Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC remembers _everything_

2024-05-07 Thread Dave Sherohman via BackupPC-users
: Monday, May 6, 2024 17:55 To: backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC remembers _everything_ BackupPC has been covering up my stupid mistakes since 2005. Fortunately, I have never done the 'rm -r *' until last week. Good thing was that I was in my home directory so

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC remembers _everything_

2024-05-06 Thread backuppc
That shouldn't of course happen -- though you did violate the first rule of backups which is to *test* them so they are there and working when you need them  You would need to tell us a lot more details if you want help. My guess given the lack of any other diagnostic information is that perhaps

[BackupPC-users] BackupPC remembers _everything_

2024-05-06 Thread Kirby
BackupPC has been covering up my stupid mistakes since 2005. Fortunately, I have never done the 'rm -r *' until last week. Good thing was that I was in my home directory so the system itself was untouched and I caught myself before too much could get deleted. 'Not a problem!' I thought. I

[BackupPC-users] BackupPC V3 -> V4 pool migration mandatory?

2024-02-03 Thread Adam Pribyl
Do I need to migrate anything with V3 to V4 upgrade (using tar, no rsync)? I am fine having old backups in V3, create a new ones with V4. Does BackupPC V4 handles this? I know there is /usr/share/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_migrateV3toV4 -a but is it mandatory to continue backuppc operation? My

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC 4.4.0 on a RaspberryPi4 with rsync failure

2023-05-22 Thread Kenneth Porter
On 5/22/2023 7:48 AM, G.W. Haywood via BackupPC-users wrote: There have been issues with differing versions of rsync, if you search the list archives you'll find plenty of mention of that - you'll even see the exact same error message which you posted. I concur. I've seen similar issues with

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC 4.4.0 on a RaspberryPi4 with rsync failure

2023-05-22 Thread G.W. Haywood via BackupPC-users
Hi there, On Mon, 22 May 2023, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: I recently upgraded my raspberrypi4 to a 64 bit os from 32 which had an upgrade of BackupPc from 3 to 4. This created an enhancement going from the 5 kernel to 6. BackupPC 3 on the 5 kernel worked perfectly, but so far BackupPC 4 fails

[BackupPC-users] BackupPC 4.4.0 on a RaspberryPi4 with rsync failure

2023-05-21 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
Everyone, I recently upgraded my raspberrypi4 to a 64 bit os from 32 which had an upgrade of BackupPc from 3 to 4. This created an enhancement going from the 5 kernel to 6. BackupPC 3 on the 5 kernel worked perfectly, but so far BackupPC 4 fails to wprk on the 6 kernel. So far I have not been

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC (tar) has started failing

2023-04-05 Thread Mark Murawski
On 4/5/23 10:57, G.W. Haywood via BackupPC-users wrote: Hi there, On Wed, 5 Apr 2023, Mark Murawski wrote: ... $Conf{BackupFilesOnly} = {   '/' => [     'bin',     'apps',     'opt',     'lib32',     'intellasoft',     'etc',     'manageServ',     'boot',     'var',     'lib',     'lib64',   

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC (tar) has started failing

2023-04-05 Thread G.W. Haywood via BackupPC-users
Hi there, On Wed, 5 Apr 2023, Mark Murawski wrote: ... $Conf{BackupFilesOnly} = { '/' => [ 'bin', 'apps', 'opt', 'lib32', 'intellasoft', 'etc', 'manageServ', 'boot', 'var', 'lib', 'lib64', 'usr', 'home', 'sbin' ] };

[BackupPC-users] BackupPC (tar) has started failing

2023-04-04 Thread Mark Murawski
XferLOG.bad.z Running: /usr/bin/env LC_ALL=C /usr/bin/sudo /bin/tar -c -v -f - -C / --totals --exclude=sys --exclude=home/backuppc --exclude=proc --exclude=var/lib/postgres --exclude=var/log ./bin ./apps ./opt ./lib32 ./intellasoft ./etc ./manageServ ./boot ./var ./lib ./lib64 ./usr ./home

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc pool integrity check

2022-08-18 Thread Guillermo Rozas
I'm lucky to never have faced that problem :) I'm not sure a simple "touch" will force a new transfer. By default an incremental backup will only check (and transfer) the new metadata, but it will not transfer the file. A full will calculate the checksum, but again it won't transfer the file

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc pool integrity check

2022-08-16 Thread Ludovic Drolez
Hi! So I found a few dozen corrupt files, and made some scripts to find the original files from the hash. Not sure how to fix the backups... Touch the original file and delete the one in the cpool? Regards, Ludo On Sun, Jul 31, 2022 at 07:22:11PM +0200, Ludovic Drolez wrote: > Hi! > > So

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC keeping more Fulls than expected.

