Re: [BackupPC-users] No backups are running automatically.

2008-09-09 Thread Craig Barratt
James writes: Manual full and incremental backups work. No backups are running automatically. I'm using the default schedule options, I changed the default blackout period to a negative value for testing purposes. I'm using rsyncd with Windows XP. See attached config.pl I don't see a

[BackupPC-users] Strange behavior when using backuppc with rsyncd or rsync+ssh

2008-09-09 Thread Louis-Marie Mouton
Hi, I'm trying to configure a backuppc solution to transparently do a remote backup of laptops. The server is running ubuntu 8.04 with the packaged version of backuppc installed. All the laptops are connected to the server's network using an openvpn tunnel (their upload bandwidth is supposed to

[BackupPC-users] [SPAM] LOW * Disabling backups via BackupsDisable instead of FullPeriod

2008-09-09 Thread Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)
Hello, I noticed some outdated documentation. The 'Removing a client' section under 'Other installation topics' [0] says to set $Conf{FullPeriod} to a negative value to disable backups for a client. However, the documentation on $Conf{BackupsDisable} [1] says: In versions prior to

[BackupPC-users] Is BackupPC still a no go with Fedora F9?

2008-09-09 Thread Arch Willingham
I never could get BackupPC to work with Fedora F9. It works fine with F8. I recently upgraded the F8 machine to F9 and BackupPC no longer works (tree connect failed: NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED ). It seems like there was some issue with having to downgrade Samba or something like that. Does anyone

Re: [BackupPC-users] Is BackupPC still a no go with Fedora F9?

2008-09-09 Thread Alan McKay
I dunno about Samba , but it works great with rsync. Why would you use samba anyway, isn't rsync better? -- I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends - Abraham Lincoln - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the

Re: [BackupPC-users] Is BackupPC still a no go with Fedora F9?

2008-09-09 Thread Les Mikesell
Arch Willingham wrote: I never could get BackupPC to work with Fedora F9. It works fine with F8. I recently upgraded the F8 machine to F9 and BackupPC no longer works (“tree connect failed: NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED” ). It seems like there was some issue with having to downgrade Samba or

[BackupPC-users] Question regarding BackupPC_tarPCCopy

2008-09-09 Thread Hendrik Friedel
Hello, I moved the data of my backups according to the wiki (rsync -a). Now, I'm trying to restore the symlinks. For that I issue these commands: cd /mnt/sda5/BackupPC/pc ; /usr/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_tarPCCopy /var/lib/BackupPC/pc/ |tar xvPF - This takes ages, which is ok, but I'm logged in to

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backups getting smaller and missing data

2008-09-09 Thread Peter
I stopped ClamWin and executed a manual full backup and ran into the same messages of the timeout. Since getting Craig's email have thought and yea, possibly backing up music and images is over kill. As these do not change regularly. However, as I have now encountered this problem I prefer to fix

Re: [BackupPC-users] Question regarding BackupPC_tarPCCopy

2008-09-09 Thread Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)
Hendrik Friedel wrote: This takes ages, which is ok, but I'm logged in to the server via ssh, so that using the nohup command would be useful. This has the drawback, that the nohup.out is empty, so that I cannot monitor the process. Install screen and see 'man screen'. Other than that I

[BackupPC-users] SMB Signature verification failed - windows 2003

2008-09-09 Thread jsivak
I've just had this problem as well and here's what I did: In smb.conf add the following in the [global] section: client signing = no client use spnego = no I'm backing up an old Windows 2000 box, and without turning off client signing and spnego I was getting errors on any file or directory

Re: [BackupPC-users] Question regarding BackupPC_tarPCCopy

2008-09-09 Thread dan
screen then run command when it is running, do a Ctrl-A then D which will disconnect that screen. to get back to it, do screen -R On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 10:40 AM, Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hendrik Friedel wrote: This takes ages, which is ok, but I'm logged in