Re: [BackupPC-users] Prepare for the worst, Howto backup the backuppc-server
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 10:35:25AM +1000, Adam Goryachev wrote: Success story :-) dan wrote: AOE is quite simple. on ubuntu you can build a target like this 1) Backup using RAID1 and AoE Setup another machine, that is located at another place and is connected via Gigabit LAN to the backuppc server (that means I need a 2nd NIC for the server). The new machine is 'offering' one of it's drives via AoE - this AoE-drive will become member of the RAID1. Since the RAID will be spread across two machines that can be located at different locations I get an additional security. As mentioned earlier, you can also backup using ndb (Network Block Device) over a truly remote TCP/IP connection, almost the same as AoE (except you need to specify the hostname/IP and port number to import the drive from). This allows for the case where you want a true off-site storage location without a bridged VPN. drbd seems to do rather well in such cases. AFAIK, it's derived from nbd. Tino. -- What we nourish flourishes. - Was wir nähren erblüht. www.craniosacralzentrum.de www.forteego.de - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ 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/
[BackupPC-users] backupc hosts linux
hi i use backuppc in ubuntu and i need to backup host linux client ,how to backup host linux client with backuppc , thanks - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/___ 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/
Re: [BackupPC-users] backupc hosts linux
fatima ech-charif wrote: i use backuppc in ubuntu and i need to backup host linux client ,how to backup host linux client with backuppc , thanks See the documentation: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/ BackupPC.html If you have a specific problem, please tell us about it. Nils Breunese. - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ 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/
[BackupPC-users] The backup blog, deduplication
Hi ! Here's an interesting article about deduplication: http://thebackupblog.typepad.com/thebackupblog/2008/07/the-impact-of-deduplication-methodology-on-deduplication-ratios.html This blog is the EMC Avamar's blog, and has some other interesting articles. Deduplication rates are impressive, I hope we will reach them one day with backuppc :-) For the NetBackup puredisk blog, go to https://forums.symantec.com/syment/blog?blog.id=NetBackup And there's also Sepaton's blog : http://www.aboutrestore.com/ It seems that a war has begun in the deduplication world ! Cheers, -- Ludovic Drolez. http://www.palmopensource.com - The PalmOS Open Source Portal http://www.drolez.com - Personal site - Linux, Zaurus and PalmOS stuff - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ 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/
[BackupPC-users] example of configuration file config.pl
hi i install backuppc in ubuntu 7.10 and i want tio backup host client linux so do you have some example file configuration for linux client thanks - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/___ 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/
Re: [BackupPC-users] example of configuration file config.pl
fatima ech-charif wrote:
i install backuppc in ubuntu 7.10
and i want tio backup host client linux
so do you have some example file configuration for linux client
thanks
As Nils suggested:
See the documentation: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/
BackupPC.html If you have a specific problem, please tell us about it.
Have you read the backuppc manual/faq - most stuff I learned from there
- then in case of a specific problem you'll find great feedback here.
Reading the documentation is important to learn and understand how your
backup-system is working :-)
regarding your question:
I'm backing up my server with backuppc via rsyncd.
