Re: [BackupPC-users] How to remove a PC and its backups

>>> Is it possible to remove a PC and its backups from web interface/CGI other >>> than using command line in the BackupPC server? If so, how to do? Not that I am aware of, Doug ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net

Re: [BackupPC-users] Changing Backuppc Web UI Password

>>> I cannot for the life of me figure out how to change the password for the >>> backuppc web ui. Anyone with sock puppets and crayons able to help? The backuppc.conf file in my Apache conf-enabled directory says: AuthUserFile /etc/backuppc/htpasswd So for my install, the password

Re: [BackupPC-users] Best Practice BPC from Home -> Internet

>>> What could a good practicable, automatic, secure and at all a simple way, >>> for my family to run backups on that server? I run OpenVPN at home and at my parent's house. Then I use the /etc/hosts file, on the backuppc system, to point a hostname to an IP address on the parent's network.

Re: [BackupPC-users] No access to Backuppc GUI

I think he made a mistake in his instructions "Copy the sample BackupPC Apache configuration file to Apache enabled configurations directory; cp ~/backuppc/BackupPC-*/httpd/BackupPC.conf /etc/apache2/conf-available/ " Copying that file in the available does not enable it. Typically, you put

Re: [BackupPC-users] Simple server side embedded config file to allow full shadow backups of Windows host

>>> Okay, I was just making things way harder than they needed to be. Sorry >>> Jeff. Doug, from my understanding DeltaCopy is nearly just an alternative >>> version of cygwin-rsyncd Thanks Greg! I'll see if I can test it out this weekend, Doug

Re: [BackupPC-users] Simple server side embedded config file to allow full shadow backups of Windows host

>>> 'cygpath' is part of the basic 'cygwin' package. Okay, For someone that has always used DeltaCopy on the clients, is there a step-by-step instruction page that explains on how to use this? Thanks! Doug ___ BackupPC-users mailing list

Re: [BackupPC-users] Which filesystem for external backup drive?

>>> Problematic in what way? It's been silky smooth for me with Ubuntu >From what I've read, ZFS on Linux is not GPL compliant. Doug ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:

Re: [BackupPC-users] Checking rsync progress/speed/status

>>> I tend to look in the top, if rsync is in progres, it its some CPU. It iotop would be another method You could also try following the rsync process with strace Doug ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:

Re: [BackupPC-users] Can BackupPC_tarCreate restore large files?

>>> Ok, so that's the issue - your version of perl on arm only uses 32 bit IVs. >>> I'm surprised it is built that way - does anyone know if that is default >>> for perl on arm generally? I have a Raspberry Pi 4 running lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Raspbian

Re: [BackupPC-users] how to install SCGI , exactly??

>>> I am currently running BackupPC version 4.3.2 on Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS . >>> Everything seems to be working perfectly, except this pesky "2020-05-22 >>> 10:02:30 scgi : BackupPC_Admin_SCGI: can't load perl SCGI module - install >>> via CPAN; exiting in 60 seconds" error Mike, The only

Re: [BackupPC-users] how to install SCGI , exactly??

>>> BackupPC is installed on an Ubuntu 18.04.4 system.. You won't want to be using BackupPC from Ubuntu 18.04's PPA, it's only version 3.3.1. BackupPC is currently at 4.3.2 My suggestion would be to install it from tarball. I've found the below instructions

Re: [BackupPC-users] how to install SCGI , exactly??

On 5/21/20 7:54 PM, Michael Walker - Rotech Motor Ltd. wrote: I cannot find any details on how to do this... cpanm is installed and seems to be working.. but WHAT  must I ask it to get, precisely?? Mike, What Linux Distro are you running BackupPC on?  I'm running mine on Debian 10 (Buster)

Re: [BackupPC-users] Filesystem Recommendation for 100 TB

>>> We’re wondering what the recommended filesystem for backuppc would be on an >>> array of this size ? Depends on the file sizes that you are backing up. I've read that XFS (My preferred) has issues with lots of small files. Doug ___

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup works from command line nothing happens from web interface

On 3/1/20 7:48 AM, Richard Shaw wrote: I finally figured out that was causing backuppc to try to do a nmblookup on my hosts which doesn't work because I'm pure linux at home Same here, but I do remotely backup a couple Windows 7 workstations via OpenVPN and they resolve via my local DNS.

