[BackupPC-users] few questions
Hi, I think that i don't use banckuppc properly. My server is not up 24/24 as my (two) computers. It is a home use. Anyway, how could I say to backuppc to backup right now ? I use Backuppc_dump -i -v IP but it seems to be quite long, CPU is 30% but nothing seems to happen (apart from plenty of messages starting with pool, create...). How could i force backuppc to backup, let's say, everyday at 9:00 pm is PC is UP ? What happen if PC is truned of at 9:15 and backup is not completed, will it completed next day ? Thanks. Rémi. -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ 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/
Re: [BackupPC-users] few questions
rbou...@free.fr wrote: Hi, I think that i don't use banckuppc properly. My server is not up 24/24 as my (two) computers. It is a home use. Anyway, how could I say to backuppc to backup right now ? I use Backuppc_dump -i -v IP but it seems to be quite long, CPU is 30% but nothing seems to happen (apart from plenty of messages starting with pool, create...). Normally to start a backup manually, you would go to the web page, select the target host either from the drop-down list or the host summary, and click the 'start full' or 'start incremental' buttons. How could i force backuppc to backup, let's say, everyday at 9:00 pm is PC is UP ? What happen if PC is truned of at 9:15 and backup is not completed, will it completed next day ? On the host summary page you can see how long it has been since the last backup. If it is longer that the schedule (default is daily), it will automatically start a backup unless you are in the configured blackout interval. If hosts are not regularly available on the network outside of the blackout interval they will be backed up during the blackout. The best way to control the timing of the runs is to set the blackout for the times you don't want backups to run so it has some leeway for concurrency. If you start a backup manually, the next one will start approximately 24 hours later, so once you get started with the right timing it will stay that way as long as things complete on schedule. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ 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/
[BackupPC-users] auth required, but service is open/insecure
I just spent the better part of a couple of days trying to figure this out, so I thought I'd write it up in case it can help someone else. As is often the case, it ended up being fairly trivial, but not immediately obvious where the problem was. After adding a new machine (Windows 7, although I don't think it matters), I was getting errors of the following sort: 2010-03-30 17:27:18 full backup started for directory 2010-03-30 17:27:18 Got fatal error during xfer (auth required, but service is open/insecure) 2010-03-30 17:27:23 Backup aborted (auth required, but service is open/insecure) I wasted a lot of time checking the configuration of the remote PC, when the issue was actually on the server. The host.pl file that specifies the configuration and what directories are backed up was owned by root, and not by the backuppc user. Because of this, backuppc could not read the configuration or access the username and password for the connection. It's easy to fix with the following command (on Ubuntu, assuming backuppc is the correct user for the backup process, and replacing host with the correct hostname for the remote PC). I also suspect that the hostname must be all lowercase, because after I tried that, the errors I became slightly more useful (auth failed on module desktop). $sudo chown backuppc host.pl Regards, Rudi -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ 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/
[BackupPC-users] Alternative way to check if Host is alive -- can't use Ping
In my setup ICMP packets are dropped by the firewall in front of the machine I need to backup. I have been searching for alternatives but haven't found anything yet. Any pointers to a fix? Any other way to let BackupPC know he machine is alive? John J. Boris, Sr. JEN-A-SyS Administrator Archdiocese of Philadelphia 222 North 17th Street Philadelphia, Pa. 19103 Tel: 215-965-1714 Fax: 215-587-3525 Remember! That light at the end of the tunnel Just might be the headlight of an oncoming train! -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ 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/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Alternative way to check if Host is alive -- can't use Ping
On 03/30 11:37 , John BORIS wrote: In my setup ICMP packets are dropped by the firewall in front of the machine I need to backup. I have been searching for alternatives but haven't found anything yet. Any pointers to a fix? Any other way to let BackupPC know he machine is alive? What ports are available? could something like httping be used as a substitute for /bin/ping? -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ 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/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Alternative way to check if Host is alive -- can't use Ping
Hi, In my setup ICMP packets are dropped by the firewall in front of the machine I need to backup. I have been searching for alternatives but haven't found anything yet. Any pointers to a fix? Any other way to let BackupPC know he machine is alive? What ports are available? could something like httping be used as a substitute for /bin/ping? i remember i use - not with BackupPC - a perl script that allow to probe any host port (both TCP anf UDP ) - and also ping. It use both Net::Ping and Socket. The solution could be something like that, or simply a telnet to a specific port and work with output. Just run nmap to that host to see available port. Regards M -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev___ 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/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Alternative way to check if Host is alive -- can't use Ping