You need to install rsyncd:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/rsync
I don't use xinetd but can start rsync with
# sudo /etc/init.d/rsync start
Here you'll see a working configuration for an ubuntu server:
(btw. if someone with mopre experience can look at my /etc/rsyncd.conf
and give some hints about what are the most secured settings I would
appriciate that, since I just tried to get rsyncd working :-o)
- Kurt
*** BEGIN /etc/backuppc/localhost.pl ***
$Conf{FullPeriod} = '6.97';
$Conf{IncrPeriod} = '0.97';
$Conf{FullKeepCnt} = [
'2'
];
$Conf{IncrKeepCnt} = '14';
$Conf{XferMethod} = 'rsyncd';
$Conf{RsyncdUserName} = 'YOUR-RSYNCD-USERNAME';
$Conf{RsyncdPasswd} = 'YOUR-RSYNCD-PASSWORD';
$Conf{RsyncShareName} = [
'YOUR-RSYNCD-MODULE-NAME'
];
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
'*' = [
'/proc',
'/dev',
'/cdrom',
'/media',
'/floppy',
'/mnt',
'/var/lib/backuppc',
'/lost+found',
'/sys'
]
};
$Conf{XferLogLevel} = '1';
$Conf{CompressLevel} = '3';
$Conf{IncrLevels} = [
'1',
'2',
'3'
];
*** BEGIN /etc/rsyncd.conf
#gid = user
max connections = 0
#transfer logging = true
log format = %h %o %f %l %b
log file = /var/log/rsyncd.log
[YOUR-RSYNCD-MODULE-NAME]
path = /
read only = no
uid = root
gid = nogroup
list = yes
auth users = YOUR-RSYNCD-USER
secrets file = /etc/rsyncd.secrets
*** BEGIN /etc/rsyncd.secrets
YOUR-RSYNCD-USER:YOUR-RSYNCD-PASSWORT
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Re: [BackupPC-users] example of configuration file config.pl
On 7/24/08, Kurt Tunkko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You need to install rsyncd: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/rsync I don't use xinetd but can start rsync with # sudo /etc/init.d/rsync start I have Ubuntu 8.04 and after installing rsync I edited /etc/default/rsync and changed RSYNC_ENABLED to true and installed /etc/rsyncd.conf, etc/rsyncd.secrets like Kurt explained. -- Jonathan Craig - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ 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/
Re: [BackupPC-users] example of configuration file config.pl
Kurt Tunkko wrote: regarding your question: I'm backing up my server with backuppc via rsyncd. I use rsync over SSH for all my Linux machines. The advantage is that the client setup is really easy. I just copy the public SSH key to the client and I can back it up without setting up any daemons (rsyncd) or other software. Plus the traffic is encrypted which is nice if you're backing up over the internet as I am. Nils Breunese. - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ 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/
[BackupPC-users] Job Order
How do you set the order of the machines in the job? I have a few PC's Id like it to start first, rather than last.. thx! - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ 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/
Re: [BackupPC-users] The backup blog, deduplication
Well unless someone is working on a sub-file deduplication engine your dedup rates are not gonna change. The only thing you can do to pump up your numbers is make every backup a full backup so your source data size increments at a greater rate while your stored data size only increases by the changed data. You can also backup more clients with duplicate data (a 100 WinTel boxes with 8GB of duplicated OS / box ought to do it). Example: Full backup = 100GB, Incremental [10% Rate of Change] = 10 GB Full + Incremental: 1 Full + 6 Incremental yields 100 + 60 or 160 GB of source and stored data. Your ratio is going to remain 1:1 unless you have duplicated data on your system or your continously adding and removing the same file. 7 Full Backups: 7 Full + 0 Incremental yields 700 + 0 or 700GB of source, but only 160GB of stored. Your ratio is 4.375:1. This assumes that for every GB of change you removed the GB of source (ie turnover). If your increasing the Full Amount by 10% each time (assumes you delete nothing) then the numbers look like: 100 + 110 + 120 + 130 + 140 + 150 + 160 or 910 GB of source and 160 GB of stored. This is a ratio of 5.6875:1. Actual results will be somewhere in between. On 7/24/08, Ludovic Drolez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi ! Here's an interesting article about deduplication: http://thebackupblog.typepad.com/thebackupblog/2008/07/the-impact-of-deduplication-methodology-on-deduplication-ratios.html This blog is the EMC Avamar's blog, and has some other interesting articles. Deduplication rates are impressive, I hope we will reach them one day with backuppc :-) For the NetBackup puredisk blog, go to https://forums.symantec.com/syment/blog?blog.id=NetBackup And there's also Sepaton's blog : http://www.aboutrestore.com/ It seems that a war has begun in the deduplication world ! Cheers, -- Ludovic Drolez. http://www.palmopensource.com - The PalmOS Open Source Portal http://www.drolez.com - Personal site - Linux, Zaurus and PalmOS stuff - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ 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/ -- Jonathan Craig - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ 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/
