Re: [BackupPC-users] Process for Overriding hosts configuration
Michael Stowe wrote at about 10:13:35 -0500 on Wednesday, July 11, 2012: Naturally, I do lose ACLs and whatnot, but aside from a few tweaks, the process at least works. I've been considering adding a supplemental ACL backup to the routine. In my vshadow script -- shadowmountrsync -- for automatically using vshadow to backup Windows shares and start rsyncd seamlessly -- I have code for backing up ACL's both the POSIX version via 'getfacl' and the full Windows ACL's via 'subinacl'. Basically, ssh is used to run 'getfacl' and 'subinacl' before the shadow mount and stored in a designated folder/file in each share. Then the shadow mount is run and backed up, indluding the file listing the ACL's. -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ 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] Process for Overriding hosts configuration
Kris Lou wrote at about 09:40:12 -0700 on Wednesday, July 11, 2012: Naturally, I do lose ACLs and whatnot, but aside from a few tweaks, the process at least works. I've been considering adding a supplemental ACL backup to the routine. That sounds like a useful idea, but really, what are the ACL's used for? Is that just additional end-user type of customisation where you might specify only user X can access folder X, and folder Y is world read but write by group Z etc... ? ie, is that just a security issue, or does it prevent the actual OS or applications from working? In practice, the only issue I had were the hidden and system attributes being missing from desktop.ini files. Aside from being ugly, this caused the OS to launch an editor for them on boot (which seems odd to me.) Would it help to update the client versions of rsync and cygwin? I recall doing that when working on getting your solution to restore natively (via rsync - and just selected files, not bare metal). It helped with fixing some ACL issues, so it may preserve some attributes better. While newer versions of rsync can handle ACLs (and for Linux SELinux), backuppc does *not* back them up at all. Moreover, at least cygwin rsync only handles the POSTFIX portion of Windows ACLs (that generated by getfacl/setfacl) while Windows uses a more extensive set of ACLs that can be retrieved/set via 'subinacl' -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ 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] Process for Overriding hosts configuration
Care to share your shadowmountrsync? On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 1:48 PM, backu...@kosowsky.org wrote: Michael Stowe wrote at about 10:13:35 -0500 on Wednesday, July 11, 2012: Naturally, I do lose ACLs and whatnot, but aside from a few tweaks, the process at least works. I've been considering adding a supplemental ACL backup to the routine. In my vshadow script -- shadowmountrsync -- for automatically using vshadow to backup Windows shares and start rsyncd seamlessly -- I have code for backing up ACL's both the POSIX version via 'getfacl' and the full Windows ACL's via 'subinacl'. Basically, ssh is used to run 'getfacl' and 'subinacl' before the shadow mount and stored in a designated folder/file in each share. Then the shadow mount is run and backed up, indluding the file listing the ACL's. -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ 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/ -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/___ 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] Process for Overriding hosts configuration
It's on the Wiki - a good place to look and answer many basic questions by the way Bryan Keadle (.net) wrote at about 14:25:14 -0500 on Friday, July 13, 2012: Care to share your shadowmountrsync? On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 1:48 PM, backu...@kosowsky.org wrote: Michael Stowe wrote at about 10:13:35 -0500 on Wednesday, July 11, 2012: Naturally, I do lose ACLs and whatnot, but aside from a few tweaks, the process at least works. I've been considering adding a supplemental ACL backup to the routine. In my vshadow script -- shadowmountrsync -- for automatically using vshadow to backup Windows shares and start rsyncd seamlessly -- I have code for backing up ACL's both the POSIX version via 'getfacl' and the full Windows ACL's via 'subinacl'. Basically, ssh is used to run 'getfacl' and 'subinacl' before the shadow mount and stored in a designated folder/file in each share. Then the shadow mount is run and backed up, indluding the file listing the ACL's. -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ 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/ -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ 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/ -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ 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] Process for Overriding hosts configuration
On 11/07/12 00:12, Michael Stowe wrote: The Windows 7 Junctions (which fail) are important directories in Windows XP, and I've made an effort to exclude all the junctions from Windows 7. Huh. XP doesn't have any junction points by default (although it supports them) so I guess you mean you're excluding 7 junctions like Documents and Settings instead of backing them up. We just back them up here, because it's simpler and hey, who wants to recreate 50 junction points manually? Then again, we also back up the registries and open files, since those are important to us. We only exclude cache and temp directories, as I recall, and have had the horrifying occasion to perform full restores. Could I ask what is your process for a full restore on a windows PC? I recently considered to do a complete restore from backuppc for a windows 2003 server which had been backed up using your method, but ended up resolving the issue without the restore. However, I wasn't very confident that I would get a working system from a restore. In the past, I've had some success with taking a snapshot using dd or similar, just after doing the OS install (before the first reboot) and then doing a full restore from backuppc (taken with shadow support), and this did produce a working system, but it isn't always easy to have an image of a machine, so would be great to be able to just use the backuppc to do a full restore. Regards, Adam The short answer is that for a bare metal restore, I first install a stock OS, then use BackupPC_tarCreate, restore everything to a directory, then use the recovery console to rotate it into place. After a reboot, everything's back, including the registry. Naturally, I do lose ACLs and whatnot, but aside from a few tweaks, the process at least works. I've been considering adding a supplemental ACL backup to the routine. -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ 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] Process for Overriding hosts configuration
On 12/07/12 01:13, Michael Stowe wrote: The short answer is that for a bare metal restore, I first install a stock OS, then use BackupPC_tarCreate, restore everything to a directory, then use the recovery console to rotate it into place. After a reboot, everything's back, including the registry. Could you clarify a couple of points please? What do you mean by a stock OS? Is that the same version of windows that was backed up, and installed up to what point? In the past I only went up to the first reboot from windows, or do you go past that? Do you also do all windows updates? Do you think the restore could be done from within a Linux machine instead of using the recovery console to rotate it into place? I'm assuming this step is just a move \windows \windows.old and a move \restore \windows? Do you restore that windows directory while booted into the stock OS? Naturally, I do lose ACLs and whatnot, but aside from a few tweaks, the process at least works. I've been considering adding a supplemental ACL backup to the routine. That sounds like a useful idea, but really, what are the ACL's used for? Is that just additional end-user type of customisation where you might specify only user X can access folder X, and folder Y is world read but write by group Z etc... ? ie, is that just a security issue, or does it prevent the actual OS or applications from working? Thanks for your work in this area. Regards, Adam -- Adam Goryachev Website Managers www.websitemanagers.com.au -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ 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] Process for Overriding hosts configuration
On 12/07/12 01:13, Michael Stowe wrote: The short answer is that for a bare metal restore, I first install a stock OS, then use BackupPC_tarCreate, restore everything to a directory, then use the recovery console to rotate it into place. After a reboot, everything's back, including the registry. Could you clarify a couple of points please? What do you mean by a stock OS? Is that the same version of windows that was backed up, and installed up to what point? In the past I only went up to the first reboot from windows, or do you go past that? Do you also do all windows updates? Yes, the same version of Windows that was backed up -- just to the first reboot -- there's no point in applying updates, since they're recovered from the restore. Do you think the restore could be done from within a Linux machine instead of using the recovery console to rotate it into place? I'm assuming this step is just a move \windows \windows.old and a move \restore \windows? Do you restore that windows directory while booted into the stock OS? It's possible -- though Windows can be very quirky about booting, which is why I installed it first. I haven't *tried* it, but I suppose a LiveCD which can mount NTFS read-write could do the job. And yes, though the sets of directories (in addition to windows) that need to be pivoted include Program Files, Documents and Settings, etc. To make things simple, I just did the move with every directory that the stock OS created. Naturally, I do lose ACLs and whatnot, but aside from a few tweaks, the process at least works. I've been considering adding a supplemental ACL backup to the routine. That sounds like a useful idea, but really, what are the ACL's used for? Is that just additional end-user type of customisation where you might specify only user X can access folder X, and folder Y is world read but write by group Z etc... ? ie, is that just a security issue, or does it prevent the actual OS or applications from working? In practice, the only issue I had were the hidden and system attributes being missing from desktop.ini files. Aside from being ugly, this caused the OS to launch an editor for them on boot (which seems odd to me.) -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ 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] Process for Overriding hosts configuration
Naturally, I do lose ACLs and whatnot, but aside from a few tweaks, the process at least works. I've been considering adding a supplemental ACL backup to the routine. That sounds like a useful idea, but really, what are the ACL's used for? Is that just additional end-user type of customisation where you might specify only user X can access folder X, and folder Y is world read but write by group Z etc... ? ie, is that just a security issue, or does it prevent the actual OS or applications from working? In practice, the only issue I had were the hidden and system attributes being missing from desktop.ini files. Aside from being ugly, this caused the OS to launch an editor for them on boot (which seems odd to me.) Would it help to update the client versions of rsync and cygwin? I recall doing that when working on getting your solution to restore natively (via rsync - and just selected files, not bare metal). It helped with fixing some ACL issues, so it may preserve some attributes better. -Kris -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/___ 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] Process for Overriding hosts configuration
