Re: [BackupPC-users] Rsyncd case sensitivity in share names

2025-08-19 Thread Kenneth Porter
Never mind, PEBCAK. I realized I'd copied the config from a similar machine which had "C" as the share name and the client alias set. So the copied config pointed BackupPC at the other PC. I'm now waiting for the backup to finish aborting so I can delete the false backup of the wrong client. I'v

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd method does not work: (unexpected response: '')

2017-09-10 Thread Bzzzz
On Sun, 10 Sep 2017 23:37:52 +0300 Anton Torkunov wrote: > Hi all! Hi you!! > I forgot to say that I have 3.3.0 version installed from Ubuntu 14.x > repositories. Hmm, memory lapses are precursors to the Alzheimer disease… > Thanks for suggestions: I asked Robert Duval tomb and his say that

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd method does not work: (unexpected response: '')

2017-09-10 Thread Anton Torkunov
Hi all! I forgot to say that I have 3.3.0 version installed from Ubuntu 14.x repositories. Thanks for suggestions: I asked Robert Duval tomb and his say that i need to install last version of BackupPC from GitHub. I did it and now everything is fine! Jean-Yves, just for clarify - orange.vpn - it j

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd method does not work: (unexpected response: '')

2017-09-07 Thread Bzzzz
On Wed, 6 Sep 2017 17:18:40 +0300 Anton Torkunov wrote: > Hello everyone! Hi alone!! > I've tried to backup host via rsyncd, but got error: Backup aborted > (unexpected response: '') > > rsyncd is well configured, because If I try to run just rsync, > everything is fine: > > rsync rsync://o

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd method does not work: (unexpected response: '')

2017-09-07 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2017-09-06 07:18, Anton Torkunov wrote: Hello everyone! I've tried to backup host via rsyncd, but got error: Backup aborted (unexpected response: '') rsyncd is well configured, because If I try to run just rsync, everything is fine: rsync rsync://orange.vpn/root/ ... the listing files is h

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd excludes problem (3.2.1)

2016-04-13 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2016-04-13 03:29, Benjamin Redling wrote: > Sadly coming back for the same reason: > > On 03/29/2016 19:57, Michael Stowe wrote: >> On 2016-03-29 10:17, Benjamin Redling wrote: >>> my exclude list seems to be defunct [...] XferMethod is rsyncd, >>> shouldn't '*/tmp' avoid this? > >> No, > [...

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd excludes problem (3.2.1)

2016-04-13 Thread Benjamin Redling
Sadly coming back for the same reason: On 03/29/2016 19:57, Michael Stowe wrote: > On 2016-03-29 10:17, Benjamin Redling wrote: >> my exclude list seems to be defunct [...] XferMethod is rsyncd, >> shouldn't '*/tmp' avoid this? > No, [...] > If you want to exclude anything in a subdirectory name

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd excludes problem (3.2.1)

2016-03-30 Thread Benjamin Redling
On 2016-03-29 19:57, Michael Stowe wrote: > On 2016-03-29 10:17, Benjamin Redling wrote: >> [...] /tmp subdirectories and absolute >> paths (/anonuser... see below) are filling up the discs. >> XferMethod is rsyncd, shouldn't '*/tmp' avoid this? > No, '*/tmp' will avoid backing up any files named

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd excludes problem (3.2.1)

2016-03-29 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2016-03-29 10:17, Benjamin Redling wrote: > Hello everybody, > > my exclude list seems to be defunct since adding a few absolute paths > via the web interface. Recently(?) /tmp subdirectories and absolute > paths (/anonuser... see below) are filling up the discs. > XferMethod is rsyncd, shouldn

Re: [BackupPC-users] Rsyncd user and password field gets confused as a login form

2015-03-03 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 4:53 PM, Marko Doda wrote: > I accidentally saved the credentials for rsync, isn't it better to turn off > the save password dialog for rsync credentials? That part is done by the client browser - which should also have a way to clear saved passwords. -- Les Mikesell

Re: [BackupPC-users] Rsyncd user and password field gets confused as a login form

2015-03-03 Thread Marko Doda
I accidentally saved the credentials for rsync, isn't it better to turn off the save password dialog for rsync credentials? On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 11:14 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 3:16 PM, Marko Doda wrote: > > Actually the issue is that the browser saves from data from rs

Re: [BackupPC-users] Rsyncd user and password field gets confused as a login form

