Re: [BackupPC-users] Best way to backup localhost?

2008-01-22 Thread Rich Rauenzahn
B. Cook wrote: > Hello All, > > I'm setting up a new machine trying out different things.. > > Do I need to setup sshd/rsync so that the backuppc 'user' can have > full access to / ? > > Or is there a better, more efficient way? > > Thanks in advance. > > I prefer to let rsyncd do the privi

Re: [BackupPC-users] How to upgrade 2.1.2ubuntu5 to 3.1.0

2008-01-22 Thread Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)
Wahyu Mahardian wrote: > I've already install backuppc on my ubuntu 6.06 LTS Dapper Drake. > After > googling, i found that ubuntu 6.06 LTS comes with backuppc version > 2.1.2-2ubuntu5 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/dapper/+source/backuppc. > I just want to upgrade it to version 3.0.0 or newer. >

Re: [BackupPC-users] Problem with rsyncd

2008-01-22 Thread Jonathan Dumaresq
Hi, This is Strange, Because my old backuppc server is able to do the backup. Here the rsyncd.conf use chroot = false max connections = 4 log file = c:/rsyncd/rsyncd.log pid file = c:/rsyncd/rsyncd.pid lock file = c:/rsyncd/rsyncd.lock [projets] path = c:/projet com

Re: [BackupPC-users] Best way to backup localhost?

2008-01-22 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 01/22 11:44 , B. Cook wrote: > Or is there a better, more efficient way? sudo is the way to go. I actually use tar on my local machines, because the amount of OS data to be backed up (and it's local, so bandwidth isn't a problem) is small enough that it's probably faster to use tar than rsync.

Re: [BackupPC-users] Best way to backup localhost?

2008-01-22 Thread Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)
B. Cook wrote: > I understand you conceptually.. > > but where do I want to change what to make that happen? I can't give you an example (others probably can, or search the list archives), but you have to change the ClienCmd for the transfer method that you use ($Conf{TarClientCmd} or $Conf{R

[BackupPC-users] BackupPC_serverMesg

2008-01-22 Thread dan
I can't find the right command here maybe someone can help. I googled this to death and didn't find the answer/ I am using ssh backuppc "su backupps -c 'BackupPC_serverMesg backup IP HOST USER 0'" on a remote machine to backup. this works great BUT i want the command to stay attached until it is

Re: [BackupPC-users] Best way to backup localhost?

2008-01-22 Thread Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)
B. Cook wrote: > I'm setting up a new machine trying out different things.. > > Do I need to setup sshd/rsync so that the backuppc 'user' can have > full access to / ? > > Or is there a better, more efficient way? You can also use sudo instead of ssh. We just use ssh so that we can use the same

[BackupPC-users] Best way to backup localhost?

2008-01-22 Thread B. Cook
Hello All, I'm setting up a new machine trying out different things.. Do I need to setup sshd/rsync so that the backuppc 'user' can have full access to / ? Or is there a better, more efficient way? Thanks in advance. -

[BackupPC-users] Problem with rsyncd

2008-01-22 Thread Jonathan Dumaresq
Hi all, I have an old 2.1.0 version running on a slackware linux distro. I would like to run the latest version on a new Ubuntu 7.10 installation. First think I do is Apt-get install backuppc This result of installing backuppc 3.0.0-3. I try to get the system work like the old one work So I se

Re: [BackupPC-users] problem with os-x client on backuppc

2008-01-22 Thread Ski Kacoroski
James, I highly recommend using xtar for OSX clients as any other method will not backup and restore the resource forks correctly. I have been using xtar for 3+ years on 1500+ OSX clients to linux servers with no problems. cheers, ski On Thu, 17 Jan 2008 14:29:50 -0500 James Peverill <[EMAIL P

Re: [BackupPC-users] Disable full backup for users?

2008-01-22 Thread dan
I understand now. You would have to edit the CGI scripts and the page to do this with the CGI interface BUT you could install cygwin's ssh client and give your users an icon to do their backups. the icon would run a shell script via ssh like so ssh serverhostname "su backuppc -c '/path/to/Backup

Re: [BackupPC-users] How to upgrade 2.1.2ubuntu5 to 3.1.0

2008-01-22 Thread dan
If you download the tar.gz file and extract it there is a configure.plinside that you can run with > perl configure.pl that will ask you some questions about your current config and should get you setup. I suggest you backup your backuppc files in /etc and in /usr/share or wherever backuppc is i

Re: [BackupPC-users] Disable full backup for users?

2008-01-22 Thread Benjamin SECLIER
Thanks but I want to make full backups. I just want users can't, (only admin). I want to remove the "Start full backup" button of the user's CGI. Is is possible? 2008/1/21, dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > first, put the full period to 999 and then make the incremental list > something like 1,2,3,4,5,