Re: [BackupPC-users] Storing Identical Files?

Dumb question. They aren’t encrypted on the drive are they? Thanks, Greg Harris On Feb 11, 2023, at 8:49 PM, backu...@kosowsky.org<mailto:backu...@kosowsky.org> wrote: It does and in fact almost has to since pool files are stored according to their md5sum. So unless you have either an

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup strategy for rarely-connected clients

Honestly, why back it up at all? Nothing changed. If it’s off the shelf for that short of time, it’s not got anything on it that’s not somewhere else. Now, the update argument is real. Thanks, Greg Harris On Jan 31, 2023, at 4:47 PM, Les Mikesell mailto:lesmikes...@gmail.com>>

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup strategy for rarely-connected clients

It’s a canary. The day it’s not in your email is the day you start to sweat about Backuppc. Thanks, Greg Harris > On Jan 31, 2023, at 3:55 PM, Kenneth Porter wrote: > > My company has a laptop that spends most of its time on a shelf, not in use. > So I'm constantly seeing a da

Re: [BackupPC-users] errors on network-mounted pool filesystem

. Thanks, Greg Harris On Sep 2, 2022, at 9:01 AM, Sandro Bordacchini mailto:sandro.bordacch...@gmail.com>> wrote: Hello all. Just wanted to share with you what happened to me and check if you have any idea on what is going on. I have been a satisfied user of backuppc for a long time. So fa

Re: [BackupPC-users] Getting lost in installation following documentation

the tone to more of a helper stance can go a long way. Thanks, Greg Harris On Mar 1, 2022, at 2:45 PM, Christian Möller mailto:dcmoel...@gmx.de>> wrote: Thanks Johan for your reply and time. Hello, BackupPC community, sorry, to me this sounds like the following: There is BackupPC so

Re: [BackupPC-users] Run command per file before storing in the pool

Yet another sideline sitter here. However, here goes with a very questionable thought. Maybe BackupPC is the wrong tool for this particular directory/instance? Perhaps something like Amazon Glacier with Cryptomator is a wiser choice in this one scenario? Thanks, Greg Harris On Feb 17

Re: [BackupPC-users] Changing Backuppc Web UI Password

Sorry, answered to quickly on the copy/paste from my notes. The -c is a create flag, drop it to update. Additionally, you may need to adjust the directory. Thanks, Greg Harris On Feb 16, 2022, at 8:54 AM, Greg Harris mailto:ghar...@teamexpansion.org>> wrote: It’s a web user pa

Re: [BackupPC-users] Changing Backuppc Web UI Password

It’s a web user password. To my knowledge, you cannot change it via the web interface. su htpasswd -c /etc/BackupPC/apache.users admin Replace “admin” with whatever username you are looking for. Thanks, Greg Harris On Feb 16, 2022, at 7:17 AM, Mr J Arnold mailto:james.arn

Re: [BackupPC-users] Problem with WakupSchedule and Backupplan

as it is able to. You may be able to use the blackout hours to help. Thanks, Greg Harris On Apr 27, 2021, at 6:50 AM, Ralph Sikau mailto:ra...@hassun.de>> wrote: Hi, I hope that somebody can help. I'm lost with the parameters of WakeupSchedule and Backupplan. My Intention is that BackupPC

Re: [BackupPC-users] Simple server side embedded config file to allow full shadow backups of Windows host

of the other setup you normally do should be the same. Thanks, Greg Harris On Feb 23, 2021, at 10:58 AM, backu...@kosowsky.org<mailto:backu...@kosowsky.org> wrote: Yes. SSH needs to be minimally configured just as you do when using the 'rsync' method (over ssh) for any other system. And SSH is

Re: [BackupPC-users] Simple server side embedded config file to allow full shadow backups of Windows host

. Thanks, Greg Harris On Feb 18, 2021, at 9:30 AM, Doug Lytle mailto:supp...@drdos.info>> wrote: 'cygpath' is part of the basic 'cygwin' package. Okay, For someone that has always used DeltaCopy on the clients, is there a step-by-step instruction page that explains on how to use this?

