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

2013-03-01 Thread Michael Stowe
On 01/03/13 09:42, upen wrote: On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 3:39 PM, Adam Goryachev a...@websitemanagers.com.au wrote: Quick reply, it needs the path to at on the windows machine, not the Linux machine. wow, all this time I thought this was linux side. Thanks!! When I do which at on windows,

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

2013-03-01 Thread upen
On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 10:34 AM, Michael Stowe mst...@chicago.us.mensa.org wrote: On 01/03/13 09:42, upen wrote: On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 3:39 PM, Adam Goryachev a...@websitemanagers.com.au wrote: Quick reply, it needs the path to at on the windows machine, not the Linux machine. wow, all

[BackupPC-users] need help with windows backup

2013-02-28 Thread upen
Hi, I have been trying to configure my winxp box to use the method from http://www.michaelstowe.com/backuppc/ I emailed the blog owner but it's possible they are busy so haven't heard from them. Any help is appreciated. Here is the dump tried from command prompt. BackupPC_dump -v -f a.b.c.d

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

2013-02-28 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 9:53 AM, upen upendra.gan...@gmail.com wrote: Not sure I can help much with specifics here, but I think those 'Unknown parameter' errors are harmless and from a samba4 based winexe seeing your samba3 configs. CheckHostAlive: returning 0.353 Executing DumpPreUserCmd:

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

2013-02-28 Thread Kris Lou
How far have you traced the script execution chain? You should see winexe do call the appropriate scripts on the server side, and then a number of scripts also executing on the client side. /tmp/backuppc/preusercmd.sh: line 13: at: command not found Also, I specify the full path to at for this.

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

2013-02-28 Thread upen
Thanks. On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 1:02 PM, Kris Lou k...@themusiclink.net wrote: How far have you traced the script execution chain? You should see winexe do call the appropriate scripts on the server side, and then a number of scripts also executing on the client side.

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

2013-02-28 Thread upen
And this may be your real problem. Does your authentication work if you just back up the normal C$ share without the VSS stuff? This is the think I should have had tried before (without VSS). I was using cygwin/ssh/rsync method before, came to know from other discussion that it doesn't use

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

2013-02-28 Thread upen
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Kris Lou k...@themusiclink.net wrote: auth.sh needs to contain a valid user for the client machine (usually with administrative privileges), as compared to the rsyncd user auths. It is then used to remotely kick off scripts on the client side (as the user

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

2013-02-28 Thread upen
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 9:53 AM, upen upendra.gan...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have been trying to configure my winxp box to use the method from http://www.michaelstowe.com/backuppc/ I emailed the blog owner but it's possible they are busy so haven't heard from them. Any help is appreciated.

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

2013-02-28 Thread Kris Lou
The thing that I liked about this implementation (and had it bookmarked for over a year before putting in place) is that it was relatively easy to parse out with a minimum of shell scripting knowledge. As such, it is easier to comprehend for somebody with a predominantly Windows background. (Not

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

2013-02-28 Thread upen
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 3:39 PM, Adam Goryachev a...@websitemanagers.com.au wrote: Quick reply, it needs the path to at on the windows machine, not the Linux machine. wow, all this time I thought this was linux side. Thanks!! When I do which at on windows, I see ,

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

2013-02-28 Thread Kris Lou
auth.sh needs to contain a valid user for the client machine (usually with administrative privileges), as compared to the rsyncd user auths. It is then used to remotely kick off scripts on the client side (as the user specified in auth.sh). Kris Lou k...@themusiclink.net On Thu, Feb 28, 2013

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

2013-02-28 Thread Adam Goryachev
On 01/03/13 09:42, upen wrote: On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 3:39 PM, Adam Goryachev a...@websitemanagers.com.au wrote: Quick reply, it needs the path to at on the windows machine, not the Linux machine. wow, all this time I thought this was linux side. Thanks!! When I do which at on windows, I