Re: [BackupPC-users] From a Yum install to a Tar install

[Johan Cwiklinski]

 Hi,

Le 17/10/2010 09:28, Timothy Omer a écrit :
> Hello All,
>
> I asked this question a few days ago and did not really get an answer,
> prob my fault for not being clear - so sorry for asking again.
>
> I wish to move from CentOS 5.4 Yum version 3.1.0 to the most recent
> Tar version 3.2.0. I know I should not mix Yum and Tar installs, so
> what is the best method to upgrade?

The best method would be to build the RPM for the 3.2 version.

That way, you'll keep the advantages of the package (ie. SELinux
contexts, paths and so on).

I already worked on a 3.2 version of the RPM package, but for Feodra,
not for EL-5 ; the upgrade policy is to keep stable software in the
repositories, not to put latest version.
As far as I remember, most of the specfile is the same for 3.1 and 3.2.

> I can remove the yum install and then install the Tar version. As far
> as I'm aware I will just need to restore my...
>> /etc/BackupPC/hosts
>> /etc/BackupPC/config.pl
>> and my Apache config
> I believe if I point the new install to the current backup pool it
> will read the current backups there as it uses this structure as the
> catalog.
>
> If someone who has done similar or knows the design of backupPC well
> could confirm what I wish to do is fine would be helpful. I wish to
> not lose my current backups as it will take multiple weeks for me to
> recreate them.

I'm really not an expert, and I did not yet upgrade any of my
installations from 3.1 to 3.2 ; but keeping files from /ec/BackupPC
would be sufficient.

> many thanks

Regards,
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Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC 3.2.0 released

[Johan Cwiklinski]

 Hello,

Le 02/08/2010 18:38, Craig Barratt a écrit :
> BackupPC 3.2.0 has been released on SF.net.
>
> This release contains a few new features and significant number of
> bug fixes.  Some of the new features are:
> [...]

Really a good news :-)

Many, many thanks to the devel team for its work !

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Re: [BackupPC-users] perl-suidperl no longer available in Fedora 14

[Johan Cwiklinski]

 Hello,

Le 03/07/2010 18:18, Les Mikesell a écrit :
> Johan Cwiklinski wrote:
>>  Hello,
>>
>> I've just been warned about "perl-suidperl" will no longer be available
>> in Fedora 14 :
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=611009
>>
>> I'd like to know how I can make BackupPC work without that component ;
>> I'm really not familiar with suid issues at all...
>>
>> Any advices?
> Apache has its own suid mechanism that might work.  Or you could simply run 
> backuppc as the httpd user and change file ownership accordingly.  That might 
> be 
> less secure if you have other web sites on the same host, though.
>

As I do not know what users will do with their apache ; I'd prefer to
omit less secure solutions ;)

Anyways, I did not know apache has such a system ; I'll take a look at that.
Thank you for the tip!

Regards,
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[BackupPC-users] perl-suidperl no longer available in Fedora 14

[Johan Cwiklinski]

 Hello,

I've just been warned about "perl-suidperl" will no longer be available
in Fedora 14 :
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=611009

I'd like to know how I can make BackupPC work without that component ;
I'm really not familiar with suid issues at all...

Any advices?

Kind regards,
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Re: [BackupPC-users] SELinux preventing server connection.

[Johan Cwiklinski]

Le 30/04/2010 00:09, Kris Lou a écrit :
> I emailed the Zmanda folk, and they uploaded the SRPM to the below link.

OK, the RPMs are really not the same at all.
This one, for example, does not provide any SELinux module, there are
probably other differences I've not seen (specfiles are very different
since zmanda write only one for many distributions/versions).

Regards,
Johan

>
> Kris Lou
> k...@themusiclink.net <mailto:k...@themusiclink.net>
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 11:33 AM, Johan Cwiklinski  <mailto:maili...@x-tnd.be>> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Le 29/04/2010 19:43, Kris Lou a écrit :
> > Out of curiosity, is there a difference (besides version/release of
> > BackupPC) between the Fedora/EPEL rpm and the rpm available from
> Zmanda?
> >
> > http://www.zmanda.com/download-backuppc.php
> >
> > Kris Lou
> > k...@themusiclink.net <mailto:k...@themusiclink.net>
> >
>
> First of all, the version you pointed out is 3.2.0beta ; on
> Fedora/EPEL
> repositories provides 3.1.0 for now.
>
> As for the differences beetween RPM themselves, there is no zmanda
> SRPM
> available, so I cannot say if it is different or not.
>
> Regards,
> Johan
>


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Re: [BackupPC-users] SELinux preventing server connection.