2022-08-02 Thread Johan Thelander
to a new config completely as something else may be causing the backups to hang around forever... and not the config settings in my original post only, Thanks for the reply! Johan On Tue, Aug 2, 2022 at 12:55 PM Jon Daley via BackupPC-users < backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: >

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC keeping more Fulls than expected.

2022-08-02 Thread Jon Daley via BackupPC-users
I'm sure we all got it. I just don't have an answer. When I did the same upgrade, I went through the whole config file and merged over my changes - it looked to me like there was a lot of stuff that changed, so I wasn't confident that simply using my old config file would work. Since you

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc pool integrity check

2022-07-31 Thread Ludovic Drolez
Hi! So I've tried it and I have a few v3 pool files still in the cpool. I should try to modify your script to ignore them, because they give errors. Thanks! Ludo On Thu, Jul 28, 2022 at 04:34:40PM -0300, Guillermo Rozas wrote: >You may try (and modify) >this: 

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc pool integrity check

2022-07-29 Thread Ludovic Drolez
Many thanks for your script! Ludo On Thu, Jul 28, 2022 at 04:34:40PM -0300, Guillermo Rozas wrote: >You may try (and modify) >this: [1]https://github.com/guille2306/backuppc_check_pool >It's a script I made to periodically check the V4 cpool in my server. >Best regards, >

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc pool integrity check

2022-07-28 Thread Guillermo Rozas
You may try (and modify) this: https://github.com/guille2306/backuppc_check_pool It's a script I made to periodically check the V4 cpool in my server. Best regards, Guillermo On Thu, Jul 28, 2022 at 4:26 PM Ludovic Drolez wrote: > Hi there! > > I had to copy a Backuppc pool disk which was

[BackupPC-users] Backuppc pool integrity check

2022-07-28 Thread Ludovic Drolez
Hi there! I had to copy a Backuppc pool disk which was failing. DDrescue had to skip a few bad blocks, and now I'd like to check the integrity of the pool. Is there is script to run and check which files do not have a matching MD5 checksum? Best regards, -- Ludo https://drolez.com/blog/

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC failed after upgrading client to Debian 11

2022-07-25 Thread G.W. Haywood via BackupPC-users
Hi there, On Mon, 25 Jul 2022, Iosif Fettich wrote: ... you might fight a TCP level failure between some intermediate routers. Which I acknowledge that almost anything is possible, it's difficult to see how a problem like that would suddenly present itself simply because of an upgrade to

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC failed after upgrading client to Debian 11

2022-07-24 Thread Iosif Fettich
Hi Taste-Of-IT, and thanks for the hint, but it didnt work. I tried =30 but got the same error. I have actually no clue to solve this. Maybe check if TCPKeepAlive would help. My doc says default is yes, but who knows... Maybe you can run the command manually at some point, while sitting

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC failed after upgrading client to Debian 11

2022-07-23 Thread Taste-Of-IT
Hi Libor, and thanks for the hint, but it didnt work. I tried =30 but got the same error. I have actually no clue to solve this. thx Taste -- Am 22.07.2022 12:57:31, schrieb Libor Klepáč: > Hi, > we used timeout of 6 ;) > > So maybe firewall/router kills your connection when idle. We

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC failed after upgrading client to Debian 11

2022-07-22 Thread Libor Klepáč
Hi, we used timeout of 6 ;) So maybe firewall/router kills your connection when idle. We send keepalive packets in ssh $Conf{RsyncSshArgs} = [ '-e', '$sshPath -o ServerAliveInterval=60 -q -x -l user' ]; Libor On Pá, 2022-07-22 at 09:33 +, Taste-Of-IT wrote: > Hi All, > > i have

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC failed after upgrading client to Debian 11

2022-07-22 Thread Taste-Of-IT
Hi All, i have tried --timeout=3600 and i see it in the error log, but it seems not to work. Strange is that i get only 14.700 Files, what is not quit a lot. Here the errors i got: packet_write_wait: Connection to 138.201.128.178 port 22: Broken pipe rsync_bpc: connection unexpectedly closed

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC failed after upgrading client to Debian 11

2022-07-20 Thread Libor Klepáč
Hi, I don't know, if it's still the case, but we used to increase --timeout parameter of rsync in the past. Also check, that your firewall does not close connections without traffic When rsync searches for changes, there can/could be long periods of time without any traffic. That caused timeout or

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC failed after upgrading client to Debian 11

2022-07-19 Thread Taste-Of-IT
Hi all, i had time to make some tests. I run some local tests and figure out, that its not an problem with rsync 3.2.3. On local debian 11 systems, there was no problem with similar configuration. Because of noticing that the runtime with debian 11 seems to be longer than with debian 10, i

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC failed after upgrading client to Debian 11