On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 09:12:54AM -0500, Michael Stowe wrote: The Windows 7 Junctions (which fail) are important directories in Windows XP, and I've made an effort to exclude all the junctions from Windows 7. Huh. XP doesn't have any junction points by default (although it supports them) so I guess you mean you're excluding 7 junctions like Documents and Settings instead of backing them up. We just back them up here, because it's simpler and hey, who wants to recreate 50 junction points manually? How are you backing the junction points up. AFAIK backuppc treats those as actual directories and not junction points (i.e. the concept of a junction point doesn't exist in backuppc's universe like a symbolic link does.) Pooling will make sure that the files under the junction point and the real location of those files are pooled How BackupPC views them is dependent on the backup method; for rsync backups, they look like symbolic links (which they are) and get backed up as such. -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ 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] Process for Overriding hosts configuration
Michael Stowe mst...@chicago.us.mensa.org wrote on 07/10/2012 11:14:34 AM: How are you backing the junction points up. AFAIK backuppc treats those as actual directories and not junction points (i.e. the concept of a junction point doesn't exist in backuppc's universe like a symbolic link does.) Pooling will make sure that the files under the junction point and the real location of those files are pooled How BackupPC views them is dependent on the backup method; for rsync backups, they look like symbolic links (which they are) and get backed up as such. I do not see this in practice on my server. In my case, the junctions create infinite loops (well, until the path gets too long, anyway), and give me tens of *thousands* of errors. I used the list of exclusions on the BackupPC wiki to get this down to a manageable number (400, instead of 80,000 or so). Have you added a parameter somewhere to handle this? Tim Massey Out of the Box Solutions, Inc. Creative IT Solutions Made Simple! http://www.OutOfTheBoxSolutions.com tmas...@obscorp.com 22108 Harper Ave. St. Clair Shores, MI 48080 Office: (800)750-4OBS (4627) Cell: (586)945-8796 -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/___ 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] Process for Overriding hosts configuration
Michael Stowe mst...@chicago.us.mensa.org wrote on 07/10/2012 11:14:34 AM: How are you backing the junction points up. AFAIK backuppc treats those as actual directories and not junction points (i.e. the concept of a junction point doesn't exist in backuppc's universe like a symbolic link does.) Pooling will make sure that the files under the junction point and the real location of those files are pooled How BackupPC views them is dependent on the backup method; for rsync backups, they look like symbolic links (which they are) and get backed up as such. I do not see this in practice on my server. In my case, the junctions create infinite loops (well, until the path gets too long, anyway), and give me tens of *thousands* of errors. I used the list of exclusions on the BackupPC wiki to get this down to a manageable number (400, instead of 80,000 or so). Have you added a parameter somewhere to handle this? Here's a sample from my BackupPC logs: pool l 777 4294967295/4294967295 6 Documents and Settings - /Users That's typical of all the links across Windows boxen, including servers. I don't recall doing anything specific to make it work; it may be a function of rsync version on the client. You're welcome to the exact version (and client, and scripts) I use, here: http://www.michaelstowe.com/backuppc/ -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ 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] Process for Overriding hosts configuration
On 11/07/12 00:12, Michael Stowe wrote: The Windows 7 Junctions (which fail) are important directories in Windows XP, and I've made an effort to exclude all the junctions from Windows 7. Huh. XP doesn't have any junction points by default (although it supports them) so I guess you mean you're excluding 7 junctions like Documents and Settings instead of backing them up. We just back them up here, because it's simpler and hey, who wants to recreate 50 junction points manually? Then again, we also back up the registries and open files, since those are important to us. We only exclude cache and temp directories, as I recall, and have had the horrifying occasion to perform full restores. Could I ask what is your process for a full restore on a windows PC? I recently considered to do a complete restore from backuppc for a windows 2003 server which had been backed up using your method, but ended up resolving the issue without the restore. However, I wasn't very confident that I would get a working system from a restore. In the past, I've had some success with taking a snapshot using dd or similar, just after doing the OS install (before the first reboot) and then doing a full restore from backuppc (taken with shadow support), and this did produce a working system, but it isn't always easy to have an image of a machine, so would be great to be able to just use the backuppc to do a full restore. Regards, Adam -- Adam Goryachev Website Managers www.websitemanagers.com.au -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/___ 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/
