Re: [BackupPC-users] backing up a particular user
On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 20:46 -0700, Simpson, Kenneth wrote:
Hi - I'm trying to backup a single user directory on Linux (SLES 9)
using version 2.1.3 of BackupUP and rsync - but it's backing up all
all the directories on the source disk starting at the beginning of
the alphabet.
I just need to backup the directory /domus/support - and not any of
the other directories.
I have to do similar cherry picking on a couple of other machines.
Here is my hosts file entry:
hostdhcpusermoreUsers # --- do not edit this line
linws7 0 support # --- example static IP host
entry
and here's the rsync share from config.pl:
$Conf{RsyncShareName} = '/domus';
Any help would be appreciated.
-- Ken
try
$Conf{RsyncShareName} = '/domus/support';
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Re: [BackupPC-users] Problems with CGI setup for backuppc on Debian Etch.
Problem #1: I'm have trouble setting up CGI for backuppc on Debian etch. Paths / scripts are missing or aren't where the documentation says they should be. Specifically I can't locate BackupPC_Admin. Installation seemed to go fine: tsDeb:/etc/apache-ssl# apt-get install backuppc It's a good idea to read /usr/share/doc/backuppc/README.Debian to enable the backuppc cgi in debian i do apache1: ln -s /etc/backuppc/apache.conf /etc/apache/conf.d/backuppc.conf apache2: ln -s /etc/backuppc/apache.conf /etc/apache2/conf.d/backuppc.conf and restart apache Ronny - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/ ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Error log for pre or post command errors?
Dustin writes:
We noticed that BackupPC never reports any issues with a -pre or -post
command. This is odd. If a -pre command fails, then it is very likely
that the backup will be moot (e.g., if you don't dump a MySQL database).
Are there any plans to enable reporting for errors in -pre or -post
commands?
Any output is written to the XferLOG file.
The exit status is ignored in 2.x, while in 3.x it can be used
to abort the backup by setting $Conf{UserCmdCheckStatus}.
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Re: [BackupPC-users] backing up a particular user
On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 20:46 -0700, Simpson, Kenneth wrote:
Hi - I'm trying to backup a single user directory on Linux (SLES 9)
using version 2.1.3 of BackupUP and rsync - but it's backing up all
all the directories on the source disk starting at the beginning of
the alphabet.
I just need to backup the directory /domus/support - and not any of
the other directories.
I have to do similar cherry picking on a couple of other machines.
Here is my hosts file entry:
hostdhcpusermoreUsers # --- do not edit this line
linws7 0 support # --- example static IP host
entry
and here's the rsync share from config.pl:
$Conf{RsyncShareName} = '/domus';
Any help would be appreciated.
-- Ken
try
$Conf{RsyncShareName} = '/domus/support';
It's not clear how this helps solve my problem.
As I indicated above, I need to backup other directories on
other machines.
If I make the change you suggested, i.e., edit config.pl to read
$Conf{RsyncShareName}='/domus/support'
then I'll be unable to backup my directory /domus/ken which is on
another machine.
In fact, I won't be able to backup any other directory regardless of
which machine it was on.
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Re: [BackupPC-users] webinterface on diff host
Maikel writes: i'm trying to run the web interface on a different host then the backuppc server process. what i did configure: on the server itself: i have enabled a tcp port () i added a secret message on the client (web server): i enabled the tcp port to () i added the same secret message to the server i did configure the server host to the correct ip of the server. now when i restarted backuppc on both server en client i pointed my browser to the web server with backuppc and nothing happens, it looks like backuppc is not connecting to the server. The web host needs: - the BackupPC pool mounted at the same path as the BackupPC server (the web interface needs access to the pc backup directories) - /etc/BackupPC needs mounted if you are using FHS. - the BackupPC libraries and executables installed at the same path as the BackupPC server. Craig - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/ ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] backing up a particular user
Simpson, Kenneth wrote:
On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 20:46 -0700, Simpson, Kenneth wrote:
Hi - I'm trying to backup a single user directory on Linux (SLES 9)
using version 2.1.3 of BackupUP and rsync - but it's backing up all
all the directories on the source disk starting at the beginning of
the alphabet.
I just need to backup the directory /domus/support - and not any of
the other directories.
I have to do similar cherry picking on a couple of other machines.
Here is my hosts file entry:
hostdhcpusermoreUsers # --- do not edit this line
linws7 0 support # --- example static IP host
entry
and here's the rsync share from config.pl:
$Conf{RsyncShareName} = '/domus';
Any help would be appreciated.
-- Ken
try
$Conf{RsyncShareName} = '/domus/support';
It's not clear how this helps solve my problem.
As I indicated above, I need to backup other directories on
other machines.
If I make the change you suggested, i.e., edit config.pl to read
$Conf{RsyncShareName}='/domus/support'
then I'll be unable to backup my directory /domus/ken which is on
another machine.
In fact, I won't be able to backup any other directory regardless of
which machine it was on.
Ken,
You can create host-specific config files, so you can make
$Conf{RsyncShareName} different for every machine you back up. A
host-specific config file is just like the standard config file, but it
only needs to include whatever lines are different from the standard
config file. So your machine1.pl file could be only one line long,
specifying the proper share to back up.
-Rob
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[BackupPC-users] Backup Schedule
Dear Craig I found every thing i want from backuppc but still some things are missing might be possible i am not able to see the things My query is --- Backup Schedule 1. full backup start time is -- Monday 1:30 PM 2. Incremental is every hours except friday 3. Friday incremental is only two times like one is 11:30 AM and second is 4:30 PM with regds rajnish - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/ ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
[BackupPC-users] Localhost tar back odditie...
Hello all
Below is my localhost.pl file, i install this via apt-get on Debian Etc.
But for some reason it still backs up the files i have in the exclude
section... did i miss something?
Thanks...
Have a great day/evening!
#
# Local server backup of /etc as user backuppc
#
$Conf{ClientNameAlias} = 'localhost';
$Conf{TarClientCmd} = '/usr/bin/sudo /usr/local/bin/tarCreate -v -f - -C
$shareName+ --totals';
$Conf{XferMethod} = 'tar';
$Conf{TarShareName} =
['/etc','/var/www/ispcp','/var/mail','/usr/local/bin','/var/lib'];
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = ['/var/log', '/var/lib/backuppc',
'/var/lib/backuppc.off','/var/oldjoe'];
# remove extra shell escapes ($fileList+ etc.) that are
# needed for remote backups but may break local ones
$Conf{TarFullArgs} = '$fileList';
$Conf{TarIncrArgs} = '--newer=$incrDate $fileList';
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[BackupPC-users] User Controled Exclusions
Saw a posing from a while back discussing the concept of letting users
touch files to designate items to exclude from the backup. The
discussion doesn't seem to have gotten far as the focus seemed to be on
modifying BackupPC to support it. I've got another approach and wanted
to get some feedback before I spent too much time on it.
My thought is that I should be able to run a script via
$Conf{DumpPreUserCmd} to create a list of files/dirs to exclude. The
script would run 'find --type f -name .nobackup' for each entry in
$shares. If the file were empty, the directory would be excluded.
Non-empty .nobackup files would be expected to contain a list of entries
in/under the current directory that should be excluded. Once the
exclusion file exists, $TarClientCmd could be tweaked to add the
--exclude-from FILE argument.
Make sense? In my case, the time required to generate that exclusion
file should be short so that's not an issue here. What am I missing?
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Re: [BackupPC-users] failed partial backups deleting files from previous partials
On 09/24 12:38 , Craig Barratt wrote: My understanding of how BackupPC works in this regard is imperfect. Why can't the old partial backup be updated, in the way that conventional rsync updates an old copy? BackupPC doesn't do anything in place on the server. It always creates a new directory tree for each backup. In contrast, with typical usage rsync does things in place. ah, I see. I think I see some of the arguments for doing things this way, but what was *your* reasoning when you first designed this architecture? It's rather unusual compared to the other rsync-backup programs I've seen (or built). In 3.1.0 I've added a check that a new partial won't replace an old partial unless it contains more files, so that should avoid the annoying problem of a new partial potentially being smaller than the last. Much appreciated. Thanks. :) Ideally, the new partial would be merged with the old partial tho. I guess we'll have to wait for a newer version for that feature. (alternatively, how much would it cost for someone to pay you to add that feature?) The issue is that the proposed new style of storage would be most efficient with in-place updating of the last (complete) backup. ah, so you're planning on abandoning the creation of a 'new' tree with every backup, and going to in-place updating, which means we get normal rsync behavior. (Thus obviating my comment above). I appreciate your exposition. :) -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/ ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] failed partial backups deleting files from previous partials
Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: My understanding of how BackupPC works in this regard is imperfect. Why can't the old partial backup be updated, in the way that conventional rsync updates an old copy? BackupPC doesn't do anything in place on the server. It always creates a new directory tree for each backup. In contrast, with typical usage rsync does things in place. ah, I see. I think I see some of the arguments for doing things this way, but what was *your* reasoning when you first designed this architecture? It's rather unusual compared to the other rsync-backup programs I've seen (or built). If you are going to keep snapshot-looking backups around at various points in time you can't modify in place. That is, if I restore from a certain day's backup run, I expect it to still have only the files that existed at that time. In 3.1.0 I've added a check that a new partial won't replace an old partial unless it contains more files, so that should avoid the annoying problem of a new partial potentially being smaller than the last. Much appreciated. Thanks. :) Ideally, the new partial would be merged with the old partial tho. I guess we'll have to wait for a newer version for that feature. (alternatively, how much would it cost for someone to pay you to add that feature?) The issue is that the proposed new style of storage would be most efficient with in-place updating of the last (complete) backup. ah, so you're planning on abandoning the creation of a 'new' tree with every backup, and going to in-place updating, which means we get normal rsync behavior. (Thus obviating my comment above). But will you still be able to restore the file state as of each separate run? Sometimes the reason you are restoring is that the current version is a mess. The issue could probably be avoided with a complete tree link copy before starting followed by in in-place update, but that is probably even less efficient. -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/ ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
[BackupPC-users] Fwd: Unable to Browse Backups
Update: MacOS X does funky permissions on this drive - when I first
sent the original mail, I was logged in as root, and the ownerships
were appearing as unknown:unknown for everything on this drive - but
when I logged in as the backuppc user, the ownership appears as the
backuppc user for both user and group.
