This is a continuation of a previous enquiry REQUEST FOR ADVICE ON SUITABILITY
OF BACKUPPC submitted via the forum at Backup Central. Many thanks for the
responses from existing users.
REPRISE
SUMMARY of LAN
Primary Domain Controller Server
OS = Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Server Edition
Samba = 3.0.28a
Share = home for each user
Share = all-users (common area for all members of users group)
LAN Client PCs
OS = Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Desktop Edition, Microsoft XP Pro
BackupPC Server
OS = Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Server Edition
BackupPc = 3.0.0 (obtained from Ubuntu repository)
Quotes - Adam Goryachev
It would appear from your goals that you do not wish to backup/restore the
windows/linux client machines, you are only interested in backing up the
server, and allowing the users to control restores as needed?
You could do this by using rsync over ssh. or tar over ssh (probably the two
easiest). Then, configure one host per user, and in this config set the
machine alias to point to the real host name. Then configure the path to be
backed up to only include the users home directory.
...you might want to set the number of concurrent backups quite low (1 or 2)
since they really all point to the same machine, and you will just cause disk
thrashing with higher numbers...
...it might take a little effort to get it all working nicely, so once you
actually take the plunge, read the documentation, and install the system, feel
free to ask questions on the list to fix up the final trickier areas.
End of Quotes - Adam Goryachev
This has been implemented in a test environment (using rsync) and passwordless
login via ssh. All looks good to this stage.
Now for the final trickier areas...
QUESTIONS
01 What is the significance of the error -4? Is a list of error message
meanings available? The backup completes successfully and files are available
to restore.
For details see attachment - Extract_from_Server_Log.txt
02 How is an archive created in an unattended manner and repeated using
BackupPC schedule?
The archive can be created successfully when started manually but subsequent
scheduled archives do not start. These have been scheduled to occur outside a
blackout period.
03 The configuration (.pl) file used by the archive is not created from the web
page. It must be created and edited manually. Is this correct behaviour for
BackupPC?
04 Is BackupPC able to encrypt the archive when creating it? The archive is to
be disk based and used for off-site storage. Does any member have a suggestion
of how this might be implemented using FOSS applications?
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Contents of file /var/lib/backuppc/log/LOG, modified 2008-11-07 09:18:31
2008-11-07 09:18:27 User backuppc requested backup of whole - data castle-01
(whole - data castle-01)
2008-11-07 09:18:30 Started full backup on whole - data castle-01 (pid=5747,
share=/media/shares)
2008-11-07 09:18:31 Finished full backup on whole - data castle-01
2008-11-07 09:18:31 Running BackupPC_link whole\ -\ data\ castle-01 (pid=5752)
2008-11-07 09:18:31 BackupPC_link got error -4 when calling
MakeFileLink(/media/backups/backuppc/pc/whole - data
castle-01/0/f%2fmedia%2fshares/fprivate/ftom/f.bash_logout,
0b197e8f442c5c0d81183fbef3dd4501, 1)
2008-11-07 09:18:31 BackupPC_link got error -4 when calling
MakeFileLink(/media/backups/backuppc/pc/whole - data
castle-01/0/f%2fmedia%2fshares/fprivate/ftom/f.bashrc,
9364c63c4102ce6923f4f80fad2a9e46, 1)
2008-11-07 09:18:31 BackupPC_link got error -4 when calling
MakeFileLink(/media/backups/backuppc/pc/whole - data
castle-01/0/f%2fmedia%2fshares/fprivate/ftom/f.config/fThunar/faccels.scm,
3136819517d96941037d792a199675d8, 1)
2008-11-07 09:18:31 BackupPC_link got error -4 when calling
MakeFileLink(/media/backups/backuppc/pc/whole - data
castle-01/0/f%2fmedia%2fshares/fprivate/ftom/f.config/fThunar/fthunarrc,
8f165e9533951f1f05cb7e256741a4f0, 1)
2008-11-07 09:18:31 BackupPC_link got error -4 when calling
MakeFileLink(/media/backups/backuppc/pc/whole - data
castle-01/0/f%2fmedia%2fshares/fprivate/ftom/f.config/fThunar/attrib,
38af04c9011c2694f9db9c00a5486c9e, 1)
2008-11-07 09:18:31 BackupPC_link got error -4 when calling
MakeFileLink(/media/backups/backuppc/pc/whole - data
castle-01/0/f%2fmedia%2fshares/fprivate/ftom/f.config/fgtk-2.0/fgtkfilechooser.ini,
8fa4d7a0a9b61f49b4e62df7170a8902, 1)
2008-11-07 09:18:31 BackupPC_link got error -4 when calling
MakeFileLink(/media/backups/backuppc/pc/whole - data
castle-01/0/f%2fmedia%2fshares/fprivate/ftom/f.config/fgtk-2.0/attrib,
f93a633efaea96278da062827e8e657b, 1)
2008-11-07 09:18:31 BackupPC_link got error -4 when calling
MakeFileLink(/media/backups/backuppc/pc/whole - data
castle-01/0/f%2fmedia%2fshares/fprivate/ftom/f.config/fmousepad/fmousepadrc,
dbaa958df8ab7d686ce8d6fc77e3caa1, 1)
2008-11-07 09:18:31 BackupPC_link got error -4 when