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 06:22:39PM +0200, Mirco Piccin wrote: Hi, In my setup ICMP packets are dropped by the firewall in front of the machine I need to backup. I have been searching for alternatives but haven't found anything yet. Any pointers to a fix? Any other way to let BackupPC know he machine is alive? What ports are available? could something like httping be used as a substitute for /bin/ping? i remember i use - not with BackupPC - a perl script that allow to probe any host port (both TCP anf UDP ) - and also ping. It use both Net::Ping and Socket. The solution could be something like that, or simply a telnet to a specific port and work with output. Just run nmap to that host to see available port. I've been using netcat -z $host $port for easy is that port open? tests. You'll need rsyncd or ssh access anyway, so just check these ports. HTH, Tino. -- What we nourish flourishes. - Was wir nähren erblüht. www.lichtkreis-chemnitz.de www.tisc.de -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ 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/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Alternative way to check if Host is alive -- can't use Ping
All of the suggestions will work but has anyone setup BackupPC to use something other than Ping to see if the host is alive? I have telnet available and someone else suggested httping but the ping command is used to send a few requests to just test the machine. I don't see anything in the BackupPC docs how to setup an alternative. John J. Boris, Sr. JEN-A-SyS Administrator Archdiocese of Philadelphia Remember! That light at the end of the tunnel Just might be the headlight of an oncoming train! Tino Schwarze backuppc.li...@tisc.de 3/30/2010 12:27 PM On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 06:22:39PM +0200, Mirco Piccin wrote: Hi, In my setup ICMP packets are dropped by the firewall in front of the machine I need to backup. I have been searching for alternatives but haven't found anything yet. Any pointers to a fix? Any other way to let BackupPC know he machine is alive? What ports are available? could something like httping be used as a substitute for /bin/ping? i remember i use - not with BackupPC - a perl script that allow to probe any host port (both TCP anf UDP ) - and also ping. It use both Net::Ping and Socket. The solution could be something like that, or simply a telnet to a specific port and work with output. Just run nmap to that host to see available port. I've been using netcat -z $host $port for easy is that port open? tests. You'll need rsyncd or ssh access anyway, so just check these ports. HTH, Tino. -- What we nourish flourishes. - Was wir nähren erblüht. www.lichtkreis-chemnitz.de www.tisc.de -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ 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/ -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ 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/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Alternative way to check if Host is alive -- can't use Ping
This is a Windows Server running rsyncd so 873 is open. There isn't any web server on this unit. So I can get httping but then need some RTFM or How To that shows how to replace ping in BackupPC so it will work. John J. Boris, Sr. JEN-A-SyS Administrator Archdiocese of Philadelphia Remember! That light at the end of the tunnel Just might be the headlight of an oncoming train! Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom chr...@real-time.com 3/30/2010 11:59 AM On 03/30 11:37 , John BORIS wrote: In my setup ICMP packets are dropped by the firewall in front of the machine I need to backup. I have been searching for alternatives but haven't found anything yet. Any pointers to a fix? Any other way to let BackupPC know he machine is alive? What ports are available? could something like httping be used as a substitute for /bin/ping? -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ 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/ -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ 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/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Alternative way to check if Host is alive -- can't use Ping
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 10:37 AM, John BORIS jbo...@adphila.org wrote: In my setup ICMP packets are dropped by the firewall in front of the machine I need to backup. I have been searching for alternatives but haven't found anything yet. Any pointers to a fix? Any other way to let BackupPC know he machine is alive? John J. Boris, Sr. JEN-A-SyS Administrator You haven't given us much info on the remote machine. Is it windows or linux? Could you scp an empty file and assume it's alive if it succeeds? Richard -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ 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/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Alternative way to check if Host is alive -- can't use Ping
On 3/30/2010 11:22 AM, Mirco Piccin wrote: Hi, In my setup ICMP packets are dropped by the firewall in front of the machine I need to backup. I have been searching for alternatives but haven't found anything yet. Any pointers to a fix? Any other way to let BackupPC know he machine is alive? What ports are available? could something like httping be used as a substitute for /bin/ping? i remember i use - not with BackupPC - a perl script that allow to probe any host port (both TCP anf UDP ) - and also ping. It use both Net::Ping and Socket. The solution could be something like that, or simply a telnet to a specific port and work with output. Just run nmap to that host to see available port. You should be able to come up with a command that tests the port you need for the backup. If you run over ssh, you could do something that will execute quickly like 'ssh r...@target_ip id' or if it is smb, an 'nmblookup -A target_IP' might work. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ 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/
Re: [BackupPC-users] few questions
What happen if PC is truned of at 9:15 and backup is not completed, will it completed next day ? If the backup is interrupted, it will start from where it left next time it runs (either automatic or by demand). I think I'm right... That is, it will take less time to complete than if it has to do everything again from the start, as some files will be already in the pool. -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev___ 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/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Alternative way to check if Host is alive -- can't use Ping
On 3/30/2010 11:31 AM, John BORIS wrote:
All of the suggestions will work but has anyone setup BackupPC to use
something other than Ping to see if the host is alive? I have telnet
available and someone else suggested httping but the ping command is used to
send a few requests to just test the machine.
I don't see anything in the BackupPC docs how to setup an alternative.
See the docs for $Conf{PingPath}. You could just set it to /bin/true
unless it takes too long for a failed connection to time out when the
host is really down.
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Re: [BackupPC-users] Alternative way to check if Host is alive -- can't use Ping
Thanks.
I will try that as my last resort. Thanks to all that sent their
suggestions. httping looks like it might get me around it But thanks
again to all for the quick reponses.
John J. Boris, Sr.
JEN-A-SyS Administrator
Archdiocese of Philadelphia
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Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com 3/30/2010 12:50 PM
On 3/30/2010 11:31 AM, John BORIS wrote:
All of the suggestions will work but has anyone setup BackupPC to use
something other than Ping to see if the host is alive? I have telnet
available and someone else suggested httping but the ping command is
used to send a few requests to just test the machine.
I don't see anything in the BackupPC docs how to setup an
alternative.
See the docs for $Conf{PingPath}. You could just set it to /bin/true
unless it takes too long for a failed connection to time out when the
host is really down.
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[BackupPC-users] Anyone get rsyncd to work on Windows Server 2008
I have BackupPC working just fine on my Xp Workstations and Windows Server 2003 boxes using rsyncd. cygwin-rsyncd-2.6.8_0: Rsyncd for Cygwin When I try to setup rsyncd on my Windows Server 2008 box it looks like rsyncd although it installed as a service and looks like it started it doesn't seem to be working. When I tried to restart the service I get an error that states the service took too long to respond and in the Services applet it shows that it is in a stopping state. My question is has anyone got rsyncd working on Windows Server 2008 32 bit version. Do I have to use a newer version? or do something special to get it running. TIA John J. Boris, Sr. JEN-A-SyS Administrator Archdiocese of Philadelphia Remember! That light at the end of the tunnel Just might be the headlight of an oncoming train! -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ 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/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Anyone get rsyncd to work on Windows Server 2008
DeltaCopy FTW! http://www.aboutmyip.com/AboutMyXApp/DeltaCopy.jsp On 3/30/2010 2:35 PM, John BORIS wrote: I have BackupPC working just fine on my Xp Workstations and Windows Server 2003 boxes using rsyncd. cygwin-rsyncd-2.6.8_0: Rsyncd for Cygwin When I try to setup rsyncd on my Windows Server 2008 box it looks like rsyncd although it installed as a service and looks like it started it doesn't seem to be working. When I tried to restart the service I get an error that states the service took too long to respond and in the Services applet it shows that it is in a stopping state. My question is has anyone got rsyncd working on Windows Server 2008 32 bit version. Do I have to use a newer version? or do something special to get it running. TIA John J. Boris, Sr. JEN-A-SyS Administrator Archdiocese of Philadelphia Remember! That light at the end of the tunnel Just might be the headlight of an oncoming train! -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ 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/ -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ 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/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Anyone get rsyncd to work on Windows Server 2008
Thanks I verified it is running but there must be some other reason that the connection is being refused. I turned off the firewall just to see if that was causing it but I still get Inet connection refused. Has to be something else on the system that is blocking the port. John J. Boris, Sr. JEN-A-SyS Administrator Archdiocese of Philadelphia Remember! That light at the end of the tunnel Just might be the headlight of an oncoming train! Nicholas Hadaway nick.hada...@fastroot.com 3/30/2010 3:45 PM DeltaCopy FTW! http://www.aboutmyip.com/AboutMyXApp/DeltaCopy.jsp -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ 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/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Communicating with a windows laptop on my workgroup
