[BackupPC-users] /var/run/BackupPC Alpha3
ok i thank rc.local runs before init.d...thanks! I put these lines at the beginning of init.d script BackupPC but it seems i cant stop/start/restart BackupPC server... [root@backuppc ]# service backuppc stop Stopping backuppc: No /usr/bin/perl found running; none killed. ok. [root@backuppc]# service backuppc restart Restarting backuppc: No /usr/bin/perl found running; none killed. 2014-10-14 09:00:16 Another BackupPC is running (pid 3090); quitting... i dont really understand how to fix this, if you have an idea ! Thank you +-- |This was sent by romainp...@gmail.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +-- -- Comprehensive Server Monitoring with Site24x7. Monitor 10 servers for $9/Month. Get alerted through email, SMS, voice calls or mobile push notifications. Take corrective actions from your mobile device. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Zoho ___ 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] /var/run/BackupPC Alpha3
Ok so i modified the script because $LOGDIR doesnt refer to the /var/run/BackupPC...i could let PID files stored in /var/log/BackupPC but i prefer /var/run... Could someone tell me if it is ok or it doesnt matter...? It works well for me. http://pastebin.com/6uvtHCvW +-- |This was sent by romainp...@gmail.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +-- -- Comprehensive Server Monitoring with Site24x7. Monitor 10 servers for $9/Month. Get alerted through email, SMS, voice calls or mobile push notifications. Take corrective actions from your mobile device. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Zoho ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
[BackupPC-users] Full backup not backing up all files
I have a problem with two BackupPC hosts, yet there's a further third host that is working ok. The problem is that a full backup does not seem to back up all files on Windows hosts. An incremental backs up many more files than a full one, or so it seems, looking at the version history. On a typical C$ share, full backup omits directories such as Program Files and WINDOWS. The incremental backs them up. The only error messages I get are a couple of sharing violations in the error log, but nothing that should fail those whole directories. So far I have seen this on two BackupPC hosts, both Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. A third host which I have kept at 12.04 does not seem to suffer from this. The BackupPC version on all three of them is 3.3.0. Smbclient version is 3.5.11 on the 12.04 host and 4.1.6 on the 14.04 hosts. For testing purposes, I set up one 12.04 host and one 14.04 host to back up the same target with similar configuration files. Looking at the XferLOGs, the total number of files on share C$ for the 12.04 host was: 66691 filesTotal taking 9 GB on disk, while the 14.04 host had: 23910 filesTotal taking 6 GB on disk. So around 4 files of total 3 GB are omitted. Full backup command is: /usr/bin/smbclient -A /etc/backuppc/smbauth HOSTNAME\\C\$ -E -d 1 -c tarmode\ full -Tc - Incremental: /usr/bin/smbclient -A /etc/backuppc/smbauth HOSTNAME\\C\$ -E -d 1 -c tarmode\ full -TcN /var/lib/backuppc/pc/HOSTNAME/timeStamp.level0 - Here's is a screenshot of the history page. Backups number 0, 2 and 5 are full backups, while the rest are incrementals: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8tcfJc8vLAkZW1UQ25qUTRtbzQ/view?usp=sharing What could be the problem here? Something to do with the Samba version (3.5 vs. 4.1)? What can I do to diagnose this? -Mikko -- Comprehensive Server Monitoring with Site24x7. Monitor 10 servers for $9/Month. Get alerted through email, SMS, voice calls or mobile push notifications. Take corrective actions from your mobile device. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Zoho ___ 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] Full backup not backing up all files
Hi, Mikko Kortelainen wrote on 2014-10-14 12:18:00 +0300 [[BackupPC-users] Full backup not backing up all files]: I have a problem with two BackupPC hosts, yet there's a further third host that is working ok. The problem is that a full backup does not seem to back up all files on Windows hosts. An incremental backs up many more files than a full one, or so it seems, looking at the version history. [...] What could be the problem here? Something to do with the Samba version (3.5 vs. 4.1)? so it would seem. Or maybe only a changed default configuration. I don't know enough about smbclient to guess what it might be, but I know that smb.conf is relevant for the smbclient command as well. What can I do to diagnose this? A 'diff' of the two smb.conf files might shed some light, presuming it is configuration related. Otherwise, I would expect the old smbclient package (along with the same version samba-common) to