2022-07-15 Thread Taste-Of-IT
lete','--partial', > '--log-format=log: %o %i %B %8U,%8G %9l %f%L','--stats',];* > The above was done inside all of the .pl config files for all hosts, as we > use a separate file per host. > > Hope this helps! > > On Mon, Jul 11, 2022 at 9:41 AM Dave Sherohman via Backu

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC failed after upgrading client toDebian 11

2022-07-15 Thread Taste-Of-IT
Hi, thanks for your reply. Rsync is installed, thats not the problem. Am 11.07.2022 09:23:06, schrieb Dave Sherohman via BackupPC-users: > Since you mentioned different versions of rsync, I assume you already > checked this, but, just in case:  Double-check that rsync is still > installed on

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC failed after upgrading client to Debian 11

2022-07-11 Thread Johan Thelander
','--partial', '--log-format=log: %o %i %B %8U,%8G %9l %f%L','--stats',];* The above was done inside all of the .pl config files for all hosts, as we use a separate file per host. Hope this helps! On Mon, Jul 11, 2022 at 9:41 AM Dave Sherohman via BackupPC-users < backuppc-us

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC failed after upgrading client to Debian 11

2022-07-11 Thread Dave Sherohman via BackupPC-users
Since you mentioned different versions of rsync, I assume you already checked this, but, just in case:  Double-check that rsync is still installed on the deb11 system.  I upgraded a ton of systems from deb9 to deb11 earlier in the summer, and apt decided to uninstall rsync during the upgrades

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC failed after upgrading client to Debian 11

2022-07-10 Thread Brian Joiner
I had an issue after upgrading my server to Ubuntu 22.04, as if the existing host config wasn't getting applied.  What I did to help trace the error was opening a terminal on the client I was backing up and running 'tail -f' on the  /var/log/secure (or /var/log/authlog file for Debian based

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC failed after upgrading client to Debian 11

2022-07-10 Thread Jon Daley via BackupPC-users
Are you using rsync over ssh? If so, one thing I like to try is to ssh manually using the backuppc user. On July 10, 2022 6:23:58 AM EDT, Taste-Of-IT wrote: >Hi all, > >i have latest BackupPC running on Debian 10. I upgraded one system to Debian >11. Backup before running well and without

[BackupPC-users] BackupPC failed after upgrading client to Debian 11

2022-07-10 Thread Taste-Of-IT
Hi all, i have latest BackupPC running on Debian 10. I upgraded one system to Debian 11. Backup before running well and without problems. After upgrading the client it fails with these errors: Got fatal error during xfer (rsync error: unexplained error (code 255) at io.c(820)

[BackupPC-users] backuppc and Caddy

2022-04-26 Thread Paul Fox
Does anyone have handy a Caddyfile stanza for running backuppc with the Caddy web server, rather than Apache? paul =-- paul fox, p...@foxharp.boston.ma.us (arlington, ma) ___ BackupPC-users mailing list

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC timesout backing up (old) Android phone (but equivalent standalone rsync command works fine)

2022-01-23 Thread backuppc
Kenneth Porter wrote at about 20:11:19 -0800 on Sunday, January 23, 2022: > On 1/23/2022 6:52 AM, backu...@kosowsky.org wrote: > > BTW thanks for the help so far... it seems like you really understand > > the rsync code...:) > > Not really. I've just written some network code and lots of >

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC timesout backing up (old) Android phone (but equivalent standalone rsync command works fine)

2022-01-23 Thread Kenneth Porter
On 1/23/2022 6:52 AM, backu...@kosowsky.org wrote: BTW thanks for the help so far... it seems like you really understand the rsync code...:) Not really. I've just written some network code and lots of multi-threaded code (which rsync isn't) for embedded systems so can make educated guesses

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC timesout backing up (old) Android phone (but equivalent standalone rsync command works fine)

2022-01-23 Thread backuppc
backu...@kosowsky.org wrote at about 13:04:21 -0500 on Sunday, January 23, 2022: > backu...@kosowsky.org wrote at about 00:29:11 -0500 on Sunday, January 23, > 2022: > > backu...@kosowsky.org wrote at about 21:53:48 -0500 on Saturday, January > 22, 2022: > > > Kenneth Porter wrote at

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC timesout backing up (old) Android phone (but equivalent standalone rsync command works fine)

2022-01-23 Thread backuppc
backu...@kosowsky.org wrote at about 00:29:11 -0500 on Sunday, January 23, 2022: > backu...@kosowsky.org wrote at about 21:53:48 -0500 on Saturday, January 22, > 2022: > > Kenneth Porter wrote at about 18:27:52 -0800 on Saturday, January 22, > 2022: > > > --On Saturday, January 22, 2022

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC timesout backing up (old) Android phone (but equivalent standalone rsync command works fine)