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup works from command line nothing happens from web interface

On 2/28/20 6:41 PM, Richard Shaw wrote: $ sudo strace -ewrite -p 10346 strace: Process 10346 attached write(6, "1582933074,4,10346,0\n", 21)  = 21 write(6, "%Status = (\"foodie\" => {\"startTi"..., 13866) = 13866 write(6, "1582933076,5,10346,0\n", 21)  = 21 write(6, "%StatusHost = (\"deadCnt\"

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup works from command line nothing happens from web interface

You can also attache to the BackupPC process to see what's going on with strace -ewrite -p PID# Doug ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup works from command line nothing happens from web interface

>>> Ideas? Was there anything in the Apache/Nginx logs? Doug ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net

Re: [BackupPC-users] Does backuppc support bare metal restore?

It does not. I've used the fog project on several occasions with good results, https://fogproject.org/ Doug ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users

Re: [BackupPC-users] restore .tar / .zip files empty #128

On 07/30/2017 06:26 PM, Craig Barratt via BackupPC-users wrote: Doug, Here's a simplified combined patch. After you gunzip it, it should work cleanly on 4.1.2, 4.1.3 etc. Thanks! Zip and Tar have been tested to be working again. Doug

Re: [BackupPC-users] restore .tar / .zip files empty #128

On 07/30/2017 05:42 PM, Doug Lytle via BackupPC-users wrote: On 07/30/2017 05:01 PM, Alexander Moisseev via BackupPC-users wrote: Doug, you can just add ".diff" or ".patch" at the end of the commits URIs like this: https://github.com/back

Re: [BackupPC-users] restore .tar / .zip files empty #128

On 07/30/2017 05:26 PM, Craig Barratt wrote: ince you copied the exact source from git, you should make sure these two lines (the first, and a few lines down): #!/usr/bin/perl use lib "/usr/local/BackupPC/lib"; Perl path was fine, lib path had to be modified. Still no

Re: [BackupPC-users] restore .tar / .zip files empty #128

On 07/30/2017 05:01 PM, Alexander Moisseev via BackupPC-users wrote: Doug, you can just add ".diff" or ".patch" at the end of the commits URIs like this: https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/commit/6f01264005310cffe55d5258436d38609a1ac99d.diff

Re: [BackupPC-users] restore .tar / .zip files empty #128

On 07/30/2017 01:43 PM, Craig Barratt wrote: Doug, I pushed a fix that should fix the problem. I couldn't figure out how to download a patch from the interface, so I selected view/raw Did a CTRL A to

[BackupPC-users] restore .tar / .zip files empty #128

I'm looking for a patch for the GitHub issue listed: https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/issues/128 I'm seeing the same thing on a 4.1.2 and 4.1.3 install Any comments? Thanks, Doug -- Check out the vibrant tech

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup is stalled

>>> Is there any way I can examine what backuppc is doing or attempting to do >>> "now"? To try and figure out why it is stalled. Install iotop to view what's being written to the file system Doug -- Check out the

Re: [BackupPC-users] running the BackupPC_backupDelete command

On 05/28/2017 09:44 AM, Bob Katz wrote: My question is very basic: In order to run the BackupPC_backupDelete command I have to preface it with ./ ./ means current directory If the command is found in your path, you can ignore ./ Or, you can provide the full path to the command. For my

Re: [BackupPC-users] My BackupPC can not backup root folder

>>> My intuition is that there are things mounted and that ssh can not resolve >>> mounted stuff, but I'm not sure of anything. I've never tried to backup root before, but my guess would be that you'd need to exclude: /proc /dev /sys /run Doug

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC 4.1.1 released

>>> On Apr 6, 2017, at 7:10 PM, support supp...@drdos.info wrote: >>> Just a note, >>> Things seem to be backing up! I'll keep an eye on it. Turns out all the workstation that were backing up were in the /etc/hosts I have several failures of not finding the workstation via WINS. Logs that

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC 4.1.1 released

On 04/06/2017 09:53 AM, Doug Lytle wrote: I went back to 4.1.1 at 7am EST and I manually kicked off a backup to JK1666 There are no XferLOG.bad.x from the time frame of the update, client logs below: Client logs: Just a note, Things seem to be backing up! I'll keep an eye on it. Doug

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC 4.1.1 released

>>> The hostIP fix did make it into 4.1.0 and 4.1.1, so that shouldn't be the >>> issue. I did make a change to getHostAddrInfo() in lib/BackupPC/Lib.pm; >>> hopefully that didn't break things. >>> Can you look in the server LOG files to see if there are any clues while >>> 4.1.1 was running?

