Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC 4.1.2 released

On 05/02 06:14 , Craig Barratt wrote: >- $Conf{ClientNameAlias} can now be an array of hostnames; the first one >that succeeds ping is used for the backup or restore. From martintamare >(#94). So we can now define a list of "host.internal.example.tld, host.example,tld, host.wireless.e

Re: [BackupPC-users] version 4 upgrade

On 03/17 07:48 , Philip Parsons (Velindre - Medical Physics) wrote: > If I set up a clean install on a new system, how easy would it be to migrate > the existing pool to that? It's possible, but time-consuming. I know some people here have figured out scripts for doing it, and I've done it with

Re: [BackupPC-users] version 4 upgrade

On 03/17 11:58 , Philip Parsons (Velindre - Medical Physics) wrote: > I had an installation of backuppc v3.3 (I think) and installed via apt-get on > debian. > I saw on the backuppc site that v4.0 was available, but it didn't appear in > the package lists. So I downloaded the tarball and upgr

Re: [BackupPC-users] Keep one full backup forever

On 03/03 12:43 , absolutely_f...@libero.it wrote: > Hi, > I am using BackupPC 3.2.1-4 (official Debian package).I just (physically) > removed one server, and I would like to keep one full backup forever.Is this > configuration ok? > $Conf{BackupsDisable} = '1';$Conf{FullKeepCnt} = '1'$Conf{FullK

Re: [BackupPC-users] Size Difference between source and backup

On 02/21 07:58 , André Tapxure - Soluções Ideais wrote: > Hi, there! > I did a du -h '--max-depth=1' in the full backup dir and asked for folder > properties in windows server tha is being backed up and saw a 337GB > difference (440GB to 777GB). I noted also that all files in the destination > s

Re: [BackupPC-users] Find all the hosts that did a full backup last night. And then report the time

On 11/29 12:46 , Kris Lou wrote: > Perhaps link that to the existing BackupPC github page? One of the page admins would have to do so. -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com --

Re: [BackupPC-users] Find all the hosts that did a full backup last night. And then report the time

On 11/24 10:43 , Brent Clark wrote: > I've been tasked with job to generate just a simple email / report on all our > workstations / hosts that take that long to do a full backup, with out the > need to log into our backuppc servers. There was a tool written a few years ago to plot out how long

Re: [BackupPC-users] Sample 'host.pl' for Windows 7 rsync Client

On 11/15 11:19 , Tim Evans wrote: > On 11/14/2016 03:52 PM, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > > $Conf{XferMethod} = 'rsyncd'; > > $Conf{RsyncShareName} = ['cDrive']; > > $Conf{RsyncdUserName} = 'insertusernamehere'; > > $Conf{RsyncdPassw

Re: [BackupPC-users] Sample 'host.pl' for Windows 7 rsync Client

On 11/14 02:35 , Tim Evans wrote: > Would anyone be able to provide a sample 'host.pl' file for a Windows 7 > client, to be backed up via rsync Server is Fedora 24, running > BackupPC-3.3.1-6.fc24.x86_64. > > I'm not clear on how/where to specify userid/password for the > client--equivalent of

Re: [BackupPC-users] Zip and tar on Windows 10

On 11/04 10:04 , Hermann Gottschalk wrote: > So i chose first "zip" to restore. But the archive could not be > extracted. Neither with the unzip which comes with windows, nor with > 7zip. It endedwith errors. If you download an uncompressed zipfile (compression=0) it will work. This is a known bug

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup Running Forever

On 11/02 01:29 , Christian Völker wrote: > Hi all, > > BackupPC 3.x backing up Linux hosts. Runs fine since years now. > > But currently I have an issue with one of my hosts. The backup starts, > but runs forever and does never finish. I do not know why this happens. If you watch the traffic wit

Re: [BackupPC-users] Second Destination

On 10/24 04:08 , Jan Novak wrote: > i have running backuppc very well to backup the data to a local harddisc > available for the backuppc machine (a virtual one). I like to make a > backup now to a second destination, outside my house for a dual > strategy. I have a tunnel connection to that des