work on the newer system. You have several options for trying the downgrade (***Note: I am assuming you have nothing installed on the system that depends on smbclient/samba-common, i.e. no samba server, samba configuration tool etc. If in doubt, check with 'apt-cache rdepends samba-common smbclient'***): - download the packages with a browser and install with 'dpkg -i', - add a sources.list line for the old distribution on the host(s) with the new one and do something like apt-get update apt-get install --reinstall smbclient=xyz samba-common=xyz (where 'xyz' is the version of smbclient/samba-common on the old system; 'apt-cache policy smbclient' might help figuring things out), or - download the packages on the old system with apt-get -d install --reinstall smbclient samba-common (the '-d' switch means 'download only'). Copy them from /var/cache/apt/archives over to the new host and install with 'dpkg -i'. You'll probably need to confirm the downgrade for 'apt-get' and possibly use a '--force-downgrade' switch on dpkg, but I don't think so. Presuming downgrading helps and you want to keep things that way, you should put the packages on hold (so they won't be inadvertantly upgraded at some point), and you should probably browse the changelogs to see if there were any important security fixes that the old version misses. Otherwise, 'apt-get install smbclient samba-common' or simply 'apt-get upgrade' should revert things to the new version. Hope that helps. Regards, Holger P.S.: There might be some other changed dependencies that I missed. In general, apt-get should take care of things. If you use 'dpkg -i', you can follow that with 'apt-get -f install' to fix dependencies, though in awkward situations this occasionally tends to want to fix things by removing the package you just installed. Always check what 'apt-get' wants to do, and be very sceptical if it wants to remove packages. Bottom line: it's easy enough to attempt the downgrade and simply *not* do it if it turns out to require more than replacing the two packages with older versions. -- Comprehensive Server Monitoring with Site24x7. Monitor 10 servers for $9/Month. Get alerted through email, SMS, voice calls or mobile push notifications. Take corrective actions from your mobile device. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Zoho ___ 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] protocol version mismatch -- is your shell clean?
Hi, HAL9000 wrote on 2014-10-08 08:48:56 -0700 [[BackupPC-users] protocol version mismatch -- is your shell clean?]: [...] Does anyone here know how to correct this? yes, simply not do it. What on earth are you trying to do? You have no apparent problem, except that you don't speak the rsync protocol (which is not really a problem - you don't have to). |This was sent by spamcatc...@safe-mail.net via Backup Central. No comment. Regards, Holger -- Comprehensive Server Monitoring with Site24x7. Monitor 10 servers for $9/Month. Get alerted through email, SMS, voice calls or mobile push notifications. Take corrective actions from your mobile device. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Zoho ___ 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] Full backup not backing up all files
Holger, thanks for your response. The smb.conf should be pretty much stock on both machines. Besides comments and whitespace, the only difference is this: client ntlmv2 auth = no That's set on the Samba 3.5 host but not on the 4.1. Actually it seems that the default for that has changed from Samba 3 (no) to Samba 4 (yes). I set it to no and ran a full backup again but the result was no different. A colleague of mine just told me he did a Samba downgrade from 4.1 to 3.5 and tested a quick full backup which was fine. I haven't tried it myself yet. What I did do is I ran a full backup command from the command line with smbclient 4.1 and it stops here: 0 (0,0 kb/s) \MSDOS.SYS 94720 ( 818,6 kb/s) \msizap.exe 47772 ( 2744,3 kb/s) \NTDETECT.COM 297072 ( 4917,1 kb/s) \ntldr NT_STATUS_SHARING_VIOLATION opening remote file \pagefile.sys (\) NT_STATUS_SHARING_VIOLATION listing \\* tar: dumped 26297 files and directories Total bytes written: 17752618496 So it stops after the first NT_STATUS_SHARING_VIOLATION on a file in the root directory of C$. There's a bug related to it and tagged to Samba 3.6: smbclient TAR omits remainder of directory on access denial. https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10605 Perhaps Samba 4.1 suffers from the same bug. This is pretty bad as the backup is still listed as a good backup, even though it is far from complete. And the error log can have more NT_STATUS_SHARING_VIOLATION messages so it is not immediately obvious that the backup stopped before copying everything it can. It only omits the rest of the files and subdirectories