dan wrote:
> did you create the user backuppc? if so, does backuppc have a home
> directory and does it have a default shell of /bin/bash?
http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html#item_backuppc_user
says:
For security purposes you might choose to configure the BackupPC user
shacky wrote:
>>> Maybe /usr/bin/perl is suid?
>
> Yes!
> Perl is suid:
>
> server:/usr/local/bin # ls -l /usr/bin/perl
> -rwsr-xr-x 3 root root 1334016 2007-11-08 18:49 /usr/bin/perl
>
> How permissions I have to set to /usr/bin/perl?
> On another server I have it setted to 755, is it right?
I
Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
> On 04/22 04:43 , shacky wrote:
>> Anyone is using BackupPC with the data directory (var/lib/backuppc)
>> on
>> a remote Samba share?
>
> Don't do it.
>
> - If you're using SMB or CIFS I don't think it will support the
> hardlinks
> that BackupPC requires for d
Matthew Metzger wrote:
> did you ever solve your problem? I'm using a package called xtar that
> correctly handles OS X resource forks, but it would be great to use
> rsync instead.
I believe Apple is phasing out using resource forks.
Nils Breunese.
-
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
> I have set up BackupPC on Kubuntu as a guest OS sitting on top of
> Windows XP using vmWare Server. Thus, my full set up is:
> - Windows XP Prof
> - vmWare Server
> - Kubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron (as a guest OS in vmWare)
> - virtual disk on a USB 320G disk
> - Curre
Arch Willingham wrote:
> In the past, I have successfully installed Backup PC by installing
> it from the files from the source athttp://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
> but have never been able to get it to work via the version that
> comes with Fedora FC8 or FC9 (I.E. the version that installs
Leandro Tracchia wrote:
> i am trying to backup the data to a NAS (Terastation). i've already
> read somewhere that the NAS needs to have a filesystem that supports
> hardlinks in order for backuppc to be able to do its thing. smb/cifs
> does not support hardlinks (as far as i know) so i can
Randy Grugan wrote:
> I am not sure if this is possible but I want to run the web front
> end of BackupPC on my apache server while having the backup and
> storage on another box. Is it possible to have the web front end
> talk to this back end? If possible can someone give me some pointers
Romain wrote:
> I would like to know if it's possible to use Postfix instead of Sendmail.
> If it's possible, do I change :
>
> $Conf{SendmailPath} = '/usr/sbin/sendmail';
>
> to $Conf{SendmailPath} = 'MY_PATH_OF_POSTFIX';???
Usually this is not necessary, as I believe almost all MTA's prov
Chris wrote:
> Thanks, but what about weekly full backups? Would that swamp our remote
> 512mbps connections?
You can always limit the bandwidth used by your backups.
> Our big issue here is retention - we have to keep backed up files
> indefinitely, can backuppc maintain a continually growing
Sam Przyswa wrote:
> We have to change our BackupPC server to a new machine, how to copy the
> entire BackupPC directory (120Gb) to an other machine ?
>
> I tried rsync, it crash after a long, long time, I tried scp but it
> don't pass the link and the dest directory become out of size after
> tr
Leandro Tracchia wrote:
> Would I have a problem running backuppc on a 64bit processor with Ubuntu
> 64bit OS???
We run BackupPC on CentOS 5 64-bit and it's working fine. Since Ubuntu
is even shipping a BackupPC package I wouldn't know why you'd have a
problem.
Nils Breunese.
---
Daniel Denson wrote:
> Actually, there are still a lot of issues when running a 64bit server
> system as some software has not been ported up or requires a specific
> library that has not been ported to 64bit.Mostly, it is libraries
> that are 64bit and 32bit programs that can't use them.
Eduardo Trápani wrote:
> I tried many programs, in Windows and Linux, to no avail.