[BackupPC-users] News mention of Craig Barratt

Look at the 3rd paragraph down. https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160816/05532635253/google-fiber-hasnt-hit-snag-just-evolving.shtml Mostly just a mention in passing. -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com -

Re: [BackupPC-users] Question on using NAS for Pool

On 08/05 02:05 , john boris wrote: > I searched the archives for using a Synology but haven't found the answer. > I have a Synology RS815 that I want to use as my storage unit while running > Backuppc on aanother LINUX Server. Since all of the data, logs and config > files are in /var/lib/backuppc

Re: [BackupPC-users] securing ssh keys on backuppc server

On 07/28 01:01 , lanceh1412-busin...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: > I hadn't really thought about the danger from a restore. I guess that would > require quite a bit of technical knowledge of backuppc to engineer an attack > on a server? It would require significantly less knowledge to steal the ssh > key

Re: [BackupPC-users] securing ssh keys on backuppc server

On 07/28 10:53 , lanceh1412-busin...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: > Just trying to harden security. My concern is if someone had physical access > to backuppc server they could easily logon as backuppc user by resetting the > password and therefore gain access to the ssh keys. Now I see it is possible > t

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc keeps hanging on restore

On 07/21 02:41 , Pelletier, Robert wrote: > This seems to be working nicely, although not at all ideal. May I ask how > this will help me troubleshoot my issue? Given how well this method is > performing, It does seem like it is an rsync issue, but I have tried a few > versions of rsync and all

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc keeps hanging on restore

On 07/21 06:12 , robp2175 wrote: > The restore seems to be getting stuck on the larger files. There is plenty of > space on the disk. My advice would be to try doing a restore using tar and netcat, but only because that's what I do and it works reliably for me. This would at least allow you to

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up BackupPC

On 07/14 12:04 , Adam Goryachev wrote: > You could also use dd, assuming that you have some method to ensure a > consistent state throughout the tape backup period. > > 1) Store the backuppc volume on LVM, take a snapshot and stream the > snapshot to tape Tried doing this years ago. In that ins

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC - restore not restoring file

On 07/07 01:59 , phil123456 wrote: > - it does not seem to contain any file(see below) wich is expectable since > there are no file in /var/backup on the client system Then choose a test which does have a file to restore. :) > - getting a tar file from the client to the master is the opposite of

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC - restore not restoring file

On 07/06 12:26 , phil123456 wrote: > I really dont understand the usage of backuppc_createtar > > "-h host host from which the tar archive is created" > > but I want to create a restore from the master , not create a tar from a > remote host ...I am sorry, I really dont understand You'r

Re: [BackupPC-users] full backup of windows client succeeds, incremental fails

On 2016-06-09 12:43, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > I have seen it happen on a couple of occasions where a Windows machine > (backed up via Cygwin rsyncd, not the minimal rsyncd off the SF page) > will suddenly stop working for incremental backups. Full backups will > continue

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC - restore not restoring file

On 07/05 12:28 , phil123456 wrote: > on restore, it says it is successfull, but the file is not on the host > and it says there is 1 xferErrs but as I check all the logs, no additional > entries are saying what could go wrong > > 2016-07-05 09:21:31 restore started below directory /var/backup/ to

Re: [BackupPC-users] full backup of windows client succeeds, incremental fails

On 06/09 02:36 , Les Mikesell wrote: > It might just be somewhat different timing for that host too - that > is, there may be a large number of unchanging files or it has slow > drives that make it take a longer time to find something that changed. I don't think so. At this point I'm starting to t

Re: [BackupPC-users] full backup of windows client succeeds, incremental fails

On 06/09 01:50 , Les Mikesell wrote: > Sometimes this is caused by a nat router or stateful firewall > (possibly even host firewall software) timing out and breaking a > connection due to too much idle time in the traffic. If you are > running over ssh you can usually fix it by enabling keepalives

[BackupPC-users] full backup of windows client succeeds, incremental fails

I have seen it happen on a couple of occasions where a Windows machine (backed up via Cygwin rsyncd, not the minimal rsyncd off the SF page) will suddenly stop working for incremental backups. Full backups will continue to work, but incrementals will start failing with a PIPE error. For example, he

