Re: [BackupPC-users] Western Digital Mybook drives
--On Friday, May 16, 2008 3:52 PM -0500 Chris Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone used the Western Digital My Book studio drives with Linux? I haven't used the Studio model, but I use the USB 2 interface with CentOS 5 (an RHEL 5 re-spin). To allow cross-OS compatibility and large file support, I convert them to NTFS and mount them using the NTFS-3G FUSE filesystem. - 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 vs. Bacula
--On Sunday, July 20, 2008 8:43 PM +0200 Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Bacula uses a Bacula agent on each host you backup, BackupPC uses stock rsync(d)/tar/smbclient on the hosts you backup. This is a case where Bacula has an advantage. (The only one I can identify.) Because the client is native, it can store the native metadata (eg. Windows ACLs) more completely. - 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 vs. Bacula
This is a case where Bacula has an advantage. (The only one I can identify.) Because the client is native, it can store the native metadata (eg. Windows ACLs) more completely. The Bacula client also has native VSS support for backing up open files on Windows XP/2003. Mike - 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 vs. Bacula
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 08:43:30PM +0200, Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) wrote: Arch Willingham wrote: I have been looking at (and installed) both packages. I have tried to find a comparison of the advantages and disadvantages of each as compared to the other but found nothing very informative. Any ideas- thoughts from anyone out there? - BackupPC is more geared towards backing up to hard drives, Bacula is more geared towards backing up to tape. I definitely agree with this. At my current job we have two Bacula servers running: one is tape-based (for piles of more or less static data) and one is disk-based (for more dynamic/volatile data). Ofcourse both work in the same manner, but the disk-based system doesn't have the advantage of using hardlinks to safe storage. - Bacula uses a Bacula agent on each host you backup, BackupPC uses stock rsync(d)/tar/smbclient on the hosts you backup. I do not really consider this an advantage. Either way you have to install and configure a client: rsync or bacula-fd. - BackupPC has a nice web interface that makes it very easy to restore files. That's true. Bacula requires the administrator to restore data. I consider Bacula a very mature backup solution, but it has a different target audience. Maarten signature.asc Description: Digital signature - 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 vs. Bacula
Maarten te Paske wrote: - Bacula uses a Bacula agent on each host you backup, BackupPC uses stock rsync(d)/tar/smbclient on the hosts you backup. I do not really consider this an advantage. Either way you have to install and configure a client: rsync or bacula-fd. Most unix-like systems already have sshd, rsync and tar installed and windows can use the admin file shares for clientless backup. -- 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] BackupPC vs. Bacula
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 07:38:03AM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: Maarten te Paske wrote: I do not really consider this an advantage. Either way you have to install and configure a client: rsync or bacula-fd. Most unix-like systems already have sshd, rsync and tar installed and windows can use the admin file shares for clientless backup. Even if you have rsync installed (which I don't install by default on any server installation) you need client side configuration. At least, I do the following on each BackupPC client: - Create a local user that can run rsync via sudo - Restrict the commands that can be run to 'sudo rsync' in the authorized_keys file. - Restrict SSH connections to the hostname of the BackupPC server in the authorized_keys file. So my point is, with both solutions it requires some work. Unless you use admin file shares for clientless backup, but I'm not quite sure what you mean with that. Maarten signature.asc Description: Digital signature - 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 vs. Bacula
Maarten te Paske wrote: I do not really consider this an advantage. Either way you have to install and configure a client: rsync or bacula-fd. Most unix-like systems already have sshd, rsync and tar installed and windows can use the admin file shares for clientless backup. Even if you have rsync installed (which I don't install by default on any server installation) you need client side configuration. At least, I do the following on each BackupPC client: - Create a local user that can run rsync via sudo - Restrict the commands that can be run to 'sudo rsync' in the authorized_keys file. - Restrict SSH connections to the hostname of the BackupPC server in the authorized_keys file. I normally have sshd/rsync configured for content management on all machines anyway, and the only extra configuration is to add the authorized key for backuppc, which you can do through a script that prompts for the password for the connection that installs the key. So my point is, with both solutions it requires some work. Unless you use admin file shares for clientless backup, but I'm not quite sure what you mean with that. Windows always exports hidden file shares for each drive (C$, D$, etc.) that you can access from a login with administrator or backup user rights. -- 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/
[BackupPC-users] Backuppc doesn't back up all files on Vista machine
