Re: [BackupPC-users] Access Deny / Authorization Required

2009-09-14 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
Hi, On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 15:17, Simone S. Santiago wrote: > My Backuppc Server was working properly, but suddenly it started to deny > my username. > I tried to re-configure the password using the command "htpasswd" and > nothing... > > Have anyone seen this problem before? It's really hard t

Re: [BackupPC-users] New user- loads of questions

2009-08-18 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
Hi, On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 07:04, Nigel Kendrick wrote: > 4) I am running the backup server on CentOS 5.3 and installed backuppc from > the Centos RPM. Ideally I'd like to run the app as the normal 'apache' user > - I read up on a few generic notes about doing this and got to a point where > back

Re: [BackupPC-users] Is there a speed setting?

2009-08-17 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
Hi, On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 14:55, Jeremy Mann wrote: > Just curious if there is a bandwidth speed setting for BackupPC because > I'm not seeing a lot of bandwidth when the backups occur. All my servers > are on gigE and I'm not even seeing 50Mbit speeds between the servers and > backupPC server.

Re: [BackupPC-users] patch for auto-detection of Bonjour (apple) clients for 3.2

2009-08-13 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
Hi, On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 15:14, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: > I'm not sure what the problem is with just appending '.local' to the > names of Bonjour hosts in the Backuppc 'hosts' file. Alternatively, > just create the aliases in the /etc/hosts file or equivalents. Or add "search local" to /etc

Re: [BackupPC-users] 100,000+ errors in last nights backup

2009-08-12 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
Hi, On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 08:49, Steve Blackwell wrote: > 2009-08-12 05:00:08 BackupPC_link got error -3 when calling > MakeFileLink(/media/disk/pc/steve/151/f%2f/froot/f.gconf/fdesktop/fgnome/faccessibility/fkeyboard/f%25gconf.xml, > b32585c3cc30b7ebb556d335a08554e3, 1) > > followed by 100,000+

Re: [BackupPC-users] automated off-site backup (via BackupPC_archiveStart or restore)

2009-08-10 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
Hi, On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 16:00, Shaun Curry wrote: > Thanks Les for this.  Does anyone have a working rsync with -H option over a > sshfs? You are making this harder than it has to be... rsync supports doing a transfer over the network using SSH as a transport. Instead of mounting the filesy

Re: [BackupPC-users] Configure ssh: X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication.

2009-08-10 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
Hi, On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 10:19, Craig Swanson wrote: > host tapper: BackupPC on fedora 10 x86_64 >  Created a public key as backuppc on the server, copied to the client's > backuppc home dir. >  config.pl:$Conf{RsyncClientCmd} = '$sshPath -x  -l backuppc $host nice -n > 19 sudo $rsyncPath $argL

Re: [BackupPC-users] Quick Question - Editing User's Email

2009-08-10 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
Hi, On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 11:29, Bryan Gintz wrote: > If I go into a particular user's area and click on their username (e.g. > "bryan"), it will try to send an email to "bryan", not my full email > address. > > Does anyone know how to attach my email address to my username, so it > uses that in

Re: [BackupPC-users] Switching from gzip to bzip2

2009-08-10 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
Hi, On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 08:36, Nate T wrote: > Will switching from gzip to bzip2 do bad things to the existing cpool? I don't think it's possible to "switch" to bzip2... BackupPC will use gzip-like compression, which is not exactly like gzip but similar to it. If you have spare CPU and want t

Re: [BackupPC-users] Where is the BackupPC-Wiki?

2009-08-06 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 07:04, wrote: > I wanted to add some stuff to the wiki (common configuration) but it seems > that the wiki is no there? > > Question: > - What is going on? > - Where is the Wiki? Oh oh... Sourceforge discontinued the Wiki service. I got this e-mail from them last week: On

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup of backuppc User Directory

2009-08-04 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
Hi, 2009/8/4 Christian Völker : > What I'm wondering is which include/exclude rules I should apply so the > user data itself is backed up, but not the backup repository. > > Anyone an idea? I don't think you need to back up the encryption keys or SSH configuration, as you saw yourself it's fairly

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc: return of investment

2009-08-04 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
Hi, On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 03:39, Robert Waldner wrote: > I have /var/lib/backuppc (and /etc/backuppc via symlink) on an (encrypted) >  3-disk RAID-1, constantly degraded to 2 disks, and on occasion sync >  a 3rd disk which is cycled with another in the safe. I have /var/lib/BackupPC in a RAID-10

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC_dump stalls and leave zombie process

2009-07-30 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
Hi, On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 13:39, Steve wrote: > Wondering if anything has had time to think about this question.  I am > still having the issue... I don't know about stalling, but leaving zombie processes is something "normal". As far as I can tell, it happens when you dump multiple directories

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC installed but compressed backup is failing

