Re: [BackupPC-users] issue with two computers

2024-07-23 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2024-07-23 07:03, Johnny PINSON wrote: Hey there, here is my command (typed from a shell) /usr/bin/rsync_bpc --bpc-top-dir /data/BackupPC --bpc-host-name evo --bpc-share-name /root --bpc-bkup-num 0 --bpc-bkup-comp 3 --bpc-bkup-prevnum -1 --bpc-bkup-prevcomp -1 --bpc-bkup-inode0 2 --bpc-at

Re: [BackupPC-users] issue with two computers

2024-07-19 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2024-07-19 04:36, Johnny PINSON wrote: Good afternoon, I'm facingan issue and would request some help please. All computers at work are using backuppc, whether running linux, macos and windows and it works fine but two servers are having problems : - I can log on those computers from serve

Re: [BackupPC-users] Windows Server Backup Errors (SMB)

2024-05-20 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2024-05-20 13:46, Mark Murawski wrote: Running: /usr/local/bin/smbclient win2k3.intellasoft.lan\\Storage -U Administrator -E -d 1 -c tarmode\ full -Tc - It looks like the backup does back up a large amount of data from the Share, but I'm not sure exactly what's the best way to tell wha

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up Windows 11

2024-03-12 Thread Michael Stowe
#x27;re all set. On 2024-03-12 08:42, Dave Bachmann wrote: Yes, I'm using Samba. Why wouldn't it cover everything? I believe I have all my file/folder permissions properly set but I don't understand what you meant by "junctions to file semantics". Please clarify.

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up Windows 11

2024-03-11 Thread Michael Stowe
You're likely running into a few unrelated issues, from dealing with junctions to file semantics, to Windows permissions. Are you using SMB/CIFS? Because that's unlikely to cover everything you want. On 2024-03-11 14:41, Dave Bachmann wrote: I've recently added a Windows 11 machine to a hom

Re: [BackupPC-users] Setup for Windows backup with rsync

2024-01-27 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2024-01-27 10:16, Stephen Blackwell wrote: Well, this is where I'm a bit confused. Who is the "backup user"? The NAS has one user called steve. If I ssh into the NAS and enter the docker that Backuppc is running in, that has one user called backuppc. There is no user called backuppc on the W

Re: [BackupPC-users] Setup for Windows backup with rsync

2024-01-26 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2024-01-26 13:46, Stephen Blackwell wrote: I'm just getting back to this. I've set up ssh on my Windows machine and I verified that I can log in from a linux box using a username and password. I thought I would be able to set backuppc up to use rsync by looking at whatever error messages

Re: [BackupPC-users] Different strategies on same host

2023-06-29 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2023-06-28 15:49, Norman J. Goldstein wrote: I want to have a different strategy for backing up photos than for backing up documents that I am editing.  Basically, it would be a rare event to do a full backup of my photos.   I assume that the host name, say myPC, must correspond to myPC.pl i

Re: [BackupPC-users] Need help for BackupPC and windows client

2023-06-22 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2023-06-22 06:31, Patrick Begou wrote: Hi, I'm using BackupPC for a while (my version is a little bit old: 3.3.1 😁) with Linux clients. I'm trying to setup a windows client (the only windows client I have, all others are Linux). On this windows laptop there is a firewall closing all the

Re: [BackupPC-users] smb2cli_req_compound_submit: Insufficient credits. 0 available, 1 needed

2022-01-03 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2022-01-03 11:38, Ademir Rodrigues wrote: Hello Can I help me with this problem? The server is return this message e backup is partial XferErr NT_STATUS_INTERNAL_ERROR listing smb2cli_req_compound_submit: Insufficient credits. 0 available, 1 needed The first, and most obvious, advice

Re: [BackupPC-users] smbclient throws NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED when listing Documents folder on Windows 10

2021-09-20 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2021-09-20 18:44, Aaron Anderson wrote: I'm using a docker image of BackupPC 4.4 which has smbclient 4.14. My backups have been SMB failing on a Win 10 client and I'm trying to figure out why. My command line is: /usr/bin/smbclient MACHINE\\Documents -U USER%PASSWORD -E -d 5 -c tarmo

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 it

Re: [BackupPC-users] Conf{PoolNightlyDigestCheckPercent} on btrfs and zfs

2021-05-02 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2021-04-30 00:09, Ghislain Adnet wrote: hi, Should this setting put to 0 on ZFS or BTRFS as the filesystem allready do checksumming and will detect issues ? No, because that's like turning off the airbags on your car because you already have seatbelts.