>
> The problem was that Backuppc (actuallly the perl zip module)
> created the zip file on the fly, with the normal 32bit headers,
> without knowing that it would be bigger than 2G. Whenever a program
> trie
Sam Przyswa wrote:
> I installed BackupPC 3.1.0 (before 2.1.2 on an old machine) on new
> machine with Apache2 but the main script BackupPC_Admin is displayed
> on
> browser instead of be executed !?
>
> What is the right apache2 config to run BackupPC ?
See the docs:
http://backuppc.sourcefor
Les Mikesell wrote:
> Hendrik Friedel wrote:
>>
>
>> Well, I manually started the backup. I was not notified that the
>> HDD is over
>> 95% full.
>> Moreover: If the Backup Fails because the HDD is full, this is
>> exactly what
>> should be in the Error-Message, don't you agree?
>
> Well yes,
Les Stott wrote:
> For the excludes you can use "*" which means apply to all shares.
Not entirely correct. Technically it means 'apply to all shares that
do not have any explicitly set settings'.
Nils Breunese.
-
This SF.
Sebastian Perkins wrote:
> We are new to backuppc (migrating from an old DAT tape based system
> to disk based backup) and we have a question regarding full & incr
> backups.
>
> Our goal is to maintain 2 months of data off samba shares.
>
> We will be using the rsync option (better incrementa
Deja3 wrote:
> Ok, I have fixed this problem. It seems that Fedora 9 ships with
> samba version 3.2.0-1.pre3.9, which does not work (for whatever
> reason) with BackupPC. The fix is to download the latest STABLE
> source of samba (3.0.28a) and compile it yourself and then do a "make
> install" t
Renke Brausse wrote:
>> If that doesn't work with the version of Samba they ship
>> then I suggest filing a bug report:
>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugsAndFeatureRequests
>
> another possibility would be the Redhat bugtracker on
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/ - afaik this is the "official" p
Doug Lytle wrote:
> Barry Robinson wrote:
>> Is there any way to use Postfix instead of Sendmail for BackupPC?
>
> I think it's as simple as creating a symlink to postfix and name it
> sendmail
>
> ln -s /usr/sbin/postfix /usr/sbin/sendmail
>
> Actually, I just checked. There is already a symli
dan wrote:
> Rsync v3 does greatly(samba's words) improve memory usage and file
> list transfer time, as well as allowing transfers to begin before
> the full file list is tranfered. hardlink transfers are also much
> faster in v3.
>
> Other nice features are support for extended attributes
Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
> in the /etc/backuppc/hosts file (or whereever it may be), one can
> specify
> multiple users who have access to that system.
>
> for instance:
> hostdhcpusermoreUsers
> pc080 backuppc foo,bar,baz
>
> Instead of 'foo,bar,baz', is
Craig Barratt wrote:
> Nils writes:
>
>> You can set the admin users in $Conf{CgiAdminUsers}. See the docs:
>> http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html#item__conf_cgiadminusers_
>
> You can also put a single unix group in $Conf{CgiAdminUserGroup},
> whose membership is unioned with $Conf
Les Mikesell wrote:
> Benedict simon wrote:
>>
>> Dear All
>>
>> I have just installed backup PC as per the docs and now when i run
>>
>> http://hostname/BackupPC_Admin
>>
>> the main page .. Backuppc Server status page comes but no images.
>>
>> also in the http errors.log i c
>>
>>
>> [Sun Jun 0
Benedict simon wrote:
> Thanks Guys and really apprecite for your quick reply
> actually under mu cgi-bin director i only have the BackupPC_Admin
> script
> which is installed by the install program.
> only i had a soft link in my cgi-bin directory to the images directory
> which was under /var/
Sam Przyswa wrote:
> 1) I CAN'T run the ../BackupPC_Admin if the mod_perl is not enabled
> for
> this site, it just display the file instead of run it
Is BackupPC_Admin in your cgi-bin directory?
> 2) Other problem with the 3.1.0 it need File::RsyncP 0.68 and on
> Debian
> Etch only the 0.64
Alexandre Joly wrote:
>> 2) Other problem with the 3.1.0 it need File::RsyncP 0.68 and on
>> Debian
>> Etch only the 0.64 is available, how to fix it ???
