Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup of database over internet ?

2008-01-30 Thread Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I would like to know if it's possible to back up a database over > internet. > For example, if I have a website which is hosted by Free, and I want > to back up a database, is it possible to do it with BackupPC ? > > If it is, with what XferMethod ? Rsync over SSH ?

Re: [BackupPC-users] Best Practices?

2008-01-30 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 01/29 06:35 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > One problem, tho. > My Linux workstation recently suffered a melt down and I am having a > bugger of a time getting rsync to work so that I can recover my > files...which is sort of the point of having a backup server running! Are you intending to recove

Re: [BackupPC-users] LAN limitation

2008-01-30 Thread dan
just a little more detail. this can be done easily with putty as there is a "tunnels" section in the config that will let you choose the remote port to connect to and also the local port. you can put a script into putty to run your backup command, which is probably BackupPC_dump. you just have t

Re: [BackupPC-users] LAN limitation

2008-01-30 Thread dan
if the client initiates the connection and provides and ssh tunnel, backuppc can be setup to connect to 127.0.0.1 with the appropriate port for the tunnel, then the client can connect to the server and the server can backup the client over the ssh connection. On Jan 30, 2008 2:43 PM, Stephen Joyce

Re: [BackupPC-users] LAN limitation

2008-01-30 Thread Stephen Joyce
On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Les Mikesell wrote: > Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: >> On 01/23 06:39 , Greg WhitleyMott wrote: >>> BackupPC has served well in a couple organizations i've setup. but now >>> i need to setup something that works across the internet, and it looks >>> like BackupPC can't do th

Re: [BackupPC-users] LAN limitation

2008-01-30 Thread Les Mikesell
Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > On 01/23 06:39 , Greg WhitleyMott wrote: >> BackupPC has served well in a couple organizations i've setup. but now >> i need to setup something that works across the internet, and it looks >> like BackupPC can't do that. i'm sad, i'd much rather use BackupPC tha

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up multiple shares on not all machines

2008-01-30 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 01/24 12:25 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > That seems odd, but what I'd very much like to know is: is there a way > to back up multiple shares, where a given share doesn't exist on every > computer? Set up per-host configuration files. Just create files in /etc/backuppc/.pl and place in them th

Re: [BackupPC-users] LAN limitation

2008-01-30 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 01/23 06:39 , Greg WhitleyMott wrote: > BackupPC has served well in a couple organizations i've setup. but now > i need to setup something that works across the internet, and it looks > like BackupPC can't do that. i'm sad, i'd much rather use BackupPC than > rdiff-backup or safekeep or wha

Re: [BackupPC-users] command to display backuppc version

2008-01-30 Thread Greg Smith
Click on "Documentation" the first section "BackupPC Introduction" gives the version information. Mine says: This documentation describes BackupPC version 3.0.0, released on 28 Jan 2007. Greg Günter Pekar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi! Where can I find out the running version of backuppc? Web

[BackupPC-users] command to display backuppc version

2008-01-30 Thread Günter Pekar
Hi! Where can I find out the running version of backuppc? Webinterface/Command? Thanks a lot in advance! - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.

[BackupPC-users] Best Practices?

2008-01-30 Thread matthannan1
Hello, all. I am new to this list. So far, I have really enjoyed using BackupPC. I followed the directions on howtoforge.com to get everything set up and running and it is great. http://www.howtoforge.com/linux_backuppc One problem, tho. My Linux workstation recently suffered a melt down and I

Re: [BackupPC-users] taobackup

2008-01-30 Thread John Rouillard
On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 11:46:03AM -0600, R. Quenett wrote: > One of the specifics I need to learn a lot more about is the verification > of the data I am backing up. Do existing versions of backuppc make it > possible for a user to attack this area from within backuppc itself? Is > anyone usi

Re: [BackupPC-users] taobackup

2008-01-30 Thread John Rouillard
On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 11:46:03AM -0600, R. Quenett wrote: > One of the specifics I need to learn a lot more about is the verification > of the data I am backing up. Do existing versions of backuppc make it > possible for a user to attack this area from within backuppc itself? Is > anyone usi

[BackupPC-users] Backing up multiple shares on not all machines

2008-01-30 Thread bpclist . 20 . awinder
While my setup is fairly typical, and almost all machines have one C drive with all files, I'd like to throw some other machines that have a D, E, F, ... drive as well. To try to do this, I merely added a D$, E$, ... share to the backup list. On the hosts that had them, they would be backed up.