Re: [BackupPC-users] Migrate local data into BackupPC pool for remote client

On 06/06 12:46 , cardiganimpatience wrote: > >From the email list [1] it looks like this means that all data will be > >transferred again. Exactly what I'm attempting to avoid. :( A negative result is still a result. Thanks for reporting your result. -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator R

Re: [BackupPC-users] I download zip and tar corrupt archive when i want to restore several files (on centos 5 with backuppc 3.30)

On 06/06 03:28 , Phil Markham wrote: > I just found the problem, it's my kaspersky anti-virus (internet module), > when i whitelist my backuppc server everything work fine. Interesting. Thanks for the update, this is worth remembering for the future. -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Rea

Re: [BackupPC-users] I download zip and tar corrupt archive when i want to restore several files (on centos 5 with backuppc 3.30)

If you download a .zip archive with compression=0, does it work? There's a known bug in the zip compression which makes it incompatible with some zip implementations, or else corrupt. I don't remember the details tho. -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.co

Re: [BackupPC-users] Is this software abandoned? Who is packager Bernard Johnson?

On 06/01 05:52 , Benjamin Lefoul wrote: > Is there a migration to GitHub in progress? I left a note there: > https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/issues/19 Yes, there is a migration to Github in progress, people are trying to revitalize the project. I know nothing about the package for the Fedor

Re: [BackupPC-users] error crontab

Put your entries in /etc/crontab. They will be easier to find there. Here's an example I have: 20 20 * * * backuppc /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_serverMesg backup example-2.example.com example-2.example.com backuppc 1 Use a '1' for a 'full' backup, '0' for an incremental backup. As was poin

Re: [BackupPC-users] Does BackupPC need a bug tracker?

On 05/24 09:14 , Mauro Condarelli wrote: > Hi Adam, > what You say makes a lot of sense. I agree. > Agreed, but perhaps this particular topic is interesting for users. > If we do not hear any scream from them I think we should assume github is OK. I'm quite ok with github. I use it at work, and

Re: [BackupPC-users] Copyright protection

On 05/20 01:18 , Stefan Peter wrote: > The worst that can happen is that the new copyright holder wants to > retrieve his contribution. So you remove the individuals code and > replace it with independent, fresh code from another contributor. But I > have never heard of an event like this and I'm n

Re: [BackupPC-users] Message from Craig

On 05/18 11:08 , David Cramblett wrote: > Hi All, > > I just posted an email response from Craig (BackupPC creator) on the > development mail list. > > I thought I should post it here as well. I promise, last message from me on > the user list in regards to this topic. : ) Don't make it the las

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

On 05/16 07:41 , Mauro Condarelli wrote: > Please see:https://danielmiessler.com/study/git/ That's a really good link. Thank you. -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com -- Mobi

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

On 05/16 10:50 , Adam Goryachev wrote: > I would definitely suggest that the lack of FTP backup support in v4 is > a non-issue. I have to agree. After 10+ years of using BPC I've not found many situations where it would be really useful. Better to get other functionality out sooner. As Voltaire

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

On 05/15 11:29 , Mauro Condarelli wrote: > if anyone has (or finds) a reasonably recent address please share. > I can be reached directly at mc5...@mclink.it and I am on Freenode/#backuppc, I remember getting personal mail from him many years ago, but I can't find the archives of thos messages. In

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

On 05/14 05:53 , Ib H. Rasmussen wrote: > Although I'm not a contributor, and I don't think i'm cabable of being > one, I have been using BackupPC for more than 10 years, and i'm > absolutely for this initiative and i'm looking forward to the success of it. Same here. -- Carl Soderstrom System

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

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] Status on new BackupPC v4

On 04/22 01:15 , Michael Schumacher wrote: > Some weeks ago, I installed BackupPC on a Banana Pi based on a Centos7 > OS environment. The support for that ARM-platform is still very > basic, but even if the EPEL-repo is not available, I managed to get all > necessary perl components installed. Part