2015-03-03 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 3:16 PM, Marko Doda wrote: > Actually the issue is that the browser saves from data from rsyncd user and > pass fields as page login information. Is this a bug? Browsers will pre-populate credentials with what they have cached for the same authentication domain (Apache''s '

Re: [BackupPC-users] Rsyncd user and password field gets confused as a login form

2015-03-03 Thread Marko Doda
Actually the issue is that the browser saves from data from rsyncd user and pass fields as page login information. Is this a bug? On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 10:06 PM, Marko Doda wrote: > When configuring an rsyncd host with the username being the same as the > backuppc cgi user that is saved the bro

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd full backup

2013-10-31 Thread Timothy J Massey
Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan wrote on 10/31/2013 02:38:01 PM: > Hi Timothy, > > I got the number by observing the output of iotop while file > transfer is running. Also, on BackupPC host summary page, average > transfer rate for full backup is also around 3MB/s > It could be a network bottleneck

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd full backup

2013-10-31 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 9:06 PM, Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan wrote: > Hi Holger, > > Based on short session of troubleshooting, I believe the machine actually > suffer from low I/O speed to the disk. Average read is about 3 MB/s, which I > considered slow for a SATA disk in IDE emulation. Where are

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd full backup

2013-10-31 Thread Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan
Hi Timothy, I got the number by observing the output of iotop while file transfer is running. Also, on BackupPC host summary page, average transfer rate for full backup is also around 3MB/s It could be a network bottleneck also, as the customer is using 100Mbps switch with around 80 PC, not inclu

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd full backup

2013-10-31 Thread Timothy J Massey
Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan wrote on 10/30/2013 10:06:18 PM: > Hi Holger, > Based on short session of troubleshooting, I believe the machine > actually suffer from low I/O speed to the disk. Average read is > about 3 MB/s, which I considered slow for a SATA disk in IDE emulation. *REAL* slow:

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd full backup

2013-10-31 Thread Micha Kersloot
uot;Adam Goryachev" > Aan: "General list for user discussion, questions and support" > > Verzonden: Donderdag 31 oktober 2013 04:13:42 > Onderwerp: Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd full backup > > On 31/10/13 13:56, Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan wrote: > > Hi Adam, > &

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd full backup

2013-10-30 Thread Adam Goryachev
On 31/10/13 13:56, Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan wrote: > Hi Adam, > > The low I/O is when the machine is under load. > > Thank you for suggesting to use SSD. I have been thinking about that > as well, but currently, the storage of BackupPC is using a 1TB disk, > with about 80% utilization. > > Changing

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd full backup

2013-10-30 Thread Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan
Hi Adam, The low I/O is when the machine is under load. Thank you for suggesting to use SSD. I have been thinking about that as well, but currently, the storage of BackupPC is using a 1TB disk, with about 80% utilization. Changing to 1TB SSD might be a little bit overkill on the customer's budge

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd full backup

2013-10-30 Thread Adam Goryachev
On 31/10/13 13:06, Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan wrote: > Hi Holger, > > Based on short session of troubleshooting, I believe the machine > actually suffer from low I/O speed to the disk. Average read is about > 3 MB/s, which I considered slow for a SATA disk in IDE emulation. Is that under load, or wh

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd full backup

2013-10-30 Thread Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan
wrote on 2013-10-29 15:29:42 +1100 [Re: [BackupPC-users] > rsyncd full backup]: > > On 29/10/13 15:14, Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan wrote: > > > [...] > > >On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 11:33 AM, Les Mikesell > ><mailto:lesmikes...@gmail.com>> wrote: > &

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd full backup

2013-10-30 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Adam Goryachev wrote on 2013-10-29 15:29:42 +1100 [Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd full backup]: > On 29/10/13 15:14, Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan wrote: > > [...] > >On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 11:33 AM, Les Mikesell ><mailto:lesmikes...@gmail.com>> wrote: > >

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd full backup

2013-10-28 Thread Adam Goryachev
On 29/10/13 15:14, Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan wrote: Hi Les, Thanks.| | On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 11:33 AM, Les Mikesell > wrote: On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 10:08 PM, Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan mailto:sharuzza...@gmail.com>> wrote: > Hi, > > I have i

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd full backup

2013-10-28 Thread Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan
Hi Les, In essence, if I enable --checksum-seed=32761 then the rsync full backup will be faster? Thanks. On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 11:33 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 10:08 PM, Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have implemented BackupPC for my customer.

