Hi Tshepo,
Your screen shot shows that the most recent “full” backup was 4.3 days ago. I
merely suggested that the extra data could be newer than the latest full backup.
Incremental backups still contain all data. It’s just that the web interface
only reports the size of the most recent full
Bharat Mistry wrote:
I have a spare LTO2 as a result of a Windows Server upgrade
I'd like to install it on my BackupPC box and Archive to Tape once a
week
(BackupPC installed on SME Server)
I use the following to backup to DAT tape on other SME servers:
mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind
tar -cvf
Les Mikesell wrote:
Thomas von Eyben wrote:
Hi list,
Does anyone have a nice guide describing how to set up a Mac OS X's
Apache (Server or Client) to host BackupPC?
I am now facing the problem:
Error: Wrong user: my userid is 70, instead of 502(backuppc) when
communicating with the
Boniforti Flavio wrote:
'--delete*' are meaningless and unsupported. '--stats
Holger, you state that --delete* are unsupported switches, why?
As you can read in my last new thread, I'd like just to do syncs
of my
remote host, thus needing to be able to delete files which ain't
anymore
Op 9 apr 2009, om 19:19 heeft Bharat Mistry het volgende geschreven:
What I would like is a email containing a list of files that were
actually copied - this would be very useful for Incremental backups.
I've looked at the docs but not found if this is possible or not.
The transfer log
Laurin d'Volts wrote:
I seletected apache and apache2 as options inside of the ncurses
screen.
One usually doesn't need both Apache 1.x and 2.x installed.
Nils Breunese.
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Matthias Meyer wrote:
I've installed rrdtool on my system and found the BackupPC Pool
Size in
the server status page. I didn't know before that backuppc can display
measures from rrdtool.
Their are any other rrdtool data which can be displeyed in the
backuppc GUI?
Is there a
Tino Schwarze wrote:
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 10:03:03AM -0400, David Williams wrote:
All,
Up until very recently I have had BackupPC 3.0 working with my 1TB
external
WD Mybook world edition device, which is connected to my LAN and
which I
mount via cifs. I recently had to upgrade my
Anand Gupta wrote:
I was trying to restrict backuppc to start / backup 2 hosts while 1
is in progress. Reading and search i came across something called
semaphore and the idea that it can be implemented using the
DumpPreUserCmd and DumpPostUserCmd. Can anyone please help on how
this
Bradley Alexander wrote:
I have a backup server which backs up multiple machines. I added a
machine, and it has thus far failed to back up. The error I am
getting is
ping too slow: 119msec (threshold is 100msec)
To the end of the config file, I have added
:$Conf{PingMaxMsec} = '500';
Christian Völker wrote:
ALRM means you hit the $CONF{ClientTimeout} setting.
I was thinking about this, but I wasn't sure. I'll increase this
value...
mean the number of seconds with no activity,
This was my understanding.
but for some reason seems
to really be the total length of time
Bradley Alexander wrote:
The only instances for this machine is the one in config.pl
($Conf{PingMaxMsec} = 100;) and the one in the specific host's
config file ($Conf{PingMaxMsec} = 500;)...Which should override
the one in config.pl.
Note that I tried changing the one in config.pl to
Hello all,
Sometimes I notice BackupPC stops doing backups. BackupPC doesn't send
out any notifications about this. The BackupPC daemon is running, but
when I stop it and try to start it again, it suddenly complains about
not being able to create the test hardlink.
# service backuppc
sil wrote:
Timothy Murphy a écrit :
What is the simplest way to move my backup
from /var/lib/BackupPC to /BackupPC on a new partition?
(My current location is getting full.)
You can just stop backuppc, move all /var/lib/BackuPc files to the new
directory and create a symbolic link of
Brian Woodworth wrote:
That's unfortunate. I can't just mount my array there as it is
basically my NAS that use to store all of my media. It sounds like
I will have to go without pooling if I want to back up to another
location other than /var/lib/backuppc
You can bind mount your
Regis wrote:
I would like backuppc send an email to $host and or $user, to notify
when a full backup being to start
I know it's by DumpPreUserCmd, but anyone can help me to write it?
You can use the mail command. Something like this:
/bin/echo This is the message | /bin/mail -s
Sam Przyswa wrote:
What is DumpPreUserCmd ?