2022-01-23 Thread backuppc
backu...@kosowsky.org wrote at about 09:52:26 -0500 on Sunday, January 23, 2022: > Kenneth Porter wrote at about 01:51:53 -0800 on Sunday, January 23, 2022: > > On 1/22/2022 11:45 PM, backu...@kosowsky.org wrote: > > > #1 0x5543fc43 in perform_io (needed=2, flags=2) at io.c:742 > >

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC timesout backing up (old) Android phone (but equivalent standalone rsync command works fine)

2022-01-23 Thread backuppc
Kenneth Porter wrote at about 01:51:53 -0800 on Sunday, January 23, 2022: > On 1/22/2022 11:45 PM, backu...@kosowsky.org wrote: > > #1 0x5543fc43 in perform_io (needed=2, flags=2) at io.c:742 > > This smells like a deadlock. This code is waiting for 2 bytes in the > socket output

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC timesout backing up (old) Android phone (but equivalent standalone rsync command works fine)

2022-01-23 Thread Kenneth Porter
On 1/22/2022 11:45 PM, backu...@kosowsky.org wrote: #1 0x5543fc43 in perform_io (needed=2, flags=2) at io.c:742 This smells like a deadlock. This code is waiting for 2 bytes in the socket output buffer so it can write the file's next block checksum. Perhaps the other side is failing

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC timesout backing up (old) Android phone (but equivalent standalone rsync command works fine)

2022-01-22 Thread backuppc
Kenneth Porter wrote at about 18:27:52 -0800 on Saturday, January 22, 2022: > --On Saturday, January 22, 2022 8:55 PM -0500 backu...@kosowsky.org wrote: > > > It gets "stuck" at varying places... as IO slows to a complete halt > > (based on iftop) until rsync timesout. > > Similarly,

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC timesout backing up (old) Android phone (but equivalent standalone rsync command works fine)

2022-01-22 Thread backuppc
Kenneth Porter wrote at about 19:43:07 -0800 on Saturday, January 22, 2022: > On 1/22/2022 6:28 PM, backu...@kosowsky.org wrote: > > write(2, "IOrename: 27 .smart_stay_hash.dm"..., 60) = 60 > > Does it really use handle 2 (stderr) for writing a log of files it's > processed? I haven't

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC timesout backing up (old) Android phone (but equivalent standalone rsync command works fine)

2022-01-22 Thread backuppc
backu...@kosowsky.org wrote at about 21:53:48 -0500 on Saturday, January 22, 2022: > Kenneth Porter wrote at about 18:27:52 -0800 on Saturday, January 22, 2022: > > --On Saturday, January 22, 2022 8:55 PM -0500 backu...@kosowsky.org wrote: > > > > > It gets "stuck" at varying places... as

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC timesout backing up (old) Android phone (but equivalent standalone rsync command works fine)

2022-01-22 Thread Kenneth Porter
On 1/22/2022 6:28 PM, backu...@kosowsky.org wrote: write(2, "IOrename: 27 .smart_stay_hash.dm"..., 60) = 60 Does it really use handle 2 (stderr) for writing a log of files it's processed? I haven't looked at the sources but I wonder if that's an unrelated bug.

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC timesout backing up (old) Android phone (but equivalent standalone rsync command works fine)

2022-01-22 Thread backuppc
Kenneth Porter wrote at about 18:27:52 -0800 on Saturday, January 22, 2022: > --On Saturday, January 22, 2022 8:55 PM -0500 backu...@kosowsky.org wrote: > > > It gets "stuck" at varying places... as IO slows to a complete halt > > (based on iftop) until rsync timesout. > > Similarly,

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC timesout backing up (old) Android phone (but equivalent standalone rsync command works fine)

2022-01-22 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Saturday, January 22, 2022 8:55 PM -0500 backu...@kosowsky.org wrote: It gets "stuck" at varying places... as IO slows to a complete halt (based on iftop) until rsync timesout. Similarly, 'strace' stalls. This happens even if I run rsync_bpc from the command line directly, but it does

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC timesout backing up (old) Android phone (but equivalent standalone rsync command works fine)

2022-01-22 Thread backuppc
Not sure if this is helpful, but the output of strace shows it stuck in some timeout loop: stat("/var/lib/backuppc/cpool/7e/4e/7e4e672bd913eadb030d0670aecb6607", 0x7ffe64b62770) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) stat("/var/lib/backuppc/cpool/3a/e2/3ae2b652d5cda073df7af75d3bb3ecdf",

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC timesout backing up (old) Android phone (but equivalent standalone rsync command works fine)

2022-01-22 Thread backuppc
Need to take this back. It has nothing to do with the cam_socket. It gets "stuck" at varying places... as IO slows to a complete halt (based on iftop) until rsync timesout. Similarly, 'strace' stalls. This happens even if I run rsync_bpc from the command line directly, but it does *not* happen

