Re: [BackupPC-users] Deleting folders
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 10:49:50PM +0100, Steffen Heil wrote: Is is safe to delete a special folder from each and every backup? That folder should never have gotten backed up. Yes. I did that several times when initially configuring backups for hosts and BackupPC also copied some db spaces and db dumps. You might have to wait for the next run of BackupPC_nightly so that the files are removed from the pool. HTH, Tino. -- www.quantenfeuerwerk.de www.spiritualdesign-chemnitz.de www.lebensraum11.de Tino Schwarze * Parkstraße 17h * 09120 Chemnitz - 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] how to run script
Thank you Nils for your help: I learned something! Thing is is does not work for user backuppc!!! I keep getting authentication failure (although this command works, I tried it with other users on the system) And now to add insult to injury, I get this error message: Can't find compress::zlib I think I'll start another thread on this one! 2007/3/7, Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Guy Malacrida wrote: Thanks for that but as per Backuppc' instructions this would increase drastically the storage space up to when the full circle is achieved and the non-compressed files are deleted from the pool. That is why the program recommends disabling the backup, change the compression value to 0, run the script that should move the files to the compressed pool and only then restart the backup process. This is what I'd like to do To get a bash shell as user backuppc (which normally doesn't have a shell) you'd do something like the following: # su -s /bin/bash - backuppc (Use sudo where applicable. :o) ) Nils Breunese. - 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/ -- Guy - 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] how to run script
Guy Malacrida wrote: And now to add insult to injury, I get this error message: Can't find compress::zlib I think I'll start another thread on this one! If you followed the installation instructions you should have come across the Requirements section [0] which tells you to install a couple of Perl modules, Compress::Zlib being one of them. Nils Breunese. [0] http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html#requirements PGP.sig Description: Dit deel van het bericht is digitaal ondertekend - 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/
[BackupPC-users] anyone running version 3.0.0 in DEBIAN with no problems?
I have already talked about this in some posts, some things were solved
other don't...
I have updated from 2.1.1 deb package, to 3.0.0 tar.gz
Why the is no index.cgi in the source cgi-bin dir? I found out that my
index.cgi is the same from the 2.1.1 package...
almost everything is working now except the buttons in webif to start
full/incr backups, and edit config files...
I think now I discovered why. it's not permissions, it is locations...
I have config.pl in /etc/BackupPC/ and per pc config in
/etc/BackupPC/pc/$host.pl
it is the normal setup right?
so why do I see this in EditConfig.pm (line 348):
sub action
{
my $pc_dir = $TopDir/pc;
my($content, $contentHidden, $newConf, $override, $mainConf, $hostConf);
my $errors = {};
my $host = $In{host};
my $menu = $In{menu} || server;
my $hosts_path = $Hosts;
my $config_path = $host eq ? $TopDir/conf/config.pl
: $TopDir/pc/$host/config.pl;
I investigate more and I found that there is a deb package of version 3.0.0.
so I looked inside the various files and compared to mine... also I saw the
diff.gz but i don't know how to read it and it is really big. :o
there is a index.cgi in this .deb package but none in tar.gz...
what should I do now?
I moved my host config files from TopDIr to /etc/backuppc some tima ago,
then I moved to /etc/BackupPC/pc/* will I nedd to move them again?
should I install the unstable .deb package?
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Re: [BackupPC-users] anyone running version 3.0.0 in DEBIAN with no problems?
Filipe Silva wrote: I have updated from 2.1.1 deb package, to 3.0.0 tar.gz Why the is no index.cgi in the source cgi-bin dir? I found out that my index.cgi is the same from the 2.1.1 package... There is no index.cgi in the source distribution, that was something added by the Debian packager. The normal location to reach the BackupPC web interface is /cgi-bin/BackupPC_Admin. Nils Breunese. PGP.sig Description: Dit deel van het bericht is digitaal ondertekend - 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] Howto backup BackupPC server
Fabio Milano wrote: Hi, How do I backup my BackupPC server? Can I use one BackupPC server to backup another BackupPC server? Scenario I need to solve is: Servers backup to BackupPC server at office, and BackupPC server needs to be backed-up to offsite server. We worked on this problem in order to be able to offer a remote backup of backuppc. The idea is : we use rsync to backup the main pool of file in backuppc and we create a script for reconstructing the hardlink for each pc. Then we just send these reconstruction files to the remote location. For more information and to get the script you should read this post : http://www.mail-archive.com/backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg01182.html Regards, Damien -- Need an OpenSource and powerfull GUI for OpenLDAP? = http://lds.linbox.org/ Need a free backup server? = http://lrs.linbox.org/ - 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/
[BackupPC-users] if system is on UTC...
Hello folks, For Linux / Unix servers, it is kind of tempting to just change system time to UTC, forget about future modifications to DST, and get used to making sense of the logs in UTC time. However, things like cron jobs and BackupPC blackout times are now going to be time shifted as if UTC is now local time e.g. cron job that used to run at 2am EST is now running at 2am UTC or 9pm EST or 10pm EDT. Is there a way in BackupPC to make it interpret blackout times in local timezone when system clock is set to UTC? Or do you need to time shift blackout times for your local timezone (technically will be an hour off during part of the year depending on how you look at it). FWIW for e-mail, at least if you use Thunderbird, it seems to make sense of the timezone and show the correct time and date for local time even if the server that sent the e-mail uses UTC. I'm not sure how other e-mail clients fare. Thanks, Jonathan - 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] if system is on UTC...
Paul Fox wrote: why would any of this be easier than letting the system track DST itself? even on my ancient RH7.2-based server, updating the zoneinfo files took me all of 5 minutes. and for anything more modern, a semi-automatic upgrade (i.e. apt-get update; apt-get upgrade) took care of it quite a long time ago without me even noticing. The pain is not doing the patches (which have all been done anyway) the pain is all of the official reporting, perhaps that is not required in your environment. It would be much simpler to say, all of the servers are configured to use UTC and will not be affected by DST changes. Then in future, it does not matter whatever decisions the politicians make about the observance or non-observance of DST, no correction is necessary. Workstations and servers where users login are a different matter, but for headless boxes it would make life simpler. Of course, Windows is a different can of worms--it's possible to set RTC to UTC, but it is not consistently handled by the OS and applications. Jonathan - 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] anyone running version 3.0.0 in DEBIAN with no problems?
Hi, Filipe Silva wrote on 08.03.2007 at 12:13:04 [[BackupPC-users] anyone running version 3.0.0 in DEBIAN with no problems?]: I have updated from 2.1.1 deb package, to 3.0.0 tar.gz I hope you at least did that by removing the package and then reinstalling? It's always a bad idea to take something which is under the control of your package management system and randomly change file contents, paths etc. should I install the unstable .deb package? Yes. As far as I can figure out without actually installing apache et al. on my not-really-so-test system it doesn't pull in any dependencies not satisfiable within sarge. If you don't want an entry for sid in your sources.list, download the package (eg. 'rsync ftp.de.debian.org::debian/pool/main/b/backuppc/backuppc_3.0.0-2_all.deb /tmp' - you could have used wget, but we all love rsync, don't we? ;-), install it with 'dpkg -i /tmp/backuppc_3.0.0-2_all.deb' and, if that should complain about failed dependencies, install those with 'apt-get -f install' (which should then also configure the backuppc package and exit successfully). Of course, if you updated your 2.1.1 deb to 3.0.0 with the tar installer, things may be more difficult. Apparently you've moved around your configuration, so that's probably the case. For a clean package *update*, everything should probably look exactly like it does with the version you're updating *from* cleanly installed before you attempt the update (that's 2.1.1 in your case). Hint: have a look at /var/lib/dpkg/info/backuppc.list ... Regards, Holger - 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] if system is on UTC...
Jonathan Dill wrote: why would any of this be easier than letting the system track DST itself? even on my ancient RH7.2-based server, updating the zoneinfo files took me all of 5 minutes. and for anything more modern, a semi-automatic upgrade (i.e. apt-get update; apt-get upgrade) took care of it quite a long time ago without me even noticing. The pain is not doing the patches (which have all been done anyway) the pain is all of the official reporting, perhaps that is not required in your environment. It would be much simpler to say, all of the servers are configured to use UTC and will not be affected by DST changes. Then in future, it does not matter whatever decisions the politicians make about the observance or non-observance of DST, no correction is necessary. Internally, Linux (probably all posix-like systems) runs in UTC and just computes the offset to local time when something wants to display it that way, and it allows for the fact that different users can be in different time zones on the same machine. The only difference it makes when you set that option about UTC when you install is that it sets your motherboard hardware clock the way you say. Workstations and servers where users login are a different matter, but for headless boxes it would make life simpler. Of course, Windows is a different can of worms--it's possible to set RTC to UTC, but it is not consistently handled by the OS and applications. It was well known before computers were invented that local time variations are up to the whims of local politicians. The only sensible way to handle it is with easily replaceable tables of offsets from UTC. -- Les Mikesell [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/
[BackupPC-users] Ping not working
The server claims that it is unable to ping any of the hosts defined in the hosts file. However, when I use `nmblookup hostname`, the IP address that is displayed corresponds to the host, and a subsequent pinging of that IP address is successful. What, then, could the problem be? These hosts are all on static IP's, and are meant to be looked up via their NetBIOS name, as far as I can tell. I am using BackupPC 2.1.2, perl-5.8.4, nmblookup 3.0.1.4a-Debian. Thank you, Arjun - 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] Ping not working
Arjun writes: The server claims that it is unable to ping any of the hosts defined in the hosts file. However, when I use `nmblookup hostname`, the IP address that is displayed corresponds to the host, and a subsequent pinging of that IP address is successful. What, then, could the problem be? These hosts are all on static IP's, and are meant to be looked up via their NetBIOS name, as far as I can tell. I am using BackupPC 2.1.2, perl-5.8.4, nmblookup 3.0.1.4a-Debian. As the backuppc user, run: BackupPC_dump -v -f HOST and look at the output to see what commands BackupPC_dump runs. Hit ^C to abort the backup, if it doesn't give an error. Craig - 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/
