I have been looking at this and back to a how-to I was trying to follow. For the case of backing up the localhost (c17-desktop) & trying to exclude the /var/lib/backuppc directory where c17-desktop is the BackupPC server...
I can not follow where to copy ssh keys to/from. Does anybody have time to baby step me thru this? When I do: "sudo su backuppc" followed by: "ssh -x -l backuppc c17-desktop date" i get: "ssh: connect to host c17-desktop port 22: Connection refused" Which I believe ya'll are telling me is because I don't have ssh-keys set up correctly. I do have user backuppc set up to be able to run rsync w/o a password via: "sudo visudo" which shows: # User privilege specification root ALL=(ALL) ALL backuppc ALL=NOPASSWD: /user/bin/rsync Thanx in advance, Skip On Wed, 2009-05-20 at 21:56 -0500, Skip Guenter wrote: > I installed BackupPC from the Ubuntu repositories several days ago with > the intent of getting it set up and running as soon as a HDD came in. > Well last night I was reading thru some of the doc and took a look at > the control webpage and much to my surprise saw that a host was there > (localhost) and had done something... but also had an error about it's > name not matching netbios name. I changed it's name and deleted the > backup files under /var/lib/backuppc/pc/localhost. > > After some more reading I change 5 things from the default install: > > 1) changed default method to rsync > 2) changed logs kept from 14 to 9 > 3) changed the host name "localhost" to "c17-desktop" > 4) checked the box override box called "FixedIPNetBiosNameCheck" > 5) changed blackout period to be 7.5 thru 18.5 > > Then requested a full backup on c17. > > It returned a new error on the host summary page: > c17-desktop skip 0 0.00 0 idle backup failed (Unable to read 4 bytes) > > This is the machine that BackupPC was installed on. I guess getting > that machine backed up is as good as anyplace to start. > > I also, via the web interface attempted to exclude some directories and > file types which ended up creating /etc/backuppc/c17-desktop.pl that > contains: > > $Conf{FixedIPNetBiosNameCheck} = '0'; > $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = { > '*.old' => [], > '/var/lib/backuppc' => [], > '/tmp' => [], > '/lost+found' => [], > '/proc' => [], > '/cdrom' => [], > '/mnt' => [] > }; > > After saving these change I attempted another full backup and got the > same error: backup failed (Unable to read 4 bytes) > > So, questions: > > 1) Is it advisable/legit to use rsync on the local machine backing up > itself? > > 2) Do my directory and file exclusions make any sense for backing up the > machine that BackupPC is on? > > 3) How can I find out more about this error I'm getting? > > PS: HDD just arrived so I'll get the RAID 1 set up tonight or tomorrow > and figure out how to point BackupPC to that.... think I read there's a > topDIR variable someplace. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Register Now for Creativity and Technology (CaT), June 3rd, NYC. CaT is a gathering of tech-side developers & brand creativity professionals. Meet the minds behind Google Creative Lab, Visual Complexity, Processing, & iPhoneDevCamp asthey present alongside digital heavyweights like Barbarian Group, R/GA, & Big Spaceship. http://www.creativitycat.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/