in the same directory with that error and continues with the next same or upper level directory. Being the root of C$ there are no same level or upper level directories left to back up, so it stops completely. As time goes by, the incrementals get deleted from disk, and any files not included in the full backups will be gone, if I have understood correctly (?). So there will be at most IncrAgeMax days of complete backups available. The full backups are just partial. I guess the only thing I can do now is downgrade to Samba 3.5. It is quite alarming to realize this thing may bite every user out there with the default packages and settings on any relatively new distro. And there is no good warning about it. Looking at the error log, the problem is not immediately obvious. It is obvious only after you browse your full backups and discover some stuff is not there. -Mikko 2014-10-14 15:26 GMT+03:00 Holger Parplies wb...@parplies.de: Hi, Mikko Kortelainen wrote on 2014-10-14 12:18:00 +0300 [[BackupPC-users] Full backup not backing up all files]: I have a problem with two BackupPC hosts, yet there's a further third host that is working ok. The problem is that a full backup does not seem to back up all files on Windows hosts. An incremental backs up many more files than a full one, or so it seems, looking at the version history. [...] What could be the problem here? Something to do with the Samba version (3.5 vs. 4.1)? so it would seem. Or maybe only a changed default configuration. I don't know enough about smbclient to guess what it might be, but I know that smb.conf is relevant for the smbclient command as well. What can I do to diagnose this? A 'diff' of the two smb.conf files might shed some light, presuming it is configuration related. Otherwise, I would expect the old smbclient package (along with the same version samba-common) to work on the newer system. You have several options for trying the downgrade (***Note: I am assuming you have nothing installed on the system that depends on smbclient/samba-common, i.e. no samba server, samba configuration tool etc. If in doubt, check with 'apt-cache rdepends samba-common smbclient'***): - download the packages with a browser and install with 'dpkg -i', - add a sources.list line for the old distribution on the host(s) with the new one and do something like apt-get update apt-get install --reinstall smbclient=xyz samba-common=xyz (where 'xyz' is the version of smbclient/samba-common on the old system; 'apt-cache policy smbclient' might help figuring things out), or - download the packages on the old system with apt-get -d install --reinstall smbclient samba-common (the '-d' switch means 'download only'). Copy them from /var/cache/apt/archives over to the new host and install with 'dpkg -i'. You'll probably need to confirm the downgrade for 'apt-get' and possibly use a '--force-downgrade' switch on dpkg, but I don't think so. Presuming downgrading helps and you want to keep things that way, you should put the packages on hold (so they won't be inadvertantly upgraded at some point), and you should probably browse the changelogs to see if there were any important security fixes that the old version misses. Otherwise, 'apt-get install smbclient samba-common' or simply 'apt-get upgrade'
[BackupPC-users] R: R: Re: Child exited prematurely
Thank you, I had no problem in running full backup through CLI. I hope next incremental backuppc will run fine Messaggio originale Da: absolutely_f...@libero.it Data: 09/10/2014 15.14 A: backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Ogg: [BackupPC-users] R: Re: Child exited prematurely Hi Micha, yes you are right, I am using rsync over ssh. If I try connection from backuppc server to host, connection works fine. Additionally, I have several share configured on this host, and I have problem just with one of them. Strange :( Messaggio originale Da: mi...@kovoks.nl Data: 03/10/2014 10.05 A: absolutely freeabsolutely_f...@libero.it, General list for user discussion, questions and supportbackuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Ogg: Re: [BackupPC-users] Child exited prematurely Hi, I guess you are using the rsync over ssh option to make backups? it's quite hard to debug this, but 9 out of 10 times its the ssh / rsync connection that is failing. Login on the backuppc server, become the backuppc user and try to make an connection manualy via f.e. ssh Met vriendelijke groet, Micha Kersloot Blijf op de hoogte en ontvang de laatste tips over Zimbra/KovoKs Contact: http://twitter.com/kovoks KovoKs B.V. is ingeschreven onder KvK nummer: 1104 - Original Message - From: absolutely free absolutely_f...@libero.it To: backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Friday, October 3, 2014 9:54:35 AM Subject: [BackupPC-users] Child exited prematurely Hi, I got this error: The following hosts had an error that is probably caused by a misconfiguration. Please fix these hosts: - server.domain.com (Child exited prematurely) Regards, PC Backup Genie I am sure that is it not a configuration issue (I never changed conf file). Through BackupPC web interface I got this: [ skipped 864487 lines ] Parent read EOF from child: fatal error! Done: 0 files, 0 bytes Got fatal error during xfer (Child exited prematurely) Backup aborted (Child exited prematurely) Not saving this as a partial backup since it has fewer files than the prior one (got 11 and 0 files versus 11) How can I determine what caused this problem? Thank you -- Meet PCI DSS 3.0 Compliance Requirements with EventLog Analyzer Achieve PCI DSS 3.0 Compliant Status with Out-of-the-box PCI DSS Reports Are you Audit-Ready for PCI DSS 3.0 Compliance? Download White paper Comply to PCI DSS 3.0 Requirement 10 and 11.5 with EventLog Analyzer http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=154622311iu=/4140/ostg. clktrk ___ 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/ -- Meet PCI DSS 3.0 Compliance Requirements with EventLog Analyzer Achieve PCI DSS 3.0 Compliant Status with Out-of-the-box PCI DSS Reports Are you Audit-Ready for PCI DSS 3.0 Compliance? Download White paper Comply to PCI DSS 3.0 Requirement 10 and 11.5 with EventLog Analyzer http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=154622311iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk ___ 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/ -- Comprehensive Server Monitoring with Site24x7. Monitor 10 servers for $9/Month. Get alerted through email, SMS, voice calls or mobile push notifications. Take corrective actions from your mobile device. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Zoho ___ 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] Running BackupPC and Nagios web interfaces from the same box
I need to know if there is a way to configure the apache conf file so that both BackupPC and Nagios web interfaces will be accessible although they are running off the same box. I had BackupPC running fine, but the install instructions had me change the httpd.conf file to: User backuppc Unfortunately, that breaks a bunch of permissions for the Nagios interface. When I change the user back to apache Nagios runs fine, but I can't even get the BackupPC interface to come up properly. Is there a way to make it so that the BackupPC interface doesn't have to user backuppc as the user in httpd.conf? Or some other way I can do this? +-- |This was sent by ph...@hotmail.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +-- -- Comprehensive Server Monitoring with Site24x7. Monitor 10 servers for $9/Month. Get alerted through email, SMS, voice calls or mobile push notifications. Take corrective actions from your mobile device. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Zoho ___ 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] Running BackupPC and Nagios web interfaces from the same box
Ok I found this little tidbit in some documentation: As mentioned, the BackupPC user created on the system when installing the RPM has to run Apache in order for everything to work properly with the CGIs and mod_perl. Go ahead and setup the appropriate values in httpd.conf. So BackupPC requires the user backuppc to run properly. Guess this is a question for the Nagios folks :( +-- |This was sent by ph...@hotmail.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +-- -- Comprehensive Server Monitoring with Site24x7. Monitor 10 servers for $9/Month. Get alerted through email, SMS, voice calls or mobile push notifications. Take corrective actions from your mobile device. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Zoho ___ 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] Running BackupPC and Nagios web interfaces from the same box
On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 2:53 PM, xpac backuppc-fo...@backupcentral.com wrote: I need to know if there is a way to configure the apache conf file so that both BackupPC and Nagios web interfaces will be accessible although they are running off the same box. I had BackupPC running fine, but the install instructions had me change the httpd.conf file to: User backuppc Unfortunately, that breaks a bunch of permissions for the Nagios interface. When I change the user back to apache Nagios runs fine, but I can't even get the BackupPC interface to come up properly. Is there a way to make it so that the BackupPC interface doesn't have to user backuppc as the user in httpd.conf? Or some other way I can do this? What OS distribution are you using, and are you using their packaged version of backuppc? Usually you would make the cgi script run setuid backuppc with support from suid_perl, mod_suid, or a wrapper written in C, but the details may vary with what your OS provides and allows. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com -- Comprehensive Server Monitoring with Site24x7. Monitor 10 servers for $9/Month. Get alerted through email, SMS, voice calls or mobile push notifications. Take corrective actions from your mobile device. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Zoho ___ 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] Running BackupPC and Nagios web interfaces from the same box
On 10/14/2014 02:53 PM, xpac wrote: Is there a way to make it so that the BackupPC interface doesn't have to user backuppc as the user in httpd.conf? Or some other way I can do this? Take a look at the suexec Apache module. It lets you specify which user:group each virtual host runs as. I use this frequently. -- Carl D Cravens (ra...@phoenyx.net) A man about to speak the truth should keep one foot in the stirrup. -- Comprehensive Server Monitoring with Site24x7. Monitor 10 servers for $9/Month. Get alerted through email, SMS, voice calls or mobile push notifications. Take corrective actions from your mobile device. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Zoho ___ 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] Running BackupPC and Nagios web interfaces from the same box
xpac backuppc-fo...@backupcentral.com wrote on 10/14/2014 03:59:26 PM: Ok I found this little tidbit in some documentation: As mentioned, the BackupPC user created on the system when installing the RPM has to run Apache in order for everything to work properly with the CGIs and mod_perl. Go ahead and setup the appropriate values in httpd.conf. So BackupPC requires the user backuppc to run properly. Guess this is a question for the Nagios folks :( You could run them on different ports... (I run Webmin and Apache on the same box on different ports. Of course, they *have* to run on different ports: Webmin supplies its own HTTP server.) Or, I think you can get away without having Apache run as backuppc if you *don't* use mod_perl. Seeing as the Web interface doesn't really do much, I never have it run using mod_perl anyway. From what I read in the doc, you could then run the web interface as whatever you want (say, apache) and be fine. I have never tried myself, so I can't say for sure. Reference: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html#Step-9:-CGI-interface Tim Massey Out of the Box Solutions, Inc. Creative IT Solutions Made Simple! http://www.OutOfTheBoxSolutions.com tmas...@obscorp.com 22108 Harper Ave. St. Clair Shores, MI 48080 Office: (800)750-4OBS (4627) Cell: (586)945-8796 -- Comprehensive Server Monitoring with Site24x7. Monitor 10 servers for $9/Month. Get alerted through email, SMS, voice calls or mobile push notifications. Take corrective actions from your mobile device. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Zoho___ 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] Running BackupPC and Nagios web interfaces from the same box
What OS distribution are you using, and are you using their packaged version of backuppc? Usually you would make the cgi script run setuid backuppc with support from suid_perl, mod_suid, or a wrapper written in C, but the details may vary with what your OS provides and allows. I'm running Centos 6, and I used the packaged version of backuppc. +-- |This was sent by ph...@hotmail.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +-- -- Comprehensive Server Monitoring with Site24x7. Monitor 10 servers for $9/Month. Get alerted through email, SMS, voice calls or mobile push notifications. Take corrective actions from your mobile device. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Zoho ___ 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] Running BackupPC and Nagios web interfaces from the same box
On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 4:10 PM, xpac backuppc-fo...@backupcentral.com wrote: What OS distribution are you using, and are you using their packaged version of backuppc? Usually you would make the cgi script run setuid backuppc with support from suid_perl, mod_suid, or a wrapper written in C, but the details may vary with what your OS provides and allows. I'm running Centos 6, and I used the packaged version of backuppc. Then I don't understand the question. You should not have had to touch the configs and the suid part would be provided by a binary wrapper in usr/share/BackupPC/sbin/BackupPC_Admin. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com -- Comprehensive Server Monitoring with Site24x7. Monitor 10 servers for $9/Month. Get alerted through email, SMS, voice calls or mobile push notifications. Take corrective actions from your mobile device. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Zoho ___ 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/