Re: [BackupPC-users] Copy backups without Backupc

On 03/31 06:21 , Alexander Moisseev wrote: > Is it worth it? BackupPC installation is simple and straight forward, you'll > have BackupPC_zcat working in a second. I offered it in case installing BackupPC itself wasn't practical for some reason. You're correct tho, installing BPC is very easy (at

Re: [BackupPC-users] Copy backups without Backupc

Oops, here's the file I meant to include in the last message. #!/usr/bin/perl #= -*-perl-*- # # BackupPC_zcat: uncompress files to stdout # # DESCRIPTION # # Usage: BackupPC_zcat [files...] # # BackupPC_zcat is a command-line utility

Re: [BackupPC-users] Copy backups without Backupc

On 03/31 03:53 , Сергей Загидулин wrote: > Good day! Privyet! > Very surprised to see instead of the zip file - fzip files, that do not open > with the archiver. > So I will be able to restore files from a backup only if i re-install > Backuppc to another server, and use web interface? The tool t

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC 3.x Pool on BTRFS?

On 02/14 11:01 , Christian Völker wrote: > I did find only a single reference to the topic- but already some years ago. Look for discussions of BackupPC on ZFS. It's all the same issues. > Deduplication feature: > BackupPC hadrlinks identical files to save storage space which is > already dedupli

Re: [BackupPC-users] local host backups

On 02/11 10:50 , Philip Parsons (Velindre - Medical Physics) wrote: > Firstly, I'm assuming that I should be backing up localhost for backuppc. > Please correct me if I'm wrong. I thought that it would be sensible to have > a backup of the settings and exclude all the cpool etc. If that is cor

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC_tarCreate failed

On 01/18 10:18 , David Rotger wrote: > This is my localhost.pl, it's very diferent... The important thing is that your localhost.pl (which I think is the default one the package comes with) doesn't include 'sudo' which is needed to capture files like /etc/shadow which are not world-readable. > $C

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC_tarCreate failed

On 01/14 10:42 , David Rotger wrote: > and now I can connect from user backuppc to localhost without password. And > the restore work!!! Glad you got things solved! It seems strange to me, to use ssh to back up the local machine. Here's the configuration I use in localhost.pl, to back up the Backu

Re: [BackupPC-users] check backuppc file

On 01/15 02:41 , Nicola Scattolin wrote: > now i'm copying my old pools on the new drive but i got a lot of I/O > errors on old drive, there is a way to force backuppc to check if the > files are still ok? Because i know that if a file is alredy been copy by > backuppc it will not copy it again,

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC_tarCreate failed

On 01/14 07:14 , David Rotger wrote: > when I type the command they exit to the help menú... > > $ ./BackupPC_tarCreate -h localhost -n -4 -s /mnt/smb > > /tmp/localhost_restore.tar The '-4' is part of the problem. '-1' would be the last backup, no matter its number. Otherwise you have to explici

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC_tarCreate failed

On 01/13 11:17 , David Rotger wrote: > root@RFSERVER2:/usr/share/backuppc/bin# ./BackupPC_tarCreate > ./BackupPC_tarCreate: Wrong user: my userid is 0, instead of 111 (backuppc) > Please su backuppc first > BackupPC::Lib->new failed > root@RFSERVER2:/usr/share/backuppc/bin# Sorry, I meant to menti

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC_tarCreate failed

On 01/13 08:51 , David Rotger wrote: > I use the web interface, when I restore a TAR localhost bakcup, in the > status section I see: > > localhost restore > root 2016-01-13 > 20:00 2016-01-13 19:53 > BackupPC_tarCreate failed Ok, now's the tim

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC_tarCreate failed

On 01/13 07:54 , David Rotger wrote: > because when I try to restore a localhost backup I get this error!?!? > > BackupPC_tarCreate failed Can you paste the command you're using when you get this error? Are there any other messages? Just copy and paste the sequence of commands leading up to this,

