Re: [BackupPC-users] File Size Summary shows too large value for host

Perhaps there's a difference in rsync arguments? In particular, "--hard-links" ? BPCv4 default arguments: $Conf{RsyncArgs} = [ '--super', '--recursive', '--protect-args', '--numeric-ids', '--perms', '--owner', '--group', '-D', '--times', '--links',

Re: [BackupPC-users] Lost linux file ownership on restore

Look again at your RsyncArgs, they don't match the defaults [1], though obviously your system may justify it: -o, --owner This option causes rsync to set the owner of the destination file to be the same as the source file, but only if the receiving rsync is being run as the

Re: [BackupPC-users] Lost linux file ownership on restore

> > > > XferLOG.[backup number] does not contain any individual file > names/paths, so I'm not able to check the permissions there. Latest > test XferLOG attached for reference. > > I have "--log-format=log: %o %i %B %8U,%8G %9l %f%L" and "--stats" as RsyncArgs, by default. Perhaps those will

Re: [BackupPC-users] Normal user access to all backups

ou can add it to the defaults so that it persists moving forward. http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html#Step-4:-Setting-up-the-hosts-file However, giving users access to their backups in this manner also subjects them to the client's backup status (and corresponding email notifications).

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

> > What I actually do is have a single separate config file for each of > my platforms (Linux, Windows, Android, RPI) and then have my > individual machines link to their corresponding canonical file. I tend to make use of the "newhost=oldhost" syntax when creating new Backup clients. Do you

Re: [BackupPC-users] SMB Backups Fail Since Fedora 32->33 Upgrade

I'm wondering if the BackupPC user (or whichever user is theoretically working with smbclient) has permissions all the way up the tree on /var/lib/samba/lock? Perhaps something changed within that directory (selinux policies?). > > ___ BackupPC-users

Re: [BackupPC-users] Necro'd: Use S3 buckets for the pool

All, Thanks for the suggestions and links. There's a lot of interesting reading to be done. But as noted, checksum matching and storage latency are probably prohibitive. I hope to have access to a colo with gigabit bandwidth in the near future. Maybe I'll spin up an instance just to see how it

[BackupPC-users] Necro'd: Use S3 buckets for the pool

This hasn't been addressed for a while, and I didn't find anything in recent archives. Anybody have any experience or hypothetical issues with writing the BPC4 Pool over s3fs-fuse to S3 or something similar? Pros, Cons? Thanks, -Kris Kris Lou k...@themusiclink.net

Re: [BackupPC-users] Regarding Transport mechanism limitations

Updated Docs (4.x) are here: https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/ And no problems here with larger files (18GB) using rsync.exe from Cygwin. ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:

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

/ Both maintainers are on the mailing list. Kris Lou k...@themusiclink.net > ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:h

Re: [BackupPC-users] Freenas - HELP NEEDED

but it is > broken (the web management interface is missing), Kris Lou k...@themusiclink.net On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 6:32 AM Robert Kiss wrote: > Hi, > > > > I just installed the BackuPC plugin for FreeNAS and I am stuck. > > I have no idea how to access the Web GUI and the document

Re: [BackupPC-users] help! RsyncClientCmd howto in 4.3

Mine is pretty much stock. config.pl snippet # # Ssh arguments for rsync to run ssh to connect to the client. # Rather than permit root ssh on the client, it is more secure # to just allow ssh via a low-privileged user, and use sudo # in $Conf{RsyncClientPath}. # # This setting only matters if

Re: [BackupPC-users] smbclient gets NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED

By default, I think that smbclient uses SMB1 on most systems, and it's definitely disabled by default on Windows. You can force it to use SMB2+, but I'm not sure what version of smbclient has it enabled. On Sat, Aug 31, 2019, 6:12 AM Benjamin Toll wrote: > On 08/29/2019 16:28, Bob McClure Jr

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

ed the last one so that the webroot also points directly to ~/BackupPC_Admin. Alter the targets to match your environment, obviously. Kris Lou k...@themusiclink.net On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 11:00 AM Jean-Marc wrote: > Hi, > > I have set up a centos + backuppc. > > To keep things easy, i

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsync optimisation

, but with v4 --protect-args, --one-file-system, and --copy-links were problematic. Some of that are our client configurations, though. Kris Lou k...@themusiclink.net On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 2:50 AM Patrick Bégou < patrick.be...@legi.grenoble-inp.fr> wrote: > Hello > > rsync performanc

Re: [BackupPC-users] offline archives for host

https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/BackupPC.html#Archive-functions Although, in the past I've just used BackupPC_tarCreate directly with cron on the specific hosts/backups. -Kris Kris Lou k...@themusiclink.net ___ BackupPC-users mailing list

Re: [BackupPC-users] 4.2.1 Rsync and BackupFilesOnly

, -Kris Kris Lou k...@themusiclink.net On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 4:33 PM, Holger Parplies wrote: > Hi, > > Kris Lou via BackupPC-users wrote on 2018-09-27 15:22:20 -0700 > [[BackupPC-users] 4.2.1 Rsync and BackupFilesOnly]: > > [...] > > Need More Eyes! > > 8

[BackupPC-users] 4.2.1 Rsync and BackupFilesOnly

gs. So, what's wrong with my syntax? Thanks, -Kris Kris Lou k...@themusiclink.net ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backupp

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

e to start. Kris Lou k...@themusiclink.net On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 10:43 AM, 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 w

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

Then you might be running into some of the file-locking issues inherent to SMB, especially if you can get a partial backup. Consider trying a different method, such as VSS-rsync? -- Check out the vibrant tech community on

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

Michael is being too modest to link to his own implementation for Windows clients, so I'll do it for him: http://www.michaelstowe.com/backuppc/ Just a note: This leverages the administrative share (C$) via smbclient/winexe to kick off rsyncd on the client. As such, the backuppc server requires

Re: [BackupPC-users] Can not start backup when client was a long time away

If your pings are successful, then check your blackout hours. Kris Lou k...@themusiclink.net On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 9:40 AM, Nicolas Göddel < mailingli...@freakscorner.de> wrote: > Hi folks, > > I have installed BackupPC 3.3.1 on my small Ubuntu machine which consists >

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC 4.1.5 released (plus new versions of backuppc-xs and rsync-bpc)

And wow, I just noticed that you package winexe in there. Thanks for that! Kris Lou k...@themusiclink.net > > -- Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC 4.1.5 released (plus new versions of backuppc-xs and rsync-bpc)

Daniel, Do you maintain that repo? How is that different from the COPR? Thanks, -Kris -- Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org!

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup to Cloud

I do something similar -- but I call the Archive script via cron to generate the archive of a specific host and put it on a NFS mount, where it is then synced to an external drive for offsite holding. -Kris Kris Lou k...@themusiclink.net On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 10:17 AM, Clay Jackson <

Re: [BackupPC-users] Email in backup success/failure

On Sun, Sep 3, 2017 at 1:55 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Sun, Sep 3, 2017 at 3:26 PM, Gandalf Corvotempesta > wrote: > > That's fine, so I'll able to configure bpc to send email every time a > backup > > is failed for an host? > > if yes,

Re: [BackupPC-users] Scheduling advice

> > > I don't really know the details of bpc4. I think it always fills the > most recent run and works backwards to clean up the old copies so you > should have whatever files are still there even if some were somehow > deleted. Still, if your pool filesystem is totally corrupted all > bets are

Re: [BackupPC-users] archive / extract to usb drive

//backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html#Archive-functions seems to answer your needs. Though if you do this for ALL of your hosts, you definitely lose out on the deduplication. -Kris Kris Lou k...@themusiclink.net On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 1:16 AM, Ulrich Van Den Hekke < ulrich.vdh+bac

Re: [BackupPC-users] Trying to exclude a directory

lude file list is passed into the X option. Simple shell wild-cards using "*" or "?" are allowed.* Kris Lou k...@themusiclink.net -- Check out the vibrant tech community on one

Re: [BackupPC-users] error log for new host

Is there a trailing slash on your TopDir? p.s. I just do straight rsync over SSH to OSX. But know that whatever permissions you use to access the client (or start rsyncd if you go that route) needs permissions on the client data as well. Kris Lou k...@themusiclink.net On Tue, May 30, 2017

Re: [BackupPC-users] Help with the schedule config

Also digging deep ... (wish we still had the old wiki!) Run/schedule a backup on a single host. BackupPC_serverMesg backup HOSTIP HOST USER 0/1 schedule backup for a host now. 0/1 0 incremental backup, 1 full backup. E.G. /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_serverMesg backup

Re: [BackupPC-users] Help with the schedule config

I'll take a stab at it. On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 5:41 AM, Yong Zhang wrote: > 1) I want servers to be backed up daily, but full backup only runs on > Saturday, how? > AFAIK, there isn't an easy way to determine when specific backups (full/incr) run. My understanding is that

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up a Mac client - Help needed

Generally, I just backup OSX in the same manner as Linux -- rsync over SSH. You can do this as your desired user to jump into a user home directory, but you'll have to make sure that user can login via SSH (and use rsync). But if rsyncd works, more power to you! -Kris Kris Lou k

Re: [BackupPC-users] Find all the hosts that did a full backup last night. And then report the time

Perhaps link that to the existing BackupPC github page? Kris Lou k...@themusiclink.net On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 11:09 PM, Brent Clark <brentgclarkl...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Carl > > Thank you *ever* so much. > > > Many thanks. > > Regards > > Brent Cla

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC Aborts Backup at 8GB on F23

192784=diff I have not tried these personally (I prefer rsync + vshadow) and the author hasn't tested restores, so YMMV. Kris Lou k...@themusiclink.net On Sun, Oct 30, 2016 at 1:26 PM, Tim Evans <tkev...@tkevans.com> wrote: > On 10/28/2016 11:37 AM, Tim Evans wrote: > > On 03/

Re: [BackupPC-users] Question on using NAS for Pool

was better to slap a large drive into a machine and keep the pool local. Hey, any number of people might've said that. -Kris Kris Lou k...@themusiclink.net On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 11:05 AM, john boris <jbori...@gmail.com> wrote: > I searched the archives for using a Synology but haven't fo

Re: [BackupPC-users] Semi-urgent: stop backupPC from deleting any files

FullKeepCnt FullKeepCntMin FullAgeMax IncrKeepCnt IncrKeepCntMin IncrAgeMax http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html#_conf_fullagemax_ Kris Lou k...@themusiclink.net On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 5:07 AM, bpb21 <backuppc-fo...@backupcentral.com> wrote: > I have a problem and I d

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up BackupPC

mp(1). > Supporting more efficient tape backup is an area for further development. I think that this answers your questions about tape requirements if directly tar'ing the pool. You might be better off just scheduling host archives periodically. I don't know i

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup of virtual machines

Just throwing this out there: I use a variant of this: http://www.charleslabri.com/back-up-xenserver-6-to-network-share-with-fancy-scripting-and-lots-of-fun-and-no-downtime/ . It automates the exporting of snapshots to a mounted share. You'll have to modify a few things to make it work; in

Re: [BackupPC-users] Copyright protection

How about making the above explanation in a "How to contribute to BackupPC development", and requiring a short note in the pull request? Something as simple as "CLA:agreed"? Kris Kris Lou k...@themusiclink.net On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 9:37 AM, David Cramblett <da...@fun

Re: [BackupPC-users] Status on new BackupPC v4

and other bits which are still applicable to v.3.x. Kris Lou k...@themusiclink.net On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 7:43 AM, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom < chr...@real-time.com> wrote: > On 05/16 10:50 , Adam Goryachev wrote: > > I would definitely suggest that the lack of FTP backup support in

Re: [BackupPC-users] Random Daily Backups remain idle, can be started manually 4.11.16

Off the top of my head: * Check your limits for concurrent jobs (MaxBackups/MaxBackupPCNightlyJobs) * Check your wakeup schedule * Verify Ping Commands (and that your clients are on the network X times) * Check BlackoutPeriods Kris Lou k...@themusiclink.net On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 10:40 AM

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupFilesOnly not working

Just tried it. Works for me in a quick test with rsync, Share name = *, Files = *.conf, so wildcards are accepted there (at least with rsync). Are you excluding anything that might conflict? Kris Lou k...@themusiclink.net On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 5:45 AM, BrunoVonTroba < backuppc

Re: [BackupPC-users] Retiring hosts without losing backups

client. Manually requested backups (via the CGI interface) will be ignored. In versions prior to 3.0 Backups were disabled by setting $Conf{FullPeriod} <http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html#_conf_fullperiod_> to -1 or -2. Kris Lou k...@themusiclink.net On Fri, Jan 29, 2016

Re: [BackupPC-users] Retiring hosts without losing backups

In case it wasn't clear (copy/paste of docs), BackupsDisable = 2. http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html#_conf_backupsdisable_ Kris Lou k...@themusiclink.net On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 12:44 PM, Kris Lou <k...@themusiclink.net> wrote: > *$Conf{BackupsDisable} = 0;* > &

Re: [BackupPC-users] BPC 4 very slow

ome more v4 attention to the list. -Kris Kris Lou k...@themusiclink.net On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 9:04 AM, Holger Parplies <wb...@parplies.de> wrote: > Gandalf Corvotempesta wrote on 2016-01-27 11:28:24 +0100 [Re: > [BackupPC-users] BPC 4 very slow]: > > [basically the same thin

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc_zipcreate file dont open in windows

), so maybe somebody who installs via CPAN can check? However, we were able to use 'ditto' on OSX to extract files from these faulty zips. Just wanted to share. Kris Lou k...@themusiclink.net

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC Client general information and status

n press CTRL-SHIFT-ENTER. In the console window that subsequently opens, enter the following command. reg add "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\system" /v LocalAccountTokenFilterPolicy /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f Ref: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/942817 Kris Lou

Re: [BackupPC-users] winexe for Windows 8 / 2012 or greater for BackupPC client (Was: Re: A question about partial backups and fatal errors)

of the winexe devs ( http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/ahajda:/winexe/), but I haven't used it. The version numbers and datestamps don't really match up for CentOS 6 and "newer" versions of winexe. Kris Lou k...@themusiclink.net On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 10:10 AM, Timoth

Re: [BackupPC-users] winexe for Windows 8 / 2012 or greater for BackupPC client (Was: Re: A question about partial backups and fatal errors)

You've Got Mail. It looks like the mingw-w64 libraries in EPEL (instead of lfarkas) are newer than the winexe-waf source references. When I get around to it, I'll rebuild in x64 against EPEL sources and see how well that works. -Kris

Re: [BackupPC-users] A question about partial backups and fatal errors

Here's mine: If I recall, just add additional lines to backuppc.cmd/vrsync.cmd/rsyncd.conf for additional drives. I'm not 100% sure about this, but I'd imagine it's something like what I have below. Mine is edited for in-place rsync restores (at your own risk!), but you get the point. Also, I'm

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC usage as localhost

configure the pool under a mounted RAID set and periodically rotate drives. Kris Lou k...@themusiclink.net -- ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourc

Re: [BackupPC-users] Forbidden You don't have permission to access /BackupPC on this server.

more years to deal with it. Hopefully some kind soul will be maintaining 4.x in EPEL by then. p.s. Thanks to Bernard Johnson for maintaining the current version. Kris Lou k...@themusiclink.net

Re: [BackupPC-users] manual start backup on dhcp laptop

The easy way is to name the host (in BackupPC) with the IP Address. Otherwise, use the ClientNameAlias. http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html#_conf_clientnamealias_ Kris Lou k...@themusiclink.net On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 9:16 AM, zdravko backuppc-fo...@backupcentral.com wrote: I

Re: [BackupPC-users] manual start backup on dhcp laptop

it's mapped by the VPN or not, you just need to make sure that the appropriate routing is configured. Regarding disabling the schedule, look at BackupDisable=1. Kris Lou k...@themusiclink.net On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 4:08 AM, zdravko backuppc-fo...@backupcentral.com wrote: Yes. It can find dhcp

Re: [BackupPC-users] manual start backup on dhcp laptop

Can the BackupPC server resolve an IP address for the client? Can you manually run the $nmblookup commands for that specific client, and verify that it is correct? Kris Lou k...@themusiclink.net On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 4:52 AM, zdravko backuppc-fo...@backupcentral.com wrote: Oh, sorry

Re: [BackupPC-users] How to manage disk space?

, the files are likely pooled in other backups. Kris Lou k...@themusiclink.net -- BPM Camp - Free Virtual Workshop May 6th at 10am PDT/1PM EDT Develop your own process in accordance with the BPMN 2 standard Learn Process modeling

Re: [BackupPC-users] Config example for backing up linux host, local disk drive

Destination path? TopDir. From the web GUI: Edit Config - Server - Install Path - TopDir From the config.pl file: $Conf{TopDir} = '/path/to/location'; Kris Lou k...@themusiclink.net On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 3:49 PM, Philip Prindeville philipp_s...@redfish-solutions.com wrote: Hi. I

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc rsyncd vor windows -- is there a good client?

I use a modification of Michael Stowe's winexe/cygwin implementation: http://www.goodjobsucking.com/?p=62 It looks like the updated 1.2 installer automatically picks and installs the correct version of vshadow, according to the client OS. Nice work, Michael! -Kris Kris Lou k

Re: [BackupPC-users] Status of the wiki (was: Re: web GUI downloading BIN file Ubuntu 14.04)

On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 8:31 AM, Holger Parplies wb...@parplies.de wrote: I'd volunteer to help with that (both putting information online and cleaning up). As would I. Kris Lou k...@themusiclink.net -- Download

[BackupPC-users] Wiki?

Is it just me, or did we lose the wiki? I haven't looked at it in a while, but can't find it now. http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net just points to Sourceforge. -Kris Kris Lou k...@themusiclink.net

Re: [BackupPC-users] very slow backup on windows

read the (legacy) documentation page that explains the execution chain? That early version has those variables embedded in the preusercmd.sh but it was a bit insecure, so it was put into an external file. Kris Lou k...@themusiclink.net

Re: [BackupPC-users] Best backup system for Windows clients

on Windows 8.1 clients (at least for a CentOS 6 host). Older versions of winexe will still work with Windows 8 (and I don't have any 2012 boxes, so can't verify there). Kris Lou k...@themusiclink.net On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 6:49 AM, backu...@kosowsky.org wrote: Michael Stowe wrote at about 08:16

Re: [BackupPC-users] Full list of enhancements for 4.0 alpha/wish

Only Craig knows the full list for sure, but what we know is here: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/BackupPC-4.0.0alpha3_doc.html#BackupPC-4.0 Kris Lou k...@themusiclink.net -- Slashdot TV. Video for Nerds. Stuff

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC Client and Windows Server 2012 / 2012 R2

VSHADOW=vshadow-2003.exe plus stuff for in-place restore So, I just include the 4 versions of vshadow to all clients, and let the script figure which one to use. Kris Lou k...@themusiclink.net -- CenturyLink Cloud

Re: [BackupPC-users] Using external USB disk for BackupPC Data directory

probably be FAT32, which doesn't support hardlinks. Kris Lou k...@themusiclink.net -- CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. Learn Why More Businesses Are Choosing CenturyLink Cloud For Critical

Re: [BackupPC-users] What file system do you use?

FWIW, it looks like RHEL 7 (plus clones) will now default to XFS. Kris Lou k...@themusiclink.net On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 9:17 AM, Michael Stowe mst...@chicago.us.mensa.orgwrote: I'm working on bringing back a backuppc instance. It is very large 3+TB. The issue I'm having is e2fsck

Re: [BackupPC-users] Recommended CYGWIN SSH Rsync guide

). But 99% of the time we only have to restore a single file so it's easy enough from the web interface. Kris Lou k...@themusiclink.net On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 7:08 AM, Henry Burroughs hburrou...@stjohnseagles.org wrote: Wow! The main issue I see is it can only volume shadow copy the C drive

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up macs

I haven't had any problems with backing up OSX clients via rsync over SSH. But then again, I only back up home directories, the largest being around 150GB. Perhaps you need more memory in your BPC server? Kris Lou k...@themusiclink.net On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 9:48 AM, Justin Best jus

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc on NAS

to just take an old desktop box, dump a bunch of 3TB+ drives in, set up a software raid and let it do it's thing. It'd certainly be cheaper. Heck, for the price of some of these NAS's, you can build your 2nd server to backup your primary BackupPC server. Kris Lou k...@themusiclink.net On Mon, Nov