[BackupPC-users] (no subject)
i want to backup localhost with rsyncd but i got this problem full backup started for directory root (baseline backup #18) Got fatal error during xfer (auth failed on module root) Backup aborted (auth failed on module root) full backup started for directory root (baseline backup #18) Got fatal error during xfer (auth failed on module root) thanks - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/___ 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/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Prepare for the worst, Howto backup the back uppc-server
Kurt Tunkko wrote: Question Just to make sure: since AoE is not IP-based, does that mean that I can NOT connect the machine offering AoE to my server if I have something like a hub/switch between them? It will work just fine through a hub or a switch. The problem is that the traffic is not routable, so a router or firewall will block it. Recovery plan: If the backuppc-server dies, I would use the spare RAID-disk to get the server back online - as far as I understand I need todo some manual stuff in order to get the RAID bootable again, since the bootloader will not installed on the spare drive?! You just need to install the grub bootloader. This can be done while the drive is in the raid or later using the install CDs during the recovery process. - probably a 2nd network connection between these two machines to keep the LAN free from extra traffic Definitely a good idea. - probably less perfomance because disk activity will be transfered via network Yep, but you can minimize this with a dedicated gigabit connection. -- Bowie - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ 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/
Re: [BackupPC-users] [BackupPC-devel] Ubuntu Upgrade from 3.0.0 to 3.1.0 problem
On 7/22/08, Holger Parplies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm redirecting this to backuppc-users as it's a usage issue. Jon Craig wrote on 2008-07-22 13:42:33 -0400 [[BackupPC-devel] Ubuntu Upgrade from 3.0.0 to 3.1.0 problem]: I started with the Ubuntu backuppc package that is based on 3.0.0. Once I was convinced that BackupPC was the way to go I downloaded and installed the 3.1.0 and ran the configure. Bad idea. You shouldn't mix packaged and tarball installs. Your dpkg status database now contains references to files belonging to a deb-package named backuppc which possibly don't exist any longer or at the very least have Agreed, as this was a personal install at home I took liberties that I wouldn't take at a paying gig. different contents. To make things worse, dpkg knows that the installed version is 3.0.0 (possibly with a Ubuntu package revision number appended). 'apt-get install --reinstall backuppc' is guaranteed to get things horribly wrong, as are 'apt-get install backuppc'/'apt-get [dist-]upgrade' when there's a new BackupPC package in Ubuntu - including possibly a security update of 3.0.0, and 'apt-get remove backuppc' as there are probably new files unknown to dpkg - possibly duplicates in non-Ubuntu locations. dpkg thinks it knows about the package and its files, but this knowledge is now outdated. There is no simple way to recover from this. Here's what I was gonna do: Shutdown BackupPC Save the /etc/backuppc directory and move the /var/lib/backuppc directory to a safe place. Force remove the Ubunto package run the install for the tarball to get a plain jane version Put /etc/backuppc to /etc/BackupPC and /var/lib/backuppc back to its place Fixup any path issues with file location in config.pl Start BackupPC I then looked at the configure.pl from the install package and found that it set $useFHS to 1 when it detected a /etc/BackupPC directory. It's my guess that at one point this was the naming for the directory and it underwent a rename. Wrong. It still is /etc/BackupPC for the tarball version. The Debian and Ubuntu packages use /etc/backuppc. I think this is a good idea, because it discourages mixing up package and tarball :-). Not sure I agree with this or at least with the manner of implementation. 1st, Ubuntu maintainers must have hand modified the code to get it to recognize /etc/backuppc as a place to check for configs. This is a very bad thing to have happening as you have unversioned code variants in the wild and users who don't even know it. 2nd, configure.pl didn't detect the fact that backuppc wasn't BackupPC and installed. It also didn't create a BackupPC directory. If your gonna rely on an alternate name to indicate a package install then configure.pl should have recognized this and bombed out with an appropriate message: tsk, tsk, tsk, don't mix packages with tarballs. 3rd, the way in which BackupPC is trying to determine its ConfDir needs to be addressed. The magic $useFHS variable (coupled with packagers editing the code to make the match work) is bound to cause problems. BackupPC should set a location for a config file that points to the configuration directory /etc/BackupPC.conf or /etc/default/BackupPC.conf that holds possibly one thing ConfDir = /etc/BackupPC or whatever. You should also be able to specify the configuration directory on the command line BackupPC --confdir=XXX for those poor souls who feel strongly that the location you chose for the immovable conf file was inappropriate. Regards, Holger -- Jonathan Craig - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ 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/