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc errors

2021-04-01 Thread Michael Stowe
NT_STATUS_IO_TIMEOUT seems pretty straightforward On 2021-04-01 03:21, s.chimere--- via BackupPC-users wrote: Hello Norm, Thanks I will do some more digging and reach out again if you don't mind. Regards. Symbol. From: Norman Goldstein Sent: Thursday, April 1, 2021 6:15 AM To: backuppc-u

Re: [BackupPC-users] btrfs questions

2021-03-06 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2021-03-06 01:55, John Botha (SourceForge) wrote: Hi, I am about to take the plunge with BackupPC, and would appreciate input on the following three points regarding using btrfs for the data (bit rot protection is key for me). From what I've read, btrfs (like many file systems) suffers o

Re: [BackupPC-users] Which filesystem for external backup drive?

2021-02-11 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2021-02-11 05:45, G.W. Haywood via BackupPC-users wrote: Hi there, On Thu, 11 Feb 2021, backu...@kosowsky.org wrote: Michael Stowe wrote at about 20:50:45 + on Wednesday, February 10, 2021: > On 2021-02-09 16:34, G.W. Haywood via BackupPC-users wrote: > > Not su

Re: [BackupPC-users] Which filesystem for external backup drive?

2021-02-10 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2021-02-09 16:34, G.W. Haywood via BackupPC-users wrote: Hi there, On Tue, 9 Feb 2021, backu...@kosowsky.org wrote: G.W. Haywood via BackupPC-users wrote at about 14:26:30 + on Friday, February 5, 2021: > > [Red Hat is] dropping BTRFS because they can't support it in the way they'd > l

Re: [BackupPC-users] Which filesystem for external backup drive?

2021-02-05 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2021-02-05 06:26, G.W. Haywood via BackupPC-users wrote: Hi there, On Thu, 4 Feb 2021, Kenneth Porter wrote: On Wed, 3 Feb 2021, backuppc@kosowsky wrote: > On Wed, 3 Feb 2021, Kenneth Porter wrote: > > > I'm deploying a system with an external (USB) 1.5 TB drive. How should I > > format it?

Re: [BackupPC-users] Which filesystem for external backup drive?

2021-02-04 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2021-02-04 16:27, Kenneth Porter wrote: --On Thursday, February 04, 2021 5:13 PM +0100 Alexander Kobel wrote: Distro support is a serious thing to consider. In general, backuppc will happily work with whatever is the default file system of your distribution. For CentOS and RedHat, XFS is t

Re: [BackupPC-users] Imnproving backup speed

2021-01-07 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2021-01-07 00:39, Sorin Srbu wrote: Hello all! Trying to improve the backup speed with BPC and looked into setting noatime in fstab. But this article states some backup programs may bork if noatime is set. https://lonesysadmin.net/2013/12/08/gain-30-linux-disk-performance-noatime-nodira

Re: [BackupPC-users] Windows (rsyncd) Backup issues

2021-01-01 Thread Michael Stowe
easonably good at Linux; but, "know enough to be dangerous" about Windows. Can you expand a bit? Thanks! From: Michael Stowe Sent: Friday, January 1, 2021 11:32 AM To: General list for user discussion, questions and support Cc: cl...@n7qnm.net Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Windows

Re: [BackupPC-users] Windows (rsyncd) Backup issues

2021-01-01 Thread Michael Stowe
We'll probably need a few more details than that to provide specific help, but the symptoms you describe are consistent with not running rsyncd on a shadow volume. On 2021-01-01 09:02, cl...@n7qnm.net wrote: Just started (trying to) use rsyncd to back up a Windows 10 laptop. It's been runn

Re: [BackupPC-users] backup Windows10 clients

2020-10-04 Thread Michael Stowe
There are a few problems to solve: open files, permissions, and the transfer itself. The transfer, IMHO, is the easy part. I've currently settled on a combination of Windows Linux subsystem for sshd, then escalate the privileges and transfer the shadow copies. It has proven reliable and

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc Errors

2020-08-04 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2020-08-04 03:55, s.chimere--- via BackupPC-users wrote: Hello, Good day Hope everyone is doing okay amid the pandemic, I have been using backuppc since last year and it has been working okay, but recently pings from the backuppc started failing I fixed that using this https://u21823

Re: [BackupPC-users] config.pl "built-in" script to backup Windows shares with Virtual Shadow Service Copy

2020-07-01 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2020-06-30 19:35, backu...@kosowsky.org wrote: Michael Stowe wrote at about 23:09:55 + on Tuesday, June 30, 2020: > On 2020-06-29 21:51, backu...@kosowsky.org wrote: > > Over the years, many have asked and struggled with backing up remote > > Windows shares with shadow

Re: [BackupPC-users] config.pl "built-in" script to backup Windows shares with Virtual Shadow Service Copy

2020-06-30 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2020-06-29 21:51, backu...@kosowsky.org wrote: Over the years, many have asked and struggled with backing up remote Windows shares with shadow copies. Shadow copies are useful since they allow both the backup to be 'consistent' and allow for reading files that are otherwise 'busy' and unreadab

Re: [BackupPC-users] BUG? Using --omit-dir-times in rsync backup sets all dir dates to beginning of Epoch

2020-05-24 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2020-05-23 23:47, backu...@kosowsky.org wrote: Regarding your comment: However, I don't think it makes sense to "fix" it, since a backup shouldn't add metadata that changes each time you backup some data that hasn't changed. Actually, the whole point of --ignore-dir-times is that the dir

Re: [BackupPC-users] Testing full restore of backuppc... MULTIPLE BUGS???

