Re: [BackupPC-users] host resolution problem
On Sun, 2011-03-20 at 18:06 +0100, Gabriel Rossetti wrote: Hi Tamas, not really, I must not have explained myself correctly. I have a local network with a server that backs up our laptops. The laptops use DHCP to get their IPs, they are Macs and Linux laptops. For my example I will use a notebook called myNotebook. It can't be resoved using DNS resolution, but nmblookup can find it. If you control the DHCP server, why not assign a known IP address to each of the laptops? Then use either DNS, or put the laptop entries into the hosts file on the backuppc server. -- Travis Fraser tra...@snowpatch.net -- Colocation vs. Managed Hosting A question and answer guide to determining the best fit for your organization - today and in the future. http://p.sf.net/sfu/internap-sfd2d ___ 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.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Using NFS share as BackupPC pool
On Mon, 03 Dec 2007 14:13:19 +0100 Dan S. Hemsø Rasmussen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi... Anyone tried to use a NFS mount as pool for the backups...? I would like to use a Synology NAS box as storage for my BackupPC server. But will it work. I use a NAS box mounted via NFS. It works fine. The underlying filesystem on the NAS must support hardlinks I would think. Does the Synology box use Linux for the OS? Travis Fraser - SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future of Linux Business White Paper from Novell. From the desktop to the data center, Linux is going mainstream. Let it simplify your IT future. http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/8857-50307-18918-4 ___ 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.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Can't get excludes to work
On Sat, 2007-10-27 at 10:49 -0400, Arch Willingham wrote:
When all else fails, try em' all! I don't know which part fixed it but this
ended up working:
Maybe try eliminating them one at a time to see? Also, what transfer
method are you using?
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
'\\backup\\*' = [
''
],
'/backup/*' = [
''
],
'*' = [
'\\backup\\*',
'/backup/*'
]
};
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Re: [BackupPC-users] Can't get excludes to work
On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 16:53 +0200, Toni Van Remortel wrote: Arch Willingham wrote: Even though the slashes go the other way in Windows Yes. It's a Unix system that is taking the backups, so you need to use the Unix way to address directories. So / is the separator, \ is just an escape character. In playing around with excludes a while back, I found it depends on what the transfer method is. For smb, the backslash works for excludes. For rsync, the forward slash. -- Travis Fraser [EMAIL PROTECTED] - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/ ___ 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.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Logwatch rule
On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 16:22 -0400, Richard Bailey wrote: I just wanted to get some daily status on BackupPC, such as the size and usage of the pool/filesystem, the host status and so on. I don't really want to get a new email after each and every job so integrating this into logwatch seemed like the idea thing. I saw BackupPC_serverMesg and ran it with status info, status jobs and status hosts but the output is not easily readable, is there something to convert that output to something that can easily go into a logwatch email? I had written a script for version 2.1.1 that sends me a daily status email as well as generates an RSS feed. It is in the list archives, but if you want I can email it to you. -- Travis Fraser [EMAIL PROTECTED] - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/ ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Error starting a backup
On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 22:35 -0400, Yaakov Chaikin wrote: Hi, I am running BackupPC 3.0 and having trouble getting it to back up. So far, I am just running a test back up on the machine that hosts the BackupPC. Here is the error log that I am getting when I click Start Full Backup: ** 2007-07-17 22:26:26 User yaakov requested backup of tbiqdev (tbiqdev) 2007-07-17 22:26:26 tbiqdev: mkdir /data/BackupPC: Permission denied at //usr/share/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_dump line 193 ** The /data/BackupPC is directory where I specified I wanted the backups to be stored. It's owned by the apache user since this is the user that runs the 'httpd' server. Is apache the user that runs backuppc? -- Travis Fraser [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 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] Backing up excluded directories
On Fri, 2007-05-11 at 15:22 -0300, Miles Thompson wrote:
James,
Thank you for the suggestion, but it did not work. The script never
enters Program Files or Windows, but has no such hesitation about
My Music.
I have had another thought - could it be continuing to visit this
directory because it was included in the original full backup?
What does the smb share sarah refer to? My guess is a user's directory
under Documents and Settings. If so, that is why two of the excludes
appear to work. The third exclude will most likely work with a backslash
instead of the forward slash e.g. '\My Music' or '\My\ Music'.
James wrote:
you may need to add '/My\ Music' or '/My Music' to your list of
directories to exclude, I can't remember at the moment if you need to
escape the space (using the backslash) or whether '/My Music' will
work, one of those two should work though, I would guess that this is
happening because samba accesses the folders with their full names
rather than their msdos shortened names
let me know if that works for you
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I have figured out most of BackupPC, but on some machine, directories
excluded in their configuration files are still being backed up.
From target machine's configuration file:
$Conf{SmbShareName} = 'sarah';
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = ['/MYMUSI~1','/WINDOWS','PROGRA~1'];
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Re: [BackupPC-users] excludedir problems
On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 19:04 +0200, vladimir domjan wrote:
I know this was possibly answer before but, sourceforge mailing list
search is another thing... :)
I use version 3.0xx on debian.
No errors. Using excludefolder option gives me headache.
example:
/etc/backuppc/Workstation1.pl
Code:
$Conf{SmbShareName} = ['backuptest'];
$Conf{SmbSharePasswd} = 'username';
$Conf{SmbShareUserName} = 'password';
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {'/user3'};
Use brackets instead of curly braces in your exclude. Use the curly
braces for defining excludes for multiple shares.
I used forward and back slashes with no luck. /user3 folder is allways
backed up. This is used in test controlled enviroment, backup meets
our needs.
For smb excludes, I have only gotten backslashes to work.
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Re: [BackupPC-users] vmware windows problem
On Sun, 2007-04-15 at 10:01 -0400, David Relson wrote:
On my gentoo linux workstation I have vmware-server running WinXP home
as a guest operating system. I'm working to configure BackupPC to save
WinXP's files.
The WinXP virtual machine is named winxp-vm and C: is shared as WINXP-C.
In /etc/hosts is:
hostdhcpusermoreUsers
winxp-vm0 backuppc
and in /etc/hosts/pc/winxp-vm.pl is:
$Conf{SmbShareName} = 'WINXP-C';
$Conf{SmbShareUserName} = 'backuppc';
$Conf{SmbSharePasswd} = ;
$Conf{XferMethod} = 'smb';
At present backups are incomplete :-
Looking at /archive/pc/winxp-vm/0/fWINXP-C/ the following directories
are present:
fcygwin
fDocuments and Settings
f.emacs.d
fProgram Files
fRECYCLER
fSystem Volume Information
fWINDOWS
Of these directories fcygwin looks good, but the rest are pretty much
empty:
fDocuments\ and\ Settings/fAll\ Users seems OK
fProgram\ Files has _no_ files
fDocuments\ and\ Settings/fDavid\ Relson has _no_ files
the other directories are also empty.
Any thoughts on what I've done wrong?
Does the backuppc user on the winxp machine have permissions to access
everything you want to backup?
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Re: [BackupPC-users] vmware windows problem
On Sun, 2007-04-15 at 12:56 -0400, David Relson wrote: On Sun, 15 Apr 2007 10:16:55 -0400 Travis Fraser wrote: ...[snip]... Any thoughts on what I've done wrong? Does the backuppc user on the winxp machine have permissions to access everything you want to backup? -- Travis Fraser [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Travis, An interesting question... As mentioned, I've set C:\ to be shareable and, since BackupPC has backed up some of the top level directories this is OK. However since Program Files files isn't being backed up, its sharing is set wrong. The General Properties tab for Program Files have read-only checked and the Advanced Properties tab includes the statement All options on this tab are disabled because this folder is used by the operating system. So the permissions appear to be unchangeable. The question becomes, How does BackupPC _ever_ deal with Program Files? Why do you want to back up the programs? I just back up files in the Documents and Settings directory, and if the whole machine croaks, I either reinstall from original media, or from images made with partimage. With regards to user directories such as My Documents, one _could_ make the directory sharable. This doesn't seem to be the right thing to do. Are you using BackupPC with windows? Are you using smb or another access method, i.e. rsync? I have used both smb and rsyncd for windowsXP machines. For smb, I added the backuppc user as a windows user that is also in the existing Backup Operators group. For the share, I then add to the Share Permissions (the Permissions button on the Sharing tab of the share properties) the Backup Operators group. Also, under the properties of a directory that is denying access, look at the Security tab for the directory and add the Backup Operators group. On another machine, I used the rsyncd with VSS (look at the mailing list archives), and it was very straightforward. -- Travis Fraser [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] rsync 2.6.9 issues
On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 11:06 -0700, Kris S. Amundson wrote: Greetings archivers, I've been running BackupPC for quite some time and have been very happy. Today I ran into an issue. I added two new hosts, set them up like I always have (rsync using SSH keys), and was getting failures. Server is 2.1.1 on Sarge. Client hosts are a mix of sarge/dapper. Two new hosts are pre-release etch (March builds). I could ssh and run rsync just fine: `ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] sudo rsync` The command BackupPC runs: /usr/bin/ssh -q -l backuppc amg1 sudo /usr/bin/rsync --server --sender --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group --devices --links --times --block-size=2048 --recursive --exclude=/proc --exclude=/sys --exclude=/tmp --ignore-times . / The error: 2007-04-10 09:59:06 full backup started for directory / 2007-04-10 09:59:08 Got fatal error during xfer (fileListReceive failed) The workaround: After pondering what could be different, the only thing that came to mind was etch itself.. so possibly a version or bug. I removed the version of rsync from etch and installed the sarge package. etch: rsync version 2.6.9 protocol version 29 sarge: rsync version 2.6.4 protocol version 29 Everything is working now that I've downgraded rsync. Anyone else hit this issue? I'll try again when I build a Debian 4.0 box. Almost exactly a year ago this was a popular question. The archives can explain it well, but in summary, replace --devices in the rsync command with -D. -- Travis Fraser [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 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] More thoughts on Laptop backups
On Sun, 2007-03-04 at 14:18 -0500, Rick DeNatale wrote: Someone recently brought up some questions about securely backing up laptops with backuppc, and it prompted me to ask about some questions which I've been pondering. I'm currently backing up several systems including a laptop which happens to be running ubuntu linux. Now one thing I've never properly addressed is that this laptop has both an internal ethernet card, and a pcmcia wi-fi card. Most times I use the wireless, but sometimes plug it into the wall instead. The issue is ensuring that I'm properly identifying this laptop. I really don't want to use dynamic dhcp and ddns, so I've got dhcp to assign fixed ip addresses based on mac addresses. This means that the laptop gets one or another ip address depending on whether it's using a wireless or wired connection, and it has different dns names depending on its ip address. Right now, I've got backuppc configured to look for it only using the wireless ip addr/name. Is there a way to configure backuppc to find it through either interface. You could make two hosts for it, one corresponding to each ip address, and that would not take up additional space due to pooling. Related to this is how to actually ensure that I'm backing up this particular laptop. Imagine that someone visited and borrowed my wi-fi card, the visitor's laptop would look like mine to backuppc which wouldn't be good. Is there a way to associated a backup with a given machine and not just the mac address? Use rsync over ssh with a public key. The visitor's laptop will not have the key. -- Travis Fraser [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 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] More thoughts on Laptop backups
On Sun, 2007-03-04 at 14:18 -0500, Rick DeNatale wrote: Someone recently brought up some questions about securely backing up laptops with backuppc, and it prompted me to ask about some questions which I've been pondering. I'm currently backing up several systems including a laptop which happens to be running ubuntu linux. Now one thing I've never properly addressed is that this laptop has both an internal ethernet card, and a pcmcia wi-fi card. Most times I use the wireless, but sometimes plug it into the wall instead. The issue is ensuring that I'm properly identifying this laptop. I really don't want to use dynamic dhcp and ddns, so I've got dhcp to assign fixed ip addresses based on mac addresses. This means that the laptop gets one or another ip address depending on whether it's using a wireless or wired connection, and it has different dns names depending on its ip address. Right now, I've got backuppc configured to look for it only using the wireless ip addr/name. Is there a way to configure backuppc to find it through either interface. Why not assign the same hostname and IP address to either MAC address (assuming your wireless network is bridged to the wired)? -- Travis Fraser [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 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] syntax for excluded files
On Sun, 2007-02-18 at 09:15 -0600, Seb wrote:
Hi,
I'm unable to find instructions in /etc/backuppc/config.pl showing whether
the files to exclude are relative to the included files or not. I'm not
sure if I say:
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = ['/some-path', '/another-path];
having:
$Conf{BackupFilesOnly} = '/home/';
the excluded files will be /home/some-path and /home/another-path, or the
absolute /some-path and /another-path. I would assume the former, but
can't be sure. Any advice would be appreciated.
I think it depends on the transport method. You can have
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} _or_ $Conf{BackupFilesOnly} but not both for
smb. Excludes are relative to the share name. Look at the docs.
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Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC exclusion per-share using arrays in $Conf{BackupFilesExclude}
On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 17:16 -0600, John Buttery wrote:
I'm wondering if I've got the syntax right for this stuff...it looks
right, but I can't find any actual examples anywhere and some of the
files that I think should be excluded by this, aren't.
This is BackupPC 2.1.1 as installed by Debian Sarge (the full package
version string is '2.1.1-2sarge2').
When excluding directories, do I need to put a trailing '/' character?
Are wildcards allowed? When specifying directory names inside the
per-share array, do I put the leading '/' characters?
Also, this backup fails with the following error (the other 7 or 8
hosts we back up are fine)...but I think this may be due to its trying
to back up files that are getting created/destroyed or modified during
the run. That problem should solve itself once the files start getting
excluded properly, I'm guessing.
The following hosts had an error that is probably caused by a
misconfiguration. Please fix these hosts:
- hostname (aborted by signal=ALRM)
Here are the lines from the main config.pl that affect what's being
backed up (as far as I know...I can send other stuff as required,
didn't want to spam the list with the entire file :p).
- cut here
$Conf{XferMethod} = 'rsync';
$Conf{RsyncShareName} = ['/','/usr','/var','/home'];
- cut here
And, here are the entire contents (excluding comments) of the
host-specific config file for the machine in question:
- cut here
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
'/' = [
'/dev',
'/tmp',
'/mnt',
'/floppy',
'/cdrom',
'/proc'
],
'/var' = [
'/log/maillog',
'/lib/mysql/data',
'/lib/mysql/mysql',
'/log/mysql/mysql.log',
'/log/mysql/mysql-bin*',
'/spool/exim4'
],
};
- cut here
Would you be running into problems because the other rsync share names
are included in /?
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Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC Data Directory on a Network Attached Storage
On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 13:09 -0700, Brien Dieterle wrote: Most NFS servers are pitifully slow compared to a local filesystem, particularly when dealing with many small files. It pains me to think about how slow that might get-- is anyone else using a non-local filesystem? I use a Linux-based NAS device that is mounted via NFS. The backups are not huge (~25GB), but the performance seems fine. The BackupPC server does have a dedicated connection with a crossover cable to the NAS. Simon Köstlin wrote: I think TCP is a safer connection or plays that none rolls? Also when I click on a PC in the web interface it takes around 20-30 seconds until the web page appears with the backups which were made. I thought that would be better with an other connection. But that time is not dependent on the size of the backups. I made backups with just some files and it takes that time to load also if I have Backups with 3GB. -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Les Mikesell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 25. Januar 2007 20:35 An: Simon Köstlin Cc: backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Betreff: Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC Data Directory on a Network Attached Storage Simon Köstlin wrote: I want to have the Data Directory on a Network Attached Storage (NAS) and not on the BackupPC Server. The NAS supports NFS, SMB, FTP, CIFS and SSH. I tried to mount an NFS Share on the NAS and that works well. So I can use the Data Directory in this Share. But the NAS supports only a UDP connection with NFS. Are there any other solutions to use a TCP connection? I tried also SMB, but that did not work with BackupPC. I mounted a Share with SMB and that works, but when I wanted to start BackupPC, BackupPC did not start. I only found a log directory on the Share with the LOG file in which was an error like bind() failed. Does anybody know why SMB does not work with BackupPC? Or are there any other solutions like to mount a FTP connection? -- Travis Fraser [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 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] Email reports
On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 10:30 +0100, Francisco Daniel Igual Peña wrote:
Hi,
Is it possible that Backuppc sends weekly (or daily, dont mind) reports to a
specific email even though there are no errors with the backups?. I want
something like that, but I dont know how to do it.
I have a daily status email and RSS feed. You can edit out the RSS stuff
if you want just email. The status email address is configurable. I
wrote up a little howto for myself (I am running backuppc-2.1.1, so
adjustments may be necessary if using a newer version):
BackupPC RSS feed and email status HOWTO
---
1. I created a script[see step 5] called BackupPC_statusUpdate modeled
on BackupPC_sendEmail. The script parses the backup status of each host,
creates an RSS feed and also sends the information by email.
BackupPC_statusUpdate resides in $BinDir (/usr/lib/backuppc/bin/ in my
case) and runs once each night.
2. Added $Conf{EMailStatusUserName} to the main config
file /var/lib/backuppc/conf/config.pl for email address(es) to receive
nightly status emails:
#
$Conf{EMailFromUserName} = 'backuppc';
+#
+# Destination address for daily positive status email.
+#
+$Conf{EMailStatusUserName} = '[EMAIL PROTECTED]';
#
# Destination address to an administrative user who will receive a
3. Added a call to BackupPC_statusUpdate in BackupPC_nightly (note the
addition of the semicolon on the first system command below):
if ( $opts{m} ) {
print(log BackupPC_nightly now running BackupPC_sendEmail\n);
!system($BinDir/BackupPC_sendEmail);
+# RSS and positive status email
+#
+print(log BackupPC_nightly now running BackupPC_statusUpdate\n);
+system($BinDir/BackupPC_statusUpdate);
}
4. Added header (to advertise feed to RSS readers e.g. Firefox) on my
backup server documentation webpage (this can be any spot viewable from
your intranet) at /var/www/localhost/htdocs/index.html. This is an
optional step. The link path is the place in the webroot that the main
script writes the xml file.
/style
+link rel=alternate type=application/rss+xml
+ href=backuppc/backuppc_status.xml title=BackupPC RSS feed
/head
5. BackupPC_statusUpdate
#!/usr/bin/perl
#=
-*-perl-*-
#
# BackupPC_statusUpdate
#
# DESCRIPTION
#
# This script implements a positive status email and an RSS feed.
#
# The script is called from BackupPC_nightly.
#
# AUTHOR
# Travis Fraser [EMAIL PROTECTED]
#
# Credit to Rich Duzenbury for the original idea.
#
#
# Requires XML::RSS
#
# Edit the variable $serverName to suit depending on DNS status on your
# network.
# Edit the use lib ... in the 3rd line of code below.
# Edit the $base_url in the RSS section to reflect the correct path to
# the cgi page.
# Edit the $rss-save ... line near the end of the script to suit.
#
#
use strict;
no utf8;
#
# The lib path needs to match that in the stock backuppc files.
#
use lib /usr/lib/backuppc/lib;
use BackupPC::Lib;
use XML::RSS;
use Data::Dumper;
use Getopt::Std;
use DirHandle ();
use vars qw($Lang $TopDir $BinDir %Conf);
#
# Variables
#
my($fullTot, $fullSizeTot, $incrTot, $incrSizeTot, $str, $mesg,
$strNone, $strGood, $hostCntGood, $hostCntNone);
$hostCntGood = $hostCntNone = 0;
my $serverName = '192.168.1.3';
#
# Initialize
#
die(BackupPC::Lib-new failed\n) if ( !(my $bpc =
BackupPC::Lib-new) );
$TopDir = $bpc-TopDir();
$BinDir = $bpc-BinDir();
%Conf = $bpc-Conf();
$Lang = $bpc-Lang();
$bpc-ChildInit();
my $err = $bpc-ServerConnect($Conf{ServerHost}, $Conf{ServerPort});
if ( $err ) {
print(Can't connect to server ($err)\n);
exit(1);
}
#
# Retrieve status of hosts
#
my $reply = $bpc-ServerMesg(status hosts);
$reply = $1 if ( $reply =~ /(.*)/s );
my(%Status, %Info, %Jobs, @BgQueue, @UserQueue, @CmdQueue);
eval($reply);
#
# Ignore status related to admin and trash jobs
foreach my $host ( grep(/admin/, keys(%Status)) ) {
delete($Status{$host}) if ( $bpc-isAdminJob($host) );
}
delete($Status{$bpc-trashJob});
#
# Set up RSS feed
#
my $now = $bpc-timeStamp(time);
#
# The cgi page in this case is over HTTPS
#
my $base_url = 'https://' . $serverName . '/cgi-bin/BackupPC_Admin';
my $rss = new XML::RSS (version = '2.0', encoding = 'ISO-8859-1
Re: [BackupPC-users] Email reports
On Tue, 2007-01-16 at 08:24 +1100, Les Stott wrote: Travis Fraser wrote: On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 10:30 +0100, Francisco Daniel Igual Peña wrote: Hi, Is it possible that Backuppc sends weekly (or daily, dont mind) reports to a specific email even though there are no errors with the backups?. I want something like that, but I dont know how to do it. I have a daily status email and RSS feed. You can edit out the RSS stuff if you want just email. The status email address is configurable. I wrote up a little howto for myself (I am running backuppc-2.1.1, so adjustments may be necessary if using a newer version): Travis, that looks like some fantastic work!! Certainly something that i think is worthwhile. I only wish i knew perl so i could knock out stuff like this ;) I haven't tested myself, but if you have a sample email/rss output could you post so we can see what it looks like? A typical email looks like so (for an RSS screenshot, I can email that later): To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: BackupPC status: 4 hosts with good backups Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 01:01:01 -0500 Host: crescent Full Count: 2Full age/days: 435.6 Full Size/GB: 0.15 Speed MB/sec: 3.03 Incremental Count: 0 Incremental Age/Days: State: idle Last Attempt: nothing to do Host: marmolata Full Count: 9Full age/days: 3.2 Full Size/GB: 0.59 Speed MB/sec: 3.66 Incremental Count: 6 Incremental Age/Days: 0.2 State: idle Last Attempt: nothing to do Host: pigwin Full Count: 5Full age/days: 53.4 Full Size/GB: 1.28 Speed MB/sec: 6.30 Incremental Count: 1 Incremental Age/Days: 212.3 State: backup starting Last Attempt: no ping (host not found) Host: sweetpea Full Count: 9Full age/days: 3.2 Full Size/GB: 0.94 Speed MB/sec: 1.91 Incremental Count: 6 Incremental Age/Days: 0.2 State: backup starting Last Attempt: nothing to do -- Travis Fraser [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 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] smb scheduled backup fails, but manual works
On Wed, 2006-12-06 at 17:11 -0700, Chris Purves wrote: Hi, I have a problem where a scheduled smb backup does not run. The home page for that machine shows 'Pings to king-graham have failed 109 consecutive times.' However, I can ping the machine from the command line and I can manually start an incremental backup after which the home page shows 'Pings to king-graham have succeeded 2 consecutive times.' Any help is appreciated. Thanks. Is this a laptop where it might go into suspend or leave the network? -- Travis Fraser [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 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] Nagios plugin
On Mon, 2006-08-21 at 20:30 -0400, Bill Hudacek wrote: Seneca Cunningham wrote: I've written a Nagios plugin to monitor BackupPC (tested against 2.1.2) and will be putting it online soon (it takes some time for sourceforge to approve a project). I'm doing some cleanup and verbosity adjustment right now, and was wondering if there were any specific features for the plugin beyond what I have that anyone would like. The plugin currently warns if there are any hosts with errors and all those hosts have a backup newer than an age threshold, and goes critical if the errored hosts have a backup older than the threshold. That's a great idea! Put me down for one. Basically, having to check the web interface every day or every other day (whenever I remember) is not a big deal, but this is definitely a nice-to-have. I've just never scripted any kind of cron/anacron checks, so... Not as nice as the Nagios plugin idea, but I have a daily status email and a RSS feed that gets updated daily (the RSS idea from Rich Duzenbury). Rich's original RSS patch requires using the cgi interface to generate the xml, and I wanted something automated, so months back I wrote a script that is called from backuppc_nightly. If anyone is interested, let me know. -- Travis Fraser [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 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] Ubuntu to debian etch
On Thu, 2006-06-22 at 22:07 -0400, don Paolo Benvenuto wrote: Hi guys! I'm trying to use backuppc in order to backup my lan pc's to one of them. In my lan there are 6 ubuntu dapper pc's (and the backuppc server is a dapper too) and a debian etch one. All is going smoothly backing up the ubuntu pc's. On the contrary, I can't perform the backup from the debian pc. I'm using rsync, and after two minutes backing up the backup stops. This is the cooresponding XferLOG: Running: /usr/bin/ssh -q -x -l root misiongenovesa /usr/bin/rsync --server --sender --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group --devices ^ | change the --devices to -D -- --links --times --block-size=2048 --recursive --exclude=/proc --exclude=/tmp --ignore-times . / Xfer PIDs are now 9803 Rsync command pid is 9803 Got remote protocol 29 Checksum seed is 1151027857 Got checksumSeed 0x449b4a91 fileListReceive() failed Done: 0 files, 0 bytes Got fatal error during xfer (fileListReceive failed) Backup aborted (fileListReceive failed) Any hint? -- Travis Fraser [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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] Windows client: Unable to read 4 bytes
On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 21:13 +0200, Peter Pfandt wrote: One of my windows clients has the cygwin-rsyncd installed and I want to backup the client via rsync. The error messages I receive look like the known ssh authorisation problem, but ssh is not used: Connected to maitreya:873, remote version 28 Connected to module D Sending args: --server --sender --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group --devices --links --times --block-size=2048 --recursive --specials --exclude=\System Volume Information --ignore-times . . Read EOF: Tried again: got 0 bytes Done: 0 files, 0 bytes Got fatal error during xfer (Unable to read 4 bytes) Backup aborted (Unable to read 4 bytes) -- Any ideas what this means in this context? Have you tried to do a manual rsync e.g. just listing the files in the remote module? -- Travis Fraser [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ 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
On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 19:22 +0200, Nils Breunese (Lemonbit Internet)
wrote:
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?
What version of rsync are you using? Later versions need --devices
changed to -D in $Conf{RsyncArgs}.
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?
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Re: [BackupPC-users] Funny ssh Problems
Nils Breunese (Lemonbit Internet) wrote:
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?
I would think so, although I haven't tested that part yet.
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Re: [BackupPC-users] Re: rsync with VSS-support
On Wed, 2006-05-24 at 16:18 -0500, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: I just tried Elias's patched rsyncd-for-windows with VSS support (http://users.tkk.fi/~epenttil/rsync-vss/); but I can't get it to work on either of the machines I installed it on. (One W2K3EE, and a WXP Home). Even if I just tried to run rsyncd.exe from the command line (with the '--daemon --no-detach -vvv' options); it would just exit right away. Has anyone else gotten it to work? I got it to work. There is a typo in the rsync.conf file relating to the name of the folder it is in (Program Files/rsync). I tried changing the folder name to match the file contents, but no luck. Just change in the rsync.conf file the locations of the pid file etc. I do have the full cygwin kit installed on both of the machines in question, which I know can cause problems with operation; but I did try moving the c:\cygwin directory out of the way (to the Trash, temporarily) without success. The .msi file is very cool tho, works great, even on a win98 box. Ought to use that for the regular backuppc-rsyncd package. -- Travis Fraser [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- All the advantages of Linux Managed Hosting--Without the Cost and Risk! Fully trained technicians. The highest number of Red Hat certifications in the hosting industry. Fanatical Support. Click to learn more http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=107521bid=248729dat=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] Conf{BackupFilesExclude} not working
On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 15:34 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a debian sarge box running backuppc 2.1.1 to back up a bunch of XP
Pro Desktops and a Win2k3 fileserver. It was working fine at one point. I
then had to rebuild the RAID5 that contains the /var/lib/backuppc
datastore. I'm using the same config files but it stopped honoring the
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} directive and I can't figure out what's going
on.
I do not have a $Conf{BackupFilesOnly} defined in either config.pl or the
host config files. Here's a copy of one of the host config files:
BEGIN
#
# SMB Backup (for Windows clients)
#
$Conf{XferMethod} = 'smb';
$Conf{SmbShareName} = ['BACKUP$'];
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = '/WINDOWS/';
# if needed set a user name and password to access the remote shares
$Conf{SmbShareUserName} = 'DOMAIN/AdminUser';
$Conf{SmbSharePasswd} = 'password';
END
I have tried many variations of the BackupFilesExclude directive including:
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = ['/WINDOWS' ];
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = ['/WINDOWS/' ];
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = ['/WINDOWS/*' ];
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = '/WINDOWS';
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = '/WINDOWS/*';
etc..etc...
No matter what I do it still backs up the WINDOWS directory [or any other
directory I try to exclude].
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance for your help,
DT
The answer is in the archives (watch out for line wrap):
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.backup.backuppc.general/5423/match=windows+smb+exclude
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.backup.backuppc.general/6311/match=windows+smb+exclude
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Re: [BackupPC-users] Problem with BackupFilesExclude
On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 11:11 +0100, Tony Molloy wrote:
Hi,
I'm backing up a file share from a Windows box using the smb transfer
method. The problem is this share contains several very large log files
which the administrator of the windows box doesn't rotate or truncate. So
they are backed even when I do the nightly incremental backups.
