[BackupPC-users] which one better ssh+rsync or rsyncd ?

2012-02-15 Thread J. Bakshi
Dear list, Greetings to all of you. I have come to know about backuppc recently during my search for a net based backup solution which requires bare minimal settings at user end and supports various client OS. backuppc surely meet my requirement. I am confused about the server-client

Re: [BackupPC-users] which one better ssh+rsync or rsyncd ?

2012-02-15 Thread Adam Goryachev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 15/02/12 19:03, J. Bakshi wrote: Dear list, Greetings to all of you. I have come to know about backuppc recently during my search for a net based backup solution which requires bare minimal settings at user end and supports various client OS.

Re: [BackupPC-users] which one better ssh+rsync or rsyncd ?

2012-02-15 Thread Anand Gupta
Hi, In ssh + rsync, won't you still be running ssh service ? -- Thanks and Regards, Anand Gupta On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 1:46 PM, Adam Goryachev mailingli...@websitemanagers.com.au wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 15/02/12 19:03, J. Bakshi wrote: Dear list,

Re: [BackupPC-users] which one better ssh+rsync or rsyncd ?

2012-02-15 Thread J. Bakshi
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 1:46 PM, Adam Goryachev mailingli...@websitemanagers.com.au wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 15/02/12 19:03, J. Bakshi wrote: Dear list, Greetings to all of you. I have come to know about backuppc recently during my search

Re: [BackupPC-users] which one better ssh+rsync or rsyncd ?

2012-02-15 Thread Tim Fletcher
On Wed, 2012-02-15 at 14:15 +0530, Anand Gupta wrote: Hi, In ssh + rsync, won't you still be running ssh service ? Yes you will be almost every modern unix system has some sort of ssh service running normally by default. -- Tim Fletcher t...@night-shade.org.uk

Re: [BackupPC-users] which one better ssh+rsync or rsyncd ?

2012-02-15 Thread Anand Gupta
My apologies for the confusion, I wasn't clear. I meant for windows machines :p --- Thanks and Regards, Anand Gupta -Original Message- From: Tim Fletcher t...@night-shade.org.uk Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 09:24:43 To: General list for user discussion, questions and

Re: [BackupPC-users] which one better ssh+rsync or rsyncd ?

2012-02-15 Thread Adam Goryachev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 15/02/12 20:22, J. Bakshi wrote: I also like the ssh+rsync combination for the same. How can I harden the public key, so that only the required commands will be executed and nothing else ? Asking for the rsyncd because it is free from sharing

Re: [BackupPC-users] which one better ssh+rsync or rsyncd ?

2012-02-15 Thread Till Hofmann
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 10:22 AM, J. Bakshi baksh...@gmail.com wrote: I also like the ssh+rsync combination for the same. How can I harden the public key, so that only the required commands will be executed and nothing else ? check

Re: [BackupPC-users] which one better ssh+rsync or rsyncd ?

2012-02-15 Thread J. Bakshi
On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 20:38:56 +1100 Adam Goryachev mailingli...@websitemanagers.com.au wrote: snip In reference to the question of requiring an SSH server, the response is yes, you need an SSH server, but this is usually active by default, required for other administrative tasks anyway, as

Re: [BackupPC-users] which one better ssh+rsync or rsyncd ?

2012-02-15 Thread J. Bakshi
On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 10:44:45 +0100 Till Hofmann hofmannt...@googlemail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 10:22 AM, J. Bakshi baksh...@gmail.com wrote: I also like the ssh+rsync combination for the same. How can I harden the public key, so that only the required commands will be

Re: [BackupPC-users] which one better ssh+rsync or rsyncd ?

2012-02-15 Thread J. Bakshi
On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 15:28:30 +0530 J. Bakshi baksh...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 10:44:45 +0100 Till Hofmann hofmannt...@googlemail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 10:22 AM, J. Bakshi baksh...@gmail.com wrote: I also like the ssh+rsync combination for the same. How can

Re: [BackupPC-users] which one better ssh+rsync or rsyncd ?

2012-02-15 Thread hansbkk
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 3:03 PM, J. Bakshi baksh...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings to all of you. I have come to know about backuppc recently during my search for a net based backup solution which requires bare minimal settings at user end and supports various client OS. backuppc surely meet my

[BackupPC-users] kernel crash on debian squeeze vm

2012-02-15 Thread guilla...@cheramy.name
Hello, I have a problem, when I backup a xen debian squeeze I have crash on the kernel on the vm : Feb 15 22:03:32 aldebaran kernel: [173399.180601] Pid: 12229, comm: tar Tainted: G D2.6.32-5-xen-amd64 #1 Feb 15 22:03:32 aldebaran kernel: [173399.180605] RIP:

[BackupPC-users] I've Tried Everything

2012-02-15 Thread Zach Lanich
Hey guys i've been trying for like 12 hrs to get BackupPC to work. im not Amazing at linux, but i have tried Tar, Rsync, etc. each thing has a reason it fails. i got ssh set up and tested it and it works fine via ssh keys. using Tar, it errors (no files to dump) if i leave the

Re: [BackupPC-users] I've Tried Everything

2012-02-15 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 11:20 PM, Zach Lanich zlan...@gmail.com wrote: Hey guys i've been trying for like 12 hrs to get BackupPC to work. im not Amazing at linux, but i have tried Tar, Rsync, etc. each thing has a reason it fails. i got ssh set up and tested it and it works fine via ssh keys.

Re: [BackupPC-users] I've Tried Everything

2012-02-15 Thread Zach Lanich
This is all the Log has in it when I try rsync: 2012-02-15 21:59:02 full backup started for directory /Users/zlanich/Sites 2012-02-15 21:59:35 Got fatal error during xfer (Child exited prematurely) On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 12:30 AM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.comwrote: On Wed, Feb 15,