Re: [BackupPC-users] Submitting an archive via BackupPC_serverMesg in a scriptable way

2007-01-29 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Timothy J. Massey wrote on 29.01.2007 at 01:46:34 [[BackupPC-users] Submitting an archive via BackupPC_serverMesg in a scriptable way]: > > Here are some notes on how to submit an archive job to BackupPC in the > same way that the GUI does. thank you for sharing the result of your research

Re: [BackupPC-users] Bug: Cannot use rsyncd on RHEL4 hosts: child exited prematurely

2007-01-29 Thread Timothy J. Massey
"Joe Casadonte" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 01/29/2007 10:42:32 PM: > On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, Timothy J. Massey wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/29/2007 > > 07:01:03 PM: > > > > > Also, you might crank up the timeout settings for just the > > > failing hosts and see if it allows

Re: [BackupPC-users] Archive file name question/change

2007-01-29 Thread Craig Barratt
Tim writes: > Is there a reason why archives made with "-1" as the backup number are > saved as "-1" instead of the actual backup number that was used? If > not, would you accept a patch that changes it to use the actual backup > number instead (assuming I can figure out how to make the change

Re: [BackupPC-users] Found a Bug

2007-01-29 Thread Craig Barratt
Jason writes: > Willem Viljoen wrote: > > I have inserted the username and password required to make backups and > > it works, full and inrcremental. When turning "Use simple File Sharing" > > of - incremental backups fail with the message: "backup failed (session > > setup failed: NT_STATUS_LO

Re: [BackupPC-users] Bug: Cannot use rsyncd on RHEL4 hosts: child exited prematurely

2007-01-29 Thread Craig Barratt
> BackupPC XferLog.0: > > # tail XferLog.0 >create 744 0/0 47604 > lib/modules/2.6.9-5.EL/kernel/drivers/parport/parport.ko >create 744 0/08716 > lib/modules/2.6.9-5.EL/kernel/drivers/parport/parport_cs.ko > Read EOF: No route to host "No route to host" in

[BackupPC-users] Win Rsyncd and BackupPC

2007-01-29 Thread L Matthew Blancett
I have installed the Windows rsync package, written my rsyncd.conf files, configured the rsync containers, etc. When I command-line rsync from the backuppc server, everything works fine. How do I now get BackupPC to act as host to the rsync process, rather than executing it remotely over ssh? -

Re: [BackupPC-users] Bug: Cannot use rsyncd on RHEL4 hosts: child exited prematurely

2007-01-29 Thread Les Mikesell
Timothy J. Massey wrote: > Les Mikesell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 01/29/2007 06:31:03 PM: > > > Timothy J. Massey wrote: > > > > > lib/modules/2.6.9-5.EL/kernel/drivers/parport/parport_cs.ko > > > Read EOF: No route to host > > > > That's an odd network error. What's between these boxes?

Re: [BackupPC-users] Bug: Cannot use rsyncd on RHEL4 hosts: child exited prematurely

2007-01-29 Thread Timothy J. Massey
Les Mikesell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 01/29/2007 06:31:03 PM: > Timothy J. Massey wrote: > > > lib/modules/2.6.9-5.EL/kernel/drivers/parport/parport_cs.ko > > Read EOF: No route to host > > That's an odd network error. What's between these boxes? A switch and a couple of Ethernet cables

Re: [BackupPC-users] Bug: Cannot use rsyncd on RHEL4 hosts: child exited prematurely

2007-01-29 Thread Timothy J. Massey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/29/2007 07:01:03 PM: > Also, you might crank up the timeout settings for just the failing hosts > and see if it allows your backups to run longer before failing. Your > failures are right about 20 minutes into them, which is a suspiciously > round number. Actua

Re: [BackupPC-users] Found a Bug

2007-01-29 Thread Jason Hughes
Willem Viljoen wrote: > I have inserted the username and password required to make backups and > it works, full and inrcremental. When turning "Use simple File Sharing" > of - incremental backups fail with the message: "backup failed (session > setup failed: NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE)". My printer

Re: [BackupPC-users] Bug: Cannot use rsyncd on RHEL4 hosts: child exited prematurely