See the documentation:
http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html#item__conf_dumppreusercmd_
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Bowie Bailey wrote:
Nick Bright wrote:
That explains things! Seems like maybe the web interface needs a bit
of improvement in this regard.
In the web interface (which is how I added the exclusions), it simply
has a box for you to put a pathname to exclude and push Add.
The web interface
Nick Smith wrote:
What do you think would be the harm in just doing full backups?
instead of doing a
full and then forever incrementals, if the full backup really only
backs up changed files
since the last full backup, i really wouldnt need to do incrementals
at all, and from what
i
Brad C wrote:
I've read that you cant split topdir based on server, so I cant send
one server to Drive A and another server to Drive B.
Where did you read this? AFAIK this is not possible.
Eg: what happens if the building burns down and the backuppc host
you where using doesnt exist
Juergen Harms wrote:
$Conf{TopDir} appears to be a hardly coded variable. My
understanding
is that, in your configuration file, you can set it to any value you
want, but that the result you intuitively expect will only be achieved
as long as you stay within the file-system that contains
jed wrote:
Don't spose I could get any advice/pointers from anyone here? see
below...
If you don't already have a webserver running, I wouldn't go with
BackupPC for this scenario myself. I guess you're not running OS X
10.5? I like Time Machine for my OS X laptop backups myself. If you
dan wrote:
what did you do to reduce the size?
I guess he modified $Conf{BackupPCNightlyPeriod}. See
http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html#item__conf_backuppcnightlyperiod_
Nils Breunese.
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Craig Barratt wrote:
One question I'm curious about: if FUSE becomes a required part of
BackupPC 4.x, does that unduly complicate installation or reduce the
number of distros that BackupPC can readily run on? I realize FUSE
is standard on recent 2.6.x kernels, but CentOS 5.2, as one example,
Timothy Murphy wrote:
The rest is setting up ssh to work as root on the clients,
and this requires 3 steps:
1. ssh-keygen as root on the client
You don't need to run ssh-keygen on the clients, only on the BackupPC
server. You copy the public key that is generated on the BackupPC
server to
Timothy Murphy wrote:
Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) wrote:
Sorry, /etc/BackupPC/config.pl is 2165 lines long.
I've no intention of reading that.
Life is too short.
If you're serious about doing backups, I recommend you really read
through the configuration. I read all of it and afterwards I
Juergen Harms wrote:
I think it should be possible to set up password-less ssh login for
the
user backuppc just as for any other user - that is what I intend to
do,
but have not yet got round to - will I lose my time?
I don't understand what you're asking exactly, but setting up
Timothy Murphy wrote:
Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) wrote:
Is there incidentally a simple test to determine
if ssh is working as required by BackupPC?
See if the BackupPC user can login on the client without entering a
password.
Thanks for your comments, which are mostly helpful.
However, I
Timothy Murphy wrote:
Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) wrote:
Timothy Murphy wrote:
Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) wrote:
Is there incidentally a simple test to determine
if ssh is working as required by BackupPC?
See if the BackupPC user can login on the client without entering a
password.
Thanks
Juergen Harms wrote:
I fought these messages yesterday. In my case the reason is that
topDir
- the directory where the backup data is stored - is a separate
file-system, and that BackupPC has problems dealing with that
situation.
Having topDir on a separate filesystem is actually
Timothy Murphy wrote:
Must an ssh server be running on BackPC clients?
If you'll be using SSH, then yes, because the BackupPC server needs to
be able to login on the clients.
Is there incidentally a simple test to determine
if ssh is working as required by BackupPC?
See if the BackupPC
Juergen Harms wrote:
I am trying to plan my first backupPC installation and have a question
on how to set up the backupc/host file (Mandriva 9.0, intending to use
rsync).
The How BackupPC Finds Hosts section in the documentation is very
clear: for DHCP hosts I should set the DHCP flag to 1
James Beam wrote:
Anyone have suggestions on the best 'recommended' flavor of Linux to
run
this on as the host?