>
> You need to update aptitude sources to "unstable"
> # nano /etc/apt/sources.list
> deb http://debian.yorku.ca/debian/ unstable main
> deb-
fatima ech-charif wrote:
> I would like to install backuppc in ubuntu gusty 7.10
> if you are some document about installing backuppc in ubuntu
You can install backuppc using apt-get (apt-get install backuppc) or
your favorite apt frontend (aptitide, synaptic, etc.).
Nils Breunese.
-
Benedict simon wrote:
> 1) can backupPC back up open files
If the transfer method used can, then yes. I use rsync over SSH with
Linux clients. No problem there. I think using smb with Windows
clients may give problems.
> 2) can anyone sugest n help me of any links which have examples of the
Op 12 jun 2008, om 07:59 heeft Benedict simon het volgende geschreven:
>> Benedict simon wrote:
>>
>>> 1) can backupPC back up open files
>>
>> If the transfer method used can, then yes. I use rsync over SSH with
>> Linux clients. No problem there. I think using smb with Windows
>> clients may giv
fatima ech-charif wrote:
> http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html
>
> i have question,
>
> i can use this installing ' process in ubuntu gusty 7.10
>
> thanks
>
> because i don't find this packages:
> Compress::Zlib
> Archive::Zip
> XML::RSS
> File::RsyncP
I would take the easy route a
Christoph Litauer wrote:
> Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) schrieb:
>> Benedict simon wrote:
>>> 1) can backupPC back up open files
>> If the transfer method used can, then yes. I use rsync over SSH
>> with Linux clients. No problem there. I think using smb with
Benedict simon wrote:
> i have configured ssh and im succesfully able to run the command
> from my
> backup server to the client machine.
>
> ssh -l root clientpc whoami
>
> and it returns me root
> also i can loginto the client machine withot password
>
> so my ssh configuration is perfect for
Chris Baker wrote:
> I am having trouble with the web interface. Here is what happens
> when I try
> to access the BackupPC_Admin in Firefox:
>
>
> Error: Unable to read config.pl or language strings!!
>
> Note: $ENV{REMOTE_USER} is not set, which could mean there is an
> installation problem. B
Holm Kapschitzki wrote:
> I copied the backuped files from /var/lib/backuppc/pc to another dir,
> setup a new backuppc and now i want to restore some files from the
> folder i copied the old files into. But they all have a "f" in front.
> Anyone knows how to restore the files?
Use the BackupPC w
Leandro Tracchia wrote:
> i'm trying to backup a linux client but i'm getting a strange error...
> i can manually ssh into this client with no problem. any ideas???
Can you also SSH into this client as the BackupPC user (not root) on
your BackupPC server? That's exactly what BackupPC tries to d
Leandro Tracchia wrote:
> i CAN ssh into the client with the backuppc user from the backuppc
> server. to log into the client i need to supply the root password. how
> does backuppc know what the root password is to log in??? i never
> specified the root password in config.pl. is this something rs
serge pecher wrote:
> I had backuppc working for a while without problems.
>
> After, I think, an update I am in trouble with ssh (can't read 4
> bytes)
>
> When I try to ssh -l root to the client as backuppc user it keeps
> asking the root password.
>
> I tried an update of openssl on both ma
Koen Linders wrote:
> I don't know if its possible.
>
> Anyone managed to use backuppc to backup e.g. ftp://example.com
> providing
> a login and password?
> I can't find anything in the documentation or wiki.
From docs: "No client-side software is needed. On WinXX the standard
smb protocol
Andrey Shmigelsky wrote:
> Im trying to backup a windows machine and in the end it gives me
> this message:
>
> Running: /usr/bin/smbclient 192.168.4.37\\InetPub -U
> administrator -E -N -d 1 -c tarmode\ full -Tc -
>
> full backup started for share InetPub
> Xfer PIDs are now 4645,4644
> [
Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
> On 07/16 06:13 , Tino Schwarze wrote:
>> we recently installed a server from scratch and renamed the old
>> host on
>> the backup server to keep it's backups (and disabled backups
>> altogether). Now I would like to expire the old backups from that
>> host.