2007-01-29 Thread Jason Hughes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Maybe I shouldn't chime in, because I've only been half following this > thread, but I can't help wondering if you've looked into all the > firewall/timeout possibilities? Sometimes those settings get hosed during > an upgrade too. > > Not a bad thing to look into. I

Re: [BackupPC-users] Bug: Cannot use rsyncd on RHEL4 hosts: child exited prematurely

2007-01-29 Thread Les Mikesell
Timothy J. Massey wrote: > lib/modules/2.6.9-5.EL/kernel/drivers/parport/parport_cs.ko > Read EOF: No route to host That's an odd network error. What's between these boxes? -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Tak

Re: [BackupPC-users] Bug: Cannot use rsyncd on RHEL4 hosts: child exited prematurely

2007-01-29 Thread ckeil
Maybe I shouldn't chime in, because I've only been half following this thread, but I can't help wondering if you've looked into all the firewall/timeout possibilities? Sometimes those settings get hosed during an upgrade too. ck > Les Mikesell wrote: > >> Timothy J. Massey wrote: >> >>> Rememb

Re: [BackupPC-users] Bug: Cannot use rsyncd on RHEL4 hosts: child exited prematurely

2007-01-29 Thread Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)
Les Mikesell wrote: Timothy J. Massey wrote: Remember, this happens on *3* different servers, with 3 different BackupPC servers. This is *not* related to a unique property of the individual server. This is *very* related to RHEL4, instead of RHEL3. Like I said, we upgraded a server from 3

Re: [BackupPC-users] Bug: Cannot use rsyncd on RHEL4 hosts: child exited prematurely

2007-01-29 Thread Timothy J. Massey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/29/2007 04:54:36 PM: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/29/2007 > 03:10:18 PM: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/29/2007 > > 02:40:59 PM: > > > > > I've tried older versions of rsync, I've tried newer version of rsync. > > > I've tried Red Hat's versio

Re: [BackupPC-users] Bug: Cannot use rsyncd on RHEL4 hosts: child exited prematurely

2007-01-29 Thread Timothy J. Massey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/29/2007 04:52:15 PM: > Timothy J. Massey wrote: > > > Remember, this happens on *3* different servers, with 3 different > > BackupPC servers. This is *not* related to a unique property of the > > individual server. This is *very* related to RHEL4, instead of R

Re: [BackupPC-users] Bug: Cannot use rsyncd on RHEL4 hosts: child exited prematurely

2007-01-29 Thread Les Mikesell
Timothy J. Massey wrote: > Remember, this happens on *3* different servers, with 3 different > BackupPC servers. This is *not* related to a unique property of the > individual server. This is *very* related to RHEL4, instead of RHEL3. > Like I said, we upgraded a server from 3 to 4: used to

Re: [BackupPC-users] Bug: Cannot use rsyncd on RHEL4 hosts: child exited prematurely

2007-01-29 Thread Timothy J. Massey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/29/2007 03:10:18 PM: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/29/2007 > 02:40:59 PM: > > > I've tried older versions of rsync, I've tried newer version of rsync. > > I've tried Red Hat's versions, I've tried generic versions. I've tried > > older versions of File::

Re: [BackupPC-users] Bug: Cannot use rsyncd on RHEL4 hosts: child exited prematurely

2007-01-29 Thread Timothy J. Massey
Les Mikesell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 01/29/2007 04:21:51 PM: > Timothy J. Massey wrote: > > > > Another failure. And here's the log: > > > > 2007-01-29 13:41:49 full backup started for directory ROOT > > 2007-01-29 14:19:55 Got fatal error during xfer (Child exited prematurely) > > 2

Re: [BackupPC-users] Bug: Cannot use rsyncd on RHEL4 hosts: child exited prematurely

2007-01-29 Thread Les Mikesell
Timothy J. Massey wrote: > > Another failure. And here's the log: > > 2007-01-29 13:41:49 full backup started for directory ROOT > 2007-01-29 14:19:55 Got fatal error during xfer (Child exited prematurely) > 2007-01-29 14:20:00 Backup aborted (Child exited prematurely) > 2007-01-29 14:20:00 Save

