Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC data pool

2012-07-13 Thread Jim McNamara
On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 12:51 PM, Mike ispbuil...@gmail.com wrote: On 12-07-13 01:50 PM, Bryan Keadle (.net) wrote: I think I had a buddy try AoE and found it problematic - not yet ready for prime time? I've used it for a variety of things from software RAID to network booting - no

Re: [BackupPC-users] Upgrading from etch to lenny

2009-06-10 Thread Jim McNamara
On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 6:24 PM, Ward... James Ward jew...@torzo.com wrote: I have two etch BackupPC servers and two lenny BackupPC servers. All were built at the OS level currently running. I like the new BackupPC interface a lot and would like to upgrade the etch servers to lenny and

Re: [BackupPC-users] Upgrading from etch to lenny

2009-06-10 Thread Jim McNamara
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 11:50 AM, Ward... James Ward jew...@torzo.comwrote: Have you specifically done a dist-upgrade from etch to lenny? On Jun 10, 2009, at 8:14 AM, Jim McNamara wrote: On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 6:24 PM, Ward... James Ward jew...@torzo.comwrote: I have two etch BackupPC

Re: [BackupPC-users] CentOS 4.7 suid fails repeatedly with BackupPC

2008-12-17 Thread Jim McNamara
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 12:49 PM, Les Mikesell l...@futuresource.com wrote: Jim McNamara wrote: Thanks again for everyone's help, I'm a longtime lurker on these boards, and I was quite pleased to have support when my usualy install conditions were thrown out! I'm still curious about

Re: [BackupPC-users] CentOS 4.7 suid fails repeatedly with BackupPC

2008-12-17 Thread Jim McNamara
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 5:25 PM, Adam Goryachev mailingli...@websitemanagers.com.au wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm guessing your telephony system will be some commercial version of asterisk? I would seriously question the idea of putting both your telephony system

Re: [BackupPC-users] CentOS 4.7 suid fails repeatedly with BackupPC

2008-12-16 Thread Jim McNamara
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 5:01 PM, Adam Goryachev mailingli...@websitemanagers.com.au wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jim McNamara wrote: I didn't think it was incompatible with CentOS, I'm just stuck in the position of having done this probably 20 times on Debian

Re: [BackupPC-users] CentOS 4.7 suid fails repeatedly with BackupPC

2008-12-16 Thread Jim McNamara
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 11:36 AM, Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) n...@lemonbit.com wrote: Les Mikesell wrote: Why is suexec involved? Les is right, you don't need suexec. Trying to use it is probably causing your problem. [2008-12-15 10:37:00]: file is either setuid or setgid:

Re: [BackupPC-users] CentOS 4.7 suid fails repeatedly with BackupPC

2008-12-16 Thread Jim McNamara
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 2:24 PM, Mark Maciolek m...@sr.unh.edu wrote: Jim McNamara wrote: On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 11:36 AM, Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) n...@lemonbit.com mailto:n...@lemonbit.com wrote: Les Mikesell wrote: Why is suexec involved? Les is right, you

Re: [BackupPC-users] CentOS 4.7 suid fails repeatedly with BackupPC

2008-12-15 Thread Jim McNamara
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 7:13 PM, Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) n...@lemonbit.com wrote: Les Mikesell wrote: [r...@telephony conf.d]# cat /etc/selinux/config # This file controls the state of SELinux on the system. # SELINUX= can take one of these three values: # enforcing - SELinux

[BackupPC-users] CentOS 4.7 suid fails repeatedly with BackupPC

2008-12-12 Thread Jim McNamara
Hello all! I'm normally a Debian guy, but for a project I'm forced to use CentOS 4.7. I installed BackupPC 3.1.0 from source. I'm trying to get BackupPC running on that box, and I cannot seem to get BackupPC_Admin (or the testsuid script found here -

Re: [BackupPC-users] CentOS 4.7 suid fails repeatedly with BackupPC

2008-12-12 Thread Jim McNamara
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 12:10 PM, Les Mikesell l...@futuresource.com wrote: Jim McNamara wrote: Hello all! I'm normally a Debian guy, but for a project I'm forced to use CentOS 4.7. I installed BackupPC 3.1.0 from source. I'm trying to get BackupPC running on that box, and I cannot seem

Re: [BackupPC-users] CentOS 4.7 suid fails repeatedly with BackupPC

2008-12-12 Thread Jim McNamara
Is that a cut/paste error or do you actually have targeted uncommented? By the way, it takes a reboot to make a change take effect. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com That wasn't a cut/paste error, targeted came up uncommented from the get go. I went through the install with

Re: [BackupPC-users] Windows 2000 server and windows 2003 server

2008-06-18 Thread Jim McNamara
I have found that rsyncd usually needs to be run with administrator rights. Trying to get it to run as a regular user or a system account has always failed for me. With your connection refused message, I suspect that rsyncd is not running at all. try either using nmap or telnetting to the windows

Re: [BackupPC-users] Windows 2000 server and windows 2003 server

2008-06-17 Thread Jim McNamara
First things first. How did you install rsyncd on the server? Did you use the cygwin-rsyncd package from the sourceforge site? http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=34854package_id=88133 Odds are very good that you have a windows or other software firewall in place. You need to

Re: [BackupPC-users] Download file directly from browse fails...

