Richard Mace wrote:
I created a problem by creating backup of a share that does not
exist
on a host machine. Does the email only get generated at midnight?
The
reason I ask is because the backuppc server has not been left on
over
night yet?
The email is sent when the nightly jobs finish
Jon Forrest wrote:
Also, I read the documentation and learned that if the smb
transport is being used, there are rules about what happens
if both BackupFilesOnly and BackupFilesExclude and specified.
Why do these rules only apply when smb is used, and not
when rsync is used?
This is explained
Richard Mace wrote:
http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html#email_reminders__status_and_messages
I think that the issue maybe that I want to send an email to a
specific address, not just the domain adjustment "@mydomain.com" but
actually, the full qualified email?
When I hover ove
dan wrote:
i think the more appropriate solution would be have have backuppc
check for the required program at an appropriate time. just as
during startup. also, in the CGI interface have it check for rsync
when trying to select the rsync method and throwing an error. i
dont really lik
Jon Forrest wrote:
Me again.
I'm running BackupPC 3.1 on CentOS 5. Most of my clients have rsync
in /usr/local/bin/rsync but some of them have it in /usr/bin/rsync.
My server config.pl has
--
# Path to rsync executable on the client
#
$Conf{RsyncClientPath} = '/usr/local/bin/rsync';
#$
Craig Barratt wrote:
* Added some performance improvements, including optional support
for IO::Dirent.
For RPMforge users: IO::Dirent is now available in the rpmforge
repository. Just 'yum install perl-IO-Dirent' and restart BackupPC.
Nils Breunese.
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Jon Forrest wrote:
If your distribution already supports a recent version of perl,
mod_perl, and a web server then I think installing backuppc from
source is so easy that your choice of distribution should be based
on other factors than backuppc support.
Getting it configured to work the way yo
Mohamad El-cheikh wrote:
I reinstalled backuppc after I changed my hard disk Debian,
once I went to start backuppc by /etc/init.d/backuppc start, I got
the following error. I reinstalled from the scratch the backuppc
four time, but I got keep the same error
bash: /etc/init.d/backuppc: No
Reynier Perez Mira wrote:
Hi every and soury for the previous message sent to the list:
As the title said I'm newbie using BackupPC and have my first
questions, can BackupPC save data from a remote machine to a server
machine?
If I understand your question correctly, yes that is what Backu
Les Mikesell wrote:
Brendan Simon wrote:
I have backuppc running on a Debian Etch system.
For some reason my backups aren't occurring anymore. I can initiate
them manually via the web interface but they don't seem to start
automatically each night.
What reasons could prevent them starting aut
Stephen Bainbridge wrote:
I've made the changes you suggest and I'm only able to get (near) the
Admin page using a URL such as; http://192.168.0.79/cgi-bin/BackupPC_Admin
It then asks me for a Username/Password. I enter the same details that
are in the /etc/lighttpd/userfile and it fails giving
Lai Chen Kang wrote:
I tried to test the email. This is Backuppc 3.0. Below is the error
I got.
bash-3.00$ /usr/bin/BackupPC_sendEmail -u [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sending test email using /bin/mail -t -f STMGSINBACKUP1
/bin/mail: invalid option -- t
Usage: mail [-iInv] [-s subject] [-c cc-addr] [-b
Lai Chen Kang wrote:
This is on CentOS 4.5. I just run the command /usr/bin/
BackupPC_sendEmail command with the following arguments and I get
the resulting output. That is why I asked, why is BackupPC_sendEmail
using the argument -t in mail? I have not modified the
$Conf{SendmailPath}.
Bo Hermannsen wrote:
i have just installed fedora 8 and found out about backuppc which was
installed along with the os
nice tool but VERY hard to setup... at least for me
i have googled for a webmin interface but did not find any...
BackupPC has its own web interface.
so far i got backup pc
Bo Hermannsen wrote:
the problem is that i cant connect to the web-interface
Have you checked your webserver's error_log?
Nils Breunese.