Re: [BackupPC-users] Bug: Cannot use rsyncd on RHEL4 hosts: child exited prematurely

2007-01-29 Thread Timothy J. Massey
"Joe Casadonte" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 01/29/2007 02:39:52 PM: > On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, Timothy J. Massey wrote: > > > So this should not be an issue. Am I missing something? > > Can you run rsync from the command line from the backuppc server > hitting the client machine? Something l

Re: [BackupPC-users] Bug: Cannot use rsyncd on RHEL4 hosts: child exited prematurely

2007-01-29 Thread Timothy J. Massey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/29/2007 02:40:59 PM: > I've tried older versions of rsync, I've tried newer version of rsync. > I've tried Red Hat's versions, I've tried generic versions. I've tried > older versions of File::RsyncD, I've tried newer versions of > File::RsyncD. I've tried Rsyn

Re: [BackupPC-users] Bug: Cannot use rsyncd on RHEL4 hosts: child exited prematurely

2007-01-29 Thread Timothy J. Massey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/29/2007 01:40:56 PM: > > > Or, you could put the stock package back - the RHEL guys get some of > > > this stuff right... > > > > Well, the rsync package for RHEL4 didn't work, and *then* I upgraded to > > a standard rsync package. It's not like I rand

[BackupPC-users] Bad disk copy of repository--best recovery approach?

2007-01-29 Thread John Locke
Hi, My main backuppc file repository ran out of disk space last week. I had it running on a software RAID 1 array, without LVM, a 120GB ext3 partition. So over the weekend I put in two new 320GB drives, configured them for (software) RAID 1, and created an LVM partition running there to ease the

Re: [BackupPC-users] Bug: Cannot use rsyncd on RHEL4 hosts: child exited prematurely

2007-01-29 Thread Timothy J. Massey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/29/2007 01:25:06 PM: > Les Mikesell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 01/29/2007 12:35:29 PM: > > > That's not the stock rsync package for RHEL4. The changed behavior of > > rsync has been discussed on the list before in the context of distros > > that include it:

Re: [BackupPC-users] Bug: Cannot use rsyncd on RHEL4 hosts: child exited prematurely

2007-01-29 Thread Timothy J. Massey
Les Mikesell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 01/29/2007 12:35:29 PM: > Timothy J. Massey wrote: > > > > I have had a bug with BackupPC, rsync and RHEL4 for some time now. I > > blindly assumed that this bug had been fixed in the last year or so. It > > turns out it has not. > > > > BackupPC

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc host discovery for linux computers

2007-01-29 Thread Ski Kacoroski
Ted To wrote: > Hi, > > Reading the documenation on host discovery, it's not clear to me how to set > up my network so that backuppc knows what dhcp assigned IP address to > associate with a linux box. Can someone offer some help or point me in the > right direction? The way I do this is via dyn

Re: [BackupPC-users] When the backup are made?

2007-01-29 Thread Les Mikesell
Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) wrote: >> >> My first question is: exaclty, when the backup are made? In which >> time? I can't find this information, maybe somewere in config but I'm >> sure I read fine it. I would like to know this for scheduling the pc >> on network that must be open. This means that I

Re: [BackupPC-users] Bug: Cannot use rsyncd on RHEL4 hosts: child exited prematurely

2007-01-29 Thread Les Mikesell
Timothy J. Massey wrote: > > I have had a bug with BackupPC, rsync and RHEL4 for some time now. I > blindly assumed that this bug had been fixed in the last year or so. It > turns out it has not. > > BackupPC Configuration: > BackupPC 3.0beta3 running on CentOS 3.8 with latest updates > > Ho

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc host discovery for linux computers

2007-01-29 Thread Ted To
DNS is done by my router. It has DNSmasq and I've now turned on local DNS -- will that do the trick? On 1/28/07, Holger Parplies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, Ted To wrote on 23.01.2007 at 10:06:15 and on 27.01.2007 at 19:08:37 [[BackupPC-users] Backuppc host discovery for linux computers]:

Re: [BackupPC-users] When the backup are made?