Re: [BackupPC-users] Schedule backups

On 01/11 05:58 , Gandalf Corvotempesta wrote: > I don't have any issue with my network, the same server, with Bacula > (i'm running Bacula and BackupPC on the same server, obviously one per > time) > will backup the same huge client in 16 hours, not 3 days. > > Same server, same disks, same networ

Re: [BackupPC-users] Schedule backups

On 01/11 09:32 , Gandalf Corvotempesta wrote: > 2016-01-11 3:03 GMT+01:00 Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom : > > I don't know v4, but in v3 we generally do this with a cron job. Something > > like this, which causes a job to go off on September 7th. > > 00 01 7 9 * backup

Re: [BackupPC-users] Schedule backups

On 01/09 01:58 , Gandalf Corvotempesta wrote: > in v4, I would like to schedule a full backup on first Saturday for > each month, for example, 6th of February, 5th of March, 2nd of April, > and so on. > All other days, an incremental should be done. I don't know v4, but in v3 we generally do this

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc_zipcreate file dont open in windows

On 12/22 09:46 , Kris Lou wrote: > However, we were able to use 'ditto' on OSX to extract files from these > faulty zips. Just wanted to share. Thanks for the update! -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com --

Re: [BackupPC-users] A question about partial backups and fatal errors

On 12/04 11:37 , David Raison wrote: > The set-up is a Linux server that is supposed to back up the contents of > a Windows 7 client via rsync over ssh. Don't try to do rsync+ssh on Windows, just use rsyncd. Maybe someone else has gotten rsync+ssh to work on Windows but AFAIK the conventional wisd

Re: [BackupPC-users] New backup

On 12/02 05:08 , Brad Alexander wrote: > Hi Carl, > > My /usr/local/etc/sudoers.d/backuppc is identical to the one on my other > freebsd box: > > cat /usr/local/etc/sudoers.d/backuppc > Cmnd_AliasBACKUP=/usr/bin/tar, /usr/local/bin/rsync > backuppc ALL=NOPASSWD:BACKUP It looks reasonabl

Re: [BackupPC-users] Automated regular archive of latest full backup

On 12/03 11:20 , martin f krafft wrote: > before I hack this up myself, I wanted to ask if someone already has > a solution I could possible reuse. Not exactly, but if you want to continue with this course, I do have a script which may serve as a starting point. This started life as a script to wr

Re: [BackupPC-users] New backup

On 12/02 04:10 , Brad Alexander wrote: > Okay, this is probably blindingly obvious, but I just changed my wife's > machine over from linux to pc-bsd. I am seeing the following when I try to > run the backup: > > backuppc@farragut:~/tmp$ /usr/bin/ssh -q -x valiant sudo /usr/bin/rsync > --server --s

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc_zipcreate file dont open in windows

On 11/25 12:13 , Carlos Galeano wrote: > I do a restore with backuppc_zipcreate from the command line and everything > goes fine, but when I try to open the zip with WinRAR in a computer with > windows 7, the file doesn´t open and show the messages: compression error, > when I try to open the file

Re: [BackupPC-users] Support Question

On 11/24 06:19 , Jaime Fenton wrote: > Also, can anyone explain why when our updates are set to every 6.97 days are > still going out after the completition of every backup? This is a wild stab, but my impression is that you might have multiple instances of BackupPC installed somehow. Such as if

Re: [BackupPC-users] Support Question

On 11/24 12:47 , Jaime Fenton wrote: > My company is using BackupPC and we've run into a problem that the system is > sending email alerts from an email address that is not currently imputed into > the system. Have you tried doing something like: # grep -ri /etc ? This does presume that your

Re: [BackupPC-users] Is it possible to split a large pool?