>>
Arch Willingham wrote:
> I have been looking at (and installed) both packages. I have tried
> to find a comparison of the advantages and disadvantages of each as
> compared to the other but found nothing very informative. Any ideas-
> thoughts from anyone out there?
- BackupPC is more geared
Ralf Gross wrote:
> Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) schrieb:
>> Arch Willingham wrote:
>>
>>> I have been looking at (and installed) both packages. I have tried
>>> to find a comparison of the advantages and disadvantages of each as
>>> compared to the other but
Ray Todd Stevens wrote:
> On 22 Jul 2008 at 15:39, Frédéric Massot wrote:
>
> I don't believe that the exclude parameter works with rsync. Or at
> least
> that is what I ran into and what I believe that the documentation
> says.
>
> I basically had to include multiple directories in such a m
Frédéric Massot wrote:
> Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) a écrit :
>> Ray Todd Stevens wrote:
>>
>>> On 22 Jul 2008 at 15:39, Frédéric Massot wrote:
>>>
>>> I don't believe that the exclude parameter works with rsync. Or at
>>> least
Ray Todd Stevens wrote:
> On 22 Jul 2008 at 17:19, Kurt Tunkko wrote:
>
> That is what I get to. Also if you look at the rsync command there
> is no
> provision for excluding files. It appears that in order to exclude
> files they
> would have to in some manner be excluded after they have
Vincent Fleuranceau wrote:
>>> The parameter exclude is not in the command line of rsync.
>>
>> The include/exclude information is sent over the socket connection
>> to the remote rsync, not in via the command line.
>
> Craig,
>
> Don't you think this should be mentioned in the documentation or
>
Vincent Fleuranceau wrote:
> Le 22 juil. 08 à 19:47, Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) a écrit :
>
>> Vincent Fleuranceau wrote:
>>
>>>>> The parameter exclude is not in the command line of rsync.
>>>>
>>>> The include/exclude information is sent ov
fatima ech-charif wrote:
> i use backuppc in ubuntu and i need to backup host linux client ,how
> to backup host linux client with backuppc ,
> thanks
See the documentation: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/
BackupPC.html If you have a specific problem, please tell us about it.
Nils Breune
Kurt Tunkko wrote:
> regarding your question:
>
> I'm backing up my server with backuppc via rsyncd.
I use rsync over SSH for all my Linux machines. The advantage is that
the client setup is really easy. I just copy the public SSH key to the
client and I can back it up without setting up any
Steve Blackwell wrote:
> Adam Goryachev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Set the full path to sudo eg /bin/sudo
>>
>> Maybe that will help.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Adam
>
> Thanls for the suggestion but I still get the same error.
Is your sudo binary really /bin/sudo? On our CentOS machines 'which
brunal wrote:
> One question that I dont understand : can I use another user than
> root to connect to my host?
>
> Indeed, the server i want to backup is the main server of my network,
> and pretty well secured. That means, hence, that root cannot have
> access to the server through ssh, only non
Steve wrote:
> Well, I changed to use the correct full path for sudo and now I get
> this error:
>
> Contents of file /media/disk/pc/steve/XferLOG.bad.z, modified
> 2008-07-29
> 12:25:04
>
> Running: /usr/bin/sudo /bin/tar -c -v -f - -C / --totals --
> newer=2008-07-27\
> 17:56:09 .
> incr ba
Aleksey Tsalolikhin wrote:
> Hi. I am trying to get BackupPC working on a Fedora Core 6 server.
>
> I installed BackupPC with "yum install backuppc" and "yum install
> httpd".