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC 4.1.1 released

>>> [ https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/releases/tag/4.1.1 | BackupPC 4.1.1 >>> ] has been released on Github. >>> BackupPC 4.1.1 is a bug fix release. There are several minor bug fixes >>> listed below. I upgraded from 4.1.0 to 4.1.1 and didn't think to check on it until now (3 days

Re: [BackupPC-users] Ubuntu install script failed

On 03/28/2017 07:22 AM, Bob of Donelson Trophy wrote: make: autoconf: Command not found As root: apt-get install autoconf Doug -- Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites,

Re: [BackupPC-users] version 4 upgrade

>>> Unfortunately, the backuppc service will now not start. It says that I need >>> to check config.pl You need to use the init script that came in the downloaded application, the old init script isn't compatible Doug

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC4 and nmblookup

On 03/15/2017 07:03 PM, Craig Barratt wrote: > It would be great if you could make these changes (either manually > edit, apply the diff, or re-install from git) and re-test. > > Done, Backups are completing normally! Thanks, Doug

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC4 and nmblookup

>>> On Mar 14, 2017, at 7:40 PM, Craig Barratt cbarr...@users.sourceforge.net >>> wrote: >>> Can you manually run BackupPC_dump on that host (as the BackupPC user) with >>> the -v option? >>> What was the behavior in 3.x? Was jk4679 resolved to an ipv4 address via >>> nmblookup? Yes, it

[BackupPC-users] BackupPC4 and nmblookup

I've upgraded my BackupPC 3.2.1 install for a 4.0 install. Workstations under BackupPC3 were located via nmblookup against a WINS and backed up with rsync (DeltaCopy running as a service). Since installing BackupPC4, workstation are no longer being found, was there a setting I missed? If

Re: [BackupPC-users] following directories are bogus

This was a 'test' host and the host was removed, weeks ago. I assumed that BackupPC (v3.3.0) would eventually remove the bogus directory. No, They have to be manually removed. Doug --

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc rsyncd vor windows -- is there a good client?

Kris Lou wrote: but also problems with filepermissions on recovery. This one is easily fixed: You need to set a Windows environment variable: CYGWIN=nontsec I exported the registry key to a prep directory that I use for Windows setup, makes it easy to set this variable. I've included it

Re: [BackupPC-users] Best practice/s for backing up a VM??

xpac wrote: I have BackupPC up and running in our production environment, and so far I am happy with it. The environment consists of Linux/Centos boxes exclusively, however on one of the boxes a VM runs which is a Windows 2012 (web) server. Currently I have BackupPC set to simply backup

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupFilesExcludes using rsync being ignored

Tom Fallon wrote: $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = { '*' = [ 'proc', 'sys', My list shows: $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = { '*' = [ '*/Cache', '*.mp3', '*.MP3', '*.m4a', '*.M4A', '*.m4v', ] }; Doug

Re: [BackupPC-users] Best backup system for Windows clients

I too would be fascinated to find a how to for VSS/rsync combination. I have used Backuppc for years with linux clients. We use DeltaCopy. Makes things easy. Doug -- Slashdot TV. Video for Nerds. Stuff that

Re: [BackupPC-users] Best backup system for Windows clients

So have we, but Deltacopy still can't handle files that are in use, it skips them and adds an error to the log. For Windows 7 workstations and above, that'd be correct. You can updated the DeltaCopy DLLs to support VSS under XP, but our XP workstations are dwindling fast. Doug

Re: [BackupPC-users] Defunct hosts

John Major wrote: Is there a convenient way to disable backups of defunct hosts while keeping their backed up data available for zips Under the host you want to disable: Edit Config = Schedule = = Blackouts Check the box that says BackupsDisable Override and enter a value of 1 Doug --

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC as a personal backup solution?