On 11/10 10:21 , Russell Poyner wrote: > I have a single BackupPC 3.3 backing up 110 machines. We are in the > process of getting a second server and I'm wondering if it's possible to > split the pool to move machines to the new server without losing their > backup history. Not really. By far t

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackuPC with Monit

On 10/12 09:41 , Holger Parplies wrote: > > Hmm, the stock monitrc file provides the following suggestion among others: > > #if failed url http://user:passw...@www.foo.bar:8080/?querystring > > # and content == 'action="j_security_check"' > > > > So perhaps monit could log into the Backu

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackuPC with Monit

On 10/11 03:28 , madams9 wrote: > ## BACKUP PC > check process backuppc with pidfile "/var/log/backuppc/BackupPC.pid" > start program "/usr/sbin/service backuppc start" > stop program "/usr/sbin/service backuppc stop" > if failed host adamsmdk port 16073 proto http then restart # change if not > l

Re: [BackupPC-users] Fwd: Filesystem for OSX/BackupPC external drive

On 05/16 10:52 , Michael Stowe wrote: > On 2015-05-16 09:39, Ward... James Ward wrote: > > How can I format that external drive so that BackupPC can use it? > > Sure, but before starting with the immediate issue, I'd be remiss if I > didn't mention that this is probably a BAD IDEA. I'd expect pe

Re: [BackupPC-users] fulls consistently align

On 04/20 12:26 , gregrwm wrote: > iiuc backuppc currently has no feature to disperse the likelihood that > several or many full backups will consistently be aligned to occur on > the same day. indeed it's quite likely that many full backups will > consistently align on the same day, eg if they wer

Re: [BackupPC-users] How to manage disk space?

On 04/13 03:28 , Dave Sill wrote: > What I'd like to know is (1) where is the disk space going, and (2) > how can adjust BackupPC to use less space? The Host Summary page will allow you to sort by Full Size, and thus see which hosts are using the most space. Beyond that, it becomes increasingly di

Re: [BackupPC-users] Setup of rsync via SSH with unprivileged user 'backuppc'

On 03/15 03:12 , Benjamin Redling wrote: > A lot of sources at least agree on that being unsafe. > AFAIK rrsync should be the proper way and justify the effort. > > e.g. http://www.guyrutenberg.com/2014/01/14/restricting-ssh-access-to-rsync/ Thanks. This is helpful and informative. -- Carl Sode

Re: [BackupPC-users] Setup of rsync via SSH with unprivileged user 'backuppc'

On 03/14 01:08 , Angus Kerr wrote: > I've edited the ssh section to tailor it specifically to cater for an > unprivileged user 'backuppc' It's taken me couple of days to get around to reading this. I've done something similar to this for many years (and at one point posted a HOWTO on the wiki).

Re: [BackupPC-users] Usage of BackupPC in large environment

On 02/27 10:57 , Marios Zindilis wrote: > I have used BackupPC in the past for a network of a couple hundred servers. > The limitations will be in the capabilities of the hardware and/or the > network, in which case you might need to use multiple BackupPC servers. > This will depend on your scenari

Re: [BackupPC-users] massive drop in performance after upgrade from 3.1.20 to 3.3.02

On 01/21 12:36 , Udo Rader wrote: > As it seems, I have found the reason/a partial solution for the > behaviour. Maybe some others can benefit from it, so I am sharing it to > the list. > > Thoroughly investigating the logs, I found that my configuration for > localhost was missing those two essen

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc Exclude trouble

On 11/10 09:56 , Holger Parplies wrote: > Of course, you could always switch to rsync(d), where exclude syntax is > different and more flexible :-). An excellent point. I should mention that the exclude patterns I just gave, in my previous message were intended for use with rsyncd. -- Carl Soder

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc Exclude trouble

On 11/10 12:33 , jdurand wrote: > Trying to exclude opened files ~*.*, ntuser.dat.log, etc, but having trouble. > Tried several different suggestions, all turn out to do nothing. I am not > using excludes and includes simultaneously. See below for my exclude lines: > > Share * > > /Documents an

Re: [BackupPC-users] web GUI downloading BIN file Ubuntu 14.04

On 11/07 12:20 , Tom Fallon wrote: > The problem appears to be one of PEBKAC :( I tried accessing the GUI on > another browser and it's fine. My (normally reliable) Firefox install > appears to be the culprit not the backuppc installation as I can access > in Chromium absolutely fine. Should rea