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd full backup

2013-10-28 Thread Les Mikesell
On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 10:08 PM, Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan wrote: > Hi, > > I have implemented BackupPC for my customer. > > Initially, the backup transport is SMB, but recently, I noticed a lot of > machine backup (full and incremental) is not able to complete in 8 hours, > due to large number of

Re: [BackupPC-users] Rsyncd cygwin Problem..

2013-02-02 Thread Travis Schwenke
Well, I guess it is *SOLVED*... I didn't change how the service was running. Since I couldn't see any differences in the directories or privileges I decided to try something else. I went to the rsyncd.conf file on the client and setup three shares that match the directories I was trying to backu

Re: [BackupPC-users] Rsyncd cygwin Problem..

2013-02-01 Thread Michael Stowe
> So, it looks like rsyncd is running as: > Local System account > > I guess I could switch that to run as my domain account on the machine. > Just not sure if I should use all commands from cygwin shell to kill this > one and start another or just change it from the windows gui (IF NEEDED)..

Re: [BackupPC-users] Rsyncd cygwin Problem..

2013-02-01 Thread Travis Schwenke
So, it looks like rsyncd is running as: Local System account I guess I could switch that to run as my domain account on the machine. Just not sure if I should use all commands from cygwin shell to kill this one and start another or just change it from the windows gui (IF NEEDED).. I compared t

Re: [BackupPC-users] Rsyncd cygwin Problem..

2013-01-31 Thread Michael Stowe
> So, my goal was going to be rsync on all machines, I seem to have that > working fine now on my windows machines, but my work laptop is part of a > domain so I figured I would try rsyncd and learn how it worked in the > process. It is trying to backup, but it is not following my rules > correc

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd backup fails with "Can't write to socket"

2013-01-14 Thread Michael Stowe
> From the XferLog file: > > Can't write 13944 bytes to socket > Read EOF: Operation timed out > Tried again: got 0 bytes > finish: removing in-process file > Child is aborting > Done: 502 files, 43008274 bytes > Got fatal error during xfer (aborted by signal=PIPE) > > The server is a freeBSD 9.

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd, Parent read EOF from child

2010-06-28 Thread Alexander Moisseev
SOLVED 17.06.2010 12:05, Alexander Moisseev пишет: > > I had resolve the problem by adding extra 512 MB of RAM. > But problem back again after a few days. Solution: The default hard datasize limit on FreeBSD is 512MB. To raise it, put this in /boot/loader.conf and reboot: kern.maxdsiz="1G" -

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd, Parent read EOF from child

2010-06-17 Thread Alexander Moisseev
Les Mikesell wrote: > Are you running a 64-bit perl on the server? I think it consumes much more > memory than a 32 bit instance would. No, my hardware have no support 64-bit at all. -- ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd, Parent read EOF from child

2010-06-17 Thread Les Mikesell
Alexander Moisseev wrote: > Matthias Meyer wrote: >> So it is very interesting that it does work with cygwin-rsyncd-2.6.8_0, >> Windows Server 2003 Std R2. > > I have no problem with one at all. > >> "Got fatal error during xfer (Child exited prematurely)" means that your >> cygwin-rsyncd die.

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd, Parent read EOF from child

2010-06-17 Thread Alexander Moisseev
Matthias Meyer wrote: > So it is very interesting that it does work with cygwin-rsyncd-2.6.8_0, > Windows Server 2003 Std R2. I have no problem with one at all. > "Got fatal error during xfer (Child exited prematurely)" means that your > cygwin-rsyncd die. > You should increase log verbosity o

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd, Parent read EOF from child

2010-06-16 Thread Matthias Meyer
Alexander Moisseev wrote: > I have BackupPC configured to backup several directories on the same > server as different BackupPC hosts. It works without a problem more than 2 > years. But now backup of one directory interrupts during transfer when it > still works normally for other ones. > There

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd via ssh-redirected port

2009-12-29 Thread Guido Schmidt
Les Mikesell schrieb: > Guido Schmidt wrote: >> So, what could cause BackupPC not to connect to the tunnel? >> > > I may have missed something in the thread, but did you change the ping > command > to something that would succeed? > Yes. The host is publicly available, I just put it's real nam