Anyone got any ideas as to why this isn't working and the web interface complains? ___ Dave Williams Check out our WebOS mobile phone app for the Palm Pre and Pixi: Golf Caddie | Golf Caddie Forum by DTW-Consulting, Inc. -Original Message- From: David Williams [mailto:dwilli...@dtw-consulting.com] Sent: Friday, March 26, 2010 8:18 PM To: 'General list for user discussion, questions and support' Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Communicating with a windows laptop on my workgroup -Original Message- From: David Williams [mailto:dwilli...@dtw-consulting.com] Sent: Friday, March 26, 2010 8:17 PM To: 'Gene Cooper' Subject: RE: [BackupPC-users] Communicating with a windows laptop on my workgroup I turned off my firewall to test this out and it didn't make any difference at all. What I don't understand is, if nmblookup -A 192.168.15.155 is working from the command line (as user backuppc) then why does the web interface complain about it? Is there something missing in the reply from nmblookup -A 192.168.15.155? ___ Dave Williams Check out our WebOS mobile phone app for the Palm Pre and Pixi: Golf Caddie | Golf Caddie Forum by DTW-Consulting, Inc. -Original Message- From: Gene Cooper [mailto:gcoo...@sonoracomm.com] Sent: Friday, March 26, 2010 5:20 PM To: dwilli...@dtw-consulting.com; General list for user discussion, questions and support Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Communicating with a windows laptop on my workgroup I am probably off-base here, but since Windows XP SP2, the Windows Firewall block NETBIOS name resolution. We use a command like this on each XP workstation: netsh firewall add portopening UDP 137 NBNS enable all to enable name resolution with nmblookup. G David Williams wrote: ___ Dave Williams Check out our WebOS mobile phone app for the *Palm Pre* and *Pixi*: Golf Caddie http://www.dtw-consulting.com/GolfCaddie | Golf Caddie Forum http://www.dtw-consulting.com/GolfCaddie/forum by DTW-Consulting, Inc. -Original Message- From: Les Mikesell [mailto:lesmikes...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, March 22, 2010 11:13 AM To: backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Communicating with a windows laptop on my workgroup On 3/22/2010 9:42 AM, David Williams wrote: However, there are still issues. When I try and perform a backup of laptop1 from within the web interface I get the following message: *Error: Can't find IP address for laptop1* * * *laptop1 is a DHCP host, and I don't know its IP address. I checked the netbios name of 192.168.15.155, and found that that machine is not laptop1.* * * *Until I see laptop1 at a particular DHCP address, you can only start this request from the client machine itself.* The strange thing is, I was on the client machine at the time and trying to back it up manually from the web interface! What does 'nmblookup -A 192.168.15.155' say (assuming you are still at the same IP)? It's going to use this to see if you are connecting from the host in question. Ok, now I am back on my network I can check this. Here is the current results of nmblookup my the backuppc server: # nmblookup -R -U 192.168.15.2 laptop1 querying laptop1 on 192.168.15.2 192.168.15.155 laptop100 # nmblookup -A 192.168.15.155 Looking up status of 192.168.15.155 LAPTOP1 00 - P ACTIVE DTWCONS 00 - GROUP P ACTIVE LAPTOP1 20 - P ACTIVE MAC Address = 00-21-6A-93-63-0C So, not sure what all that means, but if I try and perform a backup of laptop1 from laptop1 by using the web interface I still get the following message: Error: Can't find IP address for laptop1 laptop1 is a DHCP host, and I don't know its IP address. I checked the netbios name of 192.168.15.155, and found that that machine is not laptop1. Until I see laptop1 at a particular DHCP address, you can only start this request from the client machine itself. I also updated the config file for laptop1 such that NmbLookupFindHostCmd is set to: *$nmbLookupPath -R -U 192.168.15.2
[BackupPC-users] how to exclude hiddent files ?
Hi,
I would like to backup only the /home/remi and not all the hidden files
(especially .local/.../Trash)
Here is my host.pl file :
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
'/home/remi/.*' = [],
'.*' = []
};
$Conf{RsyncShareName} = [
'/home/remi'
];
and the main config.pl states :
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
'.*' = [
''
]
};
It doesn't work for me.
Where is my syntax matter ?
Thanks a lot.
Rémi.
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Re: [BackupPC-users] Communicating with a windows laptop on my workgroup
On 3/30/2010 3:17 PM, David Williams wrote: Anyone got any ideas as to why this isn't working and the web interface complains? No, I would have guessed it was a firewall, but if nmblookup -A works from the command line that must not be it. Can you do a backup if you set the dhcp flag to 0 and put the current IP address in ClientAlias? -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ 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/
Re: [BackupPC-users] how to exclude hiddent files ?
Le 30/03/2010 22:55, Rémi Boulle a écrit :
Hi,
I would like to backup only the /home/remi and not all the hidden files
(especially .local/.../Trash)
Here is my host.pl file :
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
'/home/remi/.*' = [],
'.*' = []
};
$Conf{RsyncShareName} = [
'/home/remi'
];
and the main config.pl states :
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
'.*' = [
''
]
};
It doesn't work for me.
Where is my syntax matter ?
Thanks a lot.
Rémi.
Hello,
I'm a bit unsure, but shoud not that be something like:
$Conf{RsyncShareName} = [
'/home/remi'
];
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
'/home/remi/' = ['.*']
};
Hope that could helps,
Johan
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