Re: [BackupPC-users] web GUI downloading BIN file Ubuntu 14.04

On 11/06 07:38 , Tom Fallon wrote: > This is on a brand new install of Ubuntu 14.04 I don't know if you're using SSL, but here's some package lists you may want to compare to your system. Also a list of the modules I have enabled. This is an ubuntu 14.04 system, but has been upgraded from an earli

Re: [BackupPC-users] web GUI downloading BIN file Ubuntu 14.04

On 11/06 06:31 , Tom Fallon wrote: > The fact the url responds albeit by downloading the BIN file rather than > opening the management gui would suggest backuppc is running ok. Seems more > like a permissions thing or perhaps an apache config issue. It's some kind of Apache config issue, tho I don

Re: [BackupPC-users] Wiki?

On 10/29 04:55 , Kris Lou wrote: > Is it just me, or did we lose the wiki? I haven't looked at it in a while, > but can't find it now. > > http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net just points to Sourceforge. It does seem to be sadly reduced in scope and content. http://sourceforge.net/p/backuppc/wik

Re: [BackupPC-users] Has anybody here configured BackupPC to back up/image linux

On 09/26 02:09 , Les Mikesell wrote: > > I have not looked at 'rear'. > > It's worth at least a look. Thanks, I will take a look at it in my copious spare time. :) (but I do mean to). -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com ---

Re: [BackupPC-users] Has anybody here configured BackupPC to back up/image linux

On 09/26 12:58 , Les Mikesell wrote: > Do you keep something that formally tracks the > lvm/mdraid/partition/filesystem layout on all of the machines you back > up so you know what you need to re-create? No, the partition layouts are pretty simple (generally a root partition of 10-30GB, plus 2-

Re: [BackupPC-users] Has anybody here configured BackupPC to back up/image linux

On 09/26 09:39 , xpac wrote: > An entire server? Yep. I've done many disaster recoveries of entire linux servers which were backed up with rsync. Linux doesn't have the file-locking issues of Windows, so backups are just taking copies of every file on the system, and recovery is just a matter of b

Re: [BackupPC-users] Mounting synology NAS breaks Backuppc

On 09/24 06:41 , Tom Fallon wrote: > Hi Sharuzzaman > > I'm mounting with a user with sudo rights, not backuppc and not root itself > as on Ubuntu thats disabled by default. What does your /etc/fstab configuration look like? -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.rea

Re: [BackupPC-users] QNX 4.23A

On 09/17 12:55 , Gerald Brandt wrote: > I've been tasked with backing up an old QNX 4.23A system. From what I > can see, the box doesn't have ssh, ftp, rsync (or rsyncd), or smb. > > Is anyone backing something like this up? If so, how. How do you transfer files to/from it for business purpose

Re: [BackupPC-users] Admin and Admin1 host? Is it maintenance?

On 09/05 08:45 , Francisco Suarez wrote: > I have this showing on the dashboard this morning. Not sure what i means? > > Currently Running Jobs > > HostTypeUserStart TimeCommandPIDXfer PIDadmin9/5 01:00BackupPC_nightly -m 0 > 1276156admin19/5 01:00BackupPC_nightly 128 2556157 The BackupPC_night

Re: [BackupPC-users] Fwd: Restore with command line

On 08/29 10:45 , Fanny Alexandra Oyarzún Bórquez wrote: > Do you start direct restore to the remote server, but with command > line? and how > can it be done? I don't know how to do the exact sort of restore that is done through the web interface, I never allow my backup server root-level write pr

Re: [BackupPC-users] Empty Directories with Win7

On 08/21 03:15 , Christian Völker wrote: > hiberfil.sys is not reconned as "exclude" as it tries to backup anyways. So > what syntax is to be used correctly? Try this: '/hiberfil.sys', Seems to work for me, tho I'm using rsync instead of smbtar. If that doesn't work, try '\hiberfil.sys', instead

Re: [BackupPC-users] off-site storage

On 08/14 07:52 , Norman Goldstein wrote: > Does anyone have experience with such a setup? > -- Would that be an rsync protocol for BPC? I suppose it depends on > the cloud service, Past experience has been that attempting to rsync the entire BPC data pool is disastrous. There's too many files whi

Re: [BackupPC-users] error disk too full, deleted pc, how to delete cpool?