We are using Ubuntu and Suse Enterprise (due to the Active Directory
integration) in-house currently. We are a Microsoft shop, but us IT
folks
always have varied Linux boxes
Juergen Harms wrote:
Most DHCP servers can be configured to hand out the same IP address
to
a machine every time
This alternative is not feasible unless I install a software DHCP
server
on one of the machines. At present I stick (quite small and simple
LANs)
to the servers that sit
cpreston wrote:
If you are on this mailing list and have an opinion about Backup
Central's use of this list, please read this message and respond.
I'm doing what I'm doing because I believe it helps the BackupPC
community -- no other reason. It sure isn't to generate more web
Adam Goryachev wrote:
Not sure I can help you with that one... I have never used CentOS
and in
fact avoid it. I've been quite happy with Debian ever since RedHat 8
was
released :) Hopefully someone else with more experience could assist
you.
Not that I think it can't work on centos,
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:
(/var/www/cgi-bin/BackupPC_Admin)
Yes, the config.pl script should have installed it mode 04554.
It
Glassfox wrote:
I tried several times to backup my server host, but backuppc seemed
to ignore the exclude files settings. I want to exclude this folders
from backup with their all subfolders: /proc, /sys, /media and /var/
lib/backuppc. This is my current config file content:
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 security policy is enforced.
# permissive - SELinux prints warnings instead of
Glassfox wrote:
1. Where can I define the backups destination path? I want to use an
external USB drive for this.
The installer asks for the TopDir location. If you installed a
prepackaged version of BackupPC this location was decided by the
packager. It's probably /var/lib/backuppc in
Glassfox wrote:
My first question is: can backuppc make a backup of a system it is
running on itself? Or do I always need to have a second backup host
to make a backup of my Linux server?
A BackupPC server can backup itself just fine. Just make sure you
exclude the backup pool, or
Glassfox wrote:
I hope, I understood this in the right way: making database dumps
helps (I will not get an inconsistence state) but using backuppc for
them will bloat the backup pool?
Depends on what your definition of bloat is. And probably also on the
size of your databases. We backup
dan wrote:
the problem with backing up a database incrementally is that as the
database grows the backups bloat up as they do not get any benefit
from the incremental backup.
with a database, it is usually better to replicate the database to
another host and then do periodic dumps.
Trey Nolen wrote:
I've looked through the archives a good bit and have found some
information
about moving pools to different servers, but I haven't seen anything
on
this. We are running a 2.1.x server that is getting pretty full
(and old).
It is using the Debian packages for
Stuart Luscombe wrote:
I’ve got the OS (CentOS) installed on the new server and have
installed BackupPC v3.1.0, but I’m having problems working out how
to sync the pool with the main backup server. I managed to rsync the
cpool folder without any real bother, but the pool folder is the
Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
This may be a naive question, but I was wondering what is the state of
BackupPC development? (I couldn't find answers on the sourceforge
site)
This is the users mailinglist. The development mailinglist may have
more info for you:
Mark Adams wrote:
I have several machines I would like to backup with BackupPC, but the
server is a humble box with several installed hard discs -- nothing
fancy.
I need to backup each client machine to a different hard drive on the
server. I have one client configured and it tries to
SamK wrote:
QUESTIONS:
01 The format of the command line required by BackupPC_archiveStart
is archiveHost userName hosts. Is is possible to specify
multiple hosts without explicitly listing each of them at the
command line? (perhaps a wildcard) I have tried an asterisk without
SamK wrote:
A copy of BackupPC 3.1 has been obtained from the main Ubuntu
repository and successfully installed on v 8.04-Server. This has
now provided access to the file BackupPC_archiveStart which I intend
to use via cron as outlined in the BackupPC documentation.
When executed
Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) wrote:
SamK wrote:
A copy of BackupPC 3.1 has been obtained from the main Ubuntu
repository and successfully installed on v 8.04-Server. This has
now provided access to the file BackupPC_archiveStart which I intend
to use via cron as outlined in the BackupPC
Christian Völker wrote:
I have a global option in the config.pl:
$Conf{RsyncShareName}= ['/','/boot'];
Rsync is configured with the '--one-filesystem'.
So my rsync hosts are backed up including / and /boot. Fine
On some hosts there are some more shares to backup i.e. /srv/ftp.