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Bo Hermannsen wrote:
ScriptAlias /BackupPC /usr/share/BackupPC/sbin/BackupPC_Admin
As far as I can see from the above configuration the location to reach
BackupPC is /BackupPC, not /backuppc.
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Bo Hermannsen wrote:
same error..
try to http://tina-og-bo.dk/BackupPc
It's /BackupPC, not /BackupPc or /backuppc.
i get either a 400 or 404 error.. 400 if i use 192.168.1.1 and 404
if i use
tina-og-bo.dk
That's weird. That probably means 192.168.1.1 and tina-og-bo.sk are
not the same
Bo Hermannsen wrote:
using putty and running lynx localhost/BackupPC gives me:
Error: Unable to connect to BackupPC server
You need to start the BackupPC service:
# service backuppc start
You might want to set it to start on boot.
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Bo Hermannsen wrote:
It's /BackupPC, not /BackupPc or /backuppc.
doh.. http://tina-og-bo.dk/BackupPC gives me a 500 error.. internal
server
error
Well, what is the error according to the error_log?
i get either a 400 or 404 error.. 400 if i use 192.168.1.1 and 404
if i use
tina-og-bo.dk
Jon Forrest wrote:
A couple of weeks ago I had trouble
configuring BackupPC to include and exclude
client directories. With the help of readers
of this list, I learned that I didn't understand
the syntax and semantics of the $Conf{BackupFilesOnly}
variable.
One way that I could have avoided thi
Carlos Acedo wrote:
I'm trying to configure BackupPC to backup different hosts, but I
would
like to keep the data more time for some hosts.
As I understand from de doc this is not possible, am I right?
No, you're not right. :o)
From the overview section in the docs: "Flexible configuration
dan wrote:
all linux distros should be using GNU tar. the original non-GNU tar
should only be found on proprietary systems.
Is *BSD a proprietary system? :o)
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Op 27 dec 2007, om 01:50 heeft dan het volgende geschreven:
On Dec 26, 2007 4:02 PM, Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> all linux distros should be using GNU tar. the original non-GNU
tar
> should only be found on proprietary systems.
Is *BSD a proprietar
Arthur Odekerken wrote:
> Thank you for your reply.
> That's really a shame, I really didn't know that. Otherwise I bought
> a different NAS system than the LaCie Ethernet Disk mini. Does
> anybody have a compatibilty list of all NAS systems that are
> compatible with hard links or maybe a t
Rob Morin wrote:
> SO i checked out my log files for full backups and i see this
>
> Does this simply mean its backing up more and more files each
> time i
> mean a full backup is ALL files right? so with that, does that mean
> somehow i am having more and more files on the server?
Of c
Sean Carolan wrote:
> We are using backuppc in our production environment and it's working
> well. I would like to start doing regular backups of the BackupPC
> server to external USB drives. The problem we've run into is that
> there are so many files, rsync dies with an 'out of memory' error.
Jon S. wrote:
> 3.1.0 now shows up as an upgrade in Debian Lenny. I still have 3.0.0
> installed.
>
> I perused the changelog and didn't see anything major.
>
> Is there anything I should do before upgrading? Any reports of
> anything
> major breaking?
Still it's quite a list of bugfixes:
ht
Jon S. wrote:
> Upgrade seemed to go well.
>
> Got a little concerned when I saw this flash by:
> ---
> Unpacking replacement backuppc ...
> dpkg: warning - unable to delete old directory
> `/var/lib/backuppc/pc/localhost': Directory not empty
> ---
You were concerned when you saw your ba
Paul Fox wrote:
> (i still think "--hard-links" should be mentioned in the config file
> comments somewhere, or perhaps should even become the default.)
I believe --hard-links is a default option. At least I don't recall
adding it and I have it in my config.pl.
Nils Breunese.