[BackupPC-users] LAN limitation

2008-01-30 Thread Greg WhitleyMott
hi, BackupPC has served well in a couple organizations i've setup. but now i need to setup something that works across the internet, and it looks like BackupPC can't do that. i'm sad, i'd much rather use BackupPC than rdiff-backup or safekeep or whatever i'll have to use instead.. with grati

Re: [BackupPC-users] trying to understand Conf{FullKeepCnt}

2008-01-30 Thread Koen Linders
There is a bit more info here: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net/keep_yearly_backups The documentation also explains another bit. Koen Linders -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Namens B. Cook Verzonden: woensdag 23 januari 2008 13:38 Aan: backu

Re: [BackupPC-users] One smb (win xp) client - multiple users: cgi-bin

2008-01-30 Thread Michael Kuss
Craig Barratt users.sourceforge.net> writes: > > todd curryweb.com writes: > > > I have assumed to date that there could only be one entry in the hosts > > file per client -- what you are proposing below would (I believe) require > > multiple entries in the hosts file? > > That's right. From

Re: [BackupPC-users] upgrading to backuppc 3.x

2008-01-30 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 01/30 09:51 , Ben Nickell wrote: > I apologize in advance for this post as I haven't had time to read all > the relevant documentation and search the mailing list archives, and I'm > sure this question has been answered many times, but I have 2 servers > down and I've been a bit busy. > > I

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC-users Digest, Vol 21, Issue 54

2008-01-30 Thread L Matthew Blancett
We are having a problem in which one of the specified locations for backup for the host is not happening. System config.pl follows: $Conf{XferMethod} = 'rsync'; $Conf{XferLogLevel} = 3; $Conf{RsyncClientPath} = '/usr/bin/rsync'; $Conf{RsyncClientCmd} = '$sshPath -q -x -l root $host $rsyncPath $arg

[BackupPC-users] upgrading to backuppc 3.x

2008-01-30 Thread Ben Nickell
I apologize in advance for this post as I haven't had time to read all the relevant documentation and search the mailing list archives, and I'm sure this question has been answered many times, but I have 2 servers down and I've been a bit busy. I had a power supply flake out and cause multiple

[BackupPC-users] How to know how much space is using a host?

2008-01-30 Thread Jonathan
Hello, I want to do a simple check like a quota to know how much space is using all the compressed backups from a host. This is what i do: I plus all the numbers in the 16th and 17th column in the file / %DATA_DIR%/pc/%host%/backups This is correct? for NUMBER in `less /backup/pc/hs$A/ba

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup of database over internet ?

2008-01-30 Thread dan
yes! you must shut down the remote database before the backup though. either that or you must create a different directory and use that database's tools to do a dump and then backup the dump. do you have rsyncd on the remote system? if so, that is an ideal way to back you data up. you can use

Re: [BackupPC-users] "trashClean : Can't read /var/lib/backuppc/trash/.../fbackup: Permission denied"

2008-01-30 Thread dan
backuppc was likely installed as a different user. the use probably was deleted and that is probably why you get the numeric uid/gid. this can also happen if you rsync or copy your backuppc data directories from another machine. the easy solution is to chmod -R backuppc /path && chgrp -R backupp

[BackupPC-users] Backup of database over internet ?

2008-01-30 Thread romain . pichard
Hello, I would like to know if it's possible to back up a database over internet. For example, if I have a website which is hosted by Free, and I want to back up a database, is it possible to do it with BackupPC ? If it is, with what XferMethod ? Rsync over SSH ? Thanks a lot. Regards, Romain