I've tried to use BackupFilesExclude to exclude the files but I can't seem
to get the syntax right or it's not working
My per host config file is:
$Conf{XferMethod} = 'smb';
$Conf{SmbShareName} = 'Plone 2';
$Conf{SmbShareUserName} = 'WWW1\admin';
$Conf{SmbSharePasswd} = '';
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
'Plone 2' = ['/Data/log/*', '/Data/var/*']
};
So what I'm trying to do is backup the folder Plone 2 but exclude the
Data/log and Data/var subfolders.
Thanks in advance.
Tony
Use a backslash instead of the forward slash in the excludes.
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Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC_nightly admin task failing
On Fri, 2006-05-05 at 14:05 -0400, Travis Fraser wrote:
Hi,
I have been running BackupPC-2.1.1 on a gentoo system for months and it
has worked fine. Last week I edited the main config file to change the
$Conf{RsyncArgs} to account for an upgrade to rsync-2.6.8 (I changed the
flag --devices to -D). I restarted backuppc and since then the backups
all go as scheduled, but I noticed the pool size (no compression)
reported as 0 and these errors in the log file:
2006-05-05 01:00:00 Running 2 BackupPC_nightly jobs from 0..15 (out of
0..15)
2006-05-05 01:00:00 Running BackupPC_nightly -m 0 127 (pid=25619)
2006-05-05 01:00:00 Running BackupPC_nightly 128 255 (pid=25620)
2006-05-05 01:00:00 Next wakeup is 2006-05-05 02:00:00
2006-05-05 01:00:00 admin : Use of uninitialized value in chdir at
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.7/File/Find.pm line 742.
2006-05-05 01:00:00 admin : Use of chdir('') or chdir(undef) as chdir() is
deprecated at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.7/File/Find.pm line 742.
2006-05-05 01:00:00 admin : Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.)
or string at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.7/File/Find.pm line 743.
2006-05-05 01:00:00 admin : Can't cd to : Permission denied
2006-05-05 01:00:00 Finished admin (BackupPC_nightly -m 0 127)
2006-05-05 01:00:00 admin1 : Use of uninitialized value in chdir at
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.7/File/Find.pm line 742.
2006-05-05 01:00:00 admin1 : Use of chdir('') or chdir(undef) as chdir() is
deprecated at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.7/File/Find.pm line 742.
2006-05-05 01:00:00 admin1 : Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.)
or string at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.7/File/Find.pm line 743.
2006-05-05 01:00:00 admin1 : Can't cd to : Permission denied
2006-05-05 01:00:00 Finished admin1 (BackupPC_nightly 128 255)
2006-05-05 01:00:00 Pool nightly clean removed 0 files of size 0.00GB
2006-05-05 01:00:00 Pool is 0.00GB, 0 files (0 repeated, 0 max chain, 0 max
links), 0 directories
2006-05-05 01:00:00 Cpool nightly clean removed 0 files of size 0.00GB
2006-05-05 01:00:00 Cpool is 0.00GB, 0 files (0 repeated, 0 max chain, 0 max
links), 0 directories
2006-05-05 02:00:00 Next wakeup is 2006-05-05 03:00:00
2006-05-05 03:00:01 Next wakeup is 2006-05-05 04:00:00
I had upgraded perl perhaps a month ago from 5.8.6 to 5.8.7 and rebuilt
all my perl modules. I searched the list archive but could not find
anything close to my problem except this:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.backup.backuppc.general/6455/match=uninitialized+value+in+chdir
Replying to my own message here. I looked closer at my logs and noticed
that I had rebooted the backuppc server (kernel update) at least a day
before the admin oddities started showing in the logs, and that
BackupPC_nightly had run ok the night after the reboot.
I tried re-installing backuppc (leaving the data pool alone), and even
running BackupPC_nightly from the command line which ran with no errors.
Still the errors in the log and still the pool size reported as zero.
I stopped backuppc, ran a fsck which came up clean, and decided to
reboot as a last resort. Last night everything was normal.
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Re: [BackupPC-users] Rsync 2.6.7-1 (fileListReceive failed)
Peter Palfrader wrote:
On Thu, 30 Mar 2006, Andy wrote:
Most of my systems run Debian Sarge with rsync 2.6.4-6, but one runs
Debian Etch and last night rsync updated to 2.6.7-1.
I havnt been able to do any backups of this box since. I get the
following error in the xfer.log:
Got fatal error during xfer (fileListReceive failed)
Backup aborted (fileListReceive failed)
Same here. I noticed that backuppc always stopped at special files
(sockets, named pipes etc):
2006-05-08 17:56:11 galaxy: overflow: flags=0x6f l1=111 l2=560294251,
lastname=lib/gdm/.gdmfifo
The solution appears to be telling the remote rsync to pretty please
also transfer these special files:
| Conf{RsyncArgs} = [
| # original arguments here
| '--numeric-ids',
| '--perms',
| '--owner',
| '--group',
| '--devices',
| '--links',
| '--times',
| '--block-size=2048',
| '--recursive',
|
| # my args
| '--specials', # ---
| '--one-file-system'
| ];
HTH.