2020-05-22 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2020-05-22 16:49, backu...@kosowsky.org wrote: Michael Stowe wrote at about 22:18:50 + on Friday, May 22, 2020: > On 2020-05-22 11:42, backu...@kosowsky.org wrote: > > 1. Sockets are restored as regular files not special files --> BUG? > > Why would one back

Re: [BackupPC-users] BUG? Using --omit-dir-times in rsync backup sets all dir dates to beginning of Epoch

2020-05-22 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2020-05-22 16:52, backu...@kosowsky.org wrote: Michael Stowe wrote at about 23:46:54 + on Friday, May 22, 2020: > On 2020-05-22 16:19, backu...@kosowsky.org wrote: > > Michael Stowe wrote at about 22:24:13 + on Friday, May 22, 2020: > > > On 2020-

Re: [BackupPC-users] BUG? Using --omit-dir-times in rsync backup sets all dir dates to beginning of Epoch

2020-05-22 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2020-05-22 16:19, backu...@kosowsky.org wrote: Michael Stowe wrote at about 22:24:13 + on Friday, May 22, 2020: > On 2020-05-22 09:15, backu...@kosowsky.org wrote: > What it does is omit directories from the modification times that it > sets. In other words, you're tel

Re: [BackupPC-users] BUG? Using --omit-dir-times in rsync backup sets all dir dates to beginning of Epoch

2020-05-22 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2020-05-22 09:15, backu...@kosowsky.org wrote: If I add '--omit-dir-times' to $Conf{RsyncArgsExtra}, then the backups set all the directory dates to the beginning of the Epoch. For example drwxr-xr-x 3 backuppc www-data 1024 Dec 31 1969 pc/ (note this is 1/1/70 00:00:00 GMT) This is i

Re: [BackupPC-users] Testing full restore of backuppc... MULTIPLE BUGS???

2020-05-22 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2020-05-22 11:42, backu...@kosowsky.org wrote: 1. Sockets are restored as regular files not special files --> BUG? Why would one back up a socket? If you really think this is sensible, you should be able to accomplish it with "--devices --specials" as part of your rsync command lines. Fr

Re: [BackupPC-users] V4 - eventual effects of wrong sequence when removing Host

2020-04-18 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2020-04-17 03:20, R.C. wrote: Hi all Is the following Host remove sequence correct? - remove Host backups (one by one) with BackupPC_backupDelete - run BackupPC_nightly 0 255 - remove host from hosts file - reload server configuration - remove pc/ folder manually What would happen if a wrong

Re: [BackupPC-users] {Disarmed} Using ssh to enable shadow copies, rsyncd on Windows

2020-03-12 Thread Michael Stowe
l a set of scripts on the Windows host. On 2020-03-12 03:15, Pete Geenhuizen wrote: Michael, Which binaries that you've packaged are you referring to and if needed where can I find them? Thanks Pete On 3/12/20 1:26 AM, Michael Stowe wrote: With each security update and version bump of S

[BackupPC-users] Using ssh to enable shadow copies, rsyncd on Windows

2020-03-11 Thread Michael Stowe
With each security update and version bump of Samba, winexe is becoming more and more finicky, so I thought it time to see if Window's own ssh could be used for the same purpose. While it's not as straightforward as I'd hoped, it does work and doesn't require anything other than the binaries I'd

Re: [BackupPC-users] Full backup will not complete

2020-03-10 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2020-03-09 02:11, George Campbell wrote: Hello, I am new to this list, so please let me know if there is anything missing from my question... I have setup backuppc as a docker (version 4.3.2) on an Ubuntu server. My client is a Windows 10 running RPC. A full backup runs and I can see lots

Re: [BackupPC-users] Windows 10 fell into hibernation when "rsyncd" backup is done

2020-01-20 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2020-01-17 10:05, DI Harald ARNOLD wrote: Hi to all, I am a newbee at this list. I found nothing about this thread in old archives. I installed backuppc on a linux openSuSE Tumbleweed box to backup two methods of a "Windows 10" box by "rsyncd". Everything is working fine, both "methods" are

Re: [BackupPC-users] Win10 rsync and shadow

2020-01-11 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2020-01-09 12:23, Greg Harris wrote: Anyone tried enabling the in-built Win10 SSH server and then using straight rsync, not rsyncd, with cygwin-rsync client? Additionally, and maybe I should create a separate thread, but does the cygwin-rsync client that's bundled on the GitHub page use th

Re: [BackupPC-users] Issue with configure.pl not recognizing user

2020-01-02 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2020-01-02 14:14, White FrosT wrote: Thanks Michaelm "passwd backuppc" seems to work fine, but the configure script does not. I did the modifications using usermod, useradd etc. Is there anyone that knows the configure script in depth and can help me with a step by step debug of this issue?

Re: [BackupPC-users] Issue with configure.pl not recognizing user

2019-12-31 Thread Michael Stowe
directory vipw: /opt/etc/passwd is unchanged Neither does adding a shell to the user (/sbin/nologin) change anything. Thanks for any additional idea's! Op di 31 dec. 2019 om 16:54 schreef mlm : On 12/30/2019 6:57 PM, Michael Stowe wrote: On 2019-12-30 12:24, White FrosT wrote: Dea

Re: [BackupPC-users] Issue with configure.pl not recognizing user

2019-12-30 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2019-12-30 12:24, White FrosT wrote: Dear list, I have an issue installing backuppc on my new network disk running Linux 4.2.8 ARMv71. I think I have managed all preconditions in perl (v5.28.1) and are ready to install, but I run into an issue with configure.pl [1]. It doesn't let me set the

Re: [BackupPC-users] Does backuppc support bare metal restore?

2019-11-27 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2019-11-25 05:51, Marek Grossman wrote: Hello, I can't find the clear answer on backuppc WEB site, so I ask you here. Does BackupPC support bare metal restore in nowadays or not (last notice is from 2007)? Is there any other way to restore completely Windows 7/10 installation with mo

Re: [BackupPC-users] home directory empty

2019-09-28 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2019-09-28 04:34, Bob Wooden wrote: > I recently built (on newer hardware) a BackupPC v.4.3.1 on CentOS 7 using > hobbes1069/BackupPC repo. > > Letting BackupPC do backups and time has passed (couple of weeks) and this > morning I discover, while "browsing backups" that the /home directory

Re: [BackupPC-users] smbclient gets NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED

2019-08-30 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2019-08-29 19:55, Bob McClure Jr wrote: On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 10:48:45PM +, Michael Stowe wrote: On 2019-08-29 14:47, Michael Stowe wrote: > On 2019-08-29 13:02, Bob McClure Jr wrote: > >> I'm at wit's end -- a short trip. I have a very simple setup of a

Re: [BackupPC-users] smbclient gets NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED

2019-08-29 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2019-08-29 14:47, Michael Stowe wrote: > On 2019-08-29 13:02, Bob McClure Jr wrote: > >> I'm at wit's end -- a short trip. I have a very simple setup of a Linux >> server (CentOS 6) running BackupPC to back up a Win 10 Pro machine. BackupPC >> is BackupP

Re: [BackupPC-users] smbclient gets NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED

2019-08-29 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2019-08-29 13:02, Bob McClure Jr wrote: I'm at wit's end -- a short trip. I have a very simple setup of a Linux server (CentOS 6) running BackupPC to back up a Win 10 Pro machine. BackupPC is BackupPC-3.3.1-5.el6.x86_64 from the EPEL repo. On the Win 10 box, I created a normal user "backuppc

Re: [BackupPC-users] PoolSizeNightlyUpdatePeriod and BackupPCNightlyPeriod

2019-08-08 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2019-08-08 02:08, Gandalf Corvotempesta wrote: Any advice on this ? I have to keep the nighly job as light as possible Il giorno ven 19 lug 2019 alle ore 11:31 Gandalf Corvotempesta ha scritto: On official docs, max value is 16. As I have a very slow server with a very big pool, is 16 the

Re: [BackupPC-users] Starting BackupPC server manually

2019-08-03 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2019-08-03 14:14, Norman Goldstein wrote: > On 2019-08-03 2:08 p.m., Michael Stowe wrote: > > On 2019-08-03 08:24, Norman Goldstein wrote: Am running Fedora 30 x86-64, BP > 4.3.1 > Am not able to start the BackupPC server manually. > > I would like to be able to run t

Re: [BackupPC-users] Starting BackupPC server manually

2019-08-03 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2019-08-03 08:24, Norman Goldstein wrote: > Am running Fedora 30 x86-64, BP 4.3.1 > Am not able to start the BackupPC server manually. > > I would like to be able to run the BC server manually, to be able to debug > into it. When I do, as root: > > systemctl stop backuppc > > this stops th

Re: [BackupPC-users] Problem with multibyte character

2019-06-15 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2019-06-15 19:20, backu...@kosowsky.org wrote: I am running backuppc 4.3.0 on Linux Ubuntu 18.04 I have a file copied over from an old Windows installation to my Linux server with name: -rwx-- 1 user1 user1 28672 May 11 2005 'r'$'\351''ponse.doc' This file gives an error under backupp

