Re: [BackupPC-users] Nmblookup doesn't find anything, host can't be found
I've now configured my server and client to user static-ip's My server(Linux) has an ip with 192.168.1.2 My client(also linux) has an ip with 192.168.1.3 I've set the option in hosts file from 1 to 0 (for static ip) Well applying the command gives me: backu...@fatih-pardus bin $ ./BackupPC_dump -v -f -d 192.168.1.3 cmdSystemOrEval: about to system /usr/bin/ping -c 1 -w 3 192.168.1.3 cmdSystemOrEval: finished: got output PING 192.168.1.3 (192.168.1.3) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 192.168.1.3: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=1.94 ms --- 192.168.1.3 ping statistics --- 2 packets transmitted, 1 received, 50% packet loss, time 999ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 1.940/1.940/1.940/0.000 ms cmdSystemOrEval: about to system /usr/bin/ping -c 1 -w 3 192.168.1.3 cmdSystemOrEval: finished: got output PING 192.168.1.3 (192.168.1.3) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 192.168.1.3: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=1.80 ms --- 192.168.1.3 ping statistics --- 1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 1.807/1.807/1.807/0.000 ms CheckHostAlive: returning 1.807 cmdSystemOrEval: about to system /usr/bin/nmblookup -A 192.168.1.3 cmdSystemOrEval: finished: got output Looking up status of 192.168.1.3 No reply from 192.168.1.3 NetBiosInfoGet: failed: can't parse return string Exiting because NetBiosInfoGet(192.168.1.3) returned '', an invalid host name backu...@fatih-pardus bin $ nmblookup -A 192.168.1.3 Looking up status of 192.168.1.3 No reply from 192.168.1.3 I've no software firewall installed, nor i have a Hardwadre firewall. I've locked at my router, which is Linksysy Wag325N, all firewall options are disabled. There must be a way to solve it, something is corrupting my config but I don't no what is it. I've searced for Linksys Wag325n netbios but i didn't any solution. Anyway thanks for helping On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 3:55 AM, David Lasker d...@altosdesign.com wrote: I am home now and looking at the BackupPC code. I see in BackupPC_dump script line 144 that it expects the command: nmblookup -A ip address to return the name of your host when configured for DHCP. So you need to figure out how to make that work in order for BackupPC to work. Is there firewall software running on your PC's that is blocking nmblookup? Or is there a hardware firewall that is blocking it? This is now a moot point, but for DHCP clients, BackupPC_dump is called by main BackupPC script with '-d' parameter and IP address, not the host name. So you should have been using this call: ./BackupPC_dump -v -f -d 192.168.1.101 But that won't work until you make nmblookup -A work. However, once you figure out why netbios isn't working, you can probably turn off DHCP mode, and go back to using netbios name resolution. Hope that helps... Dave -Original Message- From: Fatih Arslan [mailto:fthar...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, April 04, 2009 2:23 PM To: General list for user discussion, questions and support Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Nmblookup doesn't find anything, host can't be found It's saying the same again: backu...@fatih-pardus bin $ ./BackupPC_dump -v -f samsung Name server doesn't know about samsung; trying NetBios cmdSystemOrEval: about to system /usr/bin/nmblookup samsung cmdSystemOrEval: finished: got output querying samsung on 192.168.1.255 name_query failed to find name samsung NetBiosHostIPFind: couldn't find IP address for host samsung host not found -- Fatih ARSLAN blog.arsln.org -- ___ 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 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/ -- Fatih ARSLAN blog.arsln.org -- ___ 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] Nmblookup doesn't find anything, host can't be found
Thanks all for helping. I've just figured out where the problem is. On my client(which is ubuntu 8.04), i thought that Samba was pre-installed. But this is not the case, thus I've installed Samba trough synaptic. Now nmblookup is able to see my client, I've just started to take a backup. But i thought that for a Linux Client, samba is not needed? Am I wrong with this assumption ? Regards On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Fatih Arslan fthar...@gmail.com wrote: I've now configured my server and client to user static-ip's My server(Linux) has an ip with 192.168.1.2 My client(also linux) has an ip with 192.168.1.3 I've set the option in hosts file from 1 to 0 (for static ip) Well applying the command gives me: backu...@fatih-pardus bin $ ./BackupPC_dump -v -f -d 192.168.1.3 cmdSystemOrEval: about to system /usr/bin/ping -c 1 -w 3 192.168.1.3 cmdSystemOrEval: finished: got output PING 192.168.1.3 (192.168.1.3) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 192.168.1.3: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=1.94 ms --- 192.168.1.3 ping statistics --- 2 packets transmitted, 1 received, 50% packet loss, time 999ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 1.940/1.940/1.940/0.000 ms cmdSystemOrEval: about to system /usr/bin/ping -c 1 -w 3 192.168.1.3 cmdSystemOrEval: finished: got output PING 192.168.1.3 (192.168.1.3) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 192.168.1.3: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=1.80 ms --- 192.168.1.3 ping statistics --- 1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 1.807/1.807/1.807/0.000 ms CheckHostAlive: returning 1.807 cmdSystemOrEval: about to system /usr/bin/nmblookup -A 192.168.1.3 cmdSystemOrEval: finished: got output Looking up status of 192.168.1.3 No reply from 192.168.1.3 NetBiosInfoGet: failed: can't parse return string Exiting because NetBiosInfoGet(192.168.1.3) returned '', an invalid host name backu...@fatih-pardus bin $ nmblookup -A 192.168.1.3 Looking up status of 192.168.1.3 No reply from 192.168.1.3 I've no software firewall installed, nor i have a Hardwadre firewall. I've locked at my router, which is Linksysy Wag325N, all firewall options are disabled. There must be a way to solve it, something is corrupting my config but I don't no what is it. I've searced for Linksys Wag325n netbios but i didn't any solution. Anyway thanks for helping On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 3:55 AM, David Lasker d...