What is
Pete Geenhuizen wrote:
Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) wrote:
I'm not using this BackupPC mod, but there was a post on the RPMForge
users mailinglist about this problem with the latest rrdtool
updates: http://lists.rpmforge.net/pipermail/users/2008-November/002040.html
Nils Breunese.
Thanks
SamK wrote:
The on-line documentation at Sourceforge mentions creating an
archive at the command line using BackupPC_archiveStart. This
method fails as the system cannot find BackupPC_archiveStart.
The BackupPC_archiveStart binary is probably not in your path. Try
calling it using the
pete davidson wrote:
I recently restored a crashed mac harddrive from a backuppc full
backup (phew..). I'd like to keep that particular full backup (so
if I later realize I actually needed some file I thought I didn't
need in the original restore it's still there). Is there a way to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Don't get me wrong: I'll take the hacks. It's better than
nothing. I, like I think *most* of us, would kill (or even pay
for!) a method of replicating a pool in a guaranteed-correct way,
especially at the host or even backup level. But I still worry
about
Pete Geenhuizen wrote:
Under Centos5, the latest perl-rrdtool.i386 0:1.2.28-1.el5.rf and
rrdtool.i386 0:1.2.28-1.el5.rf updates seem to have broken part of the
Pool Size graph, specifically all the text is missing from within the
graph. Other than the graph I see 2 dots where the 2 color
Veon wrote:
Ray Todd Stevens wrote:
We have a backuppc system setup that has been running for a while
now. We are
expanding the office and I am going to need more storage space. To
do this I will need to
copy the data off, reconfigure the array with more drives and then
reload the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is it possible to stop a user from manually taking a full and/or
incremental backup? I have tried setting $Conf{MaxUserBackups} = 0;
but this does not achieve the goal.
Why do this? I have a network in which all user home directories
are stored on a
oblivian wrote:
And why is BackupPC stil on 3.0 in the Ubuntu repositories?
According to http://packages.ubuntu.com/backuppc Ubuntu 8.10 has
3.1.0. Ubuntu 8.04 LTS has 3.0.0. Generally distributions don't do
version upgrades during the lifetime of a release.
Who is maintaining BackupPC on
vgivanovic wrote:
Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) wrote:
David Hopkins wrote:
I have deleted and recreated the ssh keys, changed the command
line to
use sudo which then gives a different error: It says you need a
tty to
run sudo. At this point I am not sure what to try next.
http
John Goerzen wrote:
First, the on-disk compression format makes me nervous. It appears to
use the deflate algorithm, but cannot be unpacked with either gzip or
unzip. It would seem that the few bytes that adding a gzip header
means would be well worth it, since it would buy the ability to
John Goerzen wrote:
On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 10:40:35PM +0100, Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)
wrote:
John Goerzen wrote:
First, the on-disk compression format makes me nervous. It
appears to
use the deflate algorithm, but cannot be unpacked with either gzip
or
unzip. It would seem
Alexandre - ArchivTech wrote:
I'd like to disable incremental since i use rsync, and so, full
backups
are ok for my needs giving me the same results as incremental.
This has been debated over and over again, but really doing a mix of
full and incremental backups is best for most
Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
Now, the verbose output of BackupPC_dump shows:
Got remote protocol 30
Negotiated protocol version 28
while the extra extra verbose output of running rsync manually shows:
(Client) Protocol versions: remote=30, negotiated=30
Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) wrote at about 01:07:02 +0100 on Tuesday,
October 28, 2008:
File::RsyncP is a (non-complete) implementation of rsync in Perl
written for use by BackupPC. The latest version of File::RsyncP
supports protocol version 28, there is nothing
Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
When running an incremental backup on my Linux system, BackupPC
repeatedly hangs when backing up the mythconverg mysql database for
mythtv.
Note that the database seems to be perfectly intact and I don't have
any problem 'rsyncing' it manually.
The specific
Kenneth L. Owen wrote:
That only leaves one issue: I can't log into the web GUI from the
Windows
server. I have ssl setup and can get the default web page with
https://Archiver/ but https://Archiver/BackupPC/ gets a 403 screen
- Not
Authorized . This is the same line that I use on
Yazz D. Atlas wrote:
How difficult would it be to have BackupPC create a link to the last
Full backup. The reason this would be handy to me is I'm required to
backup to tape to a system I don't have much control over. I just want
to tell the backup service a simple directorie to grab. I would
Adam Goryachev wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# su backuppc
bash-3.2$== This doesn't look as expected
Actually, yes, this is the default prompt, which is usually modified
in
your ~/.bashrc or ~/.bash_profile files, but the backuppc user doesn't
have/use these files
Correct.