Re: [BackupPC-users] BACKUPPC V4 - rsync-bpc error connecting to client

2019-06-07 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2019-06-05 12:52, David Wynn via BackupPC-users wrote: > Hi Mike ... don't know if I replied correctly to this or not And NO - I > have not changed the RsyncBackupPCPath, it is still /usr/local/bin/rsync_bpc. > And YES, the 192.168.1.6 is the IP address to our Netstore device. Just >

Re: [BackupPC-users] restore issue on backuppc 4.1.5

2019-06-04 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2019-06-04 07:33, Philip Parsons (Velindre - Medical Physics) wrote: > Thanks for the reply Michael. > > I've tried to restore to another share on another server and am getting > NT_STATUS_BAD_NETWORK_NAME > > I don't want to overwrite the existing data, I just want to be able to > downlo

Re: [BackupPC-users] restore issue on backuppc 4.1.5

2019-05-22 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2019-05-22 05:32, Philip Parsons (Velindre - Medical Physics) wrote: Hi, I'm having an issue with restoring to a share and am trying to deal with this before it becomes a need to restore situation! We're using BackupPC v4.1.5. I've had the following error when trying to restore: Running: /

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backups missing entire directories: "file has vanished"

2019-05-07 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2019-05-07 13:39, Raman Gupta wrote: Certain directories (and their contents) on one of my hosts are not getting backed up at all, even with a "Full" backup. I use rsync as my Xfer method, with BackupPC 4.3.0 on Fedora (rpms BackupPC-4.3.0-1.fc29.x86_64, BackupPC-XS-0.58-1.fc29.x86_64). Look

Re: [BackupPC-users] Rsync backup does not start

2019-05-06 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2019-05-06 00:26, THÉBAULT Arnaud wrote: HI, I am new to backuppc.. again ( I was used to work with it nearly 15 years ago…) I have an issue when trying to backup a Windows 10 computer with rsyncd. When initiating the backup from the backupPC GUI, it never starts. There is no error messa

Re: [BackupPC-users] Partial backup is not saved

2019-04-29 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2019-04-29 08:08, Tapio Lehtonen wrote: I split a host to two backups, because dump directory contains virtual machine dump files which are big and are taken every night. So I needed shorter keep time for those backups to not run out of disk on the backup host. But this new backup setup does

Re: [BackupPC-users] Windows client restore

2019-04-28 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2019-04-28 09:15, Gopal Dhapa wrote: Hello support Team. When I use backuppc in Linux client it's working okay but windows client is not specify director backup it's take full c drive backup. Also windows client backup not restore it's given my status access denied using smb xfer method. Ple

Re: [BackupPC-users] ssh tunnel established, but backuppc doesn't begin backup

2019-04-25 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2019-04-24 14:21, Justin Magers wrote: I'm trying to tunnel through a computer (HOST) to which I (justin) have ssh access to so that rsyncd has a secure connection for BackupPC. The tunnel is setup using DumpPreUserCmd: $sshPath -M -S ~/.ssh/sockets/stradella -fN -l justin -L 8874:stradella.

Re: [BackupPC-users] Fwd: Re: backuppc behind nginx which is on another host

2019-04-19 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2019-04-19 06:11, Mathew Perry wrote: one step further. I now can access the web interface partly. difficult to describe. everything is top down scrollable, over 3 pages downwards. no css or so formating. - FROM: Michael Stowe SENT: Friday, April 19, 2019 5:25 AM TO

Re: [BackupPC-users] Fwd: Re: backuppc behind nginx which is on another host

2019-04-19 Thread Michael Stowe
ehind nginx are both http or https. As for example chrome is using HSTS, the domain runs https for a long time. I don't think that i need to change a whole working and running nginx conf on higher level than on the backuppc directive. ----- FROM: Michael Stowe SENT: Thursday

Re: [BackupPC-users] Fwd: Re: backuppc behind nginx which is on another host

2019-04-19 Thread Michael Stowe
runs https for a long time. I don't think that i need to change a whole working and running nginx conf on higher level than on the backuppc directive. ----- FROM: Michael Stowe SENT: Thursday, April 18, 2019 7:39 AM TO: General list for user discussion, questions and

Re: [BackupPC-users] Fwd: Re: backuppc behind nginx which is on another host

2019-04-18 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2019-04-18 01:40, Mathew Perry wrote: hmmm... no! The Requested URL /BackupPC_Admin was not found on this server FYI: the url which "comes back" from nginx looks like: https://u2182357.ct.sendgrid.net/wf/click?upn=rBK8reUlX8Sxr7Iz1fV-2F7T8nrzTGGnwx9UNS1WVjQxnVSBGmhdBbJoi5j5f7UDEJ_OypFYC