@altosdesign.com wrote: I am home now and looking at the BackupPC code. I see in BackupPC_dump script line 144 that it expects the command: nmblookup -A ip address to return the name of your host when configured for DHCP. So you need to figure out how to make that work in order for BackupPC to work. Is there firewall software running on your PC's that is blocking nmblookup? Or is there a hardware firewall that is blocking it? This is now a moot point, but for DHCP clients, BackupPC_dump is called by main BackupPC script with '-d' parameter and IP address, not the host name. So you should have been using this call: ./BackupPC_dump -v -f -d 192.168.1.101 But that won't work until you make nmblookup -A work. However, once you figure out why netbios isn't working, you can probably turn off DHCP mode, and go back to using netbios name resolution. Hope that helps... Dave -Original Message- From: Fatih Arslan [mailto:fthar...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, April 04, 2009 2:23 PM To: General list for user discussion, questions and support Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Nmblookup doesn't find anything, host can't be found It's saying the same again: backu...@fatih-pardus bin $ ./BackupPC_dump -v -f samsung Name server doesn't know about samsung; trying NetBios cmdSystemOrEval: about to system /usr/bin/nmblookup samsung cmdSystemOrEval: finished: got output querying samsung on 192.168.1.255 name_query failed to find name samsung NetBiosHostIPFind: couldn't find IP address for host samsung host not found -- Fatih ARSLAN blog.arsln.org -- ___ 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 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/ -- Fatih ARSLAN blog.arsln.org -- Fatih ARSLAN blog.arsln.org
[BackupPC-users] rrdtool
Hi, I've installed rrdtool on my system and found the BackupPC Pool Size in the server status page. I didn't know before that backuppc can display measures from rrdtool. Their are any other rrdtool data which can be displeyed in the backuppc GUI? Is there a documentation about this integration? br Matthias -- Don't Panic -- ___ 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] rrdtool
Matthias Meyer wrote: I've installed rrdtool on my system and found the BackupPC Pool Size in the server status page. I didn't know before that backuppc can display measures from rrdtool. Their are any other rrdtool data which can be displeyed in the backuppc GUI? Is there a documentation about this integration? There is no rrdtool integration built into BackupPC. I believe there is some third party mod/hack that does this. Maybe there is something about this on the BackupPC wiki. Myself, I like to use a dedicated monitoring tool for all of our monitoring instead of having to look for stats in different applications. Nils Breunese. -- ___ 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] Incremental Backup
Hi, Tino Schwarze wrote on 2009-03-26 18:21:53 +0100 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Incremental Backup]: On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 12:56:36PM -0400, kyeto wrote: Ah ok, I have copied the files from an another folder. How can i tell to backuppc to check the create date of the file and not the modification date ? As far as I know, you cannot. If you could, BackupPC would do it by default. for the record: this is nonsense. You don't want to base incremental backups on the creation date of files. You want to back up files *changed* since the reference backup too, not *only newly created* ones. Even if smbclient's incremental mode supports it (which I doubt, because it makes no sense), you would end up losing much more than you gain. Regards, Holger -- ___ 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] rrdtool
Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) wrote: Matthias Meyer wrote: I've installed rrdtool on my system and found the BackupPC Pool Size in the server status page. I didn't know before that backuppc can display measures from rrdtool. Their are any other rrdtool data which can be displeyed in the backuppc GUI? Is there a documentation about this integration? There is no rrdtool integration built into BackupPC. I believe there is some third party mod/hack that does this. Maybe there is something about this on the BackupPC wiki. Myself, I like to use a dedicated monitoring tool for all of our monitoring instead of having to look for stats in different applications. Nils Breunese. -- ___ 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/ You are right. It seems to be a patch by debian developers. But it is really very nice! http://groups.google.at/group/linux.debian.changes.devel/browse_thread/thread/ca0c89046a99e82d/7b0342b565707cf8?hl=deie=ISO-8859-1q=backuppc+rrdtool#7b0342b565707cf8 -- Don't Panic -- ___ 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] Incremental Backup
Holger Parplies wrote: Hi, Tino Schwarze wrote on 2009-03-26 18:21:53 +0100 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Incremental Backup]: On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 12:56:36PM -0400, kyeto wrote: Ah ok, I have copied the files from an another folder. How can i tell to backuppc to check the create date of the file and not the modification date ? As far as I know, you cannot. If you could, BackupPC would do it by default. for the record: this is nonsense. You don't want to base incremental backups on the creation date of files. You want to back up files *changed* since the reference backup too, not *only newly created* ones. Even if smbclient's incremental mode supports it (which I doubt, because it makes no sense), you would end up losing much more than you gain. On unix-like filesystems, file creation time is not stored. The 'ctime' value is the 'inode change time' and is in fact what you should prefer to base incrementals on because it will catch moved/renamed files and owner/permission changes as well as content changes. Since changing modification time (mtime) is also an inode change, ctime can never be earlier than mtime. But in any case samba can only use the modification time. -- Les Mikesell lesmike...@gmail.com -- ___ 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] debian/freebsd
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/05/39 just an FYI for those that are fans of debian and of freebsd. Debian is now shipping with a freebsd kernel. This will give a debian userland to the freebsd kernel, and access to debian packages. I cant wait to see this mature as well as the ZFS freensd port. as these two stabilize this will create an excelent platform for backuppc. The FreeBSD kernel is top-notch and can certainly trade blows with the Linux kernel, debian is one of the dominant distributions (I am including durivitives like ubuntu) and ZFS is a filesystem that seems almost custom tailored to backuppc type workloads. -- ___ 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/
