Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup won't complete (problem solved)
Thomas Nygreen wrote: Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom skrev: Have you tried debugging by running BackupPC_dump by hand? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:$ /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_dump -f -v host.domain.tld Now I have, and by doing so found the problem. It looked like it did it's job just fine until: [some tens of thousands of lines removed] Sending empty csums for sys/block/sdb/uevent Sending empty csums for sys/bus/ide/drivers/ide-cdrom/bind Sending empty csums for sys/bus/ide/drivers/ide-cdrom/unbind Segmentation fault and the same old processes were hanging: /usr/bin/perl /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_dump -f host2 /usr/bin/ssh -q -x -l root host2 /usr/bin/rsync --server --sender --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group --devices --links --times --block-size=2048 --recursive -D lots of excludes --ignore-times . / After experimenting a lot with excluding parts of the /sys tree, I located the problem to /sys/bus/pci_express. I don't see why. So I excluded '/sys/bus/pci_express' and now it works just fine. Thanks for leading me to the right track! /sys is something you'll probably want to exclude entirely. Nils Breunese. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] HOWTO or RPM for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4?
James Pulver wrote: I tried following the source directions, but many of the dependencies are not available for RHEL4 via yum... Has anyone build an RPM for this install? Does anyone happen to have step by step install instructions for RHEL4? I run BackupPC 3 on CentOS 4 (practically identical to RHEL 4) and I installed the dependencies from Dag's rpmforge yum repository. I only needed to install three perl modules from Dag's repository: yum install perl-Compress-Zlib perl-Archive-Zip perl-File-RsyncP Could have done that through CPAN, but it's nice to have them automatically updated through yum, so I recommend Dag's yum channel: http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/ All other dependencies are available from the default repositories, most of which are probably already installed by default. After installing those perl modules the BackupPC docs walked me right through the install. Nils Breunese. - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] permission to host to access its backup
Murtuza Dholkawala wrote: I was just wandering how would i give access to particular host to restore its contents by itself. See the last part of http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html#step_4__setting_up_the_hosts_file. Nils Breunese. - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Webinterface on different host
Maikel Punie schreef: i'm running backuppc for around 7 servers, this is all working perfectly but the webinterface is verry slow, it sometimes takes up to 5 minuts to open up the webinterface. So now i was thinking, maybe it would be good to host the webinterface on a different host inside the network, this has a couple off extra advantages - first off all a apache server less to maintain - second the webinterface could be much faster - third, the backuppc server has all the memory and cpu to use for backing up only. So now my question, is this possible or do you guys have another idea on how we can solve our problem? Yes, it is possible. See http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html#item__conf_serverport_. I don't know if it'll be much faster though. What is the typical load on your BackupPC server? Large pool? How many hosts are you backing up? I've found that the web interface is not such a heavyweight, but all the dumping, compressing, pooling, linking, etc. can be a heavy load for a system. Nils Breunese. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Webinterface on different host
Maikel Punie wrote: I don't know if it'll be much faster though. What is the typical load on your BackupPC server? Well almost 24/24 its between 4 and 8 That's pretty high. Is this server only doing backups? What transfer method are you using? Nils Breunese. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] botched move of cpool directory
Matthew Washburn wrote: I have a situation here. I installed and upgraded BackupPC 7 and 3 months ago, repectively, and have since rarely touched the thing. I know when I did the upgrade I did something with the pool directories. If my memory serves me correctly I believe I moved them from /home/backuppc/pc to /home/backuppc, although i could have done the reverse (apologies for the spacyness), and did some string replacement on /usr/share/backuppc/bin replacing all instances of 'pc/ cpool' with '/cpool'. In any event, my current situation is that I currently have both directories /home/backuppc/cpool and /home/ backuppc/pc/pool (no more pool?) in existence, $TopDir is set to / home/backuppc in /etc/config.pl, the current size of /home/backuppc/ cpool is 0, and despite having everything that I can see in the config scripts/perl files referencing /home/backuppc/cppool nothing is backing up there. Everything is still going to /home/backuppc/pc/ cpool. This has caused me to recently go into /usr/share/backuppc/ bin/BackupPC_nightly and change $TopDir to /home/backuppc/pc/cpool in order to clean some old backups out. I didn't look at this thing for a while and my disk all filled up. I would like to tidy up this install and have both cpool and trash residing in /home/backuppc. Does anyone have any idea why data is not currently being placed in /home/backuppc/cpool and still going into /home/backuppc/pc/cpool?I have even tried backing up brand new boxes and have had the same results I believe there are more files that have the path hardcoded. I believe they were once discussed on this list. Nils Breunese. - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Allow web access to clients to make backups?