Re: [BackupPC-users] Fwd: Re: backuppc behind nginx which is on another host

2019-04-18 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2019-04-17 21:27, Mathew Perry wrote: you explained it exactly. But i've posted my directive already. If i would know what to do know with my nginx config, i wouldn't ask here. 🙂 Ah. Let's fix it. This should suffice: location /backuppc/ { proxy_pass https://u2182357.ct.sendgrid.net/wf

Re: [BackupPC-users] Fwd: Re: backuppc behind nginx which is on another host

2019-04-17 Thread Michael Stowe
sible. - FROM: Michael Stowe SENT: Tuesday, April 16, 2019 4:40 AM TO: General list for user discussion, questions and support CC: Mathew Perry SUBJECT: Re: [BackupPC-users] Fwd: Re: backuppc behind nginx which is on another host On 2019-04-16 01:23, Mathew Perry wrote: Hi Michael the example was

Re: [BackupPC-users] Fwd: Re: backuppc behind nginx which is on another host

2019-04-16 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2019-04-16 01:23, Mathew Perry wrote: Hi Michael the example was from local LAN. backuppc is running and working and nginx runs with a lot other services behind it. I'm not that new to nginx, more a "new" user to backuppc. normally the directive /pathto/ needs a change in the base url of s

Re: [BackupPC-users] Fwd: Re: backuppc behind nginx which is on another host

2019-04-15 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2019-04-15 12:13, Mathew Perry wrote: it's not that easy 🙂 Did you ensure that it was working locally first? with this directive: location /backuppc/ { proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr; proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for; proxy_set_header X-Forwa

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc behind nginx which is on another host

2019-04-15 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2019-04-15 01:19, Mathew Perry wrote: Hi i'm using latest backuppc and want to connect emotely to it. I have nginx on another host, not on same host where backuppc is running on. So, i'm struggling to get the nginx config working to connect to the backuppc host. The configs on the internet

Re: [BackupPC-users] Xfer errors (especially bpc_sysCall_checkFileMatch(/path/to/file): file doesn't exist)

2019-04-05 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2019-04-05 01:11, Daniel Berteaud wrote: Thanks for your response Michael, some comments inline Le 2019-04-04 23:22, Michael Stowe a écrit : On 2019-04-03 05:02, Daniel Berteaud wrote: First, as soon as there's a single error (most common are "file has vanished"), Bac

Re: [BackupPC-users] Xfer errors (especially bpc_sysCall_checkFileMatch(/path/to/file): file doesn't exist)

2019-04-04 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2019-04-03 05:02, Daniel Berteaud wrote: Am I the only one having this kind of errors, or the only one caring about the errors ? Cheers Daniel Le 12/03/2019 à 08:56, Daniel Berteaud a écrit : Hi. I've been using BackupPC since the past 13 years (starting with 2.1.2 I think), with great

Re: [BackupPC-users] What's the latest on migrating V3 to V4To:

2019-02-13 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2019-02-13 05:57, backu...@kosowsky.org wrote: Looking to finally move to V4. Would love to eat my cake-and-have-it-too by eliminating all those nasty linked pool files while preserving all my old V3 backups. In the past I have done quite a bit of utility hacking into the V3 pool and tree st

Re: [BackupPC-users] Global vs. local exclude

2019-01-17 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2019-01-17 09:37, Jan Stransky wrote: Hi, sorry for rising another exclude/include thread, but... Does globally defined exclusion rules apply also when there is host-specific one? For example: in configure.pl, for share '*' I have excluded '*.tmp' in host.pl I have share '/home' which has excl

Re: [BackupPC-users] Configuration for Win10 clients

2019-01-17 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2019-01-17 02:45, Mike Bosschaert wrote: Hi, I'm struggling with the configuration of a Win10 client. I'm running 4.2.1 and have several linux clients which have backups daily for years now without any problem, with various different schedules of incremental backups. For some time I'm also b

Re: [BackupPC-users] Upgrade from 3 to 4 or start afresh

2019-01-15 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2019-01-15 05:34, Paul Littlefield wrote: Hello, I look after a 3.3.1-2ubuntu3.3 installation and now all clients do not backup and have tar_process done, err = 0. I have been told that version 4 of BackupPC will fix the errors. I would not expect this, but it's *possible* if you have, say

Re: [BackupPC-users] Queued jobs not running automatically

2019-01-07 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2019-01-07 08:29, W Forum W wrote: Hi, Ẃe have more than 50 jobs in 'Background Queue Summary' but no job is running. Manually we can start these Jobs. Why are the Jobs not running automatically as they are queued? In the status overview we see only 2 Jobs running fo days now

Re: [BackupPC-users] Performance - backing up to USB drives

2018-12-20 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2018-12-20 00:12, Gordon Marinovich wrote: I just read about the slow speed when backing up to USB drives: "The backuppc on usb drive is slow to write backups - about 1mb/s which makes backups of 40-80gb take 10-12 hours" Ref https://u2182357.ct.sendgrid.net/wf/click?upn=rBK8reUlX8Sxr7Iz1fV-