Daniel Carrera wrote: Anyway, that's my situation. I would love to hear any general advice you can offer. Do you think I should try with BacupPC? Is there another backup option that you'd recommend instead? If you have the space and the capabilities to do so, I don't see why not. I use it

Re: [BackupPC-users] Path to rsync?

Christian Völker wrote: Did so. Now a different error message appears. sh: -c requires an argument. I asssume this is because of the busybox sh shell which is used in ESXi. Any ideas how to solve? Christian, If you're not able to get this working with BackupPC, you way want to look into

Re: [BackupPC-users] Functionality to Back Up VSphere box?

gshergill wrote: I was wondering if there is a functionality to allow someone to back up their box running VSphere I'm running ESXi5 Free and use the GhettoVCB scripts to back up my VMs. Maybe this will work for you as well: http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-8760 Doug -- Ben

Re: [BackupPC-users] backupPC and backup via VPN connection.

If the IP address changes, you have to work out name resolution. Or you can do what I do. Tell them the backup will only occur when connected to the LAN (For speed reasons) and put their machine name in the Linux /etc/hosts file along with their IP address. BackupPC will use that over their

Re: [BackupPC-users] Recovering after Hard Drive Failure

Kenneth L. Owen wrote: Just after posting the note below, it hit me that I had failed to include 'ext3' in the mount entry for the LVM in fstab. Once I corrected that mistake, the reworked LVM2 mounts. Great! Glad you figured it out. Doug -- Ben Franklin quote: Those who would give up

Re: [BackupPC-users] Recovering after Hard Drive Failure

Kenneth L. Owen wrote: I was running the archive drive as an LVM2 drive and mounted it at /var/lib/backuppc. I have set up the new drive, but cannot get it to mount. Ken, I have instructions at work on how to move an LVM to a different system/drive. I'll dig them up when I get to work,

Re: [BackupPC-users] Moving backuppc to a new machine

Here is the link that I've used in the past: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/recipemovevgtonewsys.html Doug -- Ben Franklin quote: Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.

Re: [BackupPC-users] Truly mobile backuping scenario — backup initiated by client

Krzysztof Trybowski wrote: Backup would take place over a WAN, so using SMB is rather not possible. I'd go with ssh or rsyncd. I'm guessing we'd need some sort of a client software for this. Has anyone tried that? We use OpenVPN for the connections, Rsync (DeltaCopy) and set the laptop users

Re: [BackupPC-users] BPCNightly- BPCsendEmail- recipient address not accept

MaryG wrote: How can I debug this? It happens when BackupPC_nightly tries to send e-mail at 1:00 am. What does your host entry for that user show. They're supposed to have an email address as well, for notifications to the user. For example, my home entry shows: cat hosts

Re: [BackupPC-users] Summary web page line is green / PC not backed up... (BUMP)

Michael Coffman wrote: OK. That helps with my question :) It appears to be a bug, and until you're running on the most current version, we won't know if it was already fixed. I am running 3.2.1 and I've never seen that issue. So, it's a general practice that people are running the most

Re: [BackupPC-users] Summary web page line is green / PC not backed up... (BUMP)

Michael Coffman wrote: I am running version 3.1.0 You should probably be running 3.2.1 Doug -- Ben Franklin quote: Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.

Re: [BackupPC-users] Latest rsync.exe and cygwin1.dll for Windows 7.

Dinesh Shah (દિનેશ શાહ/दिनेश शाह) wrote: We hope to release the setup binary later this month and installer sources later. Excellent! Thank you very much, Doug -- Ben Franklin quote: Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty

Re: [BackupPC-users] Latest rsync.exe and cygwin1.dll for Windows 7.

Xuo wrote: can anybody provide a tar/zip I'd love to see this as well! Doug -- Ben Franklin quote: Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.

Re: [BackupPC-users] Yet another filesystem thread

Holger Parplies wrote: unless I missed something, I'd say XFS is perfectly stable - more stable than reiserfs in any case. The only thing that makes me hesitate with that statement is Les' remark XFS should also be OK on 64-bit systems - why only on 64 bit I thought the same thing. I'm

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC on XFS getting lots of error -4 when calling...

