Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC doesn't want to start. Help!

2007-11-14 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Tue, 2007-11-13 at 21:25 +0100, Frans Pop wrote: On Tuesday 13 November 2007, Yves Claus wrote: *Starting backuppc: perl: ldap-nss.c:1374: do_init: l'assertion cfg-ldc_uris[__session.ls_current_uri] != ((void *)0) * a échoué. (In English = it doesn't work!) I've seen this myself -

[BackupPC-users] ssh, rsync and root access

2007-11-14 Thread Rodrigo Real
Hello I've been using backuppc to backup several hosts in a lan. Most of them are backep up with rsync+ssh using root access. Now I am backing up a host which is also connected to the Internet, and which does not accept direct root access through ssh. I looked at some alternatives and ended up

Re: [BackupPC-users] ssh, rsync and root access

2007-11-14 Thread dan
i would really consider NOT addowing root login on ssh without a password. HUGE security hole. instead, use a shared key so that you can get no-password logins for machines you provide a key for. much much safer! On Nov 14, 2007 5:13 AM, Rodrigo Real [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello I've

Re: [BackupPC-users] ssh, rsync and root access

2007-11-14 Thread Rodrigo Real
dan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi i would really consider NOT addowing root login on ssh without a password. HUGE security hole. instead, use a shared key so that you can get no-password logins for machines you provide a key for. much much safer! I guess that you lost the point here, the

Re: [BackupPC-users] Rsynch Error

2007-11-14 Thread John Moorhouse
Just to say that I have now solved this, the $Conf{RsyncdUserName} is set within the server config file rather than on a per host basis, does make sense now I see it. Thanks for the couple of people who responded with suggestions. Ta John John Moorhouse wrote: Not sure what I'm missing but

[BackupPC-users] adjusting compression level

2007-11-14 Thread Gene Horodecki
Hi there.. I just did my first big backup with backuppc and to be honest the results were alittle dissapointing.. It's taken 6 hours now at approximately 80% CPU to back up my 70Gb photo archive.  Does this sound about right?  My entire system is around 240Gb.. at this point I doubt I could do it

[BackupPC-users] wireless nic cut's off backuppc's backup proces

2007-11-14 Thread scartomail
Hello, I have setup an XP client to backup over the web to my debian/stable/backuppc server. It is connected through OpenVPN and I am using rsync(cygwin) to backup. After trouble shouting for a long time I found the problem(unfortunatly not the solution). When the client is connected by

Re: [BackupPC-users] adjusting compression level

2007-11-14 Thread Michael Barrow
On Nov 14, 2007, at 11:41 AM, Michael Barrow wrote: On Nov 14, 2007, at 10:19 AM, Gene Horodecki wrote: Hi there.. I just did my first big backup with backuppc and to be honest the results were alittle dissapointing.. It's taken 6 hours now at approximately 80% CPU to back up my 70Gb

Re: [BackupPC-users] Rsynch Error

2007-11-14 Thread Craig Barratt
John writes: What it does not seem to do is give me an option to set $Conf{RsyncdUserName} = 'backup'; This is a CGI editor bug in 3.0.0 that is fixed in 3.1.0beta. Craig - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk

Re: [BackupPC-users] adjusting compression level

2007-11-14 Thread Gene Horodecki
Interesting point you make about rsyncd vs. smb transfer rates. I would have never guessed smb to be better at anything. I'm still going rsyncd on everything, since it's better at dealing with in-use files, etc. It just seems rsyncd is all around more robust. It would be nice if the

Re: [BackupPC-users] adjusting compression level

2007-11-14 Thread dan
actually, i would consider it some level of bug that SMB can beat rsync in certain tasks in backuppc. In reality, the only point at which rsync would be any slower than SMB would be during the initial scan for changed files, which SMB wouldnt be doing and would rely on the program that is doing