Re: [BackupPC-users] new to BackupPC

<mailto:arnar.thorarins...@isavia.is> www.isavia.is<http://www.isavia.is> From: Richard Shaw Sent: miðvikudagur, 3. febrúar 2021 15:04 To: General list for user discussion, questions and support Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] new to BackupPC On Wed, Feb 3, 2021 at 7:44 AM Arnar

Re: [BackupPC-users] new to BackupPC

On Wed, Feb 3, 2021 at 7:44 AM Arnar Þórarinsson < arnar.thorarins...@isavia.is> wrote: > Hi all, > > BackupPC install via EPEL > > # rpm -qa | grep -i backup > > BackupPC-4.4.0-1.el8.x86_64 > > BackupPC-XS-0.62-1.el8.x86_64 > > > > Also, dnf info backuppc does suggest looking at README.setup foun

Re: [BackupPC-users] new to BackupPC

...@isavia.is<mailto:arnar.thorarins...@isavia.is> www.isavia.is<http://www.isavia.is> From: Systems Sent: miðvikudagur, 3. febrúar 2021 07:42 To: General list for user discussion, questions and support Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] new to BackupPC Have a look at technical.network

Re: [BackupPC-users] new to BackupPC

, From: Sorin Srbu Sent: Wednesday, February 3, 2021 7:28:11 AM To: General list for user discussion, questions and support Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] new to BackupPC On Tue, 2021-02-02 at 17:09 +, Arnar Þórarinsson wrote: > Hello all, > I‘m a new user of BackupPC with some que

Re: [BackupPC-users] new to BackupPC

On Tue, 2021-02-02 at 17:09 +, Arnar Þórarinsson wrote: > Hello all, > I‘m a new user of BackupPC with some questions (moving away from Amanda). > OS: CentOS 8.3 > BackupPC version 4.4.0 > > I followed the guide on > https://kifarunix.com/install-and-configure-backuppc-on-centos-8/ > and all

Re: [BackupPC-users] new to BackupPC

On Tue, Feb 2, 2021 at 2:45 PM Arnar Þórarinsson < arnar.thorarins...@isavia.is> wrote: > Hello all, > Hellow. I'm the current maintainer of BackupPC for Fedora and EPEL. > I‘m a new user of BackupPC with some questions (moving away from Amanda). > > OS: CentOS 8.3 > > BackupPC version 4.4.0 >

[BackupPC-users] new to BackupPC

Hello all, I'm a new user of BackupPC with some questions (moving away from Amanda). OS: CentOS 8.3 BackupPC version 4.4.0 I followed the guide on https://kifarunix.com/install-and-configure-backuppc-on-centos-8/ and all looks good but... I don't like using the root user on the client side for bac

Re: [BackupPC-users] new to backuppc

Anand Gupta wrote: > > >> Anand Gupta wrote at about 04:11:05 +0530 on Saturday, December 20, 2008: >> > Now i need to setup a windows host. I do have a question on that though, >> the >> > cygwin-rsync package from sf states it doesn't have ssh on it, however >> from >> > the howto it looks

Re: [BackupPC-users] new to backuppc

Original Message Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] new to backuppc From: Jeffrey J. Kosowsky To: General list for user discussion, questions and support Date: 12/21/08 12:40 PM > Anand Gupta wrote at about 04:11:05 +0530 on Saturday, December 20, 2008: > > Now i need t

Re: [BackupPC-users] new to backuppc

Anand Gupta wrote at about 04:11:05 +0530 on Saturday, December 20, 2008: > Now i need to setup a windows host. I do have a question on that though, the > cygwin-rsync package from sf states it doesn't have ssh on it, however from > the howto it looks to me ssh would be required. Any ideas on th

Re: [BackupPC-users] new to backuppc

I finally setup my first winxp node with backuppc. Now i am facing some problem here. Node Name : a3520 DHCP : Selected When i do an nmblookup on the node, i get the following nmblookup a3520 querying a3520 on 10.211.55.255 10.211.55.3 a3520<00> Looking at backuppc interface, i see it uses nmbl