Re: [BackupPC-users] Simple server side embedded config file to allow full shadow backups of Windows host

package? Or did you just run with the BackupPC version of CygWin? Here’s what I’ve got: Base install plus: OpenSSH Rsync Sorry, Greg Harris On Feb 17, 2021, at 9:35 AM, backu...@kosowsky.org<mailto:backu...@kosowsky.org> wrote: I may have been a little too literal in definition of 'bas

Re: [BackupPC-users] Simple server side embedded config file to allow full shadow backups of Windows host

a base CygWin. Yet, that doesn’t look like it includes SSH or Rsync. Or is the base installing only the client side, and not installing the server side SSH and Rsync? Sorry, my brain contorted in knots in the middle of this one and I’m struggling to find the ends to untie it. Thanks, Greg

Re: [BackupPC-users] Using BackupPC 4.x with rrsync on the client

Felix, I’m trying to follow along and learn a bit here. Is this the concept you working towards: https://dev-notes.eu/2016/08/secure-rsync-between-servers/ Thanks, Greg Harris On Feb 10, 2021, at 11:24 AM, Felix Wolters wrote: Thank you, HTH, for your effort! Your setup is absolutely

Re: [BackupPC-users] OT: To top-post or not?

> On Feb 4, 2021, at 7:28 PM, Kenneth Porter wrote: > > --On Thursday, February 04, 2021 11:24 AM +0100 Sorin Srbu > wrote: > >> I'll continue to end-post as before. :-) > > Not end/bottom post! That's really no better than top-posting, because we > still have to scroll down through the

Re: [BackupPC-users] Checking rsync progress/speed/status

The ls rendition is super useful, and keeps extra packages off the machine. Thanks for that one. Thanks, Greg Harris On Jan 12, 2021, at 5:58 PM, Adam Goryachev via BackupPC-users mailto:backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net>> wrote: On 13/1/21 09:21, Les Mikesell wrote: On Tue,

Re: [BackupPC-users] Checking rsync progress/speed/status

g at 32756 lines in around 30 seconds. Thanks, Greg Harris On Jan 12, 2021, at 5:02 PM, Les Mikesell mailto:lesmikes...@gmail.com>> wrote: On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 2:24 PM Greg Harris mailto:ghar...@teamexpansion.org>> wrote: I’ve yet to find a solid way to peer into the arena of Bac

Re: [BackupPC-users] Checking rsync progress/speed/status

rink? Are there injuries? How much time is left? Who’s being penalized and why? I’ve yet to find a solid way to peer into the arena of BackupPC and find answers to these types of questions. Thanks, Greg Harris On Jan 12, 2021, at 2:09 PM, Doug Lytle mailto:supp...@drdos.info>> wro

Re: [BackupPC-users] Symlink for /var/lib/BackupPC

/* Thanks, Greg Harris On Oct 28, 2020, at 4:43 PM, Robert E. Wooden mailto:b...@donelsontrophy.com>> wrote: On 10/28/2020 3:09 PM, Richard Shaw wrote: Copied or moved? If you unmount dataR6 do you still the the directories in /var/lib/BackupPC? Not that it should matter, since mounting will ma

Re: [BackupPC-users] Symlink for /var/lib/BackupPC

Dumb question: SELinux isn’t biting you is it? Thanks, Greg Harris On Oct 28, 2020, at 3:27 PM, Robert E. Wooden mailto:b...@donelsontrophy.com>> wrote: I rebuilt a machine to update to CentOS 8 and ease upgrades because BackupPC v.4.40 (as of 2020-10-28) is available via epel &

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupFilesExclude osx catalina suggestions?

You may want to consider adding /Library also. This would include system configuration and preference files. The /User libraries only include the user level configs and prefs. Thanks, Greg Harris On Oct 4, 2020, at 1:36 PM, Todd Wade mailto:waveri...@gmail.com>> wrote: On 10/4/20 1

Re: [BackupPC-users] First backup failing Host Key and No files dumped

I must have run into something similar at some point, as I have additional notes where I copied the .pub file to a location readable by backuppc and then used the ssh-copy-id command with that version of the file. Thanks, Greg Harris On Oct 1, 2020, at 1:26 PM, David Hoskinson

Re: [BackupPC-users] First backup failing Host Key and No files dumped

mod -s /bin/bash backuppc Thanks, Greg Harris On Oct 1, 2020, at 12:00 PM, David Hoskinson mailto:david.hoskin...@astroshapes.com>> wrote: Hello all I am doing a new install of BackupPC 4.4.0 and am having issues with my first backup XferLOG file /backup/astrobackup//pc/namesvr1/XferLOG

Re: [BackupPC-users] Thank you far an easier installation

And many thanks to you! I tried CentOS 8 six-ish months too earlier. All’s well that ends well, though right? Thanks Richard! Thanks, Greg Harris On Jun 2, 2020, at 4:21 PM, Richard Shaw mailto:hobbes1...@gmail.com>> wrote: On Tue, Jun 2, 2020 at 1:14 PM Bob Wooden ma

Re: [BackupPC-users] how to install SCGI , exactly??

Or better yet, use CentOS 7 and that packaging. I can’t get to that RPM link at this moment. I’m sure someone else has that link available quickly. Thanks, Greg Harris > On May 22, 2020, at 12:33 PM, Doug Lytle wrote: > >  >> >>>> BackupPC is installed

Re: [BackupPC-users] CGI Script Fails to Run But Actual Text of Script Displays Instead

Apache is not reading the .php files as php, but text. Thanks, Greg Harris On Apr 26, 2020, at 8:22 PM, Akibu Flash wrote:  I am running an Arch Linux server (5.6.6) for the purpose of backing up several Windows 10 machines on a home local area network. I have installed the package

Re: [BackupPC-users] Getting rsync excludes right...

Then you need both. $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = { '*' => [ '*/Trash’, //Visible subdirectories ‘*/.Trash’, //Need to add to get rid of hidden subdirectory occurrences '/.cache', '/.Trash*’ //Hidden subdirectory occurrence ] }; Thanks, Greg Harris On Apr 23, 2020, at 11

Re: [BackupPC-users] Getting rsync excludes right...

There’s no dot on the first one. Thanks, Greg Harris On Apr 23, 2020, at 11:27 AM, Richard Shaw mailto:hobbes1...@gmail.com>> wrote: I tried to upgrade my CentOS 7 box to CentOS 8 (through reinstall and preserving of /etc) but it went sideways and I lost everything so I had to

Re: [BackupPC-users] Using a jump host to backup via rsync over SSH

You seem to have a pretty good handle on stuff, but you aren’t suffering from CentOS’ silent killer are you? SELinux? Thanks, Greg Harris On Apr 21, 2020, at 8:10 AM, Falko Trojahn via BackupPC-users mailto:backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net>> wrote: Hi Pim, using jumphos

Re: [BackupPC-users] Freenas - HELP NEEDED

I haven’t started down that road yet, but I was leaning towards XigmaNAS over FreeNAS. https://www.xigmanas.com At this point though, it looks like it’s probably a “convert the plugin” type of situation. Thanks, Greg Harris On Mar 19, 2020, at 11:38 AM, Brad Alexander mailto:stor

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC opinion

I’ve seen the suggestion of the idea that an off-site backup utilize the “Archive” function to mitigate such a failure. Thanks, Greg Harris On Jan 17, 2020, at 10:48 AM, Gandalf Corvotempesta mailto:gandalf.corvotempe...@gmail.com>> wrote: Just a useless email but.. BackupPC is *

Re: [BackupPC-users] Win10 rsync and shadow

Extraordinarily useful! I’ll give it a spin and see what I can break, er, um, fix! Thanks all! Thanks, Greg Harris On Jan 13, 2020, at 4:42 AM, Daniel Berteaud mailto:dan...@firewall-services.com>> wrote: - Le 12 Jan 20, à 0:14, Michael Stowe mailto:michael.st...@member.men

[BackupPC-users] Win10 rsync and shadow

/backuppc/ Thoughts? Ideas? Tomatoes? Thanks, Greg Harris ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http

[BackupPC-users] Centos 7, BPC4, rsync & /sbin/nologin

read all the forum posts on this and am missing something, presumably very small. What do I need to put where in order to get the backuppc user to have a shell only for execution? Thanks, Greg Harris ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-u