Holger Parplies wrote: Where do you get the impression there's anything wrong with the file system? 2011-05-20 14:39:37 BackupPC_link got error -4 when calling MakeFileLink That's the first thing that came to mind would be to run either an xfs_check on the file system and or xfs_repair.

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC on XFS getting lots of error -4 when calling...

djsmiley2k wrote: Mounting infomation: /dev/sdb1 on /storage I'd do the following (Note, I have the backuppc script in my path) backuppc stop umount /storage xfs_repair /dev/sdb1 mount -a backuppc start Doug -- Ben Franklin quote: Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase

Re: [BackupPC-users] inet: connection timed out with rsyncd on Windows

Zach La Celle wrote: I've disabled UAC on both machines, opened TCP port 873 for incoming/outgoing connections, and checked that the service has administrative privileges I'd suggest, from the backuppc server: rsync rsync://machineipaddress:/ You should get a folder list Or, nmap

Re: [BackupPC-users] inet: connection timed out with rsyncd on Windows

Zach La Celle wrote: Problem fixed. Glad you figured it out. Doug -- Ben Franklin quote: Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. --

Re: [BackupPC-users] Another BackupPC Fuse filesystem

Saturn2888 wrote: Can't locate Fuse.pm in @INC Looks like you're missing the perl-Fuse library Doug -- Ben Franklin quote: Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.

Re: [BackupPC-users] Another BackupPC Fuse filesystem

Saturn2888 wrote: I figured it out, but now I have even more errors. I installed libfuse-perl from Aptitude and ran the command again and got even more errors. Seems like either I or the file isn't defining the variables correctly. I've never tried the fuse module. But, I normally use

Re: [BackupPC-users] mysql addon or plugin?

hans...@gmail.com wrote: If you want to really minimize the downtime, then using LVM snapshotting is a good option. 1. shut down the service 2 take the snapshot Just an addition to this, If using the XFS file system, snapshotting will cause LVM to preform an file system freeze, just

Re: [BackupPC-users] Windows backups with vss/rsync?

Les Mikesell wrote: Google popped this: http://majentis.com/2011/01/03/backuppc-with-sshrsyncvss-on-windows-server/ Along this same subject line, I'm currently setting up our Windows XP machines with DeltaCopy, somewhere along the line, I came across replacement cygwin1.dll and

Re: [BackupPC-users] How to troubleshoot restore issues with .zip?

Christian Völker wrote: Hi, I'm backing up several Linux (CentOS) machines. Backup qorks quite fine- but I can't restore to .zip. Craig found a bug in Archive::Zip, opened a ticket on it in February. Apparently, they're not too concerned with it. The latest BackupPC 3.2.0 works

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc Email notification

A A wrote: EMailFromUserName http://5.2.2.241/backuppc/index.cgi?action=viewtype=docs#item__conf_emailfromusername_ : admin EMailAdminUserName http://5.2.2.241/backuppc/index.cgi?action=viewtype=docs#item__conf_emailadminusername_ : ale EMailUserDestDomain

Re: [BackupPC-users] How to purge backups for a host

Richard Alloway wrote: Can I simply delete the data/pc/host tree or do I need to do something more elegant? This is what I've always done. Doug -- Ben Franklin quote: Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.

Re: [BackupPC-users] Restrict backup to not run when laptop is on specific subnet?

Marcelino Mata wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 I have the case where a laptop user with 150GB of data could be on one of two locations which are connected by router. Our network guys do not want a full backup to run for the user when he's on the opposite end of

Re: [BackupPC-users] Need to access BackupPC again

Mark Adams wrote: Restarted httpd and backuppc, restarted Firefox and no change. What distro are you using? Doug -- Ben Franklin quote: Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.