Re: [BackupPC-users] (no subject)
First I would make sure that rsync is running (look at ps -ef for the rsync process). From the command line you should be able to: rsync [EMAIL PROTECTED]::root password: [password] and get the contents of your root directory listing. The username is the username specified in your conf file (/etc/rsyncd.conf) and matches an entry in your secrets file (/etc/rsyncd.secrets). The password is the password from the secrets file. One caveat is that if your password is more than 8 characters then you will need to put it in a file and use the --password-file option on rsync (many systems will not properly take passwords over 8 characters). Once you have rsync working from the command line then you are ready to tackle the BackupPC stuff. On 7/24/08, fatima ech-charif [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i want to backup localhost with rsyncd but i got this problem full backup started for directory root (baseline backup #18) Got fatal error during xfer (auth failed on module root) Backup aborted (auth failed on module root) full backup started for directory root (baseline backup #18) Got fatal error during xfer (auth failed on module root) thanks - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ 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/ -- Jonathan Craig - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ 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/
Re: [BackupPC-users] [BackupPC-devel] Ubuntu Upgrade from 3.0.0 to 3.1.0 problem
Jon Craig wrote: Wrong. It still is /etc/BackupPC for the tarball version. The Debian and Ubuntu packages use /etc/backuppc. I think this is a good idea, because it discourages mixing up package and tarball :-). Not sure I agree with this or at least with the manner of implementation. My 2cents worth: I think all of the packaging attempts err in putting any of it in the 'standard' places. In my opinion, backuppc should be self-contained in its own filesystem to whatever extent possible - something like /opt/backuppc. Even with a tarball install you don't quite get this because of the needed non-standard perl modules and the setup for the web server. The reason I think you want this is that the archive should be on its own filesystem for obvious reasons, and you may want to take that filesystem or a mirrored copy of it off site and be able to restore from another machine. In this scenario it is handy - perhaps even essential - to have all of the current updates and configuration changes automatically brought along with the data. I realize this concept conflicts with normal packaging guidelines to install everything in standard places, but the reason you are keeping backups is that everything normal may go wrong. -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ 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/
Re: [BackupPC-users] (no subject)
fatima ech-charif wrote: i want to backup localhost with rsyncd but i got this problem full backup started for directory root (baseline backup #18) Got fatal error during xfer (auth failed on module root) Backup aborted (auth failed on module root) full backup started for directory root (baseline backup #18) Got fatal error during xfer (auth failed on module root) This indicates that your rsyncd-configuration is wrong. 1) Make sure that rsyncd is started by: rsync localhost:: This should return all configured shares. This hould return a line with the RSYNCD-SHARENAME 2) Make sure that you can connect to the share with rsync [EMAIL PROTECTED]::RSYNCD-SHARENAME This should return a list of the files after asking for your RSYNCD-PASSWORD I guess you made a mistake configuring username,password,sharename? Or maybe rsyncd is not running? Maybe try to see if rsync is running? ps -A|grep rsync Good luck. - Kurt - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ 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/
[BackupPC-users] Why isn't this being backed up?