The other odd thing is that the first 5 backups are browseable, but
backups 6-10 are not.
The first 5 were small test backups of a single directory on my
machine, then I added several more directories, and now they are not
browseable.
Help!
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Date: September 24, 2007 4:28:28 PM MDT
To: backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Unable to Browse Backups
So, I've recently gotten backuppc installed on OSX as the server,
backing up the local machine (my laptop) to an external firewire
drive, and it works great. I've even developed a simple script that
prevents the backups from occurring when the drive is disconnected.
However, after today's full backup, I went to browse back through
the backup to see how it all looked, and I get this error in the cgi:
Error: Can't browse bad directory name /
Here are the settings from my configuration:
$Conf{XferMethod} = 'rsync';
$Conf{RsyncClientCmd} = '$sshPath -q -x -l root $host $rsyncPath
$argList+';
$Conf{RsyncClientRestoreCmd} = '$sshPath -q -x -l root $host
$rsyncPath $argList+';
$Conf{RsyncShareName} = [
'/Users/kimball',
'/usr/local/mysql/data',
'/System/Library/Fonts'
];
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
'/Users/kimball' = [
'Desktop/TV',
'Desktop/Downloads',
'Documents/Parallels/XP/winxp.hdd',
'Library/Caches'
]
};
There are no errors in the logs, and the directories created look
like this:
MainEngineering:/Volumes/Honker/Backups/pc/192.168.0.21/10 root# ls
-la
total 32
drwxr-x---8 unknown unknown 272 Sep 24 15:55 .
drwxr-x--- 27 unknown unknown 918 Sep 24 16:13 ..
-rw-r-1 unknown unknown 6148 Sep 24 15:31 .DS_Store
-rw-r-2 unknown unknown 109 Sep 24 15:55 attrib
-rw-r-1 unknown unknown 590 Sep 24 16:13 backupInfo
drwxr-x--- 40 unknown unknown 1360 Sep 24 15:55 f%2fSystem%
2fLibrary%2fFonts
drwxr-x--- 38 unknown unknown 1292 Sep 24 15:53 f%2fUsers%
2fkimball
drwxr-x--- 61 unknown unknown 2074 Sep 24 15:55 f%2fusr%2flocal%
2fmysql%2fdata
As you can see, the owner and group are set to unknown:unknown -
the backup process is definitely running as the backuppc user, so
I'm not sure why the ownership is being messed up like this.
Thoughts?
Thanks!
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[BackupPC-users] restricting cgi users restore to their own files, or how to handle many users.
Hello. I have installed backuppc + apache2 ldap_auth on debian etch and it's working great. Now i have one challenge that i have not been able to find a solution for in the docs or mailinglist archives. If it's been answered allready I would very much like a url. I am taking backup of a directory /home, containing ~1000 users. And i want to allow each of the users access to restore his own files. But NOT to read/restore files that he normaly would not. Example: user1 have a file in /home/user1/private.txt that have 600 permissions. I dont want user2 to be able to read this thru the backuppc cgi. i have tested this with a line in hosts that say server 0 rootuser1,user2 and it seams to me that user2 can read all files of the backup, even files he normaly would have no access to. So how others solve this problem ? must you have 1000 lines in hosts, one line for each homedir ? Or are there a different way where i can have backuppc check the orginal permissions and deny restore if the user in question dont have the right access. Kind regards -- mvh Ronny Aasen -- 41616155 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Datapart AS -- 57682100 -- www.datapart-as.no -- signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Error log for pre or post command errors?
Yes, one of our guys noted the 3.x support for errors the other day. As
far as XferLOG in 2.x, obviously, that's not enough if you have critical
jobs running in a -pre command (e.g., mysqldump).
We went ahead and created templates for scripts that run -pre and -post
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Craig Barratt wrote:
Dustin writes:
We noticed that BackupPC never reports any issues with a -pre or -post
command. This is odd. If a -pre command fails, then it is very likely
that the backup will be moot (e.g., if you don't dump a MySQL database).
Are there any plans to enable reporting for errors in -pre or -post
commands?
Any output is written to the XferLOG file.
The exit status is ignored in 2.x, while in 3.x it can be used
to abort the backup by setting $Conf{UserCmdCheckStatus}.
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[BackupPC-users] install dir's BackupPC
Hello, Can anyone help me to get backuppc installed, Is it maybe possible that someone posts his config here, I mean were I do have to put the different files. I looked at Page 7 of 50 at the BackupPC documentation, but I can't figured it out. I've not so many experience witjh linux, thus anyone who's got some time :-) Tnx, Steven - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