Mark Best wrote:
> Tony’s idea of using Exmerge is just brilliant, But it got me
> thinking… Has anyone ever thought of being able to recover
> _individual emails_ directly to/and from an Exchange server? I’m
> just brain storming here but scripts like
> http://cwashington.netreach.net/depo
Jockes wrote:
> What approach do you have when using backuppc and taking backups of
> mysql databases. Previously I have used a cron job executing
> mysqldump but wonder if you are using something different?
We use $Conf{DumpPreUserCmd} instead of cron to run a script that runs
mysqldump on
Arron Cox wrote:
> Yup its in there and set to en
>
> $Conf{Language} = 'en';
I guess there is some other syntax error in your config file then.
Maybe a missing/misplaced semicolon somewhere? Since it's Perl, you
can feed it to the perl binary to find out what's wrong with it.
pe
Arron Cox wrote:
> I just did an upgrade from 3.0.0 to 3.1.0 on an Ubuntu feisty
> server. During the install I told it where the config file was and
> it read it and set everything up accordingly and the install went
> smooth. When I went to start BackupPC I get this error...
>
> [EMAIL P
Arron Cox wrote:
> Ok well I setup a new box with Ubuntu 7.10 and this time I did "apt-
> get backupc" and installed it fresh. Backuppc started up just
> fine. Then I downloaded BackupPC-3.1.0.tar.gz and "tar zxf" it.
>
> Then I did
>
> cd BackupPC-3.1.0
>
> Then I did...
>
> perl con
Brad Triem wrote:
> I've seen a couple of threads regarding this topic suggesting for
> the most
> part installing the RPM's via dag weirs or ATRPMs. I've got RHEL5 and
> backuppc 3.0 and 3.1. I did a system update in November and it
> upgraded
> perl from 5.8.7 to 5.8.8. Since then I have
Jockes wrote:
> Tony Molloy wrote:
>>
>> On Friday 11 January 2008 09:42:43 Jockes wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I want to have different wakeups för different backups and wonder
>>> how I
>>> can handle this.
>>>
>>> E.g.
>>> - The server (always up), want nightly backups at 02.00 AM
>>>
>>> -
Greg Smith wrote:
> Thanks to all for the replies. I've read all the backuppc docs and
> realized that hard links were an integral part of the design so I
> thought the answer to my question would be "no" but thought I'd
> ask. Since the principle reason for using hardlinks in backuppc is
James Peverill wrote:
> My backuppc is working great but I am having trouble getting my OSx
> clients to work properly. We are using SMB to back them up (which
> maybe
> is a mistake... advice here appreciated). We are just using a custom
> config per machine with the users login info. The m
Jeff McAffer wrote:
> I am looking to use BackupPC in an environment with several roaming
> laptops and a wad of disk on a hosting site. I am not a sysadmin
> expert and looking at the doc it is not readily apparent if this is
> something reasonable to attempt. There are some mentions of
B. Cook wrote:
> I'm setting up a new machine trying out different things..
>
> Do I need to setup sshd/rsync so that the backuppc 'user' can have
> full access to / ?
>
> Or is there a better, more efficient way?
You can also use sudo instead of ssh. We just use ssh so that we can
use the same
B. Cook wrote:
> I understand you conceptually..
>
> but where do I want to change what to make that happen?
I can't give you an example (others probably can, or search the list
archives), but you have to change the ClienCmd for the transfer method
that you use ($Conf{TarClientCmd} or $Conf{R
Wahyu Mahardian wrote:
> I've already install backuppc on my ubuntu 6.06 LTS Dapper Drake.
> After
> googling, i found that ubuntu 6.06 LTS comes with backuppc version
> 2.1.2-2ubuntu5 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/dapper/+source/backuppc.
> I just want to upgrade it to version 3.0.0 or newer.
>
Forum Horvath wrote:
> I have just installed BackuPC 3.1.0-1 rpm on Centos 5
> I do not see the config options (Which are all there on my 3.0
> versions of backupc) under the Server section of the web interface.
> The only options I have are:
> Status
> Hosy summary
> Documentaion
> Wikki
> Sour
Jockes wrote:
> I have some really big directories in the home dir. I would like to
> exclude those dirs from backup but can not get it working.