B Wooster wrote: Still struggling to get permissions and usernames sorted out, so hoping someone already using BackupPC can help out. Is this tool appropriate to build a private remote-backup service that can be offered to friends and family? So, on my Linux server, I would like to run BackupPC server. Then, would like any remote user, anywhere in the world, to go to a web site, log in using their username/password, and be able to backup their machine specifying folders they want backed up. And restore files as needed. I am not sure yet if this is doable - can anyone shed light on this? No, this is not exactly how it works. The BackupPC administrator (i.e. you) create a list of hosts (hostnames, IP addresses, NetBIOS names) that are backed up by BackupPC. You can give people logins to their backups, but the users don't specify what is backed up. The normal scenario is also that hosts are backed up automatically (say, daily), but I believe that can be changed to an on-demand scenario (no automatic backups). BackupPC can certainly be used as a private remote backup service, but mainly the problem is your 'anywhere in the world', as the hostname/IP address/NetBIOS name is a constant in this system. Nils Breunese. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Which version to use for new install
ck wrote: Thanks a lot for the advice. I'll check out CentOS for sure. I've heard it mentioned a lot, but never looked into it for my purposes. There's even a K12LTSP version that's based on CentOS instead of Fedora. Check the 'EL' directories at ftp://k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us/ pub/K12LTSP. K12LTSP 5.0 is currently not yet available in the EL flavor though Nils Breunese. - 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] Per-PC configuration file
Hello all, I have a BackupPC 2.1.2pl2 server (installed from the .tar.gz on the site) backing up a number of of other servers to a second drive, which has been working just fine for a while now. Now I want to also backup the backup server itself, but of course I have to exclude the backuppc data directory or I will start a recursive backup (backing up the backup data). I wanted to create a 'per-pc configuration' file for this host to exclude /mnt/backup for localhost. http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html#configuration_file says: The BackupPC configuration file resides in __TOPDIR__/conf/ config.pl. Optional per-PC configuration files reside in __TOPDIR__/pc/$host/config.pl. This file can be used to override settings just for a particular PC. If I just add it to the hosts file when I do when adding a 'normal' host the pc/hostname directory will be automatically created, but then it will also start the recursive backup, so I thought I'd better not do that. I think I have also read about using hostname.pl config files on the list, but see nothing about that in the docs. Should I just manually create the __TOPDIR__/pc/hostname/ directory (which does not exist yet of course), create a config.pl inside it and then add the host to the /mnt/backup/backu/conf/hosts file? Thanks in advance, Nils. - 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 configuration file
Casper Thomsen wrote: On Sun, 1 Oct 2006, Nils Breunese (Lemonbit Internet) wrote: Should I just manually create the __TOPDIR__/pc/hostname/ directory (which does not exist yet of course), create a config.pl inside it and then add the host to the /mnt/backup/backuppc/conf/ hosts file? That works fine for me. Ok, I just went and did just that. It's being backed up right now. Thanks for confirming I was on the right track. Nils Breunese. - 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] Cannot access the Web Interface (Response.pm not found)
Les Mikesell wrote: When I access the cgi interface this appears in the log of apache: [Sat Sep 09 15:09:13 2006] [error] Can't locate Apache/Response.pm in @INC Does gentoo have another package containing that? On my CentOS machines Apache/Response.pm is part of the mod_perl package (/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5/i386-linux-thread-multi/ Apache/Response.pm). Can locate Apache/Response.pm on your system? Maybe on Gentoo you need to add the path to @INC manually somehow? Nils Breunese. - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Cannot access the Web Interface(Response.pm not found)
Hendrik Friedel wrote: On my CentOS machines Apache/Response.pm is part of the mod_perl package (/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5/i386-linux-thread-multi/ Apache/Response.pm). Can locate Apache/Response.pm on your system? Maybe on Gentoo you need to add the path to @INC manually somehow? The Thing is, that no File 'Apache/Response.pm' exists (i.e. a file Response.pm within a Directory Apache, if I understand correctly). vdr01 VDR # locate Apache/Response.pm vdr01 VDR # locate Response.pm /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/Net/Amazon/Response.pm /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i586-linux-thread-multi/Apache2/ Response.pm /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/HTTP/Response.pm /root/.cpan/build/Net-Amazon-0.35/lib/Net/Amazon/Response.pm /root/.cpan/build/Net-Amazon-0.35/blib/lib/Net/Amazon/Response.pm Mod_perl is installed. (emerge) Looks like BackupPC should be looking for Apache2/Response.pm on a Gentoo system... Nils Breunese. - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Cannot access the Web Interface(Response.pmnot found)
Hendrik Friedel wrote: I emerged backuppc, Apache, perl and mod_perl. You might want to file a bug against the backuppc emerge package then... Nils Breunese. - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Cannot access the Web Interface(Response.pmnot found)
Hendrik Friedel wrote: Obviously, it is also possible to use backuppc withoud mod_perl. Fine with me, but that also does not work, as setuid is not installed on this machine. Just install perl-setuid (I don't know the exact Gentoo name). Thus, something must be messed up with the ebuilds requirements. setuid is not required for just plain perl, so it's not a dependency. Nils Breunese. - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup of off-site-computers.
Op 26-aug-2006, om 16:47 heeft Jonas Stare het volgende geschreven: The problem I have (had) is that the wlan nat's the clients and you can not get any connection to them. But a friend of mine poited out that I could make them connect via vpn (pptp) to the network and set up the firewall to allow connections that way. I'll try that later this week and see if it will work. :) Sometimes it seems like you have to work very hard to keep files safe from their owners. Well yes, you have to be able to reach machines in order to be able to back them up... Nils Breunese. PGP.sig Description: Dit deel van het bericht is digitaal ondertekend - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Q: BackupPC problems with Samba 3.0.22+ ? A: blacklist samba
Bill Hudacek wrote: Fedora Core and Yum is a great system for automatically updating your system. but only when you can trust it. This is the first time it's really and truly failed me - and it's been a disaster. No software distributed - and installed - globally, via automatic 'push' methods, should be allowed to change in such significant aspects without giving its users the chance to prepare. It's a huge disservice to the community, and shows a level of conceit I have trouble understanding to allow this to happen. Have you filed a bug (http://bugzilla.redhat.com/)? Nils Breunese. - 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] Problems with File-RsyncP-0.62
Ken wrote: Anyone having problems with File-RsyncP-0.62? It won't install with cpan. Linux: 2.6.17-1.2142_FC4 Perl: perl-5.8.6-24 I use Dag's yum repository (http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/apt/) and then just use 'yum install perl-File-RsyncP'. Dag has a lot (if not all) perl modules ready to install via yum. Nils Breunese. - 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] xFer Error
Arlequín wrote: On 17/07/2006 19:50, Nils Breunese (Lemonbit Internet) wrote: Gabriel Menini wrote: The fix is probably to use -D instead of --devices. This was changed in 2.1.2pl2 and has been mentioned on this list quite a lot of times. Nils Breunese. Thanks, Nils Should have browsed the list archives before asking, sorry. I'm running Ubuntu based BackupPC version 2.1.1-2ubuntu3 How can I upgrade to 2.1.2pl2? Perhaps using another repository? I don't know if anyone has packaged 2.1.2pl2 for Debian/Ubuntu yet. I use BackupPC on CentOS myself and installed it from source. Nils Breunese. - 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] xFer Error
Arlequín wrote:
On 17/07/2006 19:50, Nils Breunese (Lemonbit Internet) wrote:
Gabriel Menini wrote:
The fix is probably to use -D instead of --devices. This was changed
in 2.1.2pl2 and has been mentioned on this list quite a lot of
times.