2007-01-29 Thread Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)
Joe Skop wrote: first thanks for this fine program. I discover it by HowToForge yesterday, and I prepare and install immediatly. My first question is: exaclty, when the backup are made? In which time? I can't find this information, maybe somewere in config but I'm sure I read fine it. I would l

[BackupPC-users] When the backup are made?

2007-01-29 Thread Joe Skop
Hi, first thanks for this fine program. I discover it by HowToForge yesterday, and I prepare and install immediatly. My first question is: exaclty, when the backup are made? In which time? I can't find this information, maybe somewere in config but I'm sure I read fine it. I would like to know th

[BackupPC-users] Bug: Cannot use rsyncd on RHEL4 hosts: child exited prematurely

2007-01-29 Thread Timothy J. Massey
Hello! I have had a bug with BackupPC, rsync and RHEL4 for some time now. I blindly assumed that this bug had been fixed in the last year or so. It turns out it has not. BackupPC Configuration: BackupPC 3.0beta3 running on CentOS 3.8 with latest updates # uname -a Linux vault.example.com 2.

Re: [BackupPC-users] how to update from 2.1.1

2007-01-29 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Jim McNamara wrote on 29.01.2007 at 10:55:26 [Re: [BackupPC-users] how to update from 2.1.1]: > Due to the code freeze in Debian for the release of Etch as stable > "soon", it will be quite a while before a new deb package for backupPC > makes it to stable. true. > The Debian backupPC maint

Re: [BackupPC-users] how to update from 2.1.1

2007-01-29 Thread Jim McNamara
Due to the code freeze in Debian for the release of Etch as stable "soon", it will be quite a while before a new deb package for backupPC makes it to stable. The Debian backupPC maintainer is probably well aware of the releases, but even if he made the packages, the code freeze would prevent them f

Re: [BackupPC-users] Long: How BackupPC handles pooling, and how transfer methods affect bandwidth usage

2007-01-29 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 01/27 02:23 , Timothy J. Massey wrote: > We are right now envisioning needing 2TB of space to back up a single > host: our mail server, which has less than 100GB of data. The deltas > on our mail server are currently in the neighborhood of 50GB/day. > That's because we have 50GB of mail dat

Re: [BackupPC-users] Update to 3.0

2007-01-29 Thread Klaas Vantournhout
Hi Christophe, I would not really worry about an update. I have always updated without a single problem and this since version 1 of BackupPC. If you install BackupPC, untar the file in a new directory (for backupreaasons if things go wrong, you should still have the old install dir of your pr

Re: [BackupPC-users] how to update from 2.1.1

2007-01-29 Thread Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)
Filipe wrote: I've followed a guide and I used apt-get install... when installing backuppc 2.1.1 and now what should I do?! there's version 3 also out :o You could contact the maintainer and ask if an update is in the works or maybe use Debian's Bug Tracker. I'm pretty sure you can also

Re: [BackupPC-users] how to update from 2.1.1

2007-01-29 Thread Filipe
I've followed a guide and I used apt-get install... when installing backuppc 2.1.1 and now what should I do?! there's version 3 also out :o Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) wrote: Filipe wrote: I am running 2.1.1 with no major problems with 12 hosts for about 6 months. It is on a debian sarge syste

[BackupPC-users] Schedule for per pc backup

2007-01-29 Thread nilesh vaghela
How can I make per pc schedule for backup purpose. As I had 350 pc and want to keep maximum 4 pc to be connected concurrent. -- Nilesh Vaghela ElectroMech Redhat Channel Partner and Training Partner 74, Nalanda Complex, Satellite Rd, Ahmedabad 25, The Emperor, Fatehgunj, Baroda. www.electromech.

Re: [BackupPC-users] owner not shown after changing owner

2007-01-29 Thread Klaas Vantournhout
Hi, just some more info about this. I noticed that when a host had one user in BackupPC 2.1.2, and I add more users after upgrade to version 3.0.0beta3, the line "This PC is used by " vanishes! Altering the line back to only one user, shows the line again. This is not the case when a PC origina