>
> $Conf{XferMethod} = 'rsync';
>
> $Conf{RsyncShareName} = [
> '/etc',
> '/root',
> '/home/userX/BackupTest'
> ];
>
> $Conf{BackupFilesExclude}
Jon Forrest wrote:
>> See the examples in the docs:
>> http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html#item__conf_backupfilesexclude_
>> Since you're using rsync shares, you have to specify the share
>> name and a dir relative to the share, so I guess it should be:
>>
>> $Conf{BackupFil
Angus Scott-Fleming wrote:
> Is there a port for BackupPC that will run on a FreeNAS
> box? http://freenas.org/ -- FreeNAS is a FreeBSD-based
> very-easy-to-set-up network-attached-storage box that
> makes it trivial to set up a box with RAID1 or RAID5 -- I
> got a box up and running in less than
Les Mikesell wrote:
> Angus Scott-Fleming wrote:
>> Is there a port for BackupPC that will run on a FreeNAS
>> box? http://freenas.org/ -- FreeNAS is a FreeBSD-based
>> very-easy-to-set-up network-attached-storage box that
>> makes it trivial to set up a box with RAID1 or RAID5 -- I
>> got a box
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Correction, what I meant to ask was if you could convert an
> incremental to a full
An rsync full backup does a block-level check on every file, an rsync
incremental doesn't. Do you want to go back in time and do the block-
level check anyway when you press this 'c
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I would like to know if it's possible to back up a database over
> internet.
> For example, if I have a website which is hosted by Free, and I want
> to back up a database, is it possible to do it with BackupPC ?
>
> If it is, with what XferMethod ? Rsync over SSH ?
Jocke wrote:
> I also are thinking of moving the backuppc storage and have read
> about the new mount. I have backuppc installed, so what should be
> the work process here?
>
> 1. Backup /var/lib/backuppc with tar
> 2. Delete /var/lib/backuppc
> 3. Mount the new disk at /var/lib/backuppc
> 4.
Jonathan Dumaresq wrote:
> 2 hdd for the os (Mirror RAID-0?)
RAID-0 is not a mirror, RAID-1 is.
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Jonathan Dill wrote:
> Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) wrote:
>> Jonathan Dumaresq wrote:
>>
>>
>>> 2 hdd for the os (Mirror RAID-0?)
>>>
>>
>> RAID-0 is not a mirror, RAID-1 is.
>>
> I took it to mean that he was referring to RAID 0+1 (two RA
Justin Best wrote:
>> 1- What filsystem I should use on the array for backuppc ?
>
> Don't do anything with FAT or other filesystems that don't support
> symlinks, BackupPC's pooling mechanism would choke on such a
> filesystem.
BackupPC uses *hardlinks* for pooling.
Nils Breunese.
Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> I've been using my own scripts
> http://digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/hobbies/backups.html to remotely
> mirror backuppc's date in an encrypted fashion.
>
> The problem is, the time rsync takes seems to keep growing. I
> expect this to continue more-or-less without bound,
Johan J wrote:
> Hello and thanks for a nice program. I like the design of backuppc
> there fore I decided to try it out.
>
> Backups aren't any good unless it's possible to extract data from it
> some late night when everything goes bad. I have no problem to
> restore from the user interfac
Op 6 feb 2008, om 11:33 heeft Gilles Guiot het volgende geschreven:
> I'm a newbie too, so I won't go in deep, and take my answer with
> some grain of salt :
>
> about the tar :
> To extract files from a Tar fileExtracts all files from a compressed
> Tar file of the name archive.tar.gz.
> tar
Jonathan Dumaresq wrote:
> The only think I need to read about, is that LVM. Does anyone here
> have a godd link about this ?
