On Wed, 2011-07-13 at 03:30 +0200, Holger Parplies wrote:
> right. I checked my /etc/backuppc, and it was owned by root:root (as it should
> be ;-), but then, I'm still using BackupPC 2.1.2. The web configuration editor
> needs write access to the config files if it is supposed to work, so I see wh
Hi,
Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote on 2011-07-12 14:16:09 -0400 [Re: [BackupPC-users]
Different UID numbers for backuppc on 2 [ugly char deleted] computers]:
> [...]
> I believe in many distros, the /etc/BackupPC dir (or equivalent) is
> also owned by BackupPC.
right. I checked my /etc/backuppc, and
Hi,
Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote on 2011-07-12 10:31:27 -0500 [Re:
[BackupPC-users] Different UID numbers for backuppc on 2 computers]:
> On 07/12 12:34 , Holger Parplies wrote:
> > Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote on 2011-07-11 17:19:09 -0500 [Re:
> > [BackupPC-users] Different UID numbers for ba
Holger Parplies wrote at about 00:34:56 +0200 on Tuesday, July 12, 2011:
> Well I hope you don't have many files ... how about either
> 'chown -R backuppc:backuppc /archive' (assuming that's TopDir) - there are no
> files under TopDir *not* belonging to backuppc, or at least there shouldn't
>
Hello,
First off, I love backuppc. I have been using it for several years to
backup linux servers and windows laptops.I only wish it would do a
better job of backing up large file systems ( > 200G), then I could use it
for everything :) More of an issue with rsync I suppose.
My problem:
On 07/12 12:34 , Holger Parplies wrote:
> Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote on 2011-07-11 17:19:09 -0500 [Re:
> [BackupPC-users] Different UID numbers for backuppc on 2 computers]:
> There is no UID information in the shadow files,
Ah, good catch. I didn't double-check that. I just tend to check sha
To close this thread, I found the following:
1. CIFS does support hard links. I ran a test linking some files as well as
googled cifs+hard links. The Buffalo NAS boxes don't support NFS out of the
box. One has to load new firmware to replace the OS, but the do support
CIFS.
2. I had an older back
My setup is somewhat simpler. My BackupPC datastore is stored on a
700GB LVM logical volume on a 1TB disk, and I have 3 external 1TB eSATA
disks. Each week I make a snapshot of the BackupPC logical volume and
"dd" the snapshot volume to one of the external disks (takes about 2
hours) and then