Let me preface my questions by saying that I know just about nothing about Windows administration, never wanted to, never needed to before now, so this may well be a duh! question. I finially got backuppc to back up my wife's Vista computer using smb after I figured out that the user name that she logs in with is not the real user name the system uses. Anyhow, in the backup logs there are a number of Xfer errors listed. There are 2 types of error; sharing violations and access violations. The sharing violations I understand but I was surprised to see access violations since the user is an administrator. One of the files I get an access violation on is C:\Documents and Settings. So, from my F8 box I ran $ smbclient user-pc\\c\$ -U user entered the password and got to an smb- prompt. A directory listing shows all the files under C: including one named Documents and Settings. What really confused me is that is if I log into the Vista machine as the same user and look at the files on the C: drive (with the show hidden files flag turned on), there is no Documents and Settings file! So I have 2 questions: 1) Why can't backuppc backup all the files when using smb as an administrator? 2) Why does smbclient show files that I cannot see when logged into the machine directly? Thanks, Steve - 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] Backups seem to work, but don't show up in web
On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 7:09 PM, Alan McKay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: let me rephrase that. If your XferLOG.0.z is really 101GB long, there is either something seriously wrong, you are backing up an insane amount of data, or your path names are all ridiculously long. I would guess something is very wrong, so I'd start looking here (though obviously not through the web So what am I looking for? There is an awful lot of info in there. Is there some text I can grep for which indicates error messages or something? Any further guidance here? I'm definitely not going to go wading through a 100Gb log file without any further guidance on what to look for. If I can't figure this out I'll probably just nuke BackupPC and write a few scripts to use rsync to do the job, along with one of the programs I found to traverse the HD and hard-link dup files.. I'm a seasoned Linux/UNIX guy and not the least bit shy of a bit of debugging. But I'm still not going to go blindly wading through a 100Gb log file. -- I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends - Abraham Lincoln - 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 doesn't back up all files on Vista machine
1) Why can't backuppc backup all the files when using smb as an administrator? I'm guessing at this one, but I do know that on Windows unlike Linux/UNIX, it is possible for a user to set perms on a file so that an admin cannot read it. -- I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends - Abraham Lincoln - 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 doesn't back up all files on Vista machine
Alan McKay wrote: 1) Why can't backuppc backup all the files when using smb as an administrator? I'm guessing at this one, but I do know that on Windows unlike Linux/UNIX, it is possible for a user to set perms on a file so that an admin cannot read it. And, at least with Windows XP, it's possible for the administrator to run the ADMNALOW command to be able to read the files without the user having to do anything. (Search for ADMNALOW on Google). Cordially, -- Jon Forrest Research Computing Support College of Chemistry 173 Tan Hall University of California Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720-1460 510-643-1032 [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] Backups seem to work, but don't show up in web
Alan McKay wrote: On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 7:09 PM, Alan McKay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: let me rephrase that. If your XferLOG.0.z is really 101GB long, there is either something seriously wrong, you are backing up an insane amount of data, or your path names are all ridiculously long. I would guess something is very wrong, so I'd start looking here (though obviously not through the web So what am I looking for? There is an awful lot of info in there. Is there some text I can grep for which indicates error messages or something? Any further guidance here? I'm definitely not going to go wading through a 100Gb log file without any further guidance on what to look for. If I can't figure this out I'll probably just nuke BackupPC and write a few scripts to use rsync to do the job, along with one of the programs I found to traverse the HD and hard-link dup files.. I'm a seasoned Linux/UNIX guy and not the least bit shy of a bit of debugging. But I'm still not going to go blindly wading through a 100Gb log file. I wouldn't know how others on this list could blindly wade through a 100 GB compressed logfile on your machine. All we know is that it's huge and shouldn't be that big if everything was OK. Have you tried taking a look at the contents of this file using something like less (I wouldn't try to open it in a text editor)? Maybe the first look at the contents reveals the problem. 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/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Backups seem to work, but don't show up in web
Hi, Nils summed it up quite nicely. Alan McKay wrote on 2008-08-10 19:09:23 -0400 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Backups seem to work, but don't show up in web]: [...] Do you want to see my config file? No, I'm not really desperate about it. I've got my own config file. Whenever I feel the need to stare at a beautiful config file, it does quite nicely. Not that it's happened so far ... We just might be able to ask intelligent questions like why is your XferLogLevel so ridiculously high? or refrain from asking it if it doesn't apply. I'll refrain, knowing it isn't, because I have a /etc/BackupPC/config.pl which I edited to the best of my ability. I'm not questioning your ability. Alan McKay wrote on 2008-08-12 18:28:54 -0400 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Backups seem to work, but don't show up in web]: [...] So what am I looking for? There is an awful lot of info in there. There shouldn't be, so that's a start. My XferLog shows one line per file. Give us a sample of the first several lines that don't look like that. Unless you've got XferLogLevel too high. Which you don't. Regards, Holger - 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] Backups seem to work, but don't show up in web
