Re: [BackupPC-users] heads up for newer versions of openssh

2016-05-11 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 05/11 02:46 , Joe Konecny wrote: > I found after several days of wrestling that UseDNS now defaults to "no" in > newer versions of openssh. This causes a from="hostname" clause in > authorized_keys > to reject the connection. You either have to... 1. use an ip address > from="x.x.x.x" > 2. s

Re: [BackupPC-users] heads up for newer versions of openssh

2016-05-11 Thread Joe Konecny
On 05/11/2016 02:46 PM, Joe Konecny wrote: > I found after several days of wrestling that UseDNS now defaults to "no" in > newer versions of openssh. This causes a from="hostname" clause in > authorized_keys > to reject the connection. You either have to... 1. use an ip address > from="x.x.x.x"

[BackupPC-users] heads up for newer versions of openssh

2016-05-11 Thread Joe Konecny
I found after several days of wrestling that UseDNS now defaults to "no" in newer versions of openssh. This causes a from="hostname" clause in authorized_keys to reject the connection. You either have to... 1. use an ip address from="x.x.x.x" 2. set "UseDNS yes" in sshd_config or 3. omit "from=

Re: [BackupPC-users] Status on new BackupPC v4

2016-05-11 Thread Dan Pritts
Les Mikesell wrote: v3 uses its own perl implementation to be able to compare to the compressed archived copy.. v4 uses the server's native version. The docs for v4 say: * A modified rsync 3.0.9, called rsync_bpc, is used on the server side, with a C code layer that emulates all the file

[BackupPC-users] Backup aborted (tar:712 Total bytes received: 86681)

2016-05-11 Thread terryls
I can't change the status of the post to indicate resolved, but here is what resolved my BackupPC Windows client failure: After making changes to the Smb.pm and Browse.pm files, I have 2 Windows servers backing up and 4 in the process of backing up. The only change I made was that indicated in

Re: [BackupPC-users] Status on new BackupPC v4

2016-05-11 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 12:47 AM, Sorin Srbu wrote: >> From: Moorcroft, Mark (ARC-TS)[Analytical Mechanics Associates, INC.] >> >> Theproblem is that it replaces modern rsync with some ancient embedded >> version. If that one thing could be "patched" I would hardly care about any >> other changes.

Re: [BackupPC-users] Status on new BackupPC v4

2016-05-11 Thread Dan Pritts
No, at least by default, it uses the perl module File::RsyncP. There is a significant advantage to this. The server can look in the pool for the file, and avoid transferring it if it's already got the file. Sorin Srbu wrote: -Original Message- From: Moorcroft, Mark (ARC-TS)[Analy

Re: [BackupPC-users] Status on new BackupPC v4

2016-05-11 Thread Gerald Brandt
I'm not a perl guy, but does anyone know how embedded the perl rsync is? Could it be replaced with the system rsync? Gerald On 2016-05-10 01:12 PM, Moorcroft, Mark (ARC-TS)[Analytical Mechanics Associates, INC.] wrote: > Personally, I have only one fundamental issue with BackuPC 3.x, that we r

Re: [BackupPC-users] Windows backups fail, Linux backups complete

2016-05-11 Thread Samuel Wolf
Zitat von Mike Austgen : > Mine stopped working when the backuppc server performed and auto update > and changed the samba client. > > I used Ariel Sanguinetti's solution to fix it. > > - > just in case this helps someone, I've to downgrade samba to 4.1.6 by > doing: > > apt-get install s