Re: [BackupPC-users] Pool storage for BackupPC on a virtual machine

Horsepower and redundancy. I’ve got more horsepower available on the “big iron” than the data pool hardware. Additionally, by creating a snapshot of the VM on the data pool, then I’ve got a backup of the VM on separate hardware. Thanks, Greg Harris On Dec 18, 2019, at 11:07 AM, Ray Frush

Re: [BackupPC-users] Par2cmdline and the RH family

the current par2 package in their repos. Thanks, Greg Harris On Nov 19, 2019, at 12:17 PM, Greg Harris mailto:ghar...@teamexpansion.org>> wrote: It seems like the newest releases in the RedHat family don’t have the par2cmdline in the repos. It seems like it’s stopped at EPEL 7 and Fedora 31,

[BackupPC-users] Par2cmdline and the RH family

: perl(Net::FTP::AutoReconnect) perl(Net::FTP::RetrHandle) perl(XML::RSS) I’ve got a feeling those are probably more “findable”, but without par2cmdline, it seems a bit useless. Thanks, Greg Harris ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup Server Hardware

Cloud is out and we are looking at purchasing new equipment. Thanks, Greg Harris On Nov 1, 2019, at 10:39 AM, Jamie Burchell mailto:ja...@ib3.uk>> wrote: I’m using a low spec DigitalOcean droplet. You get a certain amount of redundancy out of the box using virtualized servers in a data

[BackupPC-users] Backup Server Hardware

swappable or do you just expect to take down the machine? Dual power supplies or just a single as its the backup server? Thanks, Greg Harris ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists

Re: [BackupPC-users] smbclient gets NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED

I know CentOS 5 can’t talk to Win10 over SMB because it doesn’t have a new enough version of SMB. CentOS 7 can. I think that 6 was in the same camp as 5 unfortunately. Thanks, Greg Harris > On Aug 29, 2019, at 4:20 PM, Bob McClure Jr wrote: > > I'm at wit's end -- a short trip

Re: [BackupPC-users] Apache problem, i guess

Oh, and look for SELinux errors since that isn't the default /var/www/html dir. Thanks, Greg Harris On Jul 18, 2019, at 3:20 PM, Greg Harris mailto:ghar...@teamexpansion.org>> wrote: Check permissions on the folder /usr/share/BackupPC/html/ I think it’s supposed to be owner:

Re: [BackupPC-users] Apache problem, i guess

Check permissions on the folder /usr/share/BackupPC/html/ I think it’s supposed to be owner: group of apache:apache, but it might be backuppc:backuppc instead. Thanks, Greg Harris On Jul 18, 2019, at 2:19 PM, Kris Lou via BackupPC-users mailto:backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net>>

Re: [BackupPC-users] Which file system for data pool?

You are probably already aware of this, but an SSD’s life expectancy is based on the number of writes. Therefore, utilizing an SSD as the cache drive and the OS drive might require some additional considerations over the long haul. Thanks, Greg Harris On Aug 14, 2018, at 9:44 AM, Johan

Re: [BackupPC-users] Win10 rsync

On Dec 7, 2017, at 12:42 PM, Michael Stowe <michael.st...@member.mensa.org<mailto:michael.st...@member.mensa.org>> wrote: On 2017-12-07 07:08, Greg Harris wrote: With the release of WSL in Win10, I thought I’d utilize the functionality of WSL to get rsync up and running fo

[BackupPC-users] Win10 rsync

, it’s a full Ubuntu install that then requires separate updates and permissions maintenance. Essentially, it seems that WSL is just a VM with some fancy integration for file and resource sharing. Anybody done this? Am I missing something and making it harder than it should be? Thanks, Greg

Re: [BackupPC-users] DumpPre/DumpPost scripting with $type incr

Re: [BackupPC-users] DumpPre/DumpPost scripting with $type incr On 5/8/17 00:39, Greg Harris wrote: I’m having difficulty wrapping my brain around the DumpPre/DumpPost command on a backup. I’ve got a database service that I need to shut down, run an incremental backup, then start the se

[BackupPC-users] DumpPre/DumpPost scripting with $type incr

I’m having difficulty wrapping my brain around the DumpPre/DumpPost command on a backup. I’ve got a database service that I need to shut down, run an incremental backup, then start the service again. I’ve got it successfully SSH’ing in and shutting down the service, running the backup, and