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
You probably want to skip the part about compiling the software
yourself and use apt or yum or whatever package manager comes
sergio wrote:
> I installed backuppc on CentOS 5.1 distribution
> in the help documentation, I found this example
> Example:
>
>$Conf{CgiUserHomePageCheck} = '/var/www/html/users/%s.html';
>$Conf{CgiUserUrlCreate} = 'http://myhost/users/%s.html';
>
>--> if /var/www/html/users/craig
age on the office's website. This is by no
means necessary for BackupPC to do its work, it's just there as a
bonus, should you want to use this.
Nils.
P.S. Please reply to the list.
> 2008/2/7, Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: sergio wrote:
>
> > I insta
sergio wrote:
> These users should be created on the server where I installed
> backuppc? and the password ?
No, you don't necessarily need to create these users as system users
on the BackupPC machine. See step 9 'CGI interface':
http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html#step_9__cgi
Stefan Mosleitner wrote:
> Is there no way to choose an external smbshare as destination path
> for backupfiles?
No, you cannot use a Samba share for the BackupPC pool, because Samba
shares don't support the hardlinks that BackupPC uses for its pooling
feature.
Nils Breunese.
Stephen Joyce wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Feb 2008, Les Mikesell wrote:
>
>> You also have to know how many references there are to each pool
>> item.
>> That is, pretty much duplicate the code of a filesystem without
>> gaining
>> much. And you can't let any of this change for the duration it
>> ta
Günter Pekar wrote:
> I would like to cp "/var/lib/backuppc" to a smb-share but I got
> still the following error:
> cp: cannot create special file `/mnt/backuppc/log/BackupPC.sock':
> Permission denied
>
> This seems to be a smb-issue?
Yes, Samba doesn't support all features that are support
sergio wrote:
> OK.
> A user can login and restore files machines that are assigned to
> that user.
> What I want to know is how to configure BackupPC to do this?
See step 4 'Setting up the hosts file' of the installation
instructions:
http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html#step_4
CoyoteTM-INC-Szeki wrote:
> I am using currently the 3.0 version (Ubuntu, 7.10)
>
> First Question:
>
> How can I restore a whole backup?
>
> 1. I created a linux backup, with "/" (root) share. It backs up
> everytging
> 2. If I want to restore something, i have do:
>
> /usr/share/backuppc/bin/B
Tim Hall wrote:
> I'm trying to exclude a directory from one of
> my backups and I can't seem to get the syntax
> correct.
>
> my rsync share is /mnt/wkm_main/vol1
> and I'm trying to exclude
> /mnt/wkm_main/vol1/Email (folder)
>
> first I just added Email
> next I tried
> /mnt/wkm_main/vol1/Email
Tim Hall wrote:
> My rsyncsharename = /mnt/wkm_main/vol1
> and I'm trying to exclude a sub-directory
> of Email.
>
> Exact setting right now is
> BackupFilesExclude = '/mnt/wkm_main/vol1/Email'
> (I'm using the single quotes)
The dir you exclude should be relative to the share.
$Conf{BackupFile
Dag Ove Hegreberg wrote:
> I'm new to BackupPC, but want to try it out.
> But, I have problem to get the CGI to run.
>
> OS: CentOS 5.1
>
> "The" file: -r-sr-xr-- 1 backuppc apache 3993 Feb 5 11:33
> BackupPC_Admin
>
> From the /var/log/httpd/error_log : Can't do seteuid!
>
> But when I test wi
jbk wrote:
> It would be better if the default pool directories were setable with
> $topDir.
You can configure your own dir when you use the source distribution
and use its installer. When you a packaged version the path the
installer has already done its job and so the path is already fixe
Benjamin SECLIER wrote:
> Good morning, I would know how to delete an host. (I think it's not
> enough to delete his path (/save/pc/192.)
> Thanks a lot for yous answer.
See 'Removing a client' in the docs:
http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html#other_installation_topics
Nils B
Mirco Piccin wrote:
> I'm trying to get a backup of a file.
>
> It's size is about 12 GB.
> I try to download it directly from Browse Backup, but the first time
> download freeze at about 3,99 GB, and the second time at about 2,76
> GB.
