Re: [BackupPC-users] Per PC config files issue
Ahhh, so I'm not crazy. :) I posted the same thing a few days ago. I was trying to do a fresh install with the beta, which made me think I was doing something stupid. I reinstalled with the stable version and it's all working for me now. On 12/12/06, doc Hyde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. I am using BackupPC version 3.0.0beta3. I am saving machines with different OS. I am used to BackupPC version 2 which works perfectly. I drop a config.pl in the .../pc// dir and no problem. But with this latest beta version it seems like the file config.pl is not being read. I modify it through vi and see no difference in the command executed. When I attempt to modify it through the cgi interface, the changes made on the screen do not appear in my config.pl file. Is this there something that I am missing. Thank you for your help :) Al - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
[BackupPC-users] win32 rsyncd speed
G'evening all. Does anyone know of a good way to speed up rsyncd on a Windows machine? I'm doing remote backups, from Windows servers on a 100Mb/s link to a Tier1 provider, to my BackupPC off-site location on Verizon FiOS. It seems to be taking an awful long time to get the data down to me. I just started doing them a few days ago. The only server with a transfer rate says the speed was 0.13 MB/s I just did an scp of a 45Mb file from a server in the same location, to my backup machine. scp reported 935KB/s, taking 49 seconds. 0.13 and 0.93 are a world of difference. I'm assuming there's something in the rsyncd configuration I could change, but there wasn't a lot of documentation in the rsyncd package. I'm using the one from the BackupPC site, not my own compile. - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Per-PC config problem
Lorentz, Sorry, no I didn't. I went back to the stable release (2.1.2pl2), which of course worked perfectly. :) On 12/10/06, Lorentz Hinrichsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you ever solve this JW? I also can't seem to make the per-pc configuration work. On 12/8/06, JW Smythe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: G'afternoon everyone. I'm having a stupid problem with BackupPC and it's per-pc configuration. I know I've done it before at another company, but I don't have access to their stuff any more to see what stupid thing I'm doing. This is a nice fresh installation of 3.0.0beta3 - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Per-PC config problem
My problem was that it wasn't reading the configuration file for
anything, so it was still trying to use smb.
Right now, I'm trying to back up windows machines (forgive me), so
ya, I got rsyncd up and running on there first.
With the stable version, I got the expected errors for rsyncd, on
servers that didn't have rsyncd running yet, and good responses on
ones that did. With the beta, it wasn't reading the per-pc configs,
and went with the settings in the main config, which I had left as smb
to make the failure obvious. I would have just gone with it, and set
it all in the main config, except that I'm to be backing up for
several different customers, where I can't have the same login
information on each machine. I guess I *could* use the same info,
since I trust them all, but since they don't know each other (and it's
bad practice), I wasn't willing to go that route.
I'll also be backing up at least two Linux machines, which I don't
want rsyncd running. I'm perfectly happy using rsync on those. :)
The last installation was so much easier. Over 100 machines, but
they were all Linux boxes, with one company, and one SSH key let the
backup machine access all of them. :) There were no per-pc
configurations needed there.
On 12/11/06, Magnus Larsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi!
Just a thought: I not that there is rsyncd, not rsync, as XferMethod. Is
this correct, that is, do you have the rsync daemon, not client, running
in client machine? I wrongly put rsyncd there once when I meant rsync.
Magnus L
Lorentz Hinrichsen skrev:
Did you ever solve this JW?
I also can't seem to make the per-pc configuration work.
On 12/8/06, *JW Smythe* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
G'afternoon everyone.
I'm having a stupid problem with BackupPC and it's per-pc
configuration. I know I've done it before at another company, but I
don't have access to their stuff any more to see what stupid thing I'm
doing.