Re: [BackupPC-users] Need to access BackupPC again

Mark Adams wrote: Mandriva 2010.0, 2.6.31.13-server-1mnb Mark, I'm running Mandriva 2010.0 as well, although not server. If you want, I'll send you my complete httpd.conf Doug -- Ben Franklin quote: Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve

Re: [BackupPC-users] Need to access BackupPC again

Mark Adams wrote: What ownership should I see on files under $Conf{TopDir}? I run under user apache, so $Conf{TopDir} and all subfolders are owned by apache. Doug -- Ben Franklin quote: Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither

Re: [BackupPC-users] Need to access BackupPC again

Mark Adams wrote: again. Backuppc is running on the backup server. I can access the cgi interface via a web browser, but I don't get the log in dialog. If I set $Conf{CgiAdminUsers} = '*'; I can access the hosts, etc. but I You need to set Apache up to authenticate you. My

Re: [BackupPC-users] Restore ZIP archive: always downloadedas broken

Boniforti Flavio wrote: OK. Any idea if a bug report has been filed? If not, how to collect the necessary data to open a bug report? Craig said this in February: Johan, Thanks for your help debugging this! It turns out it is a bug in Archive::Zip 1.30 (the latest version). Earlier

Re: [BackupPC-users] Restore ZIP archive: always downloaded as broken

Dmitry Katsubo wrote: * libarchive-zip-perl v1.30-2 1.30 has a bug in it, and we've been waiting for months for them to fix it. I checked CPAN last week and it's still hasn't been fixed. Doug -- Ben Franklin quote: Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little

Re: [BackupPC-users] email not working

Eddie Gonzales wrote: test but when I try to run backupPC_sendEmail from CMD it says the “sh: BackupPC_sendEmail: command not found” even though I am in the correct directory Unlike Windows, Linux based systems don't search the current directory for executables, just the system's path. To

Re: [BackupPC-users] email not working

Eddie Gonzales wrote: Thanks! I didn’t know that and not the BackupPC_sendEmail runs but I am not getting the test email. I checked my firewall and junkmail it seems to not being sent out. Can it be blocked on the backupps server? Its Debian and I don’t see any firewalls on the backuppc

Re: [BackupPC-users] email not working

Eddie Gonzales wrote: Mine does all this without errors but I don't get the email. BackupServer:/usr/share/backuppc/bin$ ./BackupPC_sendEmail -u egonza...@buckeyeusd.org Sending test email using /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -f backuppc BackupServer:/usr/share/backuppc/bin$ Sendmail or

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc on linux, mac os X client

Robert Minvielle wrote: For the time being, I am going to try a different approach than the rsync to backup the mac os X client to the linux backuppc server. I tried tar, but Robert, I am backing up 1 Mac OSX desktop with BackupPC. I've configured a /etc/rsyncd.conf which is pretty much

Re: [BackupPC-users] email not working

Eddie Gonzales wrote: This is from the Exim4 logs...it looks like it thinks my email is Non-Local. How can I change it to local? My mail server and BackupPC server are both inside my networks. Do That I couldn't tell you, I have no experience with Exim. Under Postfix, I tell it to

Re: [BackupPC-users] Corrupted Zip

Facory wrote: Is there a way to recover the files in that zip file? Not that I'm aware of. It's a bug in Archive::Zip 1.30. The last time I checked CPAN (Just now), it's still at 1.30 Doug -- Ben Franklin quote: Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little

Re: [BackupPC-users] unable to restore via zip archives

Craig Barratt wrote: Johan, Thanks for your help debugging this! It turns out it is a bug in Archive::Zip 1.30 (the latest version). And all of our newer installs have 1.30. Thanks for tracking this down, I've used tar this long, I can wait until a newer Archive::Zip is released.

Re: [BackupPC-users] unable to restore via zip archives

Craig Barratt wrote: Also, is there anything in the LOG file? Midnight Commander reports, when trying to view the .zip: End-of-central-directory signature not found. Either this file is not a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive. Doug -- Ben Franklin quote:

Re: [BackupPC-users] unable to restore via zip archives

Johan Cwiklinski wrote: The exact same problem has been reported to me with 3.1 on Fedora's Bugzilla : Same here, under Mandriva as well. I thought maybe I had screwed up my Perl install. Tar archives are fine as well. Doug -- Ben Franklin quote: Those who would give up Essential

Re: [BackupPC-users] How big is your backup?

Gerald Brandt wrote: How many servers and how much data do you backup using BackupPC? BackupPC: Host Summary * This status was generated at 12/23 13:27. * Pool file system was recently at 52% (12/23 13:26), today's max is 53% (12/23 01:00) and yesterday's max was 54%. Hosts with

Re: [BackupPC-users] How big is your backup?