>
> But when I fire up the Web interface, it says
>
> Error: Unable to connect to BackupPC server
I guess you di
Holger Parplies wrote:
> brunal wrote on 2008-07-30 11:49:12 +0200 [Re: [BackupPC-users]
> Fatal error (bad version): OpenSSH_5.0p1]:
>> [...]
>> So I deleted the message in /etc/issue.net and also comment the
>> "banner /etc/issue.net" line in /etc/ssh/sshd_config.
>
> Well, removing the "banne
drew64 wrote:
> I have been looking for some free backup software to back up my
> music and photos to an external hard drive and maybe DVD's. I have
> tried Cobian but dont know if I like it since it has no restore
> function. Have read somethings about winbackup and was also told to
> try
Alan McKay wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 7:09 PM, Alan McKay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>>> let me rephrase that. If your XferLOG.0.z is really 101GB long,
>>> there is
>>> either something seriously wrong, you are backing up an insane
>>> amount of data,
>>> or your path names are all
Chris Baker wrote:
> A couple days ago, someone asked about Linux and Western Digital
> external
> hard drives. This is a response, sort of. I am posting my notes on
> how I got
> a Seagate Free Agent drive to work with Linux. I hope this will help
> with
> other drives. I make no guarantees
Thomas Mederer wrote:
> I just try to connect to the webinterface of backuppc. But I always
> get the following error in the browser:
>
> The requested URL /backuppc was not found on this server
>
> I have installed the program with the following commands:
>
> apt-get install backuppc
> apt-get
Ward... James Ward wrote:
> I'm trying to back up some Arm processor console servers which only
> have busybox tar available. Busybox tar does not support --totals
> and I THINK this is why the backups are failing. I tried writing a
> wrapper script that spits out a bogus --totals line, bu
Ward... James Ward wrote:
> Since I don't have rsync or gnu tar on my busybox console servers,
> is it possible to configure BackupPC to use scp?
No, the only values for $Conf{XferMethod} for backups are smb, rsync,
rsyncd and tar. See the documentation:
http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/B
Adam Dempsey wrote:
> I have read that people have done it before but I am struggling to get
> BackupPC to run on an OS X Server, to backup linux clients.
>
> I think I have it installed but I can't figure out how to get the CGI
> script to work, I get Error 500, I'm sure I haven't setup something
Dejan Batic wrote:
> Thanks for the script but it seems to me that our Linux
> distributions are
> too different.
>
> In my installation when I look at /etc/apache2/conf.d there is link
> to the
> file /etc/backup/apache.conf that says:
>
> AuthUserFile /etc/backuppc/htpasswd
>
> I added manu
Hello,
We have configured $Conf{EMailAdminUserName} so emails with warnings
and errors are delivered to the backup admin. Our users are all on
different domains. I know you can set $Conf{EMailUserDestDomain} for
email sent to users, but that only configures the domain part of the
email add
Alan McKay wrote:
>> configuration file would not be enough. Is it possible to set up
>> arbitrary user email addresses for the emails?
>
> Doesn't the email go to the local user who is listed in the hosts
> file?
> I don't have a very complex setup yet because I have myself listed as
> the only
Ishan Patel wrote:
> ok here is the intented output . .
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] BackupPC]# /etc/init.d/backuppc restart
> Shutting down BackupPC:[ OK ]
> Starting BackupPC: [ OK ]
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] BackupPC]# su - back
Terri Kelley wrote:
> I have set up BackupPC on a Centos server and am testing now. Trying
> the first backup to a host, also Centos, I received the following:
>
> full backup started for directory /home/backuppc/test/log/
> Got fatal error during xfer (fileListReceive failed)
>
> I tried it fir
Terri Kelley wrote:
> Where is that stored? Reason I asked, I was reading over the archives
> on how to backup different hosts with different directories and found
> a post on putting a config.pl in the /pc/host directory. I then
> decided to add second path on that same host and used the edit con
Christian Völker wrote:
> I've installed BackupPC 3.x and it looks like it runs fine :)
> I'm backing up approx. 20 Linux machines.