On 07/07 01:18 , yashiahru wrote: > 2) Delete backup manually follow this guide: > http://blackbird.si/deleting-backup-from-backuppc-manually/ > Problem unsolved This does not give sufficient detail as to what you *actually* did or may have missed. Are you sure you deleted the pc whos backups we

Re: [BackupPC-users] hangs

On 06/14 02:43 , supp...@vip-consult.co.uk wrote: > the other machine is 300gb over wifi and after few hours it gets stuck one > one file and it doesn’t continue. > the count is stuck at 16600 and it never progresses. I guess it is because > the wifi was interrupted at some point and backuppc doe

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC_zipCreate all shares

On 06/11 05:26 , nicolasfo wrote: > Hello there ! > > I used to use BackupPC_tarCreate tool and to make an archive with all shares > of a host, I set "-s \*". > > I try this trick with BackupPC_zipCreate but it seems to not to work. > > Could someone tell me what is the syntax to use to have al

Re: [BackupPC-users] Defunct hosts

On 05/22 09:17 , John Major wrote: > Is there a convenient way to disable backups of defunct hosts while > keeping their backed up data available for zips / tars without > generating admin spam about them? Here's the options I set in the per-pc config file: # use this if you want to stop backing

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup destination is another server

On 05/20 02:15 , brononius wrote: > I was thinking to sync the data the first time locally, then move the backup > server to the remote site. > This way, the only copies that need to be copied are the changed files. And > not the complete 2TB. I have done this in the past, and as long as you ha

Re: [BackupPC-users] restore two folders at once

On 05/20 11:24 , 李欣 wrote: > Based on Carl Soderstrom's email, > these are the steps to restore a backup by command line: > > 1. create a tar file for the backup in backup server > 2. send this new tar file from backup server to website server > 3. untar the tar file in website server > 4. impleme

Re: [BackupPC-users] restore two folders at once

On 05/16 07:58 , 李欣 wrote: > I am backing up two folders, > let's say /var/A_folder, and /var/www/B_folder. > > When I try to restore all the files in two folders, > I found I need to select and restore all files in one folder, > and then do the same thing for the other folder. > > Is there a way

Re: [BackupPC-users] NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED listing \*

On 04/09 08:01 , Daniel Doughty wrote: > You're going down the right path. In order to backup win7 my exclusion list > is about 20 lines long. Unfortunately I'm away from home until Sunday so > can't share it right now. FWIW, here's one set of exclude patterns I use: 'cDrive' => [ '/RECYCLER', '

Re: [BackupPC-users] starting BackupPC evaluation

On 03/11 03:04 , Silver Salonen wrote: > Using VPN would be a must anyway and my first thought on that was that > if nmblookup would work over VPN, it would be enough. Needs more > research and testing though :) 1. Don't trust BackupPC to work with nmblookup. While theoretically it works, It's a

Re: [BackupPC-users] starting BackupPC evaluation

On 03/11 12:18 , Silver Salonen wrote: > We are already using Bacula for our servers backups and with that I > have extensive experience, but unfortunately the laptop/roadwarrior > support in there is quite limited. Keep in mind that BackupPC operates on a 'pull' model, where the server initiates

Re: [BackupPC-users] Replicating /var/lib/backuppc on distant server

On 01/13 07:50 , Claude wrote: > Send archive via my local backuppc or use the remote backuppc to backup my > local /var/lib/backuppc ZFS (or possibly drbd) may be the only reasonable way to replicate the BackupPC data pool. you do *not* want to try backing it up on a file level (with tar or rsyn

Re: [BackupPC-users] Using external USB disk for BackupPC Data directory

On 01/10 02:09 , Adam Hardy wrote: > I have just started using this setup and I don't know what's going > to happen. I assume when the drive isn't mounted, backuppc will > complain but just try again later. Best you test that. :) I don't know the details of how you have it set up, but one of the p

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