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC timesout backing up (old) Android phone (but equivalent standalone rsync command works fine)

2022-01-22 Thread backuppc
G.W. Haywood via BackupPC-users wrote at about 12:49:14 + on Saturday, January 22, 2022: > Hi there, > > On Sat, 22 Jan 2022, Jeff Kosowsky wrote: > > > ... > > log: recv cS+ rwxrwx--- 1006,1006 0 cam_socket0 > > log: recv cS+ rwxrwx--- 1006,

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC timesout backing up (old) Android phone (but equivalent standalone rsync command works fine)

2022-01-22 Thread backuppc
G.W. Haywood via BackupPC-users wrote at about 12:49:14 + on Saturday, January 22, 2022: > Hi there, > > On Sat, 22 Jan 2022, Jeff Kosowsky wrote: > > > ... > > log: recv cS+ rwxrwx--- 1006,1006 0 cam_socket0 > > log: recv cS+ rwxrwx--- 1006,

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC timesout backing up (old) Android phone (but equivalent standalone rsync command works fine)

2022-01-22 Thread G.W. Haywood via BackupPC-users
Hi there, On Sat, 22 Jan 2022, Jeff Kosowsky wrote: ... log: recv cS+ rwxrwx--- 1006,1006 0 cam_socket0 log: recv cS+ rwxrwx--- 1006,1006 0 cam_socket1 log: recv >f+ rwx-- 1000,1000 8 hidden_volume.txt it seems

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC timesout backing up (old) Android phone (but equivalent standalone rsync command works fine)

2022-01-21 Thread
Based on the log file generated by the (equivalent) "naked" rsync backup log: recv cS+ rwxrwx--- 1006,1006 0 cam_socket0 log: recv cS+ rwxrwx--- 1006,1006 0 cam_socket1 log: recv >f+ rwx-- 1000,1000 8

[BackupPC-users] BackupPC timesout backing up (old) Android phone (but equivalent standalone rsync command works fine)

2022-01-21 Thread
I have long been able to back up my (rooted) Android phones using ssh/rsync. I also have not problem backing up my Windows and Linux machines. However, BackupPC timesout when I try to back up an old Samsung S3 (which used to back up perfectly before). The timeout occurs no matter what value I use

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc malcompsoed command Was: issue with RsyncClientCmd being ignored

2022-01-19 Thread robin hammond
Yes, this is what backuppc is running on the server. On 17/01/2022 23.20, robin hammond wrote: Invocation, as it is happening on the server: /usr/local/bin/rsync_bpc \ --bpc-top-dir\     /vol0/www/backuppc.cg5.databit7.com/data/\     --bpc-host-name\     phantom.databit7.com\    

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc malcompsoed command Was: issue with RsyncClientCmd being ignored

2022-01-18 Thread backuppc
robin hammond wrote at about 01:11:45 -0500 on Tuesday, January 18, 2022: > > I went with plain text. I hope this is more readable. > > Invocation, as it is happening on the server: > > /usr/local/bin/rsync_bpc \ > --bpc-top-dir\ >     /vol0/www/STUFF.databit7.com/data/\ >    

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc malcompsoed command Was: issue with RsyncClientCmd being ignored

2022-01-17 Thread robin hammond
I went with plain text. I hope this is more readable. Invocation, as it is happening on the server: /usr/local/bin/rsync_bpc \ --bpc-top-dir\     /vol0/www/STUFF.databit7.com/data/\     --bpc-host-name\     phantom.databit7.com\     --bpc-share-name\     /home/administrator\    

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc malcompsoed command Was: issue with RsyncClientCmd being ignored

2022-01-16 Thread robin hammond
Sorry, I'll include better html, text versions with web-links to well formatted data and repost. Someone said something about '--' that sounds really familar, and do need to refresh my basic understanding of this programme again. On 15/01/2022 07.55, G.W. Haywood via BackupPC-users wrote:

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc malcompsoed command Was: issue with RsyncClientCmd being ignored

2022-01-15 Thread backuppc
robin hammond wrote at about 01:20:37 -0500 on Saturday, January 15, 2022: > Update, > > > I'm told to not mess with RsyncClientCmd - it's "depricated" (no source) > whatever. It was part of v3. v4 uses RsyncSshArgs. > > So I changed this instead: > > $Conf{RsyncSshArgs} = [ > >  

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc malcompsoed command Was: issue with RsyncClientCmd being ignored

2022-01-15 Thread jbk
On the client in /etc/sudoers did you find this line Defaults   requiretty and change to: # Defaults   requiretty In some distros the "Defaults" are not present so you will have to add the line. Sudo won't run through ssh unless you do that. Use visudo to make the edits. -- Jim

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc malcompsoed command Was: issue with RsyncClientCmd being ignored