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd via ssh-redirected port

2009-12-28 Thread Les Mikesell
Guido Schmidt wrote: > >>> >> I'd try giving an explicit exit value upon successful tunnel creation. >> >> ... >> --- /usr/local/bin/sshtunnelcontrol.orig2009-12-22 >> 03:16:34.0 -0900 >> +++ /usr/local/bin/sshtunnelcontrol 2009-12-22 03:17:09.0 -0900 >> @@ -27,6 +2

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd via ssh-redirected port

2009-12-28 Thread Guido Schmidt
Chris Robertson schrieb: > Guido Schmidt wrote: >> Matthias Meyer schrieb: >> >>> Guido Schmidt wrote: >>> >>> Matthias Meyer wrote: > Guido Schmidt wrote: > >> What works? The opening and closing of the tunnel. >> What does not? The connection to i

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd via ssh-redirected port

2009-12-22 Thread Chris Robertson
Guido Schmidt wrote: > Matthias Meyer schrieb: > >> Guido Schmidt wrote: >> >> >>> Matthias Meyer wrote: >>> Guido Schmidt wrote: > What works? The opening and closing of the tunnel. > What does not? The connection to it. Nothing in the rsyncd-logs on >

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd via ssh-redirected port

2009-12-22 Thread Guido Schmidt
Matthias Meyer schrieb: > Guido Schmidt wrote: > >> Matthias Meyer wrote: >>> Guido Schmidt wrote: What works? The opening and closing of the tunnel. What does not? The connection to it. Nothing in the rsyncd-logs on host.example.com. If I leave DumpPostUserCmd empty the t

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd via ssh-redirected port

2009-12-21 Thread Matthias Meyer
Guido Schmidt wrote: > Matthias Meyer wrote: >> Guido Schmidt wrote: >>> What works? The opening and closing of the tunnel. >>> What does not? The connection to it. Nothing in the rsyncd-logs on >>> host.example.com. >>> >>> If I leave DumpPostUserCmd empty the tunnel stays open and I can use it >

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd via ssh-redirected port

2009-12-21 Thread Guido Schmidt
Matthias Meyer wrote: > Guido Schmidt wrote: >> What works? The opening and closing of the tunnel. >> What does not? The connection to it. Nothing in the rsyncd-logs on >> host.example.com. >> >> If I leave DumpPostUserCmd empty the tunnel stays open and I can use it >> with rsync as user backuppc

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd via ssh-redirected port

2009-12-19 Thread Matthias Meyer
Guido Schmidt wrote: > Dear backuppc-users, > > I'm happily using BackupPC 3.1.0 for quite a while. > > I'm now trying to backup a public host (host.example.com) via an > ssh-redirected port. I don't allow any command execution on that host (and > therefore cannot use the wait command), so I wro

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd on vista 64 bit

2009-12-11 Thread Kameleon
Just for future reference: I was just now able to get this working. I simply renamed the original cygrunsrv.exe and cygwin1.dll with a -org in the name to differentiate with the new version. I then downloaded the cygrunsrv stuff out of the cygwin package and replaced those two files in the c:\rsyn

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd on vista 64 bit

2009-12-09 Thread Erik Hjertén
Kameleon skrev: > I am trying to setup the standalone rsyncd from the backuppc downloads > page on a 64 bit vista machine. I have done it already on about 5 32 > bit machines. Only this one fails to start the service. I see no error > other than it trys to run and then nothing. Has anyone else r

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd on vista 64 bit

2009-12-08 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
Kameleon wrote at about 15:19:03 -0600 on Tuesday, December 8, 2009: > Also, I may not, I did the trick to run as administrator and no go. I get > the error: > > cygrunsrv: Error starting a service: QueryServiceStatus: Win32 error 1053: > The service did not respond to the start or control r

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd on vista 64 bit

2009-12-08 Thread Kameleon
Also, I may not, I did the trick to run as administrator and no go. I get the error: cygrunsrv: Error starting a service: QueryServiceStatus: Win32 error 1053: The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion. If that helps any. I am making sure it is not a gremlin

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd on vista 64 bit

2009-12-08 Thread Alan McKay
I definitely have had this issue on my machine at home and never did resolve it. Fortunately I have Ubuntu Linux running on it now though, and no more problems :) But I am likely to hit this before too long here at work so will watch this thread eagerly -- “Don't eat anything you've ever seen

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd resume of partial backup retransmits many files