Stephen Vaughan wrote:
Why use Fedora at all?? Debian is your friend
If you're used to the Fedora way (a.k.a. Red Hat way) of things and
want a distribution with a long lifecycle then I'd say CentOS (or RHEL
if you need paid support) is a better choice than Debian. Debian is a
fine
Kenneth Porter wrote:
--On Saturday, October 04, 2008 11:24 AM -0600 dan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
if you have rsync 3 on both client and server, backuppc(via CPAN
file-rsync) will infact get to take advantage some of the rsync 3
benefits.
Interesting. I'll have to see if there's an RPM
Oz Dror wrote:
I am new to backuppc. I have installed it on fedora 9.
I seems to work. I do have the following issues:
1. On the main web page I do not see the admin options
Have you added your username to $Conf{CgiAdminUsers}?
Peter wrote:
I've run setup.exe on Windows XP to install rsync and other packages
for
cygwin. However, it only provides version 2.6.9. I want to install,
as
mentioned in this topic, version 3.0.3, however I am unable to find it
via setup.exe nor visiting the site cygwin.com. Any
Peter wrote:
Thanks for replying Nils. From the thread I was reading that rsync
3.0.3
has fixed many problems, in particular memory. Using ver2.6.9 and I
have
had Windows system blue screen, ie crash.
I don't know if using rsync 3 may solve crash problems, but BackupPC's
File::RsyncP
Aitor Carrera wrote:
Hi! I have backuppc configured and running, backing up every
production server. the backups where storage in a backup server and,
periodically, I run manually an archive to tape drive. I'm tring to
schelude the archive but i'm not able to find documentation about
Hello,
I noticed some outdated documentation.
The 'Removing a client' section under 'Other installation topics' [0]
says to set $Conf{FullPeriod} to a negative value to disable backups
for a client. However, the documentation on $Conf{BackupsDisable} [1]
says:
In versions prior to
Hendrik Friedel wrote:
This takes ages, which is ok, but I'm logged in to the server via
ssh, so
that using the nohup command would be useful. This has the drawback,
that
the nohup.out is empty, so that I cannot monitor the process.
Install screen and see 'man screen'. Other than that I
Alan McKay wrote:
On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 6:09 AM, rorschach999
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
No Selinux on opensuse 11.0, as far as I know!
At least I did not find it in the runlevels.
You won't see it on the run levels. On fedora there is a file
/etc/selinux/config and in there you set
Christian Völker wrote:
Now the backup is running for hours and nothing is happening.
(...)
So what is going on there?
Ask strace.
I added the -z --checksum-seed=32761 parameters to rsync. Could this
be related?
I know File::RsyncP handles --checksum-seed as it's mentioned in the
dan wrote:
consider
1) do you need to backup all of the files on that system? are there
some large files or mp3 or video files that can be skipped?
consider narrowing the scope of the backup to just appropriate files.
2) consider compressing the data. With such a small pipe you will
Alex Dehaini wrote:
Where is the backuppc logo that appears on the cgi interface stored?
Some ideas:
1. Right click the image in your browser and copy the image location.
That should give you a clue.
2. The BackupPC installer script asks for an 'Apache image directory'
and the logo.gif
Christian Völker wrote:
| Assume, the full backup is finished after two weeks- will the
next full
| backup take the same amount of time?
| If you are using rsync it will be much faster next time, sending
only
| the changes.
If so, again the question what is then the difference between
David Hopkins wrote:
I have deleted and recreated the ssh keys, changed the command line to
use sudo which then gives a different error: It says you need a tty to
run sudo. At this point I am not sure what to try next.
Terri Kelley wrote:
Where is that stored? Reason I asked, I was reading over the archives
on how to backup different hosts with different directories and found
a post on putting a config.pl in the /pc/host directory. I then
decided to add second path on that same host and used the edit config
Ishan Patel wrote:
ok here is the intented output . .