You could also replace --devices with -D which also covers --specials.
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[BackupPC-users] BackupPC_nightly admin task failing
Hi,
I have been running BackupPC-2.1.1 on a gentoo system for months and it
has worked fine. Last week I edited the main config file to change the
$Conf{RsyncArgs} to account for an upgrade to rsync-2.6.8 (I changed the
flag --devices to -D). I restarted backuppc and since then the backups
all go as scheduled, but I noticed the pool size (no compression)
reported as 0 and these errors in the log file:
2006-05-05 01:00:00 Running 2 BackupPC_nightly jobs from 0..15 (out of
0..15)
2006-05-05 01:00:00 Running BackupPC_nightly -m 0 127 (pid=25619)
2006-05-05 01:00:00 Running BackupPC_nightly 128 255 (pid=25620)
2006-05-05 01:00:00 Next wakeup is 2006-05-05 02:00:00
2006-05-05 01:00:00 admin : Use of uninitialized value in chdir at
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.7/File/Find.pm line 742.
2006-05-05 01:00:00 admin : Use of chdir('') or chdir(undef) as chdir() is
deprecated at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.7/File/Find.pm line 742.
2006-05-05 01:00:00 admin : Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or
string at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.7/File/Find.pm line 743.
2006-05-05 01:00:00 admin : Can't cd to : Permission denied
2006-05-05 01:00:00 Finished admin (BackupPC_nightly -m 0 127)
2006-05-05 01:00:00 admin1 : Use of uninitialized value in chdir at
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.7/File/Find.pm line 742.
2006-05-05 01:00:00 admin1 : Use of chdir('') or chdir(undef) as chdir() is
deprecated at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.7/File/Find.pm line 742.
2006-05-05 01:00:00 admin1 : Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.)
or string at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.7/File/Find.pm line 743.
2006-05-05 01:00:00 admin1 : Can't cd to : Permission denied
2006-05-05 01:00:00 Finished admin1 (BackupPC_nightly 128 255)
2006-05-05 01:00:00 Pool nightly clean removed 0 files of size 0.00GB
2006-05-05 01:00:00 Pool is 0.00GB, 0 files (0 repeated, 0 max chain, 0 max
links), 0 directories
2006-05-05 01:00:00 Cpool nightly clean removed 0 files of size 0.00GB
2006-05-05 01:00:00 Cpool is 0.00GB, 0 files (0 repeated, 0 max chain, 0 max
links), 0 directories
2006-05-05 02:00:00 Next wakeup is 2006-05-05 03:00:00
2006-05-05 03:00:01 Next wakeup is 2006-05-05 04:00:00
I had upgraded perl perhaps a month ago from 5.8.6 to 5.8.7 and rebuilt
all my perl modules. I searched the list archive but could not find
anything close to my problem except this:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.backup.backuppc.general/6455/match=uninitialized+value+in+chdir
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Re: [BackupPC-users] cygwin-rsyncd vs. backuppc-rsyncd
On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 12:41 -0600, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: On 11/21 01:39 , Joe Hood wrote: I am having problem with Cygwin's rsyncd (tunneled through ssh) and did not know of a Backuppc rsyncd. last I knew, rsync+ssh didn't work properly on Windoze machines. Someone reported success recently, but I don't know what they did differently. I think Joe is using rsyncd, not rysnc with ssh transport. Rysnc does not work with Cygwin ssh last I tried. It will work only for small transfers and then crap out. -- Travis Fraser [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the JBoss Inc. Get Certified Today Register for a JBoss Training Course. Free Certification Exam for All Training Attendees Through End of 2005. For more info visit: http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7628alloc_id=16845op=click ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupFilesExclude is not working with SMB Transfer
On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 14:50 +0100, Christoph Pfund wrote:
Hi,
I tried both recomended methods to exclude some directories from
backup. First i used the recomended notation $conf(BackupFilesExclude)
= ['/temp/*']; with no success. The whole directory was copied. The
second try was the standard notation $conf(BackupFilesExclude) =
['/temp']; with the same result. Is there a third way to set this
conf. variable right?
This is from my previous post which I think should be in the archives:
I experimented a bit and found that the exclusions do work, and more
than one exclusion can be used. The trick was to prefix a backslash to
the directory or file that is excluded. Forward slashes did not work.
The exclusions are relative to the root of the share, of course.
I am using samba-3.0.14a on a Gentoo box, backing up Windows XP Pro and
Server 2003.
Some examples:
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = [ '\foo' ]
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = [ '\foo', '\*\bar' ]
Per-share excludes can be done as well:
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
'share1$' = [ '\foo' , '\bar' ],
'share2$' = [ '\foobar' ],
};
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[BackupPC-users] Is there a way to schedule dump from command line
I have looked through the docs and found the command BackupPC_serverMesg backup all to queue all hosts for backup, but was wondering how to do this for just one host. I would like to be able to trigger the backup from the server's console. -- Travis Fraser [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects Teams * Testing QA Security * Process Improvement Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