Nils Breunese.
Thanks, Nils
Should have browsed the list archives before asking, sorry.
I'm running Ubuntu based BackupPC version 2.1.1-2ubuntu3
How can I upgrade to 2.1.2pl2?
Perhaps using another repository?
By the way, you don't need to upgrade tot 2.1.2pl2 to fix this. Just
change --devices to -D for $Conf{RsyncArgs} and $Conf
{RsyncRestoreArgs} in your config.pl file. There are other fixes in
the new version of course (check the release notes).
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Re: [BackupPC-users] xFer Error
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Re: [BackupPC-users] xFer Error
Gabriel Menini wrote: The fix is probably to use -D instead of --devices. This was changed in 2.1.2pl2 and has been mentioned on this list quite a lot of times. Nils Breunese. - 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] Got fatal error during xfer (aborted by signal=PIPE)
I wrote: I wrote: I'm getting this error for one of my hosts. I found the nightly run hadn't succesfully backed up this host but when I ran the incremental again I got the error again: Got fatal error during xfer (aborted by signal=PIPE) Any idea what could be wrong? I started the incremental another time and this time it worked. I still get a daily e-mail telling me that some of my hosts (sometimes only one, not always the same hosts) have had errors: The following hosts had an error that is probably caused by a misconfiguration. Please fix these hosts: - hostname (aborted by signal=PIPE) What is the cause of signal=PIPE? What configuration options should I be looking at? Nils Breunese. - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Email Notifications - Via another MTA rather than sendmail
Ken Gregoire wrote: Is there a way to setup backuppc to use a different MTA (email system) where it has to provide a url, username and password to send email notifications. I don't have sendmail on the backuppc system and would like backuppc to send email notifications via a standard email system. what MTA do you have installed? btw, sendmail *is* the standard for mail systems. :) if you mean that you don't have an MTA installed at all; look into one of the send-only MTAs out there, like nullmailer(+debian patches), or similar ones (can't think of the names right now; they all suck compared to nullmailer once the debian patches have been added to it). do a freshmeat search, you'll find many. I use qmail on fedora. I would like to be able to use a username/ password to send mail and I cannot find where you would enter the password in backuppc, or if it is possible. Any ideas? I use qmail on CentOS and I have no problems using the default setup. Qmail has a sendmail interface, so it should just work. Nils Breunese. - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Email Notifications - Via another MTA rather than sendmail
Ken Gregoire wrote:
I use qmail on CentOS and I have no problems using the default setup.
Qmail has a sendmail interface, so it should just work.
Where do you enter the password for the email account in backuppc?
You don't. BackupPC just calls the sendmail binary directly. The
default config.pl has:
$Conf{SendmailPath} = '/usr/sbin/sendmail';
You might have to alter this if your sendmail binary is in another
location.