[EMAIL PROTECTED] BackupPC]# /etc/init.d/backuppc restart
Shutting down BackupPC:[ OK ]
Starting BackupPC: [ OK ]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] BackupPC]# su - backuppc
Terri Kelley wrote:
I have set up BackupPC on a Centos server and am testing now. Trying
the first backup to a host, also Centos, I received the following:
full backup started for directory /home/backuppc/test/log/
Got fatal error during xfer (fileListReceive failed)
I tried it first
Dejan Batic wrote:
Thanks for the script but it seems to me that our Linux
distributions are
too different.
In my installation when I look at /etc/apache2/conf.d there is link
to the
file /etc/backup/apache.conf that says:
AuthUserFile /etc/backuppc/htpasswd
I added manually one
Adam Dempsey wrote:
I have read that people have done it before but I am struggling to get
BackupPC to run on an OS X Server, to backup linux clients.
I think I have it installed but I can't figure out how to get the CGI
script to work, I get Error 500, I'm sure I haven't setup something
Ward... James Ward wrote:
I'm trying to back up some Arm processor console servers which only
have busybox tar available. Busybox tar does not support --totals
and I THINK this is why the backups are failing. I tried writing a
wrapper script that spits out a bogus --totals line, but
Ward... James Ward wrote:
Since I don't have rsync or gnu tar on my busybox console servers,
is it possible to configure BackupPC to use scp?
No, the only values for $Conf{XferMethod} for backups are smb, rsync,
rsyncd and tar. See the documentation:
Thomas Mederer wrote:
I just try to connect to the webinterface of backuppc. But I always
get the following error in the browser:
The requested URL /backuppc was not found on this server
I have installed the program with the following commands:
apt-get install backuppc
apt-get install
Chris Baker wrote:
A couple days ago, someone asked about Linux and Western Digital
external
hard drives. This is a response, sort of. I am posting my notes on
how I got
a Seagate Free Agent drive to work with Linux. I hope this will help
with
other drives. I make no guarantees.
Alan McKay wrote:
On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 7:09 PM, Alan McKay [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
let me rephrase that. If your XferLOG.0.z is really 101GB long,
there is
either something seriously wrong, you are backing up an insane
amount of data,
or your path names are all ridiculously long.
drew64 wrote:
I have been looking for some free backup software to back up my
music and photos to an external hard drive and maybe DVD's. I have
tried Cobian but dont know if I like it since it has no restore
function. Have read somethings about winbackup and was also told to
try
Holger Parplies wrote:
brunal wrote on 2008-07-30 11:49:12 +0200 [Re: [BackupPC-users]
Fatal error (bad version): OpenSSH_5.0p1]:
[...]
So I deleted the message in /etc/issue.net and also comment the
banner /etc/issue.net line in /etc/ssh/sshd_config.
Well, removing the banner directive
Aleksey Tsalolikhin wrote:
Hi. I am trying to get BackupPC working on a Fedora Core 6 server.
I installed BackupPC with yum install backuppc and yum install
httpd.
But when I fire up the Web interface, it says
Error: Unable to connect to BackupPC server
I guess you didn't start
Steve Blackwell wrote:
Adam Goryachev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Set the full path to sudo eg /bin/sudo
Maybe that will help.
Regards,
Adam
Thanls for the suggestion but I still get the same error.
Is your sudo binary really /bin/sudo? On our CentOS machines 'which
sudo' returns
brunal wrote:
One question that I dont understand : can I use another user than
root to connect to my host?
Indeed, the server i want to backup is the main server of my network,
and pretty well secured. That means, hence, that root cannot have
access to the server through ssh, only non-root
Steve wrote:
Well, I changed to use the correct full path for sudo and now I get
this error:
Contents of file /media/disk/pc/steve/XferLOG.bad.z, modified
2008-07-29
12:25:04
Running: /usr/bin/sudo /bin/tar -c -v -f - -C / --totals --
newer=2008-07-27\
17:56:09 .
incr backup
fatima ech-charif wrote:
i use backuppc in ubuntu and i need to backup host linux client ,how
to backup host linux client with backuppc ,
thanks
See the documentation: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/
BackupPC.html If you have a specific problem, please tell us about it.
Nils
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