Re: [BackupPC-users] new to backuppc

Hi Cody, On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 4:16 AM, Cody Dunne wrote: > Hi Anand, > > Anand Gupta wrote: > > Now i need to setup a windows host. I do have a question on that though, > > the cygwin-rsync package from sf states it doesn't have ssh on it, > > however from the howto it looks to me ssh would b

Re: [BackupPC-users] new to backuppc

Am Freitag, den 19.12.2008, 16:20 -0600 schrieb Les Mikesell: > Anand Gupta wrote: > > Here is a screenshot of what i see. > > > > Have you set the web interface up to require authentication? You aren't > logged in as someone in $Conf{CgiAdminUsers}. hey - you was too fast :) I just installe

Re: [BackupPC-users] new to backuppc

Hi Anand, Anand Gupta wrote: > Now i need to setup a windows host. I do have a question on that though, > the cygwin-rsync package from sf states it doesn't have ssh on it, > however from the howto it looks to me ssh would be required. Any ideas > on that ? If you want ssh, just install the re

Re: [BackupPC-users] new to backuppc

Hi Les, On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 3:50 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > Anand Gupta wrote: > > Here is a screenshot of what i see. > > > > Have you set the web interface up to require authentication? You aren't > logged in as someone in $Conf{CgiAdminUsers}. > You are the man ;) I had one mistake in t

Re: [BackupPC-users] new to backuppc

Anand Gupta wrote: > Here is a screenshot of what i see. > Have you set the web interface up to require authentication? You aren't logged in as someone in $Conf{CgiAdminUsers}. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com -

Re: [BackupPC-users] new to backuppc

I checked that already, its backuppc 3.1.0. Besides I got the rpm from centos testing repo. -- Thanks and Regards, Anand -Original Message- From: Renke Brausse Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 22:25:16 To: Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] new to backuppc

[BackupPC-users] new to backuppc

dan wrote: > I'll also add that you can start backups from the command line on the > backuppc server which allows backups to be scheduled via cron. You can mix > and match schedulers too. You can use the built in scheduler for daily > incrementals and use cron to schedule backups on specific d

Re: [BackupPC-users] new to backuppc

Yup I know. Thanks :) -- Thanks and Regards, Anand -Original Message- From: Bowie Bailey Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 16:17:17 To: Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] new to backuppc anandx wrote: > Bowie Bailey wrote: > > anandx wrote: > > > > > > > > I

Re: [BackupPC-users] new to backuppc

> Ok now i am stuck here. As per your guide, it says the following: ... > Hosts > > Server > Status > Host Summary > Documentation > Wiki > SourceForge I didn't follow the thread but it looks like an older version of backuppc - the missing edit hosts option seems to be backuppc 2.x, while the g

Re: [BackupPC-users] new to backuppc

anandx wrote: > Bowie Bailey wrote: > > anandx wrote: > > > > > > > > I guess on all the windows nodes, i would need to install > > > cygwin+rsync. > > > > > > > You can also use Samba to backup a Windows share. What I do on my > > Windows boxes is create a read-only drive share that is acces

[BackupPC-users] new to backuppc

Max Hetrick wrote: > anandx wrote: > > > Ok now i am stuck here. As per your guide, it says the following: "Click on the Edit Hosts tab and then the Add button." The problem is that i don't see any Edit Hosts tab, all i see is a Hosts tab with no op

[BackupPC-users] new to backuppc

Bowie Bailey wrote: > anandx wrote: > > > > > I guess on all the windows nodes, i would need to install > > cygwin+rsync. > > > > You can also use Samba to backup a Windows share. What I do on my > Windows boxes is create a read-only drive share that is accessible to a > single userid which

Re: [BackupPC-users] new to backuppc

anandx wrote: > > I guess on all the windows nodes, i would need to install > cygwin+rsync. You can also use Samba to backup a Windows share. What I do on my Windows boxes is create a read-only drive share that is accessible to a single userid which is only used by BackupPC. BackupPC can then b

Re: [BackupPC-users] new to backuppc

I'll also add that you can start backups from the command line on the backuppc server which allows backups to be scheduled via cron. You can mix and match schedulers too. You can use the built in scheduler for daily incrementals and use cron to schedule backups on specific days. On Fri, Dec 19,

Re: [BackupPC-users] new to backuppc

You can backup over ssh tunnels to provide encryption. read my previous post on client initiated backups. This works for server initiated backups also. They security isnt an issue. On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 9:53 AM, Cody Dunne wrote: > Hi Anandx, > > anandx wrote: > > >> There is a cygwin+rsync

[BackupPC-users] new to backuppc

Hi Cody, Cody Dunne wrote: > Hi Anandx, > > anandx wrote: > > Yes, rsyncd doesn't encrypt the file transfer and the authentication is > less secure than ssh. You can allay these by setting up rsyncd to only > allow local connections and then using an ssh tunnel for the transfer. > For a gui

Re: [BackupPC-users] new to backuppc

Hi Anandx, anandx wrote: >> There is a cygwin+rsync package available on the backuppc sourceforge >> site, which can make it very easy to install rsyncd. If you don't need >> rsync for anything else, and are happy to use rsyncd instead of >> rsync+ssh, then I've found this to be a good solution.

[BackupPC-users] new to backuppc

Max Hetrick wrote: > anandx wrote: > I can't help much with the Windows host setup, but I just put a guide up > on the CentOS wiki explaining installation on CentOS using rsync to > backup other Linux clients through rsync. > > > > This is my first pos

[BackupPC-users] new to backuppc

Adam Goryachev wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > anandx wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Is there any newbie guide to setup backuppc ? I wish to setup the > > same on centos5.2 server. > > > > Did you read the documentation, and/or the wiki? There is plenty of very > helpf

Re: [BackupPC-users] new to backuppc

anandx wrote: > Is there any newbie guide to setup backuppc ? I wish to setup the same on > centos5.2 server. > > I guess on all the windows nodes, i would need to install cygwin+rsync. But > how does the client initiate the backups ? Can i configure it to backup once > a day or during logout/

Re: [BackupPC-users] new to backuppc

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 anandx wrote: > Hi, > > Is there any newbie guide to setup backuppc ? I wish to setup the > same on centos5.2 server. Did you read the documentation, and/or the wiki? There is plenty of very helpful information and howto's available... > I guess on

[BackupPC-users] new to backuppc

Hi, Is there any newbie guide to setup backuppc ? I wish to setup the same on centos5.2 server. I guess on all the windows nodes, i would need to install cygwin+rsync. But how does the client initiate the backups ? Can i configure it to backup once a day or during logout/ shutdown ? OR is it

[BackupPC-users] New to BackupPC Web admin Issues

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 2. It is not clear from the web page how create an archive set. The only option that I see is a full backup -

Re: [BackupPC-users] New to BackupPC Web admin Issues

Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) wrote: > Les Mikesell wrote: > 2. It is not clear from the web page how create an archive set. The only option that I see is a full backup >>> http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html#archive_functions >>> says: "BackupPC provides a menu that allows one

Re: [BackupPC-users] New to BackupPC Web admin Issues

Les Mikesell wrote: >>> 2. It is not clear from the web page how create an archive set. The >>> only option that I see is a full backup >> >> http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html#archive_functions >> says: "BackupPC provides a menu that allows one or more hosts to be >> archived." I

Re: [BackupPC-users] New to BackupPC Web admin Issues

Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) 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}? > http://backuppc.sourceforge.ne

Re: [BackupPC-users] New to BackupPC Web admin Issues

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}? http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html#item__co

[BackupPC-users] New to BackupPC Web admin Issues

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 2. It is not clear from the web page how create an archive set. The only option that I see is a full backup Thanks Oz --