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Re: [BackupPC-users] archive error
Mark Coetser wrote: es this sorted out my problem too, I have one last question about the archive host. Is it possible to schedule the archives? I would like to do a daily archive, so someone will change the tapes daily and I just need the system to run the archive host automatically at a certain time. I think a good ol' cron job would do just fine. Nils Breunese. Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup a single file
Mark Wass wrote: What are the setting in the config.pl file I need to set if I want to backup a single file. I'm using Rsync and I only want to backup the /etc/temp.ini file You want to use BackupPC to backup a single file? Wow. Nils. Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
[BackupPC-users] Got fatal error during xfer (aborted by signal=PIPE)
Hi, I'm getting this error for one of my hosts. I found the nightly run hadn't succesfully backed up this host but when I ran the incremental again I got the error again: Got fatal error during xfer (aborted by signal=PIPE) Any idea what could be wrong? Nils. ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC CGI interface and Plesk
I wrote earlier: Les Mikesell wrote: I'm guessing here, but I'd expect re-installing backuppc with the user plesk wants to force (or carefully changing ownership and the startup scripts) and removing the setuid mode would work. I'll try messing with it some more. Maybe I should indeed just use the user Plesk created instead of the backuppc user. Today I went ahead and reinstalled using the user I created through Plesk for the vhost. I chmodded BackupPC_Admin 750 as setuid is not needed (since Plesk uses suexec by default) and behold: it works! I could have recreated the vhost in Plesk and named the user backuppc, but oh well. Off to configure my hosts... :o) Thanks, Nils Breunese. ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Funny ssh Problems
Randall Barlow wrote: Sorry for the post - as fate would have it I resolved the issue just minutes after posting it. It turns out that I had only attempted to connect to remotehost.remotedomain as I was testing how well the ssh key pair worked, but backuppc was just trying to connect to remotehost (thus, the name remotehost hadn't been added to the known_hosts and it was asking the yes/no question which backuppc wasn't expecting/ shouldn't expect :)) I have the same problem (fileListReceive failed): Running: /usr/bin/ssh -q -x -l root full-hostname /usr/bin/rsync -- server --sender --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group --devices -- links --times --block-size=2048 --recursive --exclude=/proc --ignore- times . / Xfer PIDs are now 12189 Got remote protocol 29 fileListReceive() failed Done: 0 files, 0 bytes Got fatal error during xfer (fileListReceive failed) Backup aborted (fileListReceive failed) I'm using the rsync transfer method. However, when I do 'su - backuppc' I can run 'ssh root@full-hostname' just fine and I end up at the prompt of the client machine. Where else do I check what's wrong? Nils Breunese. Randall Barlow wrote: OK, So I have the system backing up my localhost OK, and two other windows machines, but I'm having trouble getting it to work with rsync over ssh for a remote host. I am running backuppc as user apache, and so I've created a public/private key pair and stored it in ~apache/.ssh/id_rsa on the local server, and have added it to the root user's authorized keys for the remote server. Now if I su apache, I am allowed to ssh to the remote host without being asked for a password. However, when I try to backup the remote machine via the CGI, I get the error: fileListReceive failed. Inspecting the logs: Fatal error (bad version): Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Xlib: Read EOF: Tried again: got 0 bytes fileListReceive() failed Done: 0 files, 0 bytes Got fatal error during xfer (fileListReceive failed) Backup aborted (fileListReceive failed) Has anybody seen this problem before? It seems like it's trying to open up an X window for some reason, any ideas? ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Funny ssh Problems
Travis Fraser wrote:
What version of rsync are you using? Later versions need --devices
changed to -D in $Conf{RsyncArgs}.
My test client has rsync 2.6.8. I changed that and it seems my first
backup is finally rolling in. Where would I have missed that in the
documentation?
Thanks a lot,
Nils Breunese.
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Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC CGI interface and Plesk
Hello Peter, Hey, It may be too late for this because it looks like you already got things working using Plesk. Not sure if you ran across this in your search, but a while back I wrote some docs for setting up backuppc using suexec *instead* of sperl, which allows you to avoid all those workarounds like running apache as backuppc user, etc. http://moderndoorbells.com/backuppc (skip ahead to step 3 for suexec stuff) I read your post on the list today and took a look at it. At that moment I nearly had everything working, so I didn't really use it. My final setup is not that hard actually. Plesk uses suexec for Perl on every vhost by default, I just had to install backuppc to run as the user I created for the vhost. Then you also don't need the setuid bit on BackupPC_Admin anymore. I think the BackupPC documentation should promote the use of suexec instead of sperl. I have heard that suexec is more secure anyway. But for some reason everyone seems to be stuck on sperl. Why would it be more secure? I do agree that on a vanilla system the setuid way seems the easiest to setup. Please let me know if my soluton is similar to what you came up with. Possibly we should get together and create a more platform independent doc for using suexec with backuppc. Well, I guess my solution is not very platform independent. Plesk even uses a patched version of suexec I believe and I installed backuppc on a CentOS 4 system, with all dependencies installed using rpms. Only backuppc itself was not an rpm. Nils Breunese. ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Funny ssh Problems
Travis Fraser wrote:
What version of rsync are you using? Later versions need --devices
changed to -D in $Conf{RsyncArgs}.