>
> Maybe there's a timeout for the direct downloading?
>
> I
Dirk Wackernagel wrote:
> I installed 3.0.0. on my F7 and everything was running fine until I
> updated to 3.1.0.
>
> Now I get the following error:
>
> Starting BackupPC: 2008-02-15 20:07:54 Can't create a test hardlink
> between a file in /mnt/net-storage/backup/pc and
> /mnt/net-storage/backup/
Mirco Piccin wrote:
> Any other tips?
Creating the archive locally on the server (using BackupPC_tarCreate
or BackupPC_zipCreate) and then transferring it to the Windows machine
is not an option?
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mark k wrote:
> Here is how I have mine setup, note the "/' =>" at the top, backing
> up 30 + systems this way with nor errors.
>
> $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
> '/' => [
> '/proc/*',
> '/sys/*',
> '/var/run/*',
> '/dev/*',
If you use '/' as the key, then these excludes only
Les Mikesell wrote:
> Mike Yates wrote:
>> Ah, thanks, Les!
>> That is what I had missed...
>> All data showing beautifully now after a quick vi and "reload".
>> I had thought the Apache authorisation was separate from the CGI
>> authorisation.
>
> The CGI observes the REMOTE_USER set by apache so
Nate Smith wrote:
> I'm trying to use backuppc for the first time. My server is
> squeaks-laptop, 192.168.0.104. The client is bart-laptop
> 192.168.0.101.
>
> The error output is normally associated with the authentication keys
> being incorrectly setup:
>
> full backup started for directory /hom
Curtis Preston wrote:
> Email addresses are masked the same way they are at the backuppc-users
> archives, with the @ sign being changed to " < at > ".
That's not the way the backuppc-users archive at SourceForge works.
SourceForge obfuscates the domain part of the e-mail address by
truncatin
Damien Hull wrote:
> Heres what I have
>
> BackupPC Server
> 1. Ubuntu Dapper Server (LTS)
> 2. Installed BackupPC from the Ubuntu package (apt-get)
> 3. According to the web interface I have version 2.1.2
>
> Network
> 1. laptop
> 2. Workstation
> 3. 3 servers
>
> Questions
> 1. Should I get the
Hello,
I'm backing up a bunch of machine using BackupPC 3.1.0. Everything has
been working fine for a long time, but since a couple of days backups
for one machine have been failing. The XferLOG for the last partial
backup has this error message:
Unable to open /mnt/backup/backuppc
Hello all,
We're running a BackupPC 3.1.0 installation on CentOS 4 32-bit on a
machine with the following specs:
- Intel Celeron CPU 2.66 GHz
- 512 MB RAM
- BackupPC pool on a single 250 GB ATA 133 drive
We currently running one backup at a time ($Conf{MaxBackups} = 1;).
This already maxes o
Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) wrote:
> I'm backing up a bunch of machine using BackupPC 3.1.0. Everything has
> been working fine for a long time, but since a couple of days backups
> for one machine have been failing. The XferLOG for the last partial
> backup has this error message:
Kimball Larsen wrote:
> Ok, I finally found and tracked down my problem.
>
> I'm using BackupPC on Ubuntu 7.10, which installs BackupPC 3.0.0.
> Turns out, changing the TopDir location does NOT change the location
> of the pool files - they are hardcoded to live in /var/lib/backuppc.
>
> Acco
dan wrote:
> this is interesting! what file does this diff apply to? can you
> give the command to patch the file please? and possibly put that in
> the wiki OR i will put it in the wiki if you put it here. thanks
I like to keep things separated. BackupPC does backups, my monitoring
softw
Ludovic Drolez wrote:
> I've also fixed another problem, which comes from the fact that I
> assumed
> that the CGI was index.cgi (only true for Debian users ?).
It's called BackupPC_Admin in the official distribution.
Nils Breunese.
daniel wrote:
> Hey!
> Try to run that command without -x argument in rsync. It works for me.