2022-01-15 Thread G.W. Haywood via BackupPC-users
Hi there, On Sat, 15 Jan 2022, robin hammond wrote: '--exclude=/*'\ '--exclude=/home/*'\ 'phantom.databit7.com:/home/administrator/'\ '/' but rsync fails to function with the error bash: phanton.databit7.com: command not found The log extract looks odd to me. You seem

[BackupPC-users] Backuppc malcompsoed command Was: issue with RsyncClientCmd being ignored

2022-01-14 Thread robin hammond
Update, I'm told to not mess with RsyncClientCmd - it's "depricated" (no source) whatever. So I changed this instead: $Conf{RsyncSshArgs} = [     '-e' , '$sshPath -i /home/backuppc/.ssh/backupc_cg5_id_ed25519 root@$host ', ] fine, now it works, almost. That said invocation of

[BackupPC-users] BackupPC fatal error tar:814

2021-12-27 Thread peterghch
Hi all, First posting. I have been running BackupPC on a Ubuntu 20.04 LTS file server for about 18 months with almost no problems I'm using Version 3.3.2 included in the Ubuntu distro. I hadn't updated since my Linux knowledge is not great and I didn't feel confident to carry out the various

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc-4 on Debian-11

2021-09-15 Thread backuppc
G.W. Haywood via BackupPC-users wrote at about 16:15:29 +0100 on Wednesday, September 15, 2021: > Hi there, > > On Wed, 15 Sep 2021, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: > > G.W. Haywood via BackupPC-users wrote: > > > On Tue, 14 Sep 2021, Juergen Harms wrote: > > > > > > > Well, this discussion

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc-4 on Debian-11

2021-09-15 Thread G.W. Haywood via BackupPC-users
Hi there, On Wed, 15 Sep 2021, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: G.W. Haywood via BackupPC-users wrote: > On Tue, 14 Sep 2021, Juergen Harms wrote: > > > Well, this discussion really looks like a non-issue ... > > Unless you have a host named 'config'. Or more precisely config.pl :) No, that

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc-4 on Debian-11

2021-09-14 Thread backuppc
Or more precisely config.pl :) G.W. Haywood via BackupPC-users wrote at about 14:25:58 +0100 on Tuesday, September 14, 2021: > Hi there, > > On Tue, 14 Sep 2021, Juergen Harms wrote: > > > Well, this discussion really looks like a non-issue ... > > Unless you have a host named

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc-4 on Debian-11

2021-09-14 Thread G.W. Haywood via BackupPC-users
Hi there, On Tue, 14 Sep 2021, Juergen Harms wrote: Well, this discussion really looks like a non-issue ... Unless you have a host named 'config'. -- 73, Ged. ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc-4 on Debian-11

2021-09-14 Thread Juergen Harms
On 14/09/2021 03:34, Adam Goryachev via BackupPC-users wrote: IMHO, it would appear that you had some config issue, and because things were not working you looked for something to blame, the pc symlink looked strange, and so you blamed that (at least that is what I did in the past). Once you

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc-4 on Debian-11

2021-09-14 Thread thveillon
Le 14/09/2021 à 03:34, Adam Goryachev via BackupPC-users a écrit : On 14/9/21 02:00, Juergen Harms wrote: This is not the place to fight for being right, but to understand and document help for users who hit this kind of problem. Trying to understand: how do you define separate and different

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc-4 on Debian-11

2021-09-14 Thread Dave Sherohman
On 9/13/21 6:00 PM, Juergen Harms wrote: This is not the place to fight for being right, but to understand and document help for users who hit this kind of problem. Agreed.  But what kind of response is expected when you say "what makes it *look as if* your installation works is that...", other

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc-4 on Debian-11

2021-09-13 Thread Adam Goryachev via BackupPC-users
On 14/9/21 02:00, Juergen Harms wrote: This is not the place to fight for being right, but to understand and document help for users who hit this kind of problem. Trying to understand: how do you define separate and different profiles ("per-host override configs") for each of your 18

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc-4 on Debian-11

2021-09-13 Thread Juergen Harms
This is not the place to fight for being right, but to understand and document help for users who hit this kind of problem. Trying to understand: how do you define separate and different profiles ("per-host override configs") for each of your 18 different PCs in one single .pl file (i.e. your

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc-4 on Debian-11

2021-09-13 Thread Dave Sherohman
I say "it works" because (for me, at least) it. does. work. I have per-host override files at /etc/backuppc/hostname.pl (which is the same as /etc/backuppc/pc/hostname.pl, thanks to the symlink that you seem to loathe so much).  They work. Hosts which do not have per-host override files in

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC V4 Permission Denied on Client

2021-09-12 Thread Kenneth Porter
On 9/12/2021 1:15 PM, jbk wrote: By the time the digest came out I had figured out the issue. But to followup on loose ends I can recap my findings. First, the client command variable quoted below found in V3 is deprecated in V4. Mea culpa. This time I saw the bold text, so this list DOES