I guess I need to change this for $Conf{RsyncRestoreArgs} as well?
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Re: [BackupPC-users] PackupPC CGI interface and Plesk
Les Mikesell wrote: Does the running httpd retain the apache group? Maybe you need to change the group to psaserv. If you aren't in the right group you can't execute this. I added user backuppc to the psaserv group: $ groups backuppc backuppc : backuppc psaserv I chowned BackupPC_Admin to backupc:psaserv and removed write permissions: -r-sr-x--- 1 backuppc psaserv 3912 Jun 7 11:48 BackupPC_Admin I can execute this as user backuppc, apache and root, but still it's not working when I access it through a browser. I'm slowly starting to go nuts from this... Nils Breunese. ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] PackupPC CGI interface and Plesk
Les Mikesell wrote: -r-sr-x--- 1 backuppc psaserv 3912 Jun 7 11:48 BackupPC_Admin I can execute this as user backuppc, apache and root, but still it's not working when I access it through a browser. I'm slowly starting to go nuts from this... Is there a more informative error in the httpd error_log now? No. I get this in my browser window: 500 Internal Server Error The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request. Please contact the server administrator, [EMAIL PROTECTED] and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error. More information about this error may be available in the server error log. And in error_log I find: [Thu Jun 08 15:30:17 2006] [error] [client xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] Premature end of script headers: BackupPC_Admin That's all. When I reload the page I just get another one of those. A brute-force way to debug is to 'strace -p ' one of the httpd process id's, then hit the page until that process handles it, then look for failed systems calls where you might be able to see what file it is trying to access. I didn't find anything this way. I only keep hitting traces of the 404 error served for the favicon.ico. However, I thought of one more thing. I believe Plesk uses suexec for perl scripts. In the httpd.include for the vhost (generated by Plesk) I find: SuexecUserGroup lemonbitbackup psacln Could this maybe override the setuid on BackupPC_Admin? In /var/log/ httpd/suexec_log I find: [2006-06-08 15:57:52]: uid: (10011/lemonbitbackup) gid: (10001/10001) cmd: BackupPC_Admin [2006-06-08 15:57:52]: file is either setuid or setgid: (/var/www/ vhosts/backup.lemonbit.nl/cgi-bin/BackupPC_Admin) Could it be that that SuexecUserGroup directive somehow overrides the setuid bit on BackupPC_Admin? Thanks for the great help so far, Nils Breunese. ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC CGI interface and Plesk
Les Mikesell wrote: Maybe the Plesk way of doing things would be to change the backuppc user (and ownership of everything related) to match the lemonbitbackup user that Plesk created. Is this supposed to be something that saves you time...? Security software, like suexec, is almost never supposed to be something that saves you time, right? Well, in the long run, yes, because when setup properly it will save you a lot of time fixing stuff. Shared hosting environments are jungles and I actually think things like suexec are great. I've never had any problems with CGI scripts and suexec. It always just worked out of the box. Installing BackupPC was the first time I had to setuid a CGI script for a parcticular user that is not the site user and now I can't seem to get it to work. Which would be a pity, because BackupPC seems like it would be perfect for my needs. Nils Breunese. ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC CGI interface and Plesk
Les Mikesell wrote: I'm guessing here, but I'd expect re-installing backuppc with the user plesk wants to force (or carefully changing ownership and the startup scripts) and removing the setuid mode would work. I'll try messing with it some more. Maybe I should indeed just use the user Plesk created instead of the backuppc user. Otherwise, fire up a separate instance of httpd on a different port so you don't have to fight with the other one. I heard a lot people give that suggestion, but I haven't been able to find out how to do actually do that. Any pointers (this is a CentOS 4.3 system with apache2)? Thanks again, Nils Breunese. ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