Re: [BackupPC-users] nmblookup

2018-12-13 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2018-12-13 20:22, Alan Taylor wrote: Hello, I am running BackupPC 4.3 for a network of Linux and MacOS clients i.e. at present no samba servers anywhere. Not surprisingly, nmblookup fails. I presume this is normal in this circumstance ? If so, are there any modifications I should make to con

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC writes to disk very slow

2018-12-03 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2018-12-03 04:22, Tapio Lehtonen wrote: Out of curiosity, have you experimented with other filesystems? I have couple relatively large setups (pool at ~ 9 terabytes) with ext4 and those still crunch backups happily. Previously I have used EXT4, only problem was once running out of inodes.

Re: [BackupPC-users] Weird backup commands

2018-10-30 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2018-10-30 08:04, Holger Parplies wrote: Hi, Jaime Fenton wrote on 2018-10-24 16:17:24 + [Re: [BackupPC-users] Weird backup commands]: Also, my apologies if my tone came across as snippy or rude [...] I???m just frustrated with the issues I???m having [...] well ... [...] If I thoug

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc and selinux context on restore

2018-10-16 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2018-10-15 23:05, Eero Volotinen wrote: Hi All, Looks like backuppc destroys selinux context on restore? is this feature or bug? any workaroud available? Eero Neither one -- it's a feature of selinux that files that are touched (or replaced) lose their context. The labels are still there

Re: [BackupPC-users] Troubleshooting assistance for Bad Transfer

2018-10-04 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2018-10-04 11:28, Jaime Fenton wrote: Ok, so that breakdown with suggestions seems to have worked, I'm now getting successful backups. I suspect some of this was it was hitting local links that weren't going anywhere and getting caught in a loop. Is there any way to set a variable that can po

Re: [BackupPC-users] Troubleshooting assistance for Bad Transfer

2018-10-04 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2018-10-04 09:14, Michael Stowe wrote: On 2018-10-03 16:17, Jaime Fenton wrote: I thought I had a breakthrough as I found that for whatever reason, the backuppc was using the local server account and not the service account that has access to the smb share for the computer. I have confirmed

Re: [BackupPC-users] Troubleshooting assistance for Bad Transfer

2018-10-04 Thread Michael Stowe
I've included the xfer log and the xfer error log in case that shines some light on what's going on. Thanks, Jaime -Original Message- From: Michael Stowe [mailto:michael.st...@member.mensa.org] Sent: Monday, September 17, 2018 8:49 PM To: General list for user discussion, questio

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC 4.2.1 apparently in an infinite loop.

2018-09-19 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2018-09-19 03:52, G.W. Haywood via BackupPC-users wrote: Hello again all, On Tue, 18 Sep 2018, Michael Stowe wrote: On Mon, 17 Sep 2018, G.W. Haywood wrote: I suspect that this is a fault in BackupPC_backupDelete ... RmTreeQuietInner seems to be seeing some sort of bowdlerization

Re: [BackupPC-users] Troubleshooting assistance for Bad Transfer

2018-09-17 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2018-09-17 16:26, Jaime Fenton wrote: Here's my Error log example. Some of the file locks are legitimate and I completely understand why they happen, but the NT_STATUS_SHARING_VIOLATIONs and NT_STATUS_CONNECTION_DISCONNECTEDs don't make a lot of sense to me. The Backup aborted ( ) also happen

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC 4.2.1 apparently in an infinite loop.

2018-09-17 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2018-09-17 12:15, G.W. Haywood via BackupPC-users wrote: Hello again all, [Replying to myself here to try to get the thread back on topic.] Thank you! On Mon, 17 Sep 2018, G.W. Haywood wrote: ... I suspect that this is a fault in BackupPC_backupDelete ... 8<--

Re: [BackupPC-users] Troubleshooting assistance for Bad Transfer

2018-09-17 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2018-09-17 10:43, Jaime Fenton wrote: Thanks Guillermo, that would be good to see for reference. However, SMB works for all my other machines, it’s just these two machines that won’t work completely with SMB. Rsync was suggested as an alternative and it didn’t work. Ultimately I just need he

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC 4.2.1 apparently in an infinite loop.

2018-09-16 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2018-09-16 11:59, Mike Hughes wrote: Michael, Condescending and belittling treatment of others in this list is not the norm. Your personal attacks are unwarranted and unhelpful. I certainly didn't mean anything that way, and let me apologize should anybody have taken anything that way. My

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC 4.2.1 apparently in an infinite loop.

2018-09-16 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2018-09-16 05:27, G.W. Haywood via BackupPC-users wrote: Once again, thank you for your input. Do consider some restraint. That's fair. Consider the context: you've already admitted to breaking BackupPC after an upgrade and instead of methodically going through the steps of getting it

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC 4.2.1 apparently in an infinite loop.