Hi, I'm running BackupPC version 2.1.2pl1 on debian etch. We discovered that at least one directory is not being completely backed up and I can't figure out why. Here are the directory contents: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local$ ls -l ldap total 20 -rwxr-x--- 1 root root 205 2007-05-12 15:21 ADPass -rwxr-x--- 1 root root 193 2008-07-21 12:33 createWin -rwxr-xr-x 1 jeward dev 465 2007-06-20 15:56 ldap2mail -rwxr-x--- 1 root root 977 2008-06-02 14:14 setWin -rwxr-x--- 1 root root 636 2008-07-24 09:44 shutdownWin Here's the BackupPC summary for the host: Backup# Type Filled Start Date Duration/mins Age/days Server Backup Path 50 fullyes 7/14 04:34 29.510.2 /var/lib/backuppc/pc/chimera/50 52 incrno 7/16 21:10 4.1 7.5 /var/lib/backuppc/pc/chimera/52 53 incrno 7/18 00:08 3.5 6.4 /var/lib/backuppc/pc/chimera/53 54 incrno 7/19 05:15 2.9 5.2 /var/lib/backuppc/pc/chimera/54 55 incrno 7/20 05:04 2.7 4.2 /var/lib/backuppc/pc/chimera/55 56 fullyes 7/21 04:54 13.13.2 /var/lib/backuppc/pc/chimera/56 57 incrno 7/22 04:43 1.1 2.2 /var/lib/backuppc/pc/chimera/57 58 incrno 7/23 06:56 0.8 1.1 /var/lib/backuppc/pc/chimera/58 Here are the contents of the backup directories on the BackupPC server: 50/f%2f/fusr/flocal/fldap: total 8 -rw-r- 3 backuppc backuppc 38 2008-04-07 15:10 attrib -rw-r- 3 backuppc backuppc 283 2008-04-07 15:10 fldap2mail 52/f%2f/fusr/flocal/fldap: total 0 53/f%2f/fusr/flocal/fldap: total 0 54/f%2f/fusr/flocal/fldap: total 0 55/f%2f/fusr/flocal/fldap: total 0 56/f%2f/fusr/flocal/fldap: total 8 -rw-r- 3 backuppc backuppc 38 2008-04-07 15:10 attrib -rw-r- 3 backuppc backuppc 283 2008-04-07 15:10 fldap2mail 57/f%2f/fusr/flocal/fldap: total 0 58/f%2f/fusr/flocal/fldap: total 0 What gives? How can I rely on BackupPC if this kind of thing happens? My confidence level is shaky at this point. I looked in all the logs I can find and I see no excuse for files to be missing? Help? Ward... James Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Sysadmin (520) 290-0910x268 ICQ: 201663408- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/___ 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/
Re: [BackupPC-users] (no subject)
Make sure that rsyncd is started by: rsync localhost:: This should return all configured shares. This hould return a line with the RSYNCD-SHARENAME Beware: this is true only if you have 'list = true' (or yes, or 1) in / etc/rsyncd.conf (or equivalent). But why not simply take a look at /var/log/rsyncd.log? If you have no rsyncd.log file, you can add 'log file = /var/log/rsyncd.log' in the main section of /etc/rsyncd.conf. Another thing: be sure you 'chmod 600 /etc/rsyncd.secrets' (or equivalent) or it may not work (with 'strict modes = true') Hope this helps. -- Vincent - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ 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/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Why isn't this being backed up?
On 7/24/08, Ward... James Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -rwxr-x--- 1 root root 205 2007-05-12 15:21 ADPass -rwxr-x--- 1 root root 193 2008-07-21 12:33 createWin -rwxr-xr-x 1 jeward dev 465 2007-06-20 15:56 ldap2mail -rwxr-x--- 1 root root 977 2008-06-02 14:14 setWin -rwxr-x--- 1 root root 636 2008-07-24 09:44 shutdownWin Let me start by taking a wild guess and assume you are using rsyncd. The system your are backing up is *nix based and you don't have a uid=0, gid=0 in your module definition for /etc/rsyncd.conf. If that's all true (or maybe at least most of it), then the system is working as designed, but not how you intended. rsync sets uid=gid=-2 when placed in daemon mode. This means that it can only read or write things readable/writable by the user nobody. Trust me, its for your own protection :-) The file that is showing up in your list is world readable while all the others aren't. Check your Xferlogs and you should see a bunch of permissions errors (number 13 appears on those lines). Go fix your rsyncd.conf, restart the daemon, and take a fresh backup of all the affected systems as their current backups are dubius at best. I believe that all the files that were backed up are perfectly fine as rsync captures the permissions and BackupPC stores them in the attrib files sprinkled throughout your backup archive directory structure. If its not this, then please provide some more details surrounding your configuation (config.pl, [host].pl, rsyncd.conf, all properly scrubbed for passwords and hostname details). I would also suggest that you get a chance to excersize the recovery functions so that you know how they work and that they do in fact work. Without the uid=0 you would have been unable to restore files with the proper owner/group/perms (they would have come back as user nobody I believe). Don't forget to set the read only = false for the module when you intend to restore. -- Jonathan Craig - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/___ 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/
Re: [BackupPC-users] [BackupPC-devel] Ubuntu Upgrade from 3.0.0 to 3.1.0 problem
discourages mixing up package and tarball :-). Now I remember why I mixed the tarball with the ubuntu package, it was because it was suggested on the wiki ( http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net/supporting+distros ): Ubuntu 7.04 (aka feisty fawn) backuppc v2 and v3.0 via apt (v3.0 is in backports) to install v3.1, first install v3.0 by apt-get install backuppc (from backports), then download the regular install script from http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ and run it, it will update you to v3.1 quite nicely -- Jonathan Craig - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ 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/