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup solution

) ssh, as detailed there. This includes OSX. http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/BackupPC But as Carl noted, the config.pl (and the web interface) is really well documented. Kris Lou k...@themusiclink.net On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 5:38 AM, J B baksh...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, 20 Sep 2013 08:26:45

Re: [BackupPC-users] Pool size discrepancy?

hardlinks-aware. Time to do more digging on that end. -Kris Kris Lou k...@themusiclink.net On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 8:27 AM, Bowie Bailey bowie_bai...@buc.com wrote: On 8/16/2013 8:28 PM, Kris Lou wrote: I recently started paying attention to the size of my pool - and I'm wondering about

[BackupPC-users] Pool size discrepancy?

enabled (3), and ran BackupPC_Nightly recently (after cleaning out some old hosts this week). Can somebody help me understand this? Thanks, -Kris Kris Lou k...@themusiclink.net -- Get 100% visibility into Java/.NET code

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc cron using client alias name

Perhaps take out $REAL_IP ? Most docs/Wiki's use /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_serverMesg backup ${CLIENT} ${CLIENT} backuppc 1 and as Les said, BackupPC should take care of the ClientNameAlias substitution automatically. -Kris Kris Lou k...@themusiclink.net On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 7:59

Re: [BackupPC-users] Laptops with multiple ethernet cards/MAC addresses

into the network. If the symlink method works out, I can issue a static IP via the VPN. Thanks, -Kris Kris Lou k...@themusiclink.net On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 3:44 PM, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky backu...@kosowsky.orgwrote: Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote at about 17:00:45 -0500 on Monday, January 16

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsync on Windows 8?

For what it's worth, Michael's solution (with a few minor tweaks to the vshadow.exe and a few others) works well on Windows 8x64. It is relatively seamless, so no installed services, and runs on-demand via winexe calls from a pre-dump script. -Kris Kris Lou k...@themusiclink.net On Thu, Aug

Re: [BackupPC-users] how to install backuppc on seperate disk, alongwith backups on ubuntu1204 LTS?

Assuming Ubuntu packages install in the normal locations, create a symlink linking /var/lib/backuppc to your desired mount. Then it should just be apt-get install backuppc. Kris Lou k...@themusiclink.net On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 3:06 PM, Rajeev Prasad rp.ne...@yahoo.com wrote: Hello

Re: [BackupPC-users] need help with windows backup

to at for this. Error connecting to module C at a.b.c.d:873: auth failed on module C Check your auth.sh, and your rsyncd.conf/rsync.secrets on the client side? Kris Lou k...@themusiclink.net On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 7:53 AM, upen upendra.gan...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have been trying to configure my winxp

Re: [BackupPC-users] need help with windows backup

happen as there isn't a ton to debug. Kris Lou k...@themusiclink.net On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 2:32 PM, upen upendra.gan...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Kris Lou k...@themusiclink.net wrote: auth.sh needs to contain a valid user for the client machine (usually

Re: [BackupPC-users] need help with windows backup

auth.sh needs to contain a valid user for the client machine (usually with administrative privileges), as compared to the rsyncd user auths. It is then used to remotely kick off scripts on the client side (as the user specified in auth.sh). Kris Lou k...@themusiclink.net On Thu, Feb 28, 2013

Re: [BackupPC-users] Windows servers

specific files, so manually moving them into place isn't a huge deal. WOL is a nice feature, but make sure that your switches support it. (Mine don't). Kris Lou k...@themusiclink.net On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 2:52 PM, upen upendra.gan...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 4:38 PM, Michael

Re: [BackupPC-users] Windows servers

^^ I can confirm that the above repository works with CentOS 6 (and Michael's implementation). Kris Lou k...@themusiclink.net On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 3:19 PM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 4:18 PM, Kameleon kameleo...@gmail.com wrote: I guess I am just

Re: [BackupPC-users] Process for Overriding hosts configuration

Naturally, I do lose ACLs and whatnot, but aside from a few tweaks, the process at least works. I've been considering adding a supplemental ACL backup to the routine. That sounds like a useful idea, but really, what are the ACL's used for? Is that just additional end-user type of