2018-09-14 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2018-09-14 04:37, G.W. Haywood via BackupPC-users wrote: Hi there, About a month ago I made the elementary mistake of upgrading my backup server from Debian Jessie to Debian Stretch. Just about everything broke. The biggest concern was the backups themselves. The upgrade changed BackupPC

Re: [BackupPC-users] Deltacopy - Cant' backup subdir

2018-08-31 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2018-08-31 09:18, Omar Speranza wrote: Il 31/08/2018 18:01, Michael Stowe ha scritto: Of course, the usual way of doing this is to specify which directories you want to back up, in the web interface. Thank you Sorry for my english In the web interface I've set the "Backu

Re: [BackupPC-users] Deltacopy - Cant' backup subdir

2018-08-31 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2018-08-31 07:24, Omar Speranza wrote: Hi, I'd like to use backuppc to backup some subdir of C drive of my Windows PC. I've installed DeltaCopy on Windows machine and I've created a sharename called "DriveC" that points to C:\ path On backuppc of my Linux server I've created RsyncD xfer pr

Re: [BackupPC-users] Troubleshooting assistance for Bad Transfer

2018-08-29 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2018-08-28 14:09, Jaime Fenton wrote: Hi there, On advice from craigbarrett, I'm posting this query here. https://u2182357.ct.sendgrid.net/wf/click?upn=rBK8reUlX8Sxr7Iz1fV-2F7dCyrjIWd3LVbeqZFg4ygUFVElutyD6tczisbTOCLT1CDLPzWtJttd9gBFNYNE3XXg-3D-3D_OypFYCWzG5ApGW-2FFpGTxc4RCS9eud0Dl1htN5rYoUZ8

Re: [BackupPC-users] backup in a special scenario

2018-08-04 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2018-08-04 10:55, daggs wrote: Greetings, I have a windows installation running inside a kvm vm, for past experience, backup using the samba protocol is unreliable (mostly permissions issue which cause the backup to fail). This is probably why rsync is the protocol of choice for Windows rat

Re: [BackupPC-users] Tricks for Win 10 SMB Backup?

2018-07-30 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2018-07-30 11:24, Tim Evans wrote: On 07/30/2018 01:44 AM, Craig Barratt wrote: What is the value of $Conf{SmbClientFullCmd} and what is the smb command that is being run (see the XferLOG file)? $Conf{SmbClientFullCmd} = '$smbClientPath $host\\$shareName $I_option -U $userName -E -d 1 -

Re: [BackupPC-users] New Client; Same Hostname

2018-07-24 Thread Michael Stowe
with BackupPC. I'd recommend that you don't do it. BackupPC is not the only thing that will get confused. You will too. Examples below. On Tue, 24 Jul 2018, Michael Stowe wrote: 2. Login to the configuration folder cd /etc/BackupPC 2. Change the host file to the corresponding

Re: [BackupPC-users] New Client; Same Hostname

2018-07-23 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2018-07-23 12:36, Tim Evans wrote: I'm retiring the oldest PC among my BackupPC clients, and replacing it with a new one. Would like to use the same hostname for the new machine, but think this might confuse things with BackupPC. Can anyone suggest a process for making this work right? Than

Re: [BackupPC-users] Windows backup using SMB will not complete

2018-07-18 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2018-07-17 15:06, Sal Ghani wrote: Hi All, Newbie to BackupPC, running v 3.3.1 on CentOS 7. I am attempting to backup 1 shared folder on a Windows 2008 R2 server using SMB. On running a full backup, I see files get copied to the backuppc server from the 2008R2 server but the backup job will

Re: [BackupPC-users] Large directory

2018-07-09 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2018-07-09 09:21, Bowie Bailey wrote: On 7/9/2018 12:09 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: On Mon, Jul 9, 2018 at 9:42 AM, Bowie Bailey wrote: There was still plenty of free RAM and no swap usage. I know it was still doing something because the pool filesystem was slowly growing. I could try an st

Re: [BackupPC-users] Are Files Re-Copied In Pool On Reinstall of Backup Client Operating System

2018-06-19 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2018-06-19 08:29, Carl W. Soderstrom wrote: On 06/19 03:18 , Akibu Flash wrote: So, does the BackupPC pool keep the original backed-up files indefinitely, or is there a period of time after which it deletes the files, the theory being it doesn't see that Windows client anymore and thus the

Re: [BackupPC-users] Slow local backup

2018-06-19 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2018-06-19 06:55, Bowie Bailey wrote: On 6/19/2018 1:35 AM, Michael Schumacher wrote: Hi there Friday, June 15, 2018, 3:06:30 PM, you wrote: BB> It finally finished after 24 hours.  That gives about 13G/hour or about BB> 3.8M/s. BB> The CPUs were not busy.  That's what I was confused abo

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