2009-10-21 Thread Harald Amtmann
> debian linux running BackupPC 3.1.0, client is Windows XP SP2 with rsync > 3.0.4 (for more details see below). > When I retrigger the full backup, a lot of large files are retransmitted Update: All files are retransmitted: This is a log excerpt of the pc being backuped: 2009/10/22 02:16:00 [

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd resume of partial backup retransmits many files

2009-10-14 Thread Harald Amtmann
> I am trying to backup a machine over a low bandwidth connection. Server is > debian linux running BackupPC 3.1.0, client is Windows XP SP2 with rsync > 3.0.4 (for more details see below). I am currently trying to run the initial > full backup but it got interrupted twice already due to various re

Re: [BackupPC-users] Rsyncd --sparse flag

2009-08-28 Thread Tino Schwarze
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 11:55:35AM +0100, Nigel Kendrick wrote: > Does backuppc support the --sparse flag for rsyncd remote backups - > searching for answers led me to 'probably not' in an old post. I don't know for sure, but I doubt it since BackupPC_dump will probably just produce zeroes and co

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd on Vista 64-bit cygwin vs SUA

2009-08-18 Thread Chris Baker
discussion,questions and support' Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd on Vista 64-bit cygwin vs SUA I don't know what you mean with SUA environment, but I use Deltacopy in Vista 64 bit via rsyncd. http://www.aboutmyip.com/AboutMyXApp/DeltaCopy.jsp Works without a problem atm. Easy to

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd on Vista 64-bit cygwin vs SUA

2009-08-18 Thread Bernhard Ott
Koen Linders wrote: > I don't know what you mean with SUA environment, but I use Deltacopy in > Vista 64 bit via rsyncd. > > http://www.aboutmyip.com/AboutMyXApp/DeltaCopy.jsp > > Works without a problem atm. Easy to use and you can copy the files to other > computers and easily register the serv

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd on Vista 64-bit cygwin vs SUA

2009-08-18 Thread Bernhard Ott
Koen Linders wrote: > I don't know what you mean with SUA environment, but I use Deltacopy in ^^ It's Microsoft "Subsystem for UNIX-based Applications": http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc779522(WS.10).aspx Regards, Bernhard -

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd on Vista 64-bit cygwin vs SUA

2009-08-18 Thread Erik Hjertén
Koen Linders skrev: > I don't know what you mean with SUA environment, but I use Deltacopy in > Vista 64 bit via rsyncd. > > http://www.aboutmyip.com/AboutMyXApp/DeltaCopy.jsp > > Works without a problem atm. Easy to use and you can copy the files to other > computers and easily register the servic

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd on Vista 64-bit cygwin vs SUA

2009-08-17 Thread Koen Linders
I don't know what you mean with SUA environment, but I use Deltacopy in Vista 64 bit via rsyncd. http://www.aboutmyip.com/AboutMyXApp/DeltaCopy.jsp Works without a problem atm. Easy to use and you can copy the files to other computers and easily register the service. Greetings, Koen Linders ---

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd over ssh

2009-05-21 Thread Daniel Harvey
Hi Jeffrey, At the risk of spamming the list again, I apologise. I only joined the list and the "forum" immediately before the post. And, I agree that I *thought* "this is a topic-based forum rather than a mailing list" - I went to www.backupcentral.com, selected the menu "Forums" and them "Open S

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd over ssh

2009-05-21 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
daniel wrote at about 10:53:23 -0400 on Thursday, May 21, 2009: > > Hi Joe, > > This is exactly what I am looking for at the moment. Can you please post you > changes? Am I the only one who has NO CLUE what he is talking about? - What exactly is the 'this' that you are looking for? - Who i

Re: [BackupPC-users] Rsyncd and WinXP

2009-05-01 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Peter Bloomfield wrote on 2009-05-01 16:56:45 -0400 [[BackupPC-users] Rsyncd and WinXP]: > [...] backing up a WinXP machine over rync. I take it that is actually missing a "d" as well as the "s"? ;-) > [...] > Got fatal error during xfer (chdir failed) > Backup aborted (chdir fa

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd to import off site backup

2009-03-05 Thread stoffell
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom < chr...@real-time.com> wrote: > On 03/05 11:22 , stoffell wrote: > > rsyncd[23507]: Warning: invalid section name in configuration file: /srv/ > > Sure you're not missing a semicolon somewhere, or some other typo in the > config files? > > t

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd to import off site backup

2009-03-05 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 03/05 11:22 , stoffell wrote: > rsyncd[23507]: Warning: invalid section name in configuration file: /srv/ Sure you're not missing a semicolon somewhere, or some other typo in the config files? -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com --

Re: [BackupPC-users] Rsyncd - probability that it trashed my drive?

2008-11-20 Thread dan
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 12:06 PM, Eric Snyder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Makes sense. New drive is in now getting formatted. I will of course, see > what I can salvage off the old drive. This computer was a used computer off > ebay and shipped about 6 months ago, it may have had some head slap

Re: [BackupPC-users] Rsyncd - probability that it trashed my drive?

2008-11-20 Thread Eric Snyder
Makes sense. New drive is in now getting formatted. I will of course, see what I can salvage off the old drive. This computer was a used computer off ebay and shipped about 6 months ago, it may have had some head slap in shipping. That is why I think lots of drive activity causing the existing

Re: [BackupPC-users] Rsyncd - probability that it trashed my drive?

2008-11-20 Thread dan
disk failure brought on by stress. thats my diagnostic. On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 8:14 AM, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11/20 05:18 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Anyway...what are the chances that rsyncd was responsible for the drive > > going down by somehow scramblin

Re: [BackupPC-users] Rsyncd - probability that it trashed my drive?

2008-11-20 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 11/20 05:18 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Anyway...what are the chances that rsyncd was responsible for the drive > going down by somehow scrambling the data or some other unintended > problem? Has anybody running rsyncd on XP Pro machines had any other > problems to report? BackupPC puts substa

Re: [BackupPC-users] Rsyncd - probability that it trashed my drive?

2008-11-20 Thread Rob Owens
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I just installed Rsyncd on my XP Pro machine and performed a full backup. > Fourty-eight hours later my drive seems hosed. I have run a drive check > and it won't complete, it sticks at 82%. The drive check as finding a > nunmber of bad clusters and repairing files. > >

Re: [BackupPC-users] Rsyncd - probability that it trashed my drive?

2008-11-20 Thread Doug Lytle
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > nunmber of bad clusters and repairing files. > Bad clusters usually indicate a failing drive. Doug -- Ben Franklin quote: "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."

Re: [BackupPC-users] Rsyncd on XP

2008-11-19 Thread Rob Poe
Eric Snyder wrote: >> I was having problems with SMB on XP pro so have shifted gears and am >> trying Rsyncd. I ran a full backup of the cDrive setup. The problem is >> that I am using a backup user I created that is part of the user group >> "Backup Operators". I do get files backed up but... T

Re: [BackupPC-users] Rsyncd on XP

2008-11-18 Thread Rob Owens
Eric Snyder wrote: > I was having problems with SMB on XP pro so have shifted gears and am > trying Rsyncd. I ran a full backup of the cDrive setup. The problem is > that I am using a backup user I created that is part of the user group > "Backup Operators". I do get files backed up but... The o

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd connection stalled

2008-10-01 Thread Kenneth Porter
I notice on the general status page that both clients have PIDs but that the client with network activity has a transfer PID. Does only one client at a time transfer? - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd in linux

2008-07-31 Thread Vincent Fleuranceau
> secrets file = /etc/rsyncd.secrets > Just in case, execute the following command: chmod 600 /etc/rsyncd.secrets -- Vincent - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the co

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd in linux

2008-07-31 Thread Vincent Fleuranceau
> Are you backing up linux client? If yes, please use rsync: Why? Rsyncd works perfectly on Linux, too. Most people use rsync because they want (or need) an SSH tunnel, but this is not required by BackupPC. -- Vincent -

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd in linux

2008-07-31 Thread David Kuntadi
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 4:53 PM, fatima ech-charif <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > when i use this command > rsync [EMAIL PROTECTED]:: > i got this : > rsync : failed to connect to servername : connection refused(111) > rsync error : error in socket IO (code 10) at > /home/lapo/packaging/tmp/rsync-2.6

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd in linux

2008-07-31 Thread Renke Brausse
Hi Am Donnerstag, den 31.07.2008, 09:53 + schrieb fatima ech-charif: > rsync : failed to connect to servername : connection refused(111) did you configure the rsyncd on the client side? the error looks like that you have no running server. Renke -- rbrausse ferdinand-kopf-str 7 79117 frei