[BackupPC-users] PackupPC CGI interface and Plesk
Hello all, I have spent all day trying to get BackupPC's web interface to work, but have not succeeded. I have completed all of the installation instructions and I have installed BackupPC 2.1.2pl1 on a CentOS 4.3 machine. However this machine is also running the Plesk 8 control panel. When it came to installing the CGI interface (a single file!) this is were I got stuck. As I understand, I can either run the CGI interface setuid backuppc or run a separate apache instance running as user backuppc using mod_perl. I thought the setuid way would be the easiest to get working, but I think Plesk may be getting in the way to much. I have set up a vhost backup.lemonbit.nl through Plesk and this automatically creates a /var/www/vhosts/backup.lemonbit.nl/cgi-bin/ directory as this domain's cgi-bin directory. This is also the location I entered when running perl configure.pl and afterwards I indeed found BackupPC_Admin there: -r-sr-xr-- 1 backuppc backuppc 3912 Jun 7 11:48 BackupPC_Admin However, these are the permissions on the /var/www/vhosts/ backup.lemonbit.nl/cgi-bin directory: drwxr-x--- 2 lemonbitbackup psaserv 4096 Jun 7 15:42 cgi-bin So: the backuppc user is not able to execute BackupPC_Admin as it cannot get to the script. All I get is 500 Internal Server Errors and my logs keep saying: Premature end of script headers: BackupPC_Admin I believe however that if I change the ownership on the cgi-bin directory I can't execute any scripts at all. I then tried looking into setting things up through mod_perl, but noticed you have to set user backuppc and group backuppc in the webserver configuration for this to work. Alas, you can't use the user and group directives in a vhosts configuration. Does anyone have an idea what I can do to get the admin interface to work in a vhost environment (especially Plesk 8)? Any pointers to setting up a separate instance of apache running as backuppc? Everywhere I go I read people saying just use vhosts, separate apache instances are useless. From what I read and see about it, I'm really liking this system, so I would really like to get this to work. But after spending a whole day on this I think I need some fresh insights. Thanks in advance, Nils Breunese. ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] PackupPC CGI interface and Plesk
Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: Mine are (as stated in the docs): -rwsr-x--- 2 backuppc apache 3894 Apr 20 15:29 BackupPC_Admin By the way, the docs list the permissions as -swxr-x---1 __BACKUPPCUSER__ web 82406 Jun 17 22:58 __CGIDIR__/BackupPC_Admin I think that should be -rwsr-x---1 __BACKUPPCUSER__ web 82406 Jun 17 22:58 __CGIDIR__/BackupPC_Admin with the s for the execute flag (not for the read), to mean setuid. I did the following: # chown backuppc:apache BackupPC_Admin # chmod 4750 BackupPC_Admin And now have: -rwsr-x--- 1 backuppc apache 3912 Jun 7 11:48 BackupPC_Admin However, the interface is still not working for me. Any more ideas? Nils. ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Re PackupPC CGI interface and Plesk
Ed Pascoe wrote: Firstly stay away from mod_perl where possible because its VERY painful to get setup. Next make sure you get some kind of useful response (ie. no perl errors) if you run the cgi command by hand. Eg.: ./BackupPC_Admin.cgi I do when as user root or apache. However, when I try as user backuppc it doesn't work as that user doesn't have enough permissions to enter the cgi-bin directory which is chmodded 750 and is not owned by backuppc: drwxr-x--- 2 lemonbitbackup psaserv 4096 Jun 7 15:42 cgi-bin Any idea what I should change to get this working (without opening all kinds of security holes)? Thanks, Nils Breunese. ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