2009-07-27 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
Hi, On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 12:07, Andrew Nurcahya wrote: > If I set $Conf{CompressLevel} anything greater than 0 it is will cause this > error: > 2009-07-26 11:00:40 dump failed: can't find Compress::Zlib Do you get any errors when you run the following command? $ perl -e 'use Compress::Zlib;'

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc installation error

2009-07-20 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
Hi, On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 09:46, Siju George wrote: > I cannot start httpd as backuppc user because it gives the following error. > -- > (13)Permission denied: make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:80 > no listening sockets available, shutting down > --

Re: [BackupPC-users] Automatically stopping running backups during business hours

2009-07-14 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
Hi, On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 11:56, Matthias Meyer wrote: > As an alternative you can place the following script in /etc/crontab. > #!/bin/bash > declare -a hosts > hosts[0]=server1        # fill in your own host names > hosts[1]=server2        # whose backup should be canceld > hosts[2]=server3 >

Re: [BackupPC-users] suggestion: make wakeups start at 8am

2009-07-08 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 11:39, Les Mikesell wrote: >> Also, as an aside, the process should probably be renamed to >> BackupPC_daily, as it makes more sense to run it during the day when >> backups are not running. Isn't that right? > > I'm not sure you can make a general assumption about when backu

Re: [BackupPC-users] suggestion: make wakeups start at 8am

2009-07-08 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
Hi, On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 10:15, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > $Conf{WakeupSchedule} = ... > The default configuration causes BackupPC to run the BackupPC_nightly job > when there are backup jobs which may need to run during the night... > Comments, anyone? Yes, I would suggest decoupling the

Re: [BackupPC-users] Multiple backuppc server

2009-07-07 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
Hi, On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 08:50, Andy Brown wrote: > Anyone see any pitfalls/problems with what I'm doing here? Yes, IMHO you are introducing complexity where it is not needed. What are you trying to accomplish? Fault-tolerance? In that case you should probably have an active/passive deploymen

Re: [BackupPC-users] Hardware considerations for building dedicated backuppc server

2009-07-07 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
Hi, On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 23:57, Les Mikesell wrote: > The only thing that seems slightly strange in the graphs is the load average > going to 12 as the backups start and staying there a couple of hours.   > Normally > that's the average number of 'other' processes that are waiting for CPU but >

Re: [BackupPC-users] Having Several Issues

2009-06-26 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
Hi, On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 13:07, Les Mikesell wrote: > Admiral Beotch wrote: >>     What I'm wondering is, if you had mounted your drive on >>     /var/lib/backuppc before the yum install (or had set it up during the >>     Centos install) would any of the other steps have been necessary? >> >>

Re: [BackupPC-users] problems with linux host - Unable to read 4 bytes

2009-06-25 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
Hi, On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 09:46, Nick Smith wrote: > From the backuppc server to the client1 it logs in without a password. Good, a backup of this client should work just fine. > From the backuppc server to the client2 it asks for a password. Problem: you must add the SSH key of the backuppc

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup only new file(s)

2009-06-11 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
Hi, On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 14:13, Les Mikesell wrote: > Mirco Piccin wrote: >> Anyway, each daily file is quite similar to the each other, so rsync >> (or custom script) should be the better way to to the job. > > That won't help unless each file is named the same as the previous one. You can tr

Re: [BackupPC-users] include directive in config.pl

2009-06-11 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
Hi, On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 13:20, Matthias Meyer wrote: > I hoped the necessary code would be simple enough and somebody would be so > nice to post it here. Something like this should work: # define the list of junctions for Vista in English: @VistaJunctions_english = ( "/dir1", "/dir2", "/dir3

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up a USB-disk?

2009-06-11 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
Hi, On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 01:50, Magnus Larsson wrote: >> mountpoint -q /path/to/usbdisk >> (will set $? to 0 if it's mounted, non-zero otherwise) > > How would I use this value that mountpoint returns, do you mean? The same way you would use the '[ -f /path/to/usbdisk/.fileyouwouldhavetocreate

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up a USB-disk?

2009-06-10 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
Hi, On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 17:57, Holger Parplies wrote: > note that you could even set the PingCmd to a shell script that checks > whether the disk is mounted (eg. '[ -f /path/to/usbdisk/.thisistheusbdisk ]' > if you have a file '.thisistheusbdisk' in the root of your USB disk's file > system -

Re: [BackupPC-users] Change Archive Directory

2009-06-09 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
Hi, On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 06:44, Holger Parplies wrote: > yes, but however you fix it, you should be aware that you won't get pooling > for already completed backups. Until they expire, they will contain > independent copies of files. What's worse, rsync backups will hardlink 'same' > files to th

Re: [BackupPC-users] Change Archive Directory

2009-06-08 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
Hi, On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 22:25, jbk wrote: > [...] What I am >  not seeing is any pooled data. I am using the Fedora > distribution (10) binary of Backuppc. When I originally set > up the archive directory I pointed it to an external usb > disk that is mounted in a location that is not in the >