I wouldn't know how others on this list could blindly wade through a 100 GB compressed logfile on your machine. I wasn't suggesting that for a moment. I'm saying there must be someone here who can tell me what to grep for in terms of error messages. Have you tried taking a look at the contents of this file using something like less (I wouldn't try to open it in a text editor)? Maybe the first look at the contents reveals the problem. Yes. Reams and reams and reams of stuff that looks benign to my untrained eyes. Got file Receiving Sending and so on. And on. And on. Then I tried grepping out all lines with Got file. Then in addition to that all lines with Receiving. Then in addtion to that all with Sending empty csums, then pollChild. And still there are reams and reams and reams of data that look benign to my untrained eyes. -- I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends - Abraham Lincoln - 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] Backups seem to work, but don't show up in web
We just might be able to ask intelligent questions like why is your XferLogLevel so ridiculously high? or refrain from asking it if it doesn't apply. I'll refrain, knowing it isn't, because XferLogLevel = 1, There shouldn't be, so that's a start. My XferLog shows one line per file. Give us a sample of the first several lines that don't look like that. Unless you've got XferLogLevel too high. Which you don't. OK, just a sec and I'll stick a sample up on my website so as not to clutter up the list. thanks! -- I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends - Abraham Lincoln - 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] Backups seem to work, but don't show up in web
There shouldn't be, so that's a start. My XferLog shows one line per file. Give us a sample of the first several lines that don't look like that. Unless you've got XferLogLevel too high. Which you don't. OK, just a sec and I'll stick a sample up on my website so as not to clutter up the list. Here are the first 2000 lines of my log file : http://www.alanmckay.com/BackupPC.log.txt Looks to my untrained eyes like there is an (uu?)encoded version of every file contained in the log file. -- I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends - Abraham Lincoln - 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] Backups seem to work, but don't show up in web
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alan McKay wrote: We just might be able to ask intelligent questions like why is your XferLogLevel so ridiculously high? or refrain from asking it if it doesn't apply. I'll refrain, knowing it isn't, because XferLogLevel = 1, There shouldn't be, so that's a start. My XferLog shows one line per file. Give us a sample of the first several lines that don't look like that. Unless you've got XferLogLevel too high. Which you don't. OK, just a sec and I'll stick a sample up on my website so as not to clutter up the list. Perhaps some people are being a little obtuse (ie, not as obvious or direct, or perhaps sarcastic)... Send the output of: grep -v ^\# config.pl to the list. You could also use some pastebin website to upload a portion of your logfile. I would suggest 1000 - 2000 lines would be more than enough to see what is going on. Probably just the first section of the file. What people are trying to tell you is that we don't really care if you have a problem. If you want your problem fixed, and you provide sufficient information for us to easily diagnose, or guide you to a solution, then we just might spend a few minutes to give you the answer. Regards, Adam -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIoin/GyoxogrTyiURAhJ9AJ4wHbQTHOKMgLJC31OSpSljnP/QMQCgt/VT ddzdk6vX9+VM2RqYTDS1q5U= =zEna -END PGP SIGNATURE- - 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] Backups seem to work, but don't show up in web
Perhaps some people are being a little obtuse (ie, not as obvious or direct, or perhaps sarcastic)... Judging by what you are about to say, yes, I'd agree. Thanks Adam! Send the output of: grep -v ^\# config.pl to the list. I'll stick it onto my website momentarily and post a link. You could also use some pastebin website to upload a portion of your logfile. I would suggest 1000 - 2000 lines would be more than enough to see what is going on. Probably just the first section of the file. That's been done. I'm now waiting (a very long time) for the output of this command to paste up on my site : [EMAIL PROTECTED] rsync]# /usr/share/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_zcat /d/BACKUPPC/pc/alanpc/XferLOG.0.z | tail -2000 | grep -v Got file |grep -v Receiving |grep -v Sending empty csums | grep -v pollChild | head -2000 /root/BackupPC.grep1.log.txt What people are trying to tell you is that we don't really care if you have a problem. Someone cared enough to set up this list. If you want your problem fixed, and you provide sufficient information for us to easily diagnose, or guide you to a solution, then we just might spend a few minutes to give you the answer. I'll do my best. I've been trying to. But the point I've been trying to make is that at this point I really don't have much of a clue what constitutes sufficient information, and people being obtuse and sarcastic isn't really being all that helpful in telling me what info needs to be provided. In fact, it's pretty much a catch 22. This looks like a really great solution and as already mentioned, I got it to work first time no problems at work and had it successfully doing backups and restores of Linux and Windows boxes. The only big difference I can recall between the two is that at work I set it up from scratch whereas here I home I used the FC9 RPM. -- I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends - Abraham Lincoln - 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] Backups seem to work, but don't show up in web
Alan McKay wrote:
Does authentication work, i.e. are you authenticated as a user listed in
/etc/BackupPC/hosts for the host in question? The AuthName directive seems to
be missing a quote, but I'm no apache expert, so I can't tell you if that is
a
problem or not.