Chris Baker wrote: I have not used this product. It does like quite nice. It is a unit that holds four drives. According to their ad, you can also mix and match drives. It's also one of the few units that acknowledges the existence of Linux. http://www.drobo.com/products/drobo.php

Re: [BackupPC-users] MySQL

Timothy Murphy wrote: What is the best way to use BackupPC to backup a MySQL database? I use mysqldump to a directory and then have that backed up using BackupPC via rsync. Doug -- Ben Franklin quote: Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety,

Re: [BackupPC-users] Sending Email Summary

William sani wrote: I've been trying to figure out how BackupPC actually handles email summaries. I haven't been able to figure this out on the count that most of Email summaries to the end user or the admin? Are you wanting to know how email goes out (Postfix or Sendmail)? Doug --

Re: [BackupPC-users] Sending Email Summary

Will wrote: Thanks, It doesn't matter whom since the email are going to be sent an alias. As far the MTA, it is Sendmail. I guess I didn't convey my question very well. There is only the main message facility in BackupPC that handles the administrator's daily summary (email address

Re: [BackupPC-users] Sending Email Summary

Will wrote: SendmailPath /usr/sbin/sendmail EMailFromUserName r...@[hostname] EMailAdminUserName m...@[domain] EMailUserDestDomain [domain] I've got: $Conf{SendmailPath} = '/usr/sbin/sendmail'; $Conf{EMailFromUserName} = 'BackupPC'; $Conf{EMailAdminUserName} = 'supp...@somedomain.com';

Re: [BackupPC-users] silly question - is there a Forum for BackupPC

Bharat Mistry wrote: This type of mailing list is very hard to follow You'll need to be using a threaded mail client. And no, there are no forums on Sourceforge for BackupPC. Doug -- Ben Franklin quote: Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety,

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsync with windows sfu

Pramathesh Ambasta wrote: I am very new to backuppc. I have made an installation on a Ubuntu Server (8.04). The plan is to backup some machines on (instead of cygwin) on the windows box and if there are any pointers for this. We use Deltacopy, easily found via Google. Doug -- Ben

Re: [BackupPC-users] Rsyncd - probability that it trashed my drive?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: nunmber of bad clusters and repairing files. Bad clusters usually indicate a failing drive. Doug -- Ben Franklin quote: Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.

Re: [BackupPC-users] Native Window version of rsync

James Sefton wrote: We would be very interested. :) I would as well. Doug -- Ben Franklin quote: Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.

Re: [BackupPC-users] Postfix

Barry Robinson wrote: Is there any way to use Postfix instead of Sendmail for BackupPC? I think it's as simple as creating a symlink to postfix and name it sendmail ln -s /usr/sbin/postfix /usr/sbin/sendmail Actually, I just checked. There is already a symlink to postfix as sendmail in my

Re: [BackupPC-users] SendMail Options...

Fabrice Blatch wrote: Hello again... is anyone able to help me get the emails going please? What type of notifications are you expecting to see? Doug -- Ben Franklin quote: Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor

Re: [BackupPC-users] updatedb exclusion for Linux BackupPC users

Ryan Manikowski wrote: By chance I stumbled upon a small modification to any linux system using an mlocate/slocate db. Our BackupPC server runs on Centos 5 which by Excellent! Just updated mine as well. Doug -- Ben Franklin quote: Those who would give up Essential Liberty to

Re: [BackupPC-users] unable to excecute cgi

Benedict simon wrote: Options +ExecCGI You need to get rid of the +, it should read: Options ExecCGI Doug -- Ben Franklin quote: Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.

Re: [BackupPC-users] Newbie here... Question on Web Interface of BackupPC

Mufit Eribol wrote: Hello, Finally I connected to the web interface of BackupPC. However, it is rather simple compared to some tutorials on the internet. The page doesn't have: You need to specify an administrator in the config.pl file: $Conf{CgiAdminUsers} = 'user1 user2 user3'; And

Re: [BackupPC-users] ping fails but nmblookup works

Andrew Gee wrote: Hi, I've got a problem with my backuppc server trying to backup a windows vista machine. The computer's name is set as paul-pc. When I try to ping paul-pc it says the host cannot be found: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ping paul-pc ping: unknown host paul-pc Under Linux you

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