This is a nice fresh installation of 3.0.0beta3
These are from my main config.pl
$Conf{TopDir} = '/host/backuppc_data';
$Conf{ConfDir} = '/etc/BackupPC';
$Conf{LogDir} = '/var/log/BackupPC';
$Conf{InstallDir} = '/host/backuppc';
$Conf{CgiDir} = '/host/httpd/htdocs';
$Conf{XferMethod} = smb;
I'm still trying to get the first (and most important, of course)
site to back up. It's per-pc config is at:
/host/backuppc_data/pc/domain.com/config.pl
which contains:
$Conf{XferMethod} = rsyncd;
$Conf{RsyncdUserName = user;
$Conf{RsyncdPasswd} = pass;
$Conf{RsyncShareName} = ['CDrive', 'EDrive'];
When the backup runs, it's still trying to use the default smb,
so I
know it's not reading the config.
Running: /usr/bin/smbclient domain.com\\C\$ -U -E -N -d 1 -c
tarmode\ full -Tc -
full backup started for share C$
[SNIP]
Got fatal error during xfer (No files dumped for share C$)
Backup aborted (No files dumped for share C$)
I've made symlinks all over the place, trying to get this to work.
The real per-pc config is at
/host/backuppc_data/pc/domain.com/config.pl
I've symlinked:
/host/backuppc_data/pc /host/backuppc/pc
/host/backuppc_etc/pc -- /host/backuppc_data/pc
/host/backuppc/pc -- /host/backuppc_data/pc
/var/lib/backuppc-- /host/backuppc
That last one, in turn makes /var/lib/backuppc/pc/domain.com link to
/host/backuppc_data/pc/domain.com
I can't figure out where these stupid per-pc configs go. I have
about 20 machines to get backed up sometime soon (like, this afternoon
would have been nice, but...) Of course, each one is owned by a
different person, which needs it's own custom config, because none of
them can have the same password as another. Some will use samba, some
rsync, blah, blah, blah.
I know it can be done. I had this working on a site with about 150
servers. I'm at a loss to why it doesn't work this time. Maybe a bug
in 3.0.0beta3, or a change that is escaping me, or complete user
failure?
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[BackupPC-users] Per-PC config problem
G'afternoon everyone.
I'm having a stupid problem with BackupPC and it's per-pc
configuration. I know I've done it before at another company, but I
don't have access to their stuff any more to see what stupid thing I'm
doing.
This is a nice fresh installation of 3.0.0beta3
These are from my main config.pl
$Conf{TopDir} = '/host/backuppc_data';
$Conf{ConfDir} = '/etc/BackupPC';
$Conf{LogDir} = '/var/log/BackupPC';
$Conf{InstallDir} = '/host/backuppc';
$Conf{CgiDir} = '/host/httpd/htdocs';
$Conf{XferMethod} = smb;
I'm still trying to get the first (and most important, of course)
site to back up. It's per-pc config is at:
/host/backuppc_data/pc/domain.com/config.pl
which contains:
$Conf{XferMethod} = rsyncd;
$Conf{RsyncdUserName = user;
$Conf{RsyncdPasswd} = pass;
$Conf{RsyncShareName} = ['CDrive', 'EDrive'];
When the backup runs, it's still trying to use the default smb, so I
know it's not reading the config.
Running: /usr/bin/smbclient domain.com\\C\$ -U -E -N -d 1 -c
tarmode\ full -Tc -
full backup started for share C$
[SNIP]
Got fatal error during xfer (No files dumped for share C$)
Backup aborted (No files dumped for share C$)
I've made symlinks all over the place, trying to get this to work.
The real per-pc config is at
/host/backuppc_data/pc/domain.com/config.pl
I've symlinked:
/host/backuppc_data/pc /host/backuppc/pc
/host/backuppc_etc/pc -- /host/backuppc_data/pc
/host/backuppc/pc -- /host/backuppc_data/pc
/var/lib/backuppc-- /host/backuppc
That last one, in turn makes /var/lib/backuppc/pc/domain.com link to
/host/backuppc_data/pc/domain.com
I can't figure out where these stupid per-pc configs go. I have
about 20 machines to get backed up sometime soon (like, this afternoon
would have been nice, but...) Of course, each one is owned by a
different person, which needs it's own custom config, because none of
them can have the same password as another. Some will use samba, some
rsync, blah, blah, blah.
I know it can be done. I had this working on a site with about 150
servers. I'm at a loss to why it doesn't work this time. Maybe a bug
in 3.0.0beta3, or a change that is escaping me, or complete user
failure?
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