Good eye! Yeah, auth works fine. I just fixed that quote issue but no
change.
But are you authenticating as the owner of that PC (in hosts) or an
admin user ($Conf{CgiAdminUsers}=). If not, you aren't supposed to be
able to see the backups.
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Re: [BackupPC-users] Backups seem to work, but don't show up in web
Send the output of: grep -v ^\# config.pl to the list. I'll stick it onto my website momentarily and post a link. http://www.alanmckay.com/BackupPC.config.pl.txt -- I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends - Abraham Lincoln - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Backups seem to work, but don't show up in web
But are you authenticating as the owner of that PC (in hosts) or an admin
user ($Conf{CgiAdminUsers}=). If not, you aren't supposed to be able to see
the backups.
Thanks Les for the response!
The hosts entry looks like this :
alanpc 0 amckay2 amckay
Which as I understand means that either amckay2 or amckay should have
full control over those backups, right? I don't recall which of
those 2 I'm authenticate as right now but it's one of them. And in
the config.pl
$Conf{CgiAdminUsers} = 'amckay amckay2';
And also, when I go into Host Summary it shows Hosts with no
backups and then lists alanpc amongst them. So it's technically
failing I guess. But it sure looks to me like all the files are
there.
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Re: [BackupPC-users] Backups seem to work, but don't show up in web
OK, I see this is likely the cause of the huge logs :
$Conf{XferLogLevel} = 99;
Which I now recall having set early on in my debugging when I was
trying to get more info on my problem.
I'll set it back to 1 now and re-try a backup, and see where we get from there.
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Re: [BackupPC-users] Backups seem to work, but don't show up in web
Adam Goryachev wrote: Perhaps some people are being a little obtuse (ie, not as obvious or direct, or perhaps sarcastic)... The problem is that you haven't posted anything useful to diagnose what is wrong - and when you find it you'll probably know what it was yourself... In your pc/hostname directory there should be a file named backups. If the web sever can read that, you should see backups in the web interface. If there isn't a file named backups, the latest LOG or XferLOG should have the error at the end telling you why. -- 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] FW: trash folder
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Williams wrote: Resend Regards, David Williams _ *From:* David Williams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* Tuesday, August 12, 2008 4:43 PM *To:* 'backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net' *Subject:* trash folder Can someone explain to me what the trash folder function is under the main backuppc directory ? My assumption is that this is where expired backups go and then get cleaned out. What I am seeing is my trash folder grow and as such my /backups file system gets full, and then I need to delete manually, which can take quite a while. I also noticed that one of the directories under trash cannot be deleted. Not sure if this is causing the issue with the trash directory to be cleaned up. I tried to delete the directory under trash with the command: rm ?Rf dirname, but this returns the following error message: rm: cannot remove directory `1213856098_21475_0//f%2fvar/flib/fbackuppc/fpc/flinuxpc/f0/ff%252f/ffusr/ffshare/ffman/ffman3/ffform_field_buffer.3x.lzma/flib/fbackuppc/fpc/flinuxpc/f0/ff%252f/ffusr/ffshare/ffman/ffman3/ffform_field_buffer.3x.lzma/flib/fbackuppc/fpc/flinuxpc/f0/ff%252f/ffusr/ffshare/ffman/ffman3/ffform_field_buffer.3x.lzma/flib/fbackuppc/fpc/flinuxpc/f0/ff%252f/ffusr/ffshare/ffman/ffman3/ffform_field_buffer.3x.lzma/flib/fbackuppc/fpc/flinuxpc/f0/ff%252f/ffusr/ffshare/ffman/ffman3/ffform_field_buffer.3x.lzma/flib/fbackuppc/fpc/flinuxpc/f0/ff%252f/ffusr/ffshare/ffman/ffman3/ffform_field_buffer.3x.lzma/flib/fbackuppc/fpc/flinuxpc/f0/ff%252f/ffusr/ffshare/ffman/ffman3/ffform_field_buffer.3x.lzma/flib/fbackuppc/fpc/flinuxpc/f0/ff%252f/ffusr/ffshare/ffman/ffman3/ffform_field_buffer.3x.lzma/flib/fbackuppc/fpc/flinuxpc/f0/ff%252f/ffusr/ffshare/ffman/ffman3/ffform_field_buffer.3x.lzma/flib/fbackuppc/fpc/flinuxpc/f0/ff%252f/ffusr/ffshare/ffman/ffman3/ffform_field_buffer.3x.lzma/flib/fbackuppc/fpc/ flinuxpc/f0/ff%252f/ffusr': Directory not empty Looks kind of strange to me. What is the output of: ls -la 1213856098_21475_0//f%2fvar/flib/fbackuppc/fpc/flinuxpc/f0/ff%252f/ffusr/ffshare/ffman/ffman3/ffform_field_buffer.3x.lzma/flib/fbackuppc/fpc/flinuxpc/f0/ff%252f/ffusr/ffshare/ffman/ffman3/ffform_field_buffer.3x.lzma/flib/fbackuppc/fpc/flinuxpc/f0/ff%252f/ffusr/ffshare/ffman/ffman3/ffform_field_buffer.3x.lzma/flib/fbackuppc/fpc/flinuxpc/f0/ff%252f/ffusr/ffshare/ffman/ffman3/ffform_field_buffer.3x.lzma/flib/fbackuppc/fpc/flinuxpc/f0/ff%252f/ffusr/ffshare/ffman/ffman3/ffform_field_buffer.3x.lzma/flib/fbackuppc/fpc/flinuxpc/f0/ff%252f/ffusr/ffshare/ffman/ffman3/ffform_field_buffer.3x.lzma/flib/fbackuppc/fpc/flinuxpc/f0/ff%252f/ffusr/ffshare/ffman/ffman3/ffform_field_buffer.3x.lzma/flib/fbackuppc/fpc/flinuxpc/f0/ff%252f/ffusr/ffshare/ffman/ffman3/ffform_field_buffer.3x.lzma/flib/fbackuppc/fpc/flinuxpc/f0/ff%252f/ffusr/ffshare/ffman/ffman3/ffform_field_buffer.3x.lzma/flib/fbackuppc/fpc/flinuxpc/f0/ff%252f/ffusr/ffshare/ffman/ffman3/ffform_field_buffer.3x.lzma/flib/fbackuppc/fpc/fli nuxpc/f0/ff%252f/ffusr Is there any log entries in syslog/etc? Check dmesg to see any other problems? My thought would be a possibly corrupt filesystem, so if you can, stop backuppc, umount your /var/lib/backuppc and run the fsck tool over it. Any help/advice would be much appreciated. Up until recently it was working great. Not aware of any changes to my system. Hope that helps... Regards, Adam - -- Adam Goryachev Website Managers www.websitemanagers.com.au -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIokacGyoxogrTyiURAuvgAJ45YucaolZ6FO68EtYR1GF/a/YVtQCgjb2i +qYtsbmk2V7ds6UdU2O31Ek= =ZnVL -END PGP SIGNATURE- - 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] Backups seem to work, but don't show up in web
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 08:15:41PM -0400, Alan McKay wrote:
I wouldn't know how others on this list could blindly wade through a
100 GB compressed logfile on your machine.
I wasn't suggesting that for a moment. I'm saying there must be
someone here who can tell me what to grep for in terms of error
messages.
Have you tried
taking a look at the contents of this file using something like less
(I wouldn't try to open it in a text editor)? Maybe the first look at
the contents reveals the problem.
Yes. Reams and reams and reams of stuff that looks benign to my
untrained eyes. Got file Receiving Sending and so on. And on.
And on.
Then I tried grepping out all lines with Got file. Then in addition
to that all lines with Receiving. Then in addtion to that all with
Sending empty csums, then pollChild. And still there are reams
and reams and reams of data that look benign to my untrained eyes.
What's your XferLogLevel ($Conf{XferLogLevel}) setting? That sounds a
lot like output from a high debugging level.
Try reducing the logging level to 1 or 2 and rerunning the backup.
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