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC Windows Client

(with updated 1.7.15 cygwin1.dll), but restoring directories sort of mangles ownership and permissions beyond the first level. Do you guys have any suggestions for generic permissions-fixing when restoring to a cygwin-rsync system? Thanks, Kris Lou k...@themusiclink.net On Mon, Jun 4, 2012

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC Windows Client

\wake.up' - echo Rsync and shadow copy unloaded if [ *$XFEROK* -eq 1 ]; then if [ -f $WOLDIR/$BOX.state ]; then read wasoff $WOLDIR/$BOX.state echo -n State before backup: Thanks for all your work on this! -Kris Lou

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc and Win7

Larry, Re-reading, its probably best to upgrade Samba first (3.2.5 is not listed as Windows 7 compatible) and then troubleshoot from there. Kris Lou k...@themusiclink.net On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 4:51 PM, ow...@netptc.net wrote: - Original Message - *From: *Kris Lou k

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc and Win7

Can you access the share via standalone smbclient, since that's how you're choosing to back things up? As I recall, there are some registry changes necessary for Windows 7 but that might only be for domain membership. http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Windows7 Kris Lou k...@themusiclink.net

Re: [BackupPC-users] How to change $Conf{TopDir} = '/var/lib/backuppc';

What version are you using? I seem to remember a bug that was fixed for 3.2 regarding changing the TopDir. Kris Lou k...@themusiclink.net On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 4:41 PM, De Abreu backuppc-fo...@backupcentral.comwrote: Hi guys! I am new with Backuppc and i am trying to change on config.pl

Re: [BackupPC-users] How does BackupPC work?

This is informative. Comparing Rsync vs Rsyncd, which has less load on the client side? I'm considering moving away from my implementation rsync via autofs cifs. Kris Lou k...@themusiclink.net On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 8:25 AM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: On 10/29/2010 8:16 AM

Re: [BackupPC-users] Documentation lagging behind the GUI

The Wiki would be a great place to host that CentOS/RHEL Howto that Max Hetrick originally created for the CentOS Wiki, but now is hosted/maintained by Sorin Sobu? If not, I believe I have an offline copy that I can forward to whomever has wiki access. Kris Lou k...@themusiclink.net On Thu

Re: [BackupPC-users] Two NICs In One Client

It is also simple enough to run DNSmasq on your BackupPC box. Setup is REALLY easy. http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/docs/dnsmasq-man.html http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/docs/dnsmasq-man.html^ has the man pages, but the /etc/dnsmasq.conf file is well documented. Kris On Fri, Oct 15,

[BackupPC-users] Best way to backup Windows clients?

. But I know/read that a lot of people run Cygwin and rsync directly. What are the advantages of that? Thanks, Kris Lou k...@themusiclink.net -- ___ BackupPC-users mailing list

Re: [BackupPC-users] SELinux preventing server connection.

I emailed the Zmanda folk, and they uploaded the SRPM to the below link. Kris Lou k...@themusiclink.net On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 11:33 AM, Johan Cwiklinski maili...@x-tnd.bewrote: Hello, Le 29/04/2010 19:43, Kris Lou a écrit : Out of curiosity, is there a difference (besides version

Re: [BackupPC-users] NAS

no expert. So take that with your grain of salt. Kris Lou k...@themusiclink.net On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 7:10 AM, David Williams dwilli...@dtw-consulting.com wrote: Thanks Erik, I think that buying a bare bones setup without the disks would be preferable so that I can choose the exact type

Re: [BackupPC-users] Installing on Red Hat Enterprise

But be aware that it will put things in different locations. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com The other easy way is the RPM from Zmanda : http://www.zmanda.com/download-backuppc.php Kris Lou k...@themusiclink.net

[BackupPC-users] Having Problems Creating Archives

/BackupPC_archiveHost $tarCreatePath $splitpath $parpath $host $backupnumber $compression $compext $splitsize $archiveloc $parfile * Thanks, Kris Lou k...@themusiclink.net -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new

[BackupPC-users] BackupPC on Cherokee Web Server

Hi all, I (mostly) successfully was able to get BackupPC (3.2.0beta1) running on a CentOS box with the Cherokee web server. If anybody is also using this web server, have you noticed any issues with the Server Status link? For me, it always points to the current page. Not a deal breaker, but