2008-02-17 Thread Jim McNamara
On Feb 17, 2008 8:42 AM, Mirco Piccin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. Creating the archive locally on the server (using BackupPC_tarCreate or BackupPC_zipCreate) and then transferring it to the Windows machine is not an option? Yes, it is an option. But I'm thinking to an option that not

Re: [BackupPC-users] Cygwin, Rsyncd running slow

2007-06-16 Thread Jim McNamara
On two windows machines using rsyncd, the one on the LAN with the backuppc machine does 44 Gb fulls in 132 minutes, and incrementals (about 200 Mb of new data per day) takes 30. The other machine is across a VPN, but still does 25 Gb fulls in 125 minutes, and incrementals (about 6 Gb of new data)

Re: [BackupPC-users] cgwin-rsyncd on vista

2007-05-19 Thread Jim McNamara
before 3rd party apps start appearing that work. Jim McNamara On 5/19/07, Richard Maynard / Wessex Networks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Guys, I have been an avid user of backuppc for both internal and use on client's sites, and have had great success using cygwin-rsyncd in the past for backing

Re: [BackupPC-users] RSync v. Tar

2007-03-27 Thread Jim McNamara
I have a bit of hard data to offer on this subject, as I recently switched a backup from tar+ssh (over cygwin) to rsyncd. The backuppc server is on the same physical LAN, and connect to each other via a 192.168 address. All the cabling and switches support 100 MB full duplex communications, and

Re: [BackupPC-users] upgrade to 3.0

2007-03-26 Thread Jim McNamara
is 3.0 yet apt-getable? Don't know, I always install from source. -Dave Yes, it is. It is only in unstable though, so you'll need to specify that apt-get use the unstable repositories to get version 3.0. Peace, Jim -

Re: [BackupPC-users] Hardware choices for a BackupPC server

2007-03-14 Thread Jim McNamara
I agree with what Jason wrote, particularly in regards to a 3ware controller. I also like reiserfs, but for 1.5 Tb a strong case could be made for XFS or JFS, depending on your standard issues like many small files in the backup, or fewer larger files. I would also consider raid 5 or 6. Nothing

Re: [BackupPC-users] web interface problems in 3.0.0

2007-03-05 Thread Jim McNamara
-x 2 root root 104 2007-02-22 22:18 . drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 168 2007-02-22 22:18 .. lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root8 2007-02-22 22:18 image - ../image -rwsr-xr-x 1 backuppc backuppc 3993 2007-02-14 17:14 index.cgi Peace, Jim On 3/5/07, Filipe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim

[BackupPC-users] excludes on windows with spaces in names

2007-02-28 Thread Jim McNamara
Hello again list! I'm running into some trouble with excluding directories in rsyncd.conf on a windows machine. The machine in question is dying quickly, and rarely stays alive for more than 30 minutes or so. Because of that, I'm trying to slowly increment what is being backed up to the debian

Re: [BackupPC-users] excludes on windows with spaces in names

2007-02-28 Thread Jim McNamara
if that will work, but it sounds like it's worth a shot. brien Jim McNamara wrote: Hello again list! I'm running into some trouble with excluding directories in rsyncd.conf on a windows machine. The machine in question is dying quickly, and rarely stays alive for more than 30 minutes or so. Because

Re: [BackupPC-users] excludes on windows with spaces in names

2007-02-28 Thread Jim McNamara
/bash/rsync.html I'm guessing the translation from bash to winworld is where my problem is occurring. Peace, Jim On 2/28/07, Brien Dieterle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: perhaps the leading /s are causing it not to match? Have you tried just 'Administrator/' brien Jim McNamara wrote

Re: [BackupPC-users] excludes on windows with spaces in names

2007-02-28 Thread Jim McNamara
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 02/28 11:19 , Jim McNamara wrote: The main problem is the excludes list is supposed to be separated by spaces, and of course everyone's favorite OS has spaces in directory names. I do excludes on things like that, using a '?' in place of the spaces. So for example

Re: [BackupPC-users] web interface problems in 3.0.0

2007-02-21 Thread Jim McNamara
On 2/21/07, Filipe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've upgraded from 2.1.1 to 3.0.0 in a debian sarge, and some problems arise.. First it was the error about the language, and resolved it by renaming /etc/backuppc and reinstalling the 3.0.0 version. I saw the same problem in the same situation.