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC V4 Permission Denied on Client

2021-09-12 Thread jbk
On 9/9/21 9:51 PM, Kenneth Porter wrote: --On Thursday, September 09, 2021 4:29 PM -0400 jbk wrote: The portion in bold below was not executed. Like most mailing lists, this one is plain text only and stripped out the HTML part with the bolding. So it's not clear what part of the command

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc-4 on Debian-11

2021-09-12 Thread Juergen Harms
After tidying up, here is a PS meant as documentation: - my hypothesis on the role of the loop-back item in /etc/backuppc proofed wrong: Debian backuppc (contrary to the backuppc documentation) simply expects pc-specific definition .pl files to figure in the top-level directory

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC V4 Permission Denied on Client

2021-09-12 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Thursday, September 09, 2021 4:29 PM -0400 jbk wrote: The portion in bold below was not executed. Like most mailing lists, this one is plain text only and stripped out the HTML part with the bolding. So it's not clear what part of the command wasn't executed.

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc-4 on Debian-11

2021-09-11 Thread Juergen Harms
On 9/11/21 6:35 PM, thveillon wrote: Debian is known for its idiosyncrasy, which often is part of the distribution added value, sometime is just added fun for the administrator... I am starting to have doubts on the benefit of replacing idiosyncrasy of disto A with that of distro B. In

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc-4 on Debian-11

2021-09-11 Thread thveillon
Le 11/09/2021 à 12:08, Juergen Harms a écrit : On 11/09/2021 11:14, thveillon wrote: Hello, I am using Backuppc 4 on Debian 11, migrated from a long running Backuppc 3 installation. Same for me, but - so far on Mageia The symlink is a loop-back to the same directory, where I store my

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc-4 on Debian-11

2021-09-11 Thread thveillon
Le 11/09/2021 à 09:23, Juergen Harms a écrit : On 10/09/2021 09:18, Dave Sherohman wrote: I'm not sure why Debian decided to do the pc/ symlink thing, but it works.  Debian was doing that with the BPC 3.x packages in debian10 and it never caused any problems that I'm aware of. I am coming

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc-4 on Debian-11

2021-09-11 Thread Juergen Harms
On 10/09/2021 09:18, Dave Sherohman wrote: I'm not sure why Debian decided to do the pc/ symlink thing, but it works.  Debian was doing that with the BPC 3.x packages in debian10 and it never caused any problems that I'm aware of. I am coming back to the symlink question, I did not take it

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc-4 on Debian-11

2021-09-10 Thread Juergen Harms
On 10/09/2021 09:18, Dave Sherohman wrote: I'm not sure why Debian decided to do the pc/ symlink thing, but it works.  Debian was doing that with the BPC 3.x packages in debian10 and it never caused any problems that I'm aware of. The symlink thing is a nice feature - if it is properly

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc-4 on Debian-11

2021-09-10 Thread Dave Sherohman
I installed BPC4 from the pre-release debian 11 repo back in March and it Just Worked(TM), no problems at all.  I'm currently backing up 89 hosts with it and haven't had to touch any of the BPC infrastructure aside from setting up appropriate configs. It's solid. I'm not sure why Debian

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc 4 fails without any log

2021-09-09 Thread daggs
Greetings Juergen, > Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2021 at 7:03 PM > From: "Juergen Harms" > To: backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc 4 fails without any log > > On 07/09/2021 11:43, daggs wrote: > > looks like

[BackupPC-users] BackupPC V4 Permission Denied on Client

2021-09-09 Thread jbk
I've been using BackupPC V3 for 12 years now and have set up V4 on a new install of Rocky linux 8.4. I'm running test backups of a client via ssh and I'm getting partial backups with the backup failing after a few seconds. I figured out the issue once I read the xfer log more carefully. The

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc-4 on Debian-11

2021-09-09 Thread Marcel Blenkers
Hi there, the infinite loop is not really a problem. it works. the same happened with the debian-version of 3.x But the package does not install all required stuff: the following was missing and needed to be installed after installation on debian 11: - smbclient - samba-common-bin only

[BackupPC-users] BackupPC V4 Permission Denied on Client

2021-09-09 Thread jbk
I've been using BackupPC V3 for 12 years now and have set up V4 on a new install of Rocky linux 8.4. I'm running test backups of a client via ssh and I'm getting partial backups with the backup failing after a few seconds. Here is some log output: full backup started for directory / Xfer

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc 4 fails without any log

2021-09-09 Thread Juergen Harms
On 07/09/2021 11:43, daggs wrote: looks like the reason if the fact that RunDir is missing from config.pk, even the sample one doesn't have it, is it logic? I am not so sure that a missing RunDir is the fault - I had the same message where the problem was a pure configuration issue. Did

[BackupPC-users] Backuppc-4 on Debian-11

2021-09-09 Thread Juergen Harms
Hallo I had planned to migrate from my present distro (my present system runs a correct backuppc 4 installation), and had delayed my move until the release of Debian-11. I am deceived - the backuppc package in Debian-11 does not look solid: - /etc/backuppc/pc (immediately after installation)

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc 4 fails without any log

2021-09-07 Thread daggs
Saturday, August 28, 2021 at 9:11 PM > From: "daggs" > To: backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Cc: backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc 4 fails without any log > > > Sent: Saturday, August 28, 2021 at 7:18 PM > >

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc GUI and Debian 11 setup

2021-08-29 Thread Gary L. Roach
Hi, Thanks for the reply. I finally found that localhost/admin worked. Problem solved. thanks again. Gary R. On 8/28/21 1:05 AM, Pascal Legrand wrote: Hello, may be for this reason found in the NEWS file of the tar.gz package:

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc 4 fails without any log

2021-08-28 Thread daggs
> Sent: Saturday, August 28, 2021 at 7:18 PM > From: "daggs" > To: backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [BackupPC-users] backuppc 4 fails without any log > > Greetings, > > I've installed backuppc v4 on my rpi4 arch install, completed migration of

[BackupPC-users] backuppc 4 fails without any log

2021-08-28 Thread daggs
Greetings, I've installed backuppc v4 on my rpi4 arch install, completed migration of all hosts from v3 and I'm trying to start it up, after running systemctl start backuppc, I get the below as status: Aug 28 16:13:07 backupserver systemd[1]: Started BackupPC. Aug 28 16:13:07 backupserver

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc GUI and Debian 11 setup

2021-08-28 Thread Pascal Legrand
Hello, may be for this reason found in the NEWS file of the tar.gz package: http://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/b/backuppc/backuppc_4.4.0-3.debian.tar.xz   Debian's default BackupPC configuration file for Apache now restricts   access to BackupPC to localhost by default because by default

[BackupPC-users] Backuppc GUI and Debian 11 setup

2021-08-27 Thread Gary L. Roach
Hi all, Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 11 KDE Plasma Version: 5.20.5 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.78.0 Qt Version: 5.15.2 Kernel Version: 5.10.0-8-amd64 OS Type: 64-bit Processors: 4 × AMD FX(tm)-4350 Quad-Core Processor Memory: 15.6 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: AMD CAICOS I just installed

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC 4.x on Raspberry PI?

2021-08-12 Thread backuppc
Just as an update... I have been running BackupPC 4.x on my RPI4 with 8GB memory and an external USB 1TB Samsung SSD. It's been ROCK STABLE for the past 7 months -- no crashes in more than 200 days and I only rebooted once due to a kernel upgrade. So in summary, it's a simple, fast, stable,

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc migration from v2 to v4 cpool

2021-06-16 Thread ve9gj
Doh I had $Conf{PoolV3Enabled} =0 This allowed BackupPC_migrateV3toV4 to do it's thing but BackupPC_nightly did not look at the v3 pool. Glenn On 2021-06-16 11:07, ve...@napan.com wrote: Hi I have been a Backuppc user for years and I have finally upgraded to v4. Over the last few weeks I

[BackupPC-users] Backuppc migration from v2 to v4 cpool

2021-06-16 Thread ve9gj
Hi I have been a Backuppc user for years and I have finally upgraded to v4. Over the last few weeks I have been running BackupPC_migrateV3toV4 for a few hours a day on a ~2TB cpool. All hosts and backups are now migrated. BackupPC_migrateV3toV4 -a reports zero errors. I have let

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC 4.4.0: Incremental smb backup is skipping not backed-up files under certain conditions

2021-06-11 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Jun 11, 2021 at 8:38 AM Michael Stowe wrote: > It is worth poking at the contention that "an incremental backup with rsyncd > unfortunately takes as long as the full backup." This probably isn't true, > but I can understand how one can believe this after running a single >

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC 4.4.0: Incremental smb backup is skipping not backed-up files under certain conditions

2021-06-11 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2021-05-26 07:01, Jens Potthast wrote: Hi, My Problem: When doing an incremental backup with smb, only files with mtime newer than the date and time of the last backup are being backed up. To reproduce: If I copy a file with an old ctime, the file is not included in the backup even if

[BackupPC-users] BackupPC 4.4.0: Incremental smb backup is skipping not backed-up files under certain conditions

2021-05-26 Thread Jens Potthast
Hi, My Problem: When doing an incremental backup with smb, only files with mtime newer than the date and time of the last backup are being backed up. To reproduce: If I copy a file with an old ctime, the file is not included in the backup even if it is not contained in the previous complete

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