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd in linux

2008-07-31 Thread fatima ech-charif
when i use this command rsync [EMAIL PROTECTED]:: i got this : rsync : failed to connect to servername : connection refused(111) rsync error : error in socket IO (code 10) at /home/lapo/packaging/tmp/rsync-2.6.9/clientserver.c (104) [receiver=2.6.9] thanks 2008/7/31 fatima ech-charif <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd in linux

2008-07-29 Thread Jean-Michel Beuken
Hello, >> If rsyncd is configured properly and running, you should be able to >> issue this command to get a list of modules offered by the rsyncd server: >> >> rsync [EMAIL PROTECTED]:: (yes, 2 colons) >> > > This assumes that you have set "list = true" for each of the modules > in the rsync

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd in linux

2008-07-29 Thread Jon Craig
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 10:50 AM, Rob Owens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > fatima ech-charif wrote: >> >> hi >> how to configure rsyncd in linux ubuntu >> because i have this problem >> full backup started for directory docs (baseline backup #18) >> Got fatal error during xfer (inet connect: Connect

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd in linux

2008-07-29 Thread Rob Owens
fatima ech-charif wrote: > > hi > how to configure rsyncd in linux ubuntu > because i have this problem > full backup started for directory docs (baseline backup #18) > Got fatal error during xfer (inet connect: Connection refused) > Backup aborted (inet connect: Connection refused) > thanks >

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd in linux

2008-07-29 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, fatima ech-charif wrote on 2008-07-29 10:11:34 + [[BackupPC-users] rsyncd in linux]: > hi > how to configure rsyncd in linux ubuntu same as always ... read the docs and relevant man pages. > because i have this problem > full backup started for directory docs (baseline backup #18) > Go

Re: [BackupPC-users] Rsyncd transfer speed

2008-03-05 Thread Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu
On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 13:49 +0100, Alan Orlič Belšak wrote: > is there a way to speed up transfer via rsyncd, the last backup was at > 0,9 MB/s. The network is 100Mb, the backup was made on local disk (no > USB involved), except the include list was involved and there is a lot > of empty directo

Re: [BackupPC-users] Rsyncd transfer speed

2008-02-25 Thread dan
iftop, iostat, top. your best friends :) On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 9:16 AM, John Pettitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alan Orlic( Belšak wrote: > > Hello, > > > > is there a way to speed up transfer via rsyncd, the last backup was at > > 0,9 MB/s. The network is 100Mb, the backup was made on local

Re: [BackupPC-users] Rsyncd transfer speed

2008-02-25 Thread John Pettitt
Alan Orlic( Belšak wrote: > Hello, > > is there a way to speed up transfer via rsyncd, the last backup was at > 0,9 MB/s. The network is 100Mb, the backup was made on local disk (no > USB involved), except the include list was involved and there is a lot > of empty directories. > > Bye, Alan > >

Re: [BackupPC-users] Rsyncd/Samba include/exclude

2008-02-11 Thread Les Mikesell
Alan Orlic( Belšak wrote: > Hello, > > probably this has been answered several times, but here I go again - as > I found out, there is no way to backup Windows machines via Samba for > some files only (like DOC, XLS, etc), but I was unable to find the > solution how to do that via rsyncd. I don

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd Antivirus-SW problem

2007-12-19 Thread Gene Horodecki
Someone correct me if I'm wrong here, but by default, BackupPC must be able to get a good response for the following ping command from the BackupPC server: ping -c 1 -w 3 Try the command manually. Could it be that pings are blocked by the software? [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hallo, > > I have

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd "file has vanished" error -- but the files have not vanished -- SOLVED

2007-11-09 Thread Rob Owens
Rob Owens wrote: > Craig Barratt wrote: >> Rob writes: >> >>> I think I see the problem now. Each of these files contains at least >>> one "special" character. For instance, a 'u' with two dots over it. It >>> seems that maybe rsync, windows, and BackupPC are not agreeing on the >>> spelling o

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd "file has vanished" error -- but the files have not vanished

2007-11-09 Thread Rob Owens
Craig Barratt wrote: > Rob writes: > >> I think I see the problem now. Each of these files contains at least >> one "special" character. For instance, a 'u' with two dots over it. It >> seems that maybe rsync, windows, and BackupPC are not agreeing on the >> spelling of the filenames. Does th

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd "file has vanished" error -- but the files have not vanished

2007-11-09 Thread Rob Owens
Toni Van Remortel wrote: > Rob Owens wrote: >> I think I see the problem now. Each of these files contains at least >> one "special" character. For instance, a 'u' with two dots over it. It >> seems that maybe rsync, windows, and BackupPC are not agreeing on the >> spelling of the filenames.

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd "file has vanished" error -- but the files have not vanished

2007-11-08 Thread Craig Barratt
Rob writes: > I think I see the problem now. Each of these files contains at least > one "special" character. For instance, a 'u' with two dots over it. It > seems that maybe rsync, windows, and BackupPC are not agreeing on the > spelling of the filenames. Does this sound right? And is there

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd "file has vanished" error -- but the files have not vanished

2007-11-08 Thread Toni Van Remortel
Rob Owens wrote: > I think I see the problem now. Each of these files contains at least > one "special" character. For instance, a 'u' with two dots over it. It > seems that maybe rsync, windows, and BackupPC are not agreeing on the > spelling of the filenames. Does this sound right? And is th

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd "file has vanished" error -- but the files have not vanished

2007-11-08 Thread Rob Owens
Toni Van Remortel wrote: > Rob Owens wrote: >> I'm familiar with rsync's "file has vanished" error. As I understand >> it, it means the file was there when the list of files was compiled, but >> it was no longer there by the time the transfer occurred. However, I >> keep getting this error in m

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd "file has vanished" error -- but the files have not vanished

2007-11-08 Thread Toni Van Remortel
Rob Owens wrote: > I'm familiar with rsync's "file has vanished" error. As I understand > it, it means the file was there when the list of files was compiled, but > it was no longer there by the time the transfer occurred. However, I > keep getting this error in my logs for the same four files.

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd restore - symlink troubles

2007-10-03 Thread Anatoly V Zhestov
well, i found answer. for correct work rsync symlink restore in rsyncd.conf set option "use chroot = yes" without it symlink restore is not work. it not a bug of rsync - it rsync feature :) https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4263 i think, will be good for update FAQ & install HOWTO about

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd restore - symlink troubles

2007-09-30 Thread Craig Barratt
Anatoly writes: > My os Debian x64 > I use first backuppc 2.1.2 from apt repositories, and try 3.0 from src now. > When i start restore incremental or full backup, symlinks with relative path > restore broken, without leading slash. for example: > > before restore: > > /etc:# ls -la

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd permission denied

2007-08-02 Thread Barry Robinson
I think I found my problem. I added the following to my rsyncd.conf file uid = root I am not getting permission denied errors any longer. On 8/2/07, Barry Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am trying to back up a debian system from a ubuntu 7.04 system with > Backuppc 3.0. > > I have cre

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd and permissions

2007-07-26 Thread Chantal Rosmuller
Thanks, you are right I should have tried, I use uid=root now and that works. On Friday 13 July 2007 10:28, Keith Edmunds wrote: > On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 14:33:47 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > Btw I know it says uid = nobody but that's the default so removing it > > will not fix this. > > What

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd over xp

2007-07-24 Thread Les Stott
Edouard de Ganay wrote: > Hi there, > > This might be an usual question, but I just can't find anything to get > this working > > Server : > SME 7.2 with backuppc 3.0-1 as contrib. > > client : > xp pro sp2 > > rsyncd installed on c:\program files\rsyncd > running as a service (it seems ok, I can s

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd over xp

2007-07-23 Thread Rob Poe
Try to telnet to that host / port from another machine. If it fails, try to telnet to it locally on that machine. Try firewall OFF and see if that makes a difference, if the second test works but the first fails. See below for telnet syntax. telnet 172.20.1.207 873 Trying 172.20.1.207... Con

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd and permissions

2007-07-13 Thread Keith Edmunds
On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 14:33:47 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Btw I know it says uid = nobody but that's the default so removing it > will not fix this. What happened when you tried? Keith -- Keith Edmunds +-+ | Tiger Comput

Re: [BackupPC-users] Rsyncd Authentication failure

2007-05-22 Thread Adam Goryachev
Peter McKenna wrote: > Thanks for your reply, but that doesn't seem to be the problem I've > tried setting chroot=no with no luck, What does work is commenting out > 'auth users' and changing $Conf{RsyncdAuthRequired} to 0. > Peter > Don't forget to leave a blank line at the end of the password

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