Re: [BackupPC-users] web interface problems in 3.0.0

2007-02-21 Thread Jim McNamara
to provide! Jim On 2/21/07, Filipe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim McNamara wrote: On 2/21/07, Filipe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've upgraded from 2.1.1 to 3.0.0 in a debian sarge, and some problems arise.. First it was the error about the language, and resolved it by renaming /etc/backuppc

Re: [BackupPC-users] web interface problems in 3.0.0

2007-02-21 Thread Jim McNamara
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Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd problem

2007-02-20 Thread Jim McNamara
Craig, Thanks for your personal attention on this. The XferLOG is now available in the images directory: http://mail.stephanco.com/backuppc/images/ The log from the email you replied to has since been overwritten since it was only considered a partial backup. The emails yesterday between the

Re: [BackupPC-users] {Fraud?} {Disarmed} rsyncd problem

2007-02-19 Thread Jim McNamara
locations if possible. Thanks, Jim On 2/19/07, Jim McNamara [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: According the the man page for rsyncd.conf, there should be no issue with multiple shares, they have an example with 5 or so shares, some publicly open and others password protected. Since both shares were

[BackupPC-users] rsyncd problem

2007-02-18 Thread Jim McNamara
I am having a problem with rsyncd between backuppc and a remote windows box running the rsync package provided on the backuppc page at sourceforge. I installed a clean version of backuppc 3.0.0, moving all the old backups from 2.1.1 to an alternate machine should I need them later. The problem

Re: [BackupPC-users] Version 3.0

2007-02-17 Thread Jim McNamara
Yes, it has. The colors are different, and depending on your permissions the ability to modify the configuration of individual hosts through the website may be present. The base is very similar, and I don't think you'd have problems, but they are not identical. Peace, Jim On 2/17/07, Rob Ogle

[BackupPC-users] GUI error after upgrade

2007-02-13 Thread Jim McNamara
Hello list! My thanks again go out to Craig for a great piece of software! I have been running BackupPC 2.1.1 on a debian box, installed by the apt-get package system. Tonight I upgraded by compiling 3.0.0, and encountered a good number of problems, largely resulting from Debian modifications.

Re: [BackupPC-users] how to update from 2.1.1

2007-01-29 Thread Jim McNamara
Due to the code freeze in Debian for the release of Etch as stable soon, it will be quite a while before a new deb package for backupPC makes it to stable. The Debian backupPC maintainer is probably well aware of the releases, but even if he made the packages, the code freeze would prevent them

[BackupPC-users] Full rsyncd fails, incrimental works

2006-12-22 Thread Jim McNamara
Hello again everyone! I solved the earlier problems I had with rsyncd by using the package from the backuppc page for cygwin rather than forcing my own install. Rsyncd now seems to work, but I have a strange error. I have 2 full backups from when the backuppc operated on smb, and have now

Re: [BackupPC-users] some questions...

2006-12-22 Thread Jim McNamara
I've had particularly good results from the 3ware 9500 series 4port controllers. They run about $325 US dollars. I work with a company that archives massive amouts of video data, and before a client is ready for the 15 SATA NAS, you can get spectacular results out of a 4 port with PCI interface.

[BackupPC-users] rsyncd incremental works, full fails

2006-12-19 Thread Jim McNamara
Hello again everyone! I solved the earlier problems I had with rsyncd by using the package from the backuppc page for cygwin rather than forcing my own install. Rsyncd now seems to work, but I have a strange error. I have 2 full backups from when the backuppc operated on smb, and have now

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsync error ssh_askpass w/ cygwin

2006-12-14 Thread Jim McNamara
/local/bin/rsync'; as that is the matching 2.6.6 version of rsync for the win box. It seems to me that module /UPC/ is pretty well defined, but obviously this is new territory to me. Do I need to define it differently somehow? Thanks for your time, Jim On 12/12/06, Jim McNamara [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsync error ssh_askpass w/ cygwin

2006-12-14 Thread Jim McNamara
, it is completely absent from the rsyncd.conf on the winbox. Thanks, Jim On 12/14/06, Randy Barlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 14 December 2006 21:50, Jim McNamara wrote: [UPC] /cygdrive/f/UPC hosts allow = 192.168.2.1 strict modes = false Connected to mas90-server:873, remote version

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsync error ssh_askpass w/ cygwin

2006-12-14 Thread Jim McNamara
Jim McNamara wrote: And the new error makes even less sense to me, Contents of file /var/lib/backuppc/pc/mas90-server/XferLOG.bad.z, modified 2006-12-14 22:12:40 Connected to mas90-server:873, remote version 29 Negotiated protocol version 26 Error connecting to module UPC at mas90

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsync error ssh_askpass w/ cygwin

2006-12-14 Thread Jim McNamara
Jim McNamara wrote: I used: cygrunsrv --remove rsyncd and then checked with: cygrunsrv --list which only showed sshd running. I still get the chroot error, and it seems that rsync not running should produce an error long before anything about chroot. Since cygwin shell seems

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsync error ssh_askpass w/ cygwin

2006-12-12 Thread Jim McNamara
I got the impression that this problem may have been fixed in a newer version of backuppc, would upgrading help? I'll try reconfiguring backuppc to do rsyncd instead of rsync if not. Thanks, Jim On 12/12/06, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/11 09:43 , Jim McNamara wrote

[BackupPC-users] rsync error ssh_askpass w/ cygwin

2006-12-11 Thread Jim McNamara
Hello all! I found some mails in the archive that relates to this problem, but what seemed to be the solution didn't work for me. I'd like to show what's happening, and hope to get some input on what the problem is. Here is the info I found in the archives: