Alessandro Ferrari wrote:
How can I shutdown BackupPc Server after backup?
Do I have to set DumpPostUserCmd variable?
If you're backing up only one host you could try that, but why would
you want to shutdown the server after running one backup? The
BackupPC service is meant to be left run
Mark Clarke wrote:
This showed that the backupc gave a seqmentation fault when backing
up a
a file under /sys. We simple added sys to the excluded directories
and
everything is working now. I hope this helps others.
Yes, you don't want to backup /sys. Another one I always exclude on
Lin
mattkelly wrote:
I have installed BackupPC 3.0 and have been successful when using
smb to
back Windows boxes up. However, I have not been able to install
File-RsyncP-0.68 in order to use rsync with some linux boxes.
Right now
I only have version 0.52. I have looked everywhere and not fou
nilesh vaghela wrote:
Can we run some extra command before starting the backup??
Like
#find / *.doc | xargs rsync ... something
Anybody tried please let me know.
Check out http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/
BackupPC.html#item__conf_dumppreusercmd_
Nils Breunese.
PG
Alex Schaft wrote:
I'm getting an error backing up users' data. Below the error log:
Error reading file \Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft
\Outlook\Outlook.pst : NT_STATUS_FILE_LOCK_CONFLICT
Didn't get entire file. size=2186036224, nread=0
NT_STATUS_SHARING_VIOLATION opening remote fi
Paul Fox wrote:
Gregor Schmid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Is there anything special to consider when upgrading from 2.1 to 3.0?
I found very little on the net and in the docs, I guess that implies
that configure.pl is working just fine.
it works very well. for those of us not fluent in perl,
Edo wrote:
I have been using backuppc 2.x for some time now.
As I am setting up a new serve I would like to use the latest
release of backuppc, 3.0.
I have tried to google with "what's new backuppc 3.0".
Unfortunatly I could not find a good anwser.
The backuppc site just shows some differen
Leslie Brooks wrote:
I have just installed BackupPC v3.0.0 on Fedora 6.
Everything seems to have gone cleanly, and
configure.pl copied lots of GIFs, a few PNGs, and a
couple of style sheets into /var/www/html. However,
there is no file named 'index.html'. From the little
that I know about Apac
Filipe Silva wrote:
I have updated from 2.1.1 deb package, to 3.0.0 tar.gz
Why the is no index.cgi in the source cgi-bin dir? I found out that
my index.cgi is the same from the 2.1.1 package...
There is no index.cgi in the source distribution, that was something
added by the Debian packag
Guy Malacrida wrote:
And now to add insult to injury, I get this error message: "Can't
find compress::zlib"
I think I'll start another thread on this one!
If you followed the installation instructions you should have come
across the Requirements section [0] which tells you to install a
c
Guy Malacrida wrote:
Thanks for that but as per Backuppc' instructions this would
increase drastically the storage space up to when the full circle
is achieved and the non-compressed files are deleted from the pool.
That is why the program recommends disabling the backup, change the
compres
Les Mikesell wrote:
(...) if you are running SElinux it adds another layer of permissions.
I'm not sure how to fix it other than turning it off (which requires a
reboot).
No need to reboot. This will change the SELinux mode to 'permissive':
# setenforce 0
Edit /etc/sysconfig/selinux if you
Guy Malacrida wrote:
I installed Backuppc & it works well... I did spend some days
figuring things out though and I am far from mastering it.
I am backing-up two WinXP shares from two PCs on my home network
(wife and girl) on my Ubuntu box using SMB
As I progress in my understanding of th
Boris Ratak wrote:
I'm new to BackupPC and I have a few questions about it :
1) I'm using Ubuntu 6.10 x86 and I installed BackupPC via apt-get. I
didn't had the perl configure.pl sequence, so I couldn't configure the
path where the datas are backed up. I searched through the
/etc/backuppc, /usr
Ludovic Gele wrote:
I've install backuppcpc on debian stable, and I would like to
change the data
directory location. I've try dpkg-reconfigure backuppc, and read the
/etc/backuppc/config.pl, but I've found nothing. I think I (maybe)
can do a
symbolic link, but I'm not sure that's a clean w
Hello,
The documentation shows I can use ranges to specify the
WakeupSchedule. However, when I enter "1, 8..23" in the GUI editor I
get an error. Not even "8..23" is accepted. It should be right? I put
int "1, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23"
for now, which wo
Les Mikesell wrote:
Although the ALRM and PIPE signals are probably technically
correct it might be clearer to use different terms/explanations in
the interface. I have the feeling not everyone understands these
signals.
man signal
will show all the possibilities. SIGPIPE isn't very clea
Les Mikesell wrote:
Apologies for the relatively long email, but I figure it's better to
give too much information than not enough. I've run into a bit of
difficulty backing up a large directory tree that has me not being
able to do a successful backup in over a month now. I'm attempting to
back
Ludovic Gele wrote:
> I've frshly installed backuppc on debian stable server and I want
> to change the
> data directory. It is on /var/lib/backuppc by default, and I want
> to put it on
> /srv/backuppc.
>
> I've look the doc, the configuration file, and I think I'd
> understood that this
>
Les Mikesell wrote:
You are probably short on RAM when you add in the nightly run.
Tuning down the number of concurrent backups might help. That
probably shouldn't be higher than the number of processors in the
server anyway unless you have some low-bandwidth connections to
handle.
Then
Les Mikesell wrote:
Sadly I'm seeing the opposite: most backups are failing (aborted
by signal=PIPE / Child exited prematurely) and they especially
seem to be failing when the nightly/trashClean jobs are also
running (which wasn't possible under 2.1). Under 2.1 everything
worked just fine
John Pettitt wrote:
The #1 way to bring the load down if you haven't already done it is
to mount the pool filesystem with "noatime" - BackupPC does a lot
of reading files and if you have access time stamping enabled there
are lots of writes to update the access time stamp. Remove that
l
Jason Hughes wrote:
Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) wrote:
Any ideas on how we can reduce the load? More/less nightly jobs?
Less concurrent backups? Other tips? We used to backup 15 servers
onto one BackupPC server, but now almost all of our backups are
failing and the load is through the roof
Tino Schwarze wrote:
I just wanted to report that my upgrade to 3.0 (from 2.1.1) worked
without a glitch! And backups are significantly faster, too! It now
backups all 21 servers each night while 2.1.1 only accomplished about
12 to 15.
Sadly I'm seeing the opposite: most backups are failing (a
I wrote:
I recently upgraded to BackupPC 3 and although the idea of being
able to run the nightly jobs, the trashClean job and dump jobs all
at the same time is nice it seems it's a bit too much for our
server (load = 10 at the moment). Can I make backup runs and
nightly jobs mutually exc
Hello,
I recently upgraded to BackupPC 3 and although the idea of being able
to run the nightly jobs, the trashClean job and dump jobs all at the
same time is nice it seems it's a bit too much for our server (load =
10 at the moment). Can I make backup runs and nightly jobs mutually
exclu
Magnus Larsson wrote:
I am trying to use an USB harddisk to store the backups (pool).
This is
a Western Digital drive, and I am having problems formatting it to
ext3.
So: is it possible to have the pool as a FAT32-system? It seems from
the documentation that is ought to be ext3 or reiserfs,
Frederic Bastien wrote:
I'm looking for my personal back-up. 2-3 computers at most. Do I
need to
install Apache to use the BackupPC software or can I use it directly?
Please see the requirements section of the documentation: http://
backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html#requirements
Cristian Tibirna wrote:
I use 3.0 on three servers and things run great. Load on the
servers is down,
previous occasional (rsync) backup errors have disappeared, the cgi
config is
brilliant (and a great time-saver) and the overall web interfaces
is clean
and bright.
Actually I'm seeing h
Ed Burgstaler wrote:
Does anyone know how I can install the required Par2 on a Centos
4.4 system running BackupPC 3.0.0?
Is there an RPM available?
I'm getting the error:
Error: No save due to errors
Error: ParPath must be a valid executable path
I'm running BackupPC 3.0.0 on CentOS 4.4, I d
Hello,
I'm in the process of installing BackupPC 3.0.0 (I was running 2.1.3,
but I wanted to do a FHS install) and found in the fresh /etc/
BackupPC/config.pl the following:
"No other backups can run while BackupPC_nightly is running."
That's no longer true, right? Also, "Copyright (C)
George Avrunin wrote:
I'm running BackupPC on Fedora Core 6. I'm not at the BackuPC server
right now (and can't even get to the web interface from here), but
as I
recall the only problems were with the cgi script. In FC 5 and 6,
you can
modify the SELinux policy from a GUI (System --> Adm
Arch Willingham wrote:
I don't know that much about LinuxI have only been using it for
about a year and have never used anything but Fedora. I just
figured that the selinux thing was not used in all the flavor??
No, not all distributions use SELinux. I know Fedora and Red Hat
Enterpri
Arch Willingham wrote:
Machine 1 - If I go to http://linuxmachine1/backuppc/ I get a web
page that says
You're looking at the dir where BackupPC stores it's css and
graphics. You're probably looking for the BackupPC_Admin web
interface instead, which you probably installed somewhere un
Les Mikesell wrote:
Timothy J. Massey wrote:
Remember, this happens on *3* different servers, with 3 different
BackupPC servers. This is *not* related to a unique property of the
individual server. This is *very* related to RHEL4, instead of
RHEL3.
Like I said, we upgraded a server from 3
Joe Skop wrote:
first thanks for this fine program. I discover it by HowToForge
yesterday, and I prepare and install immediatly.
My first question is: exaclty, when the backup are made? In which
time? I can't find this information, maybe somewere in config but I'm
sure I read fine it. I would l
Filipe wrote:
I've followed a guide and I used apt-get install... when installing
backuppc 2.1.1
and now what should I do?!
there's version 3 also out :o
You could contact the maintainer and ask if an update is in the works
or maybe use Debian's Bug Tracker. I'm pretty sure you can also
Filipe wrote:
I am running 2.1.1 with no major problems with 12 hosts for about 6
months.
It is on a debian sarge system, what is the best procedure to
update to
last 2.1.3 version?
Did you install using apt or using the archive directly from the
BackupPC website? I you used apt (install
Hello all,
I think this post by Holger is a pretty good explanation of the
differences between the backup types and transfer methods available
in BackupPC. Maybe this information could be reworked for inclusion
in the BackupPC documentation?
Nils Breunese.
Holger Parplies wrote:
Hi,
C
Timothy J. Massey wrote:
Won't the frequent reformatting et al. wear out your hard drives
pretty fast?
How is a couple of formats going to wear out a drive? I did not go
into
further detail, but now I will:
There were *so* many more problems in the article you linked than the
fact the d
Timothy J. Massey wrote:
BackupPC's pool is stored on a large internal hard drive. Every
day at
a little after 7:00 A.M., the backup server starts an archive of each
host, which is stored on a second hard drive that is mounted in a
removable tray. Once this is complete, the user can shut dow
Tom Nats wrote:
Here is my command line:
Running: /usr/bin/ssh -q -x -l root t10 /usr/bin/rsync --server --
sender
--numeric-ids --perms --owner --group -D --links --times
--block-size=2048 --recursive --ignore-times . /home/tn/testbackup/
The server rsync version: rsync version 2.6.4 proto
Timothy J. Massey wrote:
I have a server with a half-dozen or so hosts that I would like to
automatically archive. I have a command that looks like this:
/usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_archiveHost
/usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_tarCreate /usr/bin/split /usr/bin/
par2
localhost -1
Michael Mansour wrote:
If you want to change the data path, simply edit the config and
change the
TopDir variable.
As Craig recently pointed out the path is hardcoded both in the
config file and another file (can't remember right know). You'll need
to edit both. So symlinking is probably
Tino Schwarze wrote:
I found an article on an article somewhere online that I should
add the
BackupPC user to the sudoers file, see the /etc/sudoers file below
for the
syntax I used:
IIRC, this is only for local backup via rsync.
I think that article was talking about using another user
Jesse Proudman wrote:
> Fourth, Any one know a better way to backup Virtuozzo besides using
> rsync?
Virtuozzo has its own backup tools apparently:
http://kb.swsoft.com/article_199_1244_en.html
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Krsnendu dasa wrote:
> Can someone help me with this error.
> I have fixed permissions to allow web interface to work and to access
> log files from the web interface, but I still get the above error.
Are you sure the backuppc service is running?
Nils Breunese.
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louie aguilos wrote:
> got this problem backing up a linux box. ssh was configured already
> but still got this error.
>
> Running: /usr/bin/ssh -q -x -l root 192.168.6.50 /usr/bin/rsync --
> server --sender --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group --devices --
> links --times --block-size=2048 -
Nicholas Hall wrote:
> On 12/1/06, Byron Trimble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I received this error meesage last night when my backups ran:
>
> backup failed (aborted by signal=PIPE)
>
> Could anyone tell me what this means.
>
>
> Byron, perhaps you should post your rsyncd.conf on your Window's
Eric Snyder wrote:
Thanks for the links on perl, I will read up and learn how to
configure Apache2 with perl support. I am a windows guy and am only
now learning linux. It's fun and I see why linux is much more
secure than windows. It is however, very different to get things
done in, wind
Lluís Forns wrote:
how can I check this?
If you can execute the following without getting an error you have
Compress::Zlib installed:
# perl -e 'use Compress::Zlib;'
You can install the Compress::Zlib module directly from CPAN or if
you have an rpm-based Linux distro supported by Da
Lluís Forns wrote:
despite having
$Conf{ArchiveComp} = 'gzip';
$Conf{CompressLevel} = 1;
in my config.pl; backuppc don't compress any file (I see it using the
CGI); do I need to set anything else?
Do you have Compress:Zlib installed?
From the comments in the config.pl file:
# Note: compr
William McInnis wrote:
> i get this error when i do rsync
>
> Contents of file /backup//pc/clients/XferLOG.bad, modified
> 2006-11-13 15:39:14
>
> full backup started for directory www
> Running: /usr/bin/ssh -q -x -l root
> clients /usr/bin/rsync --server --sender --numeric-ids --perms --
> ow
Rodrigo Real wrote:
>> I was wondering if someone knows a repository for Ubuntu which has
>> the required upgrade to File::Rsync perl module. The latest in
>> Dapper/Edgy is 0.52 while the required is 0.64.
>
> I had a similar problem with Debian a few months ago and I made a
> package for myself,
Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
> Recently I found out that my BackupPC 2.1.2pl2 backups are not really
> reliable - lots of files are missing, and I have mostly empty folders.
>
> Let me illustrate.
>
> A Windows server, has these folders:
>
>
> Config.Msi/
> Dfs/
> DfsRoot/
> Dokumente und Einstellung
Op 6-nov-2006, om 17:07 heeft Michel het volgende geschreven:
> I have two linux box to backup. For example, server 1 with Apache
> where
> I want to backup /srv/website/htdocs/ and /etc/httpd_conf/
> directories,
> server 2 with Mysql where I want to backup /var/lib/mysql directory.
>
> I do
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> From: Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, November 03, 2006 10:05 AM
> To: backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC Errors
>
>
> Les Mikesell wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 2006-11-03 at 08:21, Byron Trim
Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-11-03 at 08:21, Byron Trimble wrote:
>> When I try to restart BackupPC, I get this message:
>>
>> Starting BackupPC: -bash: /opt/backuppc/bin/BackupPC: /bin/perl: bad
>> interpreter: No such file or directory
>>
Byron Trimble wrote:
> I'm using Apache 2.2.3 and I can't get mod_perl to work.
You don't need mod_perl for BackupPC to work, using mod_perl only
speeds up using the web interface. You do need to setup
authentication though. Scroll past the mod_perl instructions in step
8 and continue readi
Byron Trimble wrote:
> I'm getting the following error when trying access BackupPC_Admin:
>
> Error: Unable to read config.pl or language strings!!
> Note: $ENV{REMOTE_USER} is not set, which could mean there is an
> installation problem. BackupPC_Admin expects Apache to authenticate
> the user
Gabriel Rossetti wrote:
I configured BackupPC and Apache to use the BackupPC user/group
(backuppc/backuppc), but now my SVN (WebDav) no longer works,
so I reverted apache to use it's "www/www" user/group (FreeBSD),
but now
BackupPC no longer works. If I want BackupPC to use the www user/
grou
ck wrote:
> Thanks a lot for the advice. I'll check out CentOS for sure. I've
> heard
> it mentioned a lot, but never looked into it for my purposes.
There's even a K12LTSP version that's based on CentOS instead of
Fedora. Check the 'EL' directories at ftp://k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us/
pub/K1
ck wrote:
> So I find myself wondering. What's the best distro to put BackupPC
> on top
> of? It will be the only thing running on this box. Older
> hardware, PIII
> 500 MHz, 384 RAM. I'm only really used to Fedora. Will the latest
> Fedora
> Core, with a minimal install be OK? Are the
Casper Thomsen wrote:
> On Sun, 1 Oct 2006, Nils Breunese (Lemonbit Internet) wrote:
>
>> Should I just manually create the __TOPDIR__/pc/hostname/
>> directory (which does not exist yet of course), create a config.pl
>> inside it and then add the host to the /
Hello all,
I have a BackupPC 2.1.2pl2 server (installed from the .tar.gz on the
site) backing up a number of of other servers to a second drive,
which has been working just fine for a while now. Now I want to also
backup the backup server itself, but of course I have to exclude the
backupp
Hendrik Friedel wrote:
>> Just install perl-setuid (I don't know the exact Gentoo name).
>>
>>> Thus, something must be messed up with the ebuilds requirements.
>>
>> setuid is not required for just plain perl, so it's not a dependency.
>
> Well, if I'm not mistaken, either mod_perl, or setuid is
Hendrik Friedel wrote:
> Obviously, it is also possible to use backuppc withoud mod_perl.
> Fine with
> me, but that also does not work, as setuid is not installed on this
> machine.
Just install perl-setuid (I don't know the exact Gentoo name).
> Thus, something must be messed up with the e
Hendrik Friedel wrote:
> I emerged backuppc, Apache, perl and mod_perl.
You might want to file a bug against the backuppc emerge package then...
Nils Breunese.
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Nils Breunese wrote:
> Hendrik Friedel wrote:
>
>>> On my CentOS machines Apache/Response.pm is part of the mod_perl
>>> package (/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5/i386-linux-thread-multi/
>>> Apache/Response.pm). Can locate Apache/Response.pm on your system?
>>> Maybe on Gentoo you need to add the
Hendrik Friedel wrote:
>> On my CentOS machines Apache/Response.pm is part of the mod_perl
>> package (/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5/i386-linux-thread-multi/
>> Apache/Response.pm). Can locate Apache/Response.pm on your system?
>> Maybe on Gentoo you need to add the path to @INC manually someho
Les Mikesell wrote:
>> When I access the cgi interface this appears in the log of apache:
>>
>> [Sat Sep 09 15:09:13 2006] [error] Can't locate Apache/Response.pm
>> in @INC
>
> Does gentoo have another package containing that?
On my CentOS machines Apache/Response.pm is part of the mod_perl
Adnet Ghislain wrote:
> I was not able to make forced command work as you have to type the
> whole command and not just the start plus wilcard. If anyone knows
> how to do it i will ba happy to know :)
I think you might just want to stay out of using direct root access
and look into setting
Trasher wrote:
> I use BackupPC for my local network backup and all is running very
> fine :)
> I'd like now to backup a website, which I can only acceed by ftp
> protocol.
>
> A simple wget command does actually the trick, but I'd prefer using
> backuppc capabilities. Is it possible to use
Op 26-aug-2006, om 16:47 heeft Jonas Stare het volgende geschreven:
The problem I have (had) is that the wlan nat's the clients and you
can
not get any connection to them. But a friend of mine poited out that I
could make them connect via vpn (pptp) to the network and set up the
firewall to al
Jonas Stare wrote:
I've tried to find anyone who done this before but without any luck.
What I would like to do is to be able to backup clients even if they
never show up on the local network. Not sure how one could do this but
something in the line of making the client connect to the server to
Ken wrote:
> Anyone having problems with File-RsyncP-0.62? It won't install
> with cpan.
> Linux: 2.6.17-1.2142_FC4
> Perl: perl-5.8.6-24
I use Dag's yum repository (http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/apt/) and
then just use 'yum install perl-File-RsyncP'. Dag has a lot (if not
all) perl modu
Bill Hudacek wrote:
> Fedora Core and Yum is a great system for automatically updating your
> system. but only when you can trust it. This is the first time it's
> really and truly failed me - and it's been a disaster. No software
> distributed - and installed
> - globally, via automatic 'push
Arlequín wrote:
> On 17/07/2006 19:50, Nils Breunese (Lemonbit Internet) wrote:
>> Gabriel Menini wrote:
>>
>> The fix is probably to use -D instead of --devices. This was changed
>> in 2.1.2pl2 and has been mentioned on this list quite a lot of
>> times.
>&
Arlequín wrote:
> On 17/07/2006 19:50, Nils Breunese (Lemonbit Internet) wrote:
>> Gabriel Menini wrote:
>>
>> The fix is probably to use -D instead of --devices. This was changed
>> in 2.1.2pl2 and has been mentioned on this list quite a lot of
>> times.
>&
Vikram Ambrose wrote:
> there is a famous jazz musician called Nils, any relation?
I don't think so. Nils is a pretty common name in Scandinavia
(although I'm not from Scandinavia).
Nils Breunese.
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Gabriel Menini wrote:
The fix is probably to use -D instead of --devices. This was changed
in 2.1.2pl2 and has been mentioned on this list quite a lot of times.
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I wrote:
> I wrote:
>
>> I'm getting this error for one of my hosts. I found the nightly run
>> hadn't succesfully backed up this host but when I ran the incremental
>> again I got the error again:
>>
>> Got fatal error during xfer (aborted by signal=PIPE)
>>
>> Any idea what could be wrong?
>
> I
Ken Gregoire wrote:
>> I use qmail on CentOS and I have no problems using the default setup.
>> Qmail has a sendmail interface, so it should just work.
>
> Where do you enter the password for the email account in backuppc?
You don't. BackupPC just calls the sendmail binary directly. The
default
Ken Gregoire wrote:
>>> Is there a way to setup backuppc to use a different MTA (email
>>> system)
>>> where it has to provide a url, username and password to send email
>>> notifications. I don't have sendmail on the backuppc system and
>>> would
>>> like backuppc to send email notifications
Mark Wass wrote:
> What are the setting in the config.pl file I need to set if I want
> to backup a single file.
>
> I'm using Rsync and I only want to backup the /etc/temp.ini file
You want to use BackupPC to backup a single file? Wow.
Nils.
Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support
Mark Coetser wrote:
> es this sorted out my problem too, I have one last question about the
> archive host. Is it possible to schedule the archives? I would like
> to do a
> daily archive, so someone will change the tapes daily and I just
> need the
> system to run the archive host automatical
I wrote:
> I'm getting this error for one of my hosts. I found the nightly run
> hadn't succesfully backed up this host but when I ran the incremental
> again I got the error again:
>
> Got fatal error during xfer (aborted by signal=PIPE)
>
> Any idea what could be wrong?
I started the incrementa
Hi,
I'm getting this error for one of my hosts. I found the nightly run
hadn't succesfully backed up this host but when I ran the incremental
again I got the error again:
Got fatal error during xfer (aborted by signal=PIPE)
Any idea what could be wrong?
Nils.
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Op 14-jun-2006, om 18:22 heeft Troy Davis het volgende geschreven:
> The most confusing part is that another system is still getting
> backed up successfully, and it's running FC2 and using rsync compiled
> from source (2.6.3 compared to 2.6.8 on the server and failing
> system).
I learnt a cou
Travis Fraser wrote:
> What version of rsync are you using? Later versions need --devices
> changed to -D in $Conf{RsyncArgs}.
I guess I need to change this for $Conf{RsyncRestoreArgs} as well?
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Hello Peter,
> Hey, It may be too late for this because it looks like
> you already got things working using Plesk. Not sure
> if you ran across this in your search, but a while
> back I wrote some docs for setting up backuppc using
> suexec *instead* of sperl, which allows you to avoid
> all thos
Travis Fraser wrote:
> What version of rsync are you using? Later versions need --devices
> changed to -D in $Conf{RsyncArgs}.
My test client has rsync 2.6.8. I changed that and it seems my first
backup is finally rolling in. Where would I have missed that in the
documentation?
Thanks a lot,
Randall Barlow wrote:
> Sorry for the post - as fate would have it I resolved the issue just
> minutes after posting it. It turns out that I had only attempted to
> connect to remotehost.remotedomain as I was testing how well the
> ssh key
> pair worked, but backuppc was just trying to connect
I wrote earlier:
> Les Mikesell wrote:
>
>> I'm guessing here, but I'd expect re-installing
>> backuppc with the user plesk wants to force (or carefully changing
>> ownership and the startup scripts) and removing the setuid mode
>> would work.
>
> I'll try messing with it some more. Maybe I should
Les Mikesell wrote:
> I'm guessing here, but I'd expect re-installing
> backuppc with the user plesk wants to force (or carefully changing
> ownership and the startup scripts) and removing the setuid mode
> would work.
I'll try messing with it some more. Maybe I should indeed just use
the user
Les Mikesell wrote:
> Maybe the Plesk way of doing things would be to change the backuppc
> user (and ownership of everything related) to match the
> lemonbitbackup user that Plesk created. Is this supposed to be
> something that saves you time...?
Security software, like suexec, is almost
Les Mikesell wrote:
>> -r-sr-x--- 1 backuppc psaserv 3912 Jun 7 11:48 BackupPC_Admin
>>
>> I can execute this as user backuppc, apache and root, but still it's
>> not working when I access it through a browser. I'm slowly starting
>> to go nuts from this...
>
> Is there a more informative error
Les Mikesell wrote:
> Does the running httpd retain the apache group? Maybe you
> need to change the group to psaserv. If you aren't in the right
> group you can't execute this.
I added user backuppc to the psaserv group:
$ groups backuppc
backuppc : backuppc psaserv
I chowned BackupPC_Admin
Les Mikesell wrote:
> I don't know enough about plesk to help much. Does it run a
> separate httpd instance with a different uid for each virtual
> server?
No, all httpd processes run as user apache.
> I think you'd get a permission error logged if it is a permission
> error. Check your Script
Ed Pascoe wrote:
> Firstly stay away from mod_perl where possible because its VERY
> painful to get setup. Next make sure you get some kind of useful
> response (ie. no perl errors) if you run the cgi command by hand. Eg.:
> ./BackupPC_Admin.cgi
I do when as user root or apache. However, when
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