpful people on this list have been to date - it is appreciated: thank you. I want to rename some of the clients that are backed up, at least as far as the name displayed in the BackupPC UI is concerned. What I've done so far: - changed a.very.long.hostname in the hosts file to shortname - renamed the per-client config file from a.very.long.hostname.pl to shortname.pl - renamed the backuppc/pc/a.very.long.hostname directory to backuppc/pc/shortname - reloaded the configuration file However, BackupPC reports that there is now one host that has never been backed up, namely shortname. What do I need to do to convince BackupPC that this host is now simply being referred to by a different name? Thanks, Keith - 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] HOWTO or RPM for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4?
James Pulver wrote: I tried following the source directions, but many of the dependencies are not available for RHEL4 via yum... Has anyone build an RPM for this install? Does anyone happen to have step by step install instructions for RHEL4? I run BackupPC 3 on CentOS 4 (practically identical to RHEL 4) and I installed the dependencies from Dag's rpmforge yum repository. I only needed to install three perl modules from Dag's repository: yum install perl-Compress-Zlib perl-Archive-Zip perl-File-RsyncP Could have done that through CPAN, but it's nice to have them automatically updated through yum, so I recommend Dag's yum channel: http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/ All other dependencies are available from the default repositories, most of which are probably already installed by default. After installing those perl modules the BackupPC docs walked me right through the install. Nils Breunese. - 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] Rename backup client
What I've done so
far:
I forgot to add that I've also added to the per-client configuration file:
$Conf{ClientNameAlias} = 'a.very.long.hostname';
Thanks,
Keith
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Re: [BackupPC-users] Problems with per-PC config file - Thanks
I'm wondering what a non-FHS version of BackupPC is. The versions before 3.0.0 didn't follow the Linux File Hierarchy Standard (FHS), which is a standard (use Google to find it!) Good call - I usually do use google! :) that specifies where files of each type should go. For example, configuration files belong in the /etc directory. Yeah, I had it there originally and moved it when I thought it could be the reason why my settings weren't being picked up. (/etc/BackupPC/). Thanks!- Dawn R - 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] Rename backup client
Answering my own posts: it appears that the original steps I took DID work, except that the directory under 'pc' had its ownership changed to root. Once I chown'd it to be owned by backuppc:backuppc, all appeared to be well. Keith - 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/
[BackupPC-users] Possible to have 2 backup loactions?
I want to use Backuppc to do standard backups from windows servers to a raid 10 setup on the server. However i would like to copy some of the data backed up to another external drive for outside the building safe keeping is this possible with backuppc? So back up everything to main backup disks, then copy some of that data to an external disk so that i can leave the building with it... Anyone, Anyone,.. *Bueller?* :) -- Rob Morin Dido InterNet Inc. Montreal, Canada Http://www.dido.ca 514-990- - 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] Possible to have 2 backup loactions?
Rob Morin wrote: I want to use Backuppc to do standard backups from windows servers to a raid 10 setup on the server. However i would like to copy some of the data backed up to another external drive for outside the building safe keeping is this possible with backuppc? So back up everything to main backup disks, then copy some of that data to an external disk so that i can leave the building with it... Anyone, Anyone,.. *Bueller?* If it is a reasonably small portion that is copied out, you can use the web interface to browse to the location in the backup, pick restore, and have it sent to the browser as a tar file that you save to the external drive mounted on the machine running the browser (not necessarily the backuppc server). For something bigger you can use the command line BackupPC_tarCreate program to generate the tar image on the server, perhaps scripting it to compress and perhaps split the output. If you want tar images of entire hosts, you can create an 'archive host' which basically give you a way to make a tar image from the latest backup of selected hosts through the web interface, sending the output to a tape or storing in a pre-configured directory. -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 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/
[BackupPC-users] BackupPC and Vista
Greetings, We're having some issues with BackupPC, more specifically SMB and Vista's symbolic links (or Junctions by Vista terms) in the AppData folder. Has anyone been able to use the smb transfer method and not loop through the links when backing up a profile (c:\users\username\*)? We tried using the 'follow links = no' option in the smb.conf file to no avail. We're running BackupPC version 2.1.2pl1 and Samba version 3.0.10 (but same result with 3.0.24). Many thanks. Matt -- ** - 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/
[BackupPC-users] archiving to tape
Has anyone implemented periodic archiving of full dumps to tape? I think the FAQ mentions that it's possible, but doesn't give any detailed recommendations. I'm looking at bacula, but before I reinvent the wheel, I thought I'd ask if anyone already has some sort of integration figured out. Anyone? Cheers, Stephen -- Stephen Joyce Systems AdministratorP A N I C Physics Astronomy Department Physics Astronomy University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Network Infrastructure voice: (919) 962-7214and Computing fax: (919) 962-0480 http://www.panic.unc.edu Some people make the world turn and others just watch it spin. -- Jimmy Buffet - 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/