You're saying that not disabling X11 forwarding is helping you solve a
transfer problem? Sounds really odd to me as you really don't need X11
forwarding to backup using rsync over SSH.
Nils Breunese
dan wrote:
> -x is one filesystem, not forward X11. -X is forward X11
On OS X -x is 'disable X11 forwarding' and -X is 'enable X11
forwarding'. I was checking on OS X...
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Kenneth Porter wrote:
> --On Friday, February 29, 2008 3:03 PM -0600 Les Mikesell
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> You can also give things a hint about timing by manually starting a
>> backup from the web interface at the right time of day and letting
>> the
>> approximately 24 hour interval t
Paul wrote:
> Les Mikesell wrote:
>>
>
>> If you control the dhcp server, you can configure it to always give
>> the same IP to the same ethernet MAC address to nail it down.
>>
>
> Justin suggested the same. The current DHCP server is a Linksys
> router,
> so I don't have that option on there.
Lee A. Connell wrote:
> The every other day blackout is because I want to backup one server
> at a
> time because we are sending lots of data over a small internet pipe.
> Backing up both servers at the same time takes forever, so I do one
> server one day, another server the next.
You could al
Kai Grunau wrote:
> is there someone who could send me a /etc/init.d/backuppc script
> file for
> OpenSuse 10.3 2.6.22.17-0.1-default i686
>
> When I try to start backuppc I get the error :
> ---
>> /etc/init.d/backuppc start
>
> Starting backuppc: ok.
> /home/backuppc/bin/BackupPC: Wro
Kai Grunau wrote:
> I copied the suse-backuppc from the installation source to
> /etc/init.d/backuppc
Did you run configure.pl on that source before copying that init.d
script? I believe the configure.pl script modifies the init.d script
as it injects the username you specify.
Nils Breunese
Paul Mantz wrote:
> I'm trying to back up my home directory to my local machine, and I am
> trying to diagnose this error. I want to back up via rsync and have
> set $Conf{XferMethod} appropriately, but for some reason my
> installation keeps trying to back up via smb. has anyone else
> witnesse
Dale King wrote:
> Old thread I know but I was thinking about the current situation (at
> least
> in debian) with config.pl being changed at each upgrade.
I'd file a bug with the Debian packager or is this normal behavior on
Debian?
Nils Breunese.
---
Paul wrote:
> Nicholas Hall wrote:
>> I believe this error is generated from the Perl Rsync module. What
>> version of File::RsyncP are you running?
>
> Good question. I found a module URI::Rsync, but not File::RsyncP.
> Where
> might I find that?
See the BackupPC documentation:
http://backup
Paul wrote:
> Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) wrote:
>> Paul wrote:
>>
>>> Nicholas Hall wrote:
>>>
>>>> I believe this error is generated from the Perl Rsync module. What
>>>> version of File::RsyncP are you running?
>>
>>&
Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
> On 03/11 10:57 , Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) wrote:
>> Dale King wrote:
>>
>>> Old thread I know but I was thinking about the current situation (at
>>> least
>>> in debian) with config.pl being changed at each upgrade.
>&g
Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
> I put forth my listed points (and a few more) at this page:
>
> http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net/install_from_package
>
> I put it under the off-topic section since it really is off-topic
> for the
> list. I invite others to contribute their views to it; perh
Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
>> I couldn't find a
>> repository that carries a recent version of BackupPC for CentOS 4 and
>> I never mastered the art of packaging stuff myself. I tried it, but
>> found documentation on creating your own RPM's was contradicting
>> other
>> documentation on cre
kanti wrote:
> Hiee All, this is appu , i mnew to this forum also i new to the
> BAckuppc. Can anyone give me idea how to install and run properly.
Pretty much all you need to know is in the documentation:
http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html
> Alraedy i extarct the file using ta
Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) wrote:
> Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) wrote:
>
>> I'm backing up a bunch of machine using BackupPC 3.1.0. Everything
>> has
>> been working fine for a long time, but since a couple of days
>> backups
>> for one machine have been
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