>
> Some of them needs some special task to performed before the backup
> (i.e. database servers).
> I haven't figured out how to perform this.
>
> On my old backup
Ron Fabre wrote:
> 1. Each restore action should notify our accounts dep't so that
> excessive numbers of restores can be invoiced to the customer.
You can set $Conf{RestorePreUserCmd} to run a script before the
restore operation:
http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html#item__conf_re
Michael Mohn wrote:
> just a small question..:
>
> on my debian, backuppc is showing 27GB Pool Size in the status
> table, but the graph shows only 2.0GB.
> what's wrong?
> maybe a known bug?
I don't see any graphs in BackupPC 3.1.0. Where do you find this
graph? Have you checked which of tho
David Hopkins wrote:
> I have deleted and recreated the ssh keys, changed the command line to
> use sudo which then gives a different error: It says you need a tty to
> run sudo. At this point I am not sure what to try next.
http://www.mail-archive.com/backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg114
Christian Völker wrote:
> |> Assume, the full backup is finished after two weeks- will the
> next full
> |> backup take the same amount of time?
> | If you are using rsync it will be much faster next time, sending
> only
> | the changes.
> If so, again the question what is then the difference
nadia kheffache wrote:
> I have installed backuppc 3 on centos5 (Redhat distribution), i
> backup successfully, today i have error when i tart backup manualy:
> dump failed: can't find Compress::Zlib
>
> i do cpan>install Compress::Zlib, but i have other dependences, when
> i install any mod
dan wrote:
> consider
> 1) do you need to backup all of the files on that system? are there
> some large files or mp3 or video files that can be skipped?
> consider narrowing the scope of the backup to just appropriate files.
> 2) consider compressing the data. With such a small pipe you wi
Alex Dehaini wrote:
> Where is the backuppc logo that appears on the cgi interface stored?
Some ideas:
1. Right click the image in your browser and copy the image location.
That should give you a clue.
2. The BackupPC installer script asks for an 'Apache image directory'
and the logo.gif fil
Christian Völker wrote:
> Now the backup is running for hours and nothing is happening.
>
> (...)
>
> So what is going on there?
Ask strace.
> I added the "-z --checksum-seed=32761" parameters to rsync. Could this
> be related?
I know File::RsyncP handles --checksum-seed as it's mentioned in t
Alan McKay wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 6:09 AM, rorschach999
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> No Selinux on opensuse 11.0, as far as I know!
>> At least I did not find it in the runlevels.
>
> You won't see it on the run levels. On fedora there is a file
> /etc/selinux/config and in there you
Hello,
I noticed some outdated documentation.
The 'Removing a client' section under 'Other installation topics' [0]
says to set $Conf{FullPeriod} to a negative value to disable backups
for a client. However, the documentation on $Conf{BackupsDisable} [1]
says:
In versions prior to 3.0
Hendrik Friedel wrote:
> This takes ages, which is ok, but I'm logged in to the server via
> ssh, so
> that using the nohup command would be useful. This has the drawback,
> that
> the nohup.out is empty, so that I cannot monitor the process.
Install screen and see 'man screen'. Other than th
Aitor Carrera wrote:
> Hi! I have backuppc configured and running, backing up every
> production server. the backups where storage in a backup server and,
> periodically, I run manually an archive to tape drive. I'm tring to
> schelude the archive but i'm not able to find documentation about
Peter wrote:
> I've run setup.exe on Windows XP to install rsync and other packages
> for
> cygwin. However, it only provides version 2.6.9. I want to install,
> as
> mentioned in this topic, version 3.0.3, however I am unable to find it
> via setup.exe nor visiting the site cygwin.com. Any p
Peter wrote:
> Thanks for replying Nils. From the thread I was reading that rsync
> 3.0.3
> has fixed many problems, in particular memory. Using ver2.6.9 and I
> have
> had Windows system blue screen, ie crash.
I don't know if using rsync 3 may solve crash problems, but BackupPC's
File::Rsy
Raphael Alla wrote:
> Based on this thread, is there any benefit in doing incremental
> backups when using rsync?
>
> It seems to me that full backup are vastly superior to incremental
> ones because:
> * They do use existing data available on the server and do not use
> more bandwidth than
Andrei Stebakov wrote:
> I've installed BackupPC on my Ubuntu server, but its hard drives
> have relatively small capacity so I'd rather use my Windows machines
> to put the backups on.
> Is it possible to move the storage media from /var/lib/backuppc from
> local machine to some remote Wind
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
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
Philippe Rousselot wrote:
> I went to the sourceforge site and noticed that the last update of ths
> cvs was 9 month old. Does it mean that developpement stopped or that
> the
> next version is not on this server ?
I believe BackupPC is still a pretty active project. Releases are
usually quit
Kevin DeGraaf wrote:
> We have an on-site BackupPC server (2.1.2pl1) backing up 31 hosts,
> with
> a total pool size of 1.8 TB.
>
> We're going to deploy an off-site backup server in a colocation
> facility. The colo has a great deal of bandwidth available, but our
> office is stuck with a T1 c
Merz, Christian wrote:
> I've set up $EMailUserDestDomain to '@foo.bar', but it seems like it
> doesn't get appended.
>
> Running '/usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_sendEmail -u
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]', the mail is delivered.
> But if I try '/usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_sendEmail -u user', I
Kenneth Porter wrote:
> --On Saturday, October 04, 2008 11:24 AM -0600 dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> wrote:
>
>> if you have rsync 3 on both client and server, backuppc(via CPAN
>> file-rsync) will infact get to take advantage some of the rsync 3
>> benefits.
>
> Interesting. I'll have to see if t
Rob Owens wrote:
> dan wrote:
>> Your best bet here is to use udev rule for the device
>>
>
> Careful! This will sync *any* drive that you plug in, won't it? Or
> is
> there a way to have a udev rule that applies to only a drive with a
> specific UUID?
I believe it's possible to have udev rul
Kenneth L. Owen wrote:
> When I started this transition, Fedora 8 was issued and stable.
> When I am
> more stable with Linux, I'll be willing to be more adventurous. --
> ken
Actually, using Fedora for servers *is* being adventurous, because it
has such a short lifecycle. If want a stabl
Kenneth L. Owen wrote:
> For a number of years I have run a small home network of windows
> machines. I recently decided to move my computing to Linux. I now
> have two machines running Fedora 8. The first machine assumed the
> role of my windows server using samba. The second machine is
Seann Clark wrote:
> Another way to do this is get a Windows type box, use MySqlAdmin on
> the windows box (Free perdy GUI download J ) and have it schedule
> the backups. The backups end up as TXT files that compress
> wonderfully, and restore perfectly.
I don't really see the advantage of
Adam Goryachev wrote:
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# su backuppc
>> bash-3.2$<== This doesn't look as expected
>
> Actually, yes, this is the default prompt, which is usually modified
> in
> your ~/.bashrc or ~/.bash_profile files, but the backuppc user doesn't
> have/use these files
Stephen Vaughan wrote:
> Why use Fedora at all?? Debian is your friend
If you're used to the Fedora way (a.k.a. Red Hat way) of things and
want a distribution with a long lifecycle then I'd say CentOS (or RHEL
if you need paid support) is a better choice than Debian. Debian is a
fine distri
Yazz D. Atlas wrote:
> How difficult would it be to have BackupPC create a link to the last
> Full backup. The reason this would be handy to me is I'm required to
> backup to tape to a system I don't have much control over. I just want
> to tell the backup service a simple directorie to grab. I wo
Kenneth L. Owen wrote:
> That only leaves one issue: I can't log into the web GUI from the
> Windows
> server. I have ssl setup and can get the default web page with
> https://Archiver/ but https://Archiver/BackupPC/ gets a 403 screen
> - Not
> Authorized . This is the same line that I use
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