[BackupPC-users] Process for Overriding hosts configuration
What is the actual process/command that happens when I click on the Override button of a hosts config file - specifically the SmbShareName? I have a Self Provisioning solution whereby a user can authenticate to a BackupPC web page, and their computer will automatically provision itself for backup. However, I have a mix of Windows 7 and Windows XP machines. As part of the self provisioning process the hosts would be defaulted to the global share name of C$ (uppercase) which contains Windows 7-specific BackupExcludeFiles specs. However, I can determine host OS version at the time of the provisioning, so if the workstation is XP I'd want to override the SmbShareName to be c$ (lowercase) which would contain Windows XP-specific BackupExcludeFiles. -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/___ 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] Process for Overriding hosts configuration
What is the actual process/command that happens when I click on the Override button of a hosts config file - specifically the SmbShareName? I'm going to go with nothing. The override check box indicates that it's a setting in the PC-specific configuration rather than inherited from the main configuration. I have a Self Provisioning solution whereby a user can authenticate to a BackupPC web page, and their computer will automatically provision itself for backup. However, I have a mix of Windows 7 and Windows XP machines. As part of the self provisioning process the hosts would be defaulted to the global share name of C$ (uppercase) which contains Windows 7-specific BackupExcludeFiles specs. However, I can determine host OS version at the time of the provisioning, so if the workstation is XP I'd want to override the SmbShareName to be c$ (lowercase) which would contain Windows XP-specific BackupExcludeFiles. You can probably make things easier on yourself by just making one list of both exclusions, since the only risk is that a user created something on XP that happens to be the exact same thing you want to exclude on Windows 7, or vice versa. -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ 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] Process for Overriding hosts configuration
The Windows 7 Junctions (which fail) are important directories in Windows XP, and I've made an effort to exclude all the junctions from Windows 7. On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 4:43 PM, Michael Stowe mst...@chicago.us.mensa.orgwrote: What is the actual process/command that happens when I click on the Override button of a hosts config file - specifically the SmbShareName? I'm going to go with nothing. The override check box indicates that it's a setting in the PC-specific configuration rather than inherited from the main configuration. I have a Self Provisioning solution whereby a user can authenticate to a BackupPC web page, and their computer will automatically provision itself for backup. However, I have a mix of Windows 7 and Windows XP machines. As part of the self provisioning process the hosts would be defaulted to the global share name of C$ (uppercase) which contains Windows 7-specific BackupExcludeFiles specs. However, I can determine host OS version at the time of the provisioning, so if the workstation is XP I'd want to override the SmbShareName to be c$ (lowercase) which would contain Windows XP-specific BackupExcludeFiles. You can probably make things easier on yourself by just making one list of both exclusions, since the only risk is that a user created something on XP that happens to be the exact same thing you want to exclude on Windows 7, or vice versa. -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ 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/ -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/___ 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] Process for Overriding hosts configuration
On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 4:28 PM, Bryan Keadle (.net) bkea...@keadle.net wrote: What is the actual process/command that happens when I click on the Override button of a hosts config file - specifically the SmbShareName? Basically it means that the value set will be saved in the per-pc config instead of being inherited from the global config. I have a Self Provisioning solution whereby a user can authenticate to a BackupPC web page, and their computer will automatically provision itself for backup. However, I have a mix of Windows 7 and Windows XP machines. As part of the self provisioning process the hosts would be defaulted to the global share name of C$ (uppercase) which contains Windows 7-specific BackupExcludeFiles specs. However, I can determine host OS version at the time of the provisioning, so if the workstation is XP I'd want to override the SmbShareName to be c$ (lowercase) which would contain Windows XP-specific BackupExcludeFiles. Excluding things that don't exist won't hurt anything. And some small number of errors in the log files isn't really fatal either. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ 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] Process for Overriding hosts configuration
On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 5:18 PM, Bryan Keadle (.net) bkea...@keadle.net wrote: The Windows 7 Junctions (which fail) are important directories in Windows XP, and I've made an effort to exclude all the junctions from Windows 7. Not sure what you meant by provisioning, but maybe you can use an existing config as a template. For example if you are adding hosts in the web interface you can specify NEW=OLD in the host field and it will add the NEW host with a copy of all of the host-specific settings from the existing OLD host. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ 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/
