Re: [CentOS] BackupPC is not easy to setup

2015-09-18 Thread Timothy Murphy
Bowie Bailey wrote: > On 9/18/2015 8:39 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: >> Incidentally, I've been running BackupPC on my CentOS-7 server > The GUI config editor is just an alternative to hand editing. It uses > the exact same files. > > Keep in mind that the config files are stored separately from

Re: [CentOS] BackupPC is not easy to setup

2015-09-18 Thread Timothy Murphy
Bowie Bailey wrote: > On 9/13/2015 10:58 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: >> >> I take it then that there is no CLI method >> of setting up and running BackupPC ? > > Sure there is. All of the configuration is stored in text config > files. There is a main config file for global options and each host

Re: [CentOS] BackupPC is not easy to setup

2015-09-18 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 9/18/2015 8:39 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: Bowie Bailey wrote: On 9/13/2015 10:58 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: I take it then that there is no CLI method of setting up and running BackupPC ? Sure there is. All of the configuration is stored in text config files. There is a main config file

Re: [CentOS] BackupPC is not easy to setup

2015-09-17 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 9/13/2015 10:58 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: I take it then that there is no CLI method of setting up and running BackupPC ? Sure there is. All of the configuration is stored in text config files. There is a main config file for global options and each host has a config file in it's own

Re: [CentOS] BackupPC is not easy to setup

2015-09-15 Thread kpolberg
On 09/13/2015 03:48 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: Timothy Murphy wrote: I thought I'd write a 1-page note to myself of the steps I took, in preparation for CentOS-8... I have a couple of questions that this raises. 1. Why exactly does backuppc want to ssh to root? Is this just a way of running

Re: [CentOS] BackupPC is not easy to setup

2015-09-15 Thread Timothy Murphy
kpolb...@olberg.name wrote: >>> 2. The graphical interface seems to be treated as an extra, >>> but what other way is there of accessing BackupPC? >>> Is there a CLI approach? >>> If so, where is the list of transfer requests kept? > 2. You can do all operations through CLI, all of it is

Re: [CentOS] BackupPC is not easy to setup

2015-09-15 Thread Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
On 09/15/2015 10:58 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: kpolb...@olberg.name wrote: 2. The graphical interface seems to be treated as an extra, but what other way is there of accessing BackupPC? Is there a CLI approach? If so, where is the list of transfer requests kept? 2. You can do all

[CentOS] BackupPC is not easy to setup

2015-09-13 Thread Timothy Murphy
I finally got BackupPC working under Centos-7.1 after several hours of pain. I had been running it for several years under CentOS-6, and probably CentOS-5, but there seem to me to have been several new issues that arise with CentOS-7. In my experience, the official documentation on this,

Re: [CentOS] BackupPC is not easy to setup

2015-09-13 Thread Timothy Murphy
Timothy Murphy wrote: > I thought I'd write a 1-page note to myself of the steps I took, > in preparation for CentOS-8... > I have a couple of questions that this raises. > > 1. Why exactly does backuppc want to ssh to root? > Is this just a way of running BackupPC as root? > > 2. The graphical

Re: [CentOS] BackupPC is not easy to setup

2015-09-13 Thread Ulf Volmer
On 09/13/2015 03:48 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > I see that BackupPC starts 6 copies of httpd running, > but so far only 2 have ever been used. > Can this number (6) be changed? Yes, in the configuration of you httpd. regards Ulf ___ CentOS mailing

Re: [CentOS] BackupPC is not easy to setup

2015-09-13 Thread Ulf Volmer
On 09/13/2015 01:35 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > I have a couple of questions that this raises. > > 1. Why exactly does backuppc want to ssh to root? To enable access to all of the files on the client. It is also possible to run the backup running the rsyncd- daemon on the client. > Is this

Re: [CentOS] BackupPC is not easy to setup

2015-09-13 Thread Timothy Murphy
Ulf Volmer wrote: Thanks for your response, which clarifies matters for me. >> I have a couple of questions that this raises. >> 1. Why exactly does backuppc want to ssh to root? > To enable access to all of the files on the client. >> Is this just a way of running BackupPC as root? > Why do

Re: [CentOS] BackupPC is not easy to setup

2015-09-13 Thread John R Pierce
On 9/13/2015 7:58 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: 1. Why exactly does backuppc want to ssh to root? >To enable access to all of the files on the client. >>Is this just a way of running BackupPC as root? >Why do you want this? It's not required to run backuppc as user root. I don't want (or not