[Johan Cwiklinski]

>
> On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 21:08:23 +0200
> Johan Cwiklinski  wrote:
>
>   
>> Hello,
>>
>> Le 27/04/2010 20:30, Steve Blackwell a écrit :
>> 
>>> BZ=bugzilla?
>>>   
>>>   
>> Yes :) That is a better place to report package specific issues, all
>> of that SELinus stuff is not really BackupPC relevant.
>>
>> 
>>> I had alway run SELinux in permissive mode because of the problems I
>>> was having. After talking with the SELinux folks and reinstalling
>>> the targeted policy, I am now running in enforcing mode but I'm
>>> experiencing these issues.
>>>
>>>   
>>>   
>>>> By the way, I'm using backuppc with SELinux enabled under F-12 with
>>>> exactly the same SELinux rules and files location ; and I do not
>>>> have any problems so far.
>>>>
>>>> Basically, just run "restorecon -R -v /var/log/BackupPC" should
>>>> does the trick ; files under that directory should be labelled 
>>>> "system_u:object_r:httpd_sys_content_t:s0" (the contexts I have on
>>>> my F-12 box) and of course have to be owned by "backuppc" user.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> The files in my /var/log/BackupPC were labelled incorrectly and
>>> restorecon wasn't changing anything. I don't know why that was but I
>>> have fixed that now. Even after that, I was still getting write and
>>> connectto denials on /var/log/BackupPC.sock.
>>>
>>> With the SELinux group's assistant I can now connect to the
>>> BackupPc server but now BackupPC is not allowed to read the disk
>>> where my backups are located.
>>>   
>>>   
>> Connection problems are strange, but indeed related to the pacakge
>> itself.
>>
>> As for reading backup location... The package can only handle the
>> default location. If that is changed (most of the cases for a backup
>> system) you're in charge to check SELinux and right management
>> issues ; any package can do it for you.
>>
>> As I'm not selinux lists subscriber, I do not know exactly what the
>> probelm was, and what has been done to be solved. Maybe could you send
>> me in private a link to the archives pointing to that particular
>> discution?
>> 
> I have my connection problem solved. I'm still having other problems
> though.
>
>   
>>>> On the other hand, I would accept any help improving the
>>>> Fedora/EPEL package with a great pleasure.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> Well I have a little time so I'd be happy to help you. Just tell me
>>> how. 
>>>   
>> Strange paths made SELinux unhappy.
>> I started to implement the ability to change the bindir at install
>> time, but I failed...
>>
>> As far as I remember, BackupPC is not really FHS compliant beacause:
>> - LOCK file stands in /var/log,
>> - PID file stands in /var/log,
>> - binaries stands in /usr/share.
>> - maybe others I've forget/I've never seen
>>
>> Also, some kind of temporary files are created althought they should
>> not (I'll have to investigate a bit to find out what was the problem).
>>
>> These corrrections would benefit directly to BackupPC project (for the
>> next release) and to packaging (globally) ; in my opinion.
>>
>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> Steve
>>>   
>>>   
>> If you plan to make changes to BackupPC source code, you should use
>> the current list (or more probably the devel one).
>> If you have issues/questions/bugs/whatever about the package or
>> SELinux issues, feel free to report them on the bugzilla (public
>> reports would benefit to others I guess).
>> 
> Hmmm Perhaps I should have warned you. I have never done anything
> like this before and I have no idea how to go about it. Is there a
> Fedora packagers guide or something similar?
>   

There is musch documentation on the wiki ; but I was talking about
BackupPC hacking, it's not packaging related (in the first times).

> Also are the requests made by the SELinux folks captured in a bug
> report? 
>   

No, they've asked me directly on IRC.

> Steve
>   

Regards,
Johan

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Re: [BackupPC-users] SELinux preventing server connection.

[Johan Cwiklinski]

Hello,

Le 29/04/2010 19:43, Kris Lou a écrit :
> Out of curiosity, is there a difference (besides version/release of
> BackupPC) between the Fedora/EPEL rpm and the rpm available from Zmanda?
>
> http://www.zmanda.com/download-backuppc.php
>
> Kris Lou
> k...@themusiclink.net
>   

First of all, the version you pointed out is 3.2.0beta ; on Fedora/EPEL
repositories provides 3.1.0 for now.

As for the differences beetween RPM themselves, there is no zmanda SRPM
available, so I cannot say if it is different or not.

Regards,
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Re: [BackupPC-users] SELinux preventing server connection.

[Johan Cwiklinski]

Hello,

Le 27/04/2010 20:30, Steve Blackwell a écrit :
> BZ=bugzilla?
>   

Yes :) That is a better place to report package specific issues, all of
that SELinus stuff is not really BackupPC relevant.

> I had alway run SELinux in permissive mode because of the problems I
> was having. After talking with the SELinux folks and reinstalling the
> targeted policy, I am now running in enforcing mode but I'm
> experiencing these issues.
>
>   
>> By the way, I'm using backuppc with SELinux enabled under F-12 with
>> exactly the same SELinux rules and files location ; and I do not have
>> any problems so far.
>>
>> Basically, just run "restorecon -R -v /var/log/BackupPC" should does
>> the trick ; files under that directory should be labelled 
>> "system_u:object_r:httpd_sys_content_t:s0" (the contexts I have on my
>> F-12 box) and of course have to be owned by "backuppc" user.
>> 
> The files in my /var/log/BackupPC were labelled incorrectly and
> restorecon wasn't changing anything. I don't know why that was but I
> have fixed that now. Even after that, I was still getting write and
> connectto denials on /var/log/BackupPC.sock.
>
> With the SELinux group's assistant I can now connect to the
> BackupPc server but now BackupPC is not allowed to read the disk where
> my backups are located.
>   

Connection problems are strange, but indeed related to the pacakge itself.

As for reading backup location... The package can only handle the
default location. If that is changed (most of the cases for a backup
system) you're in charge to check SELinux and right management issues ;
any package can do it for you.

As I'm not selinux lists subscriber, I do not know exactly what the
probelm was, and what has been done to be solved. Maybe could you send
me in private a link to the archives pointing to that particular discution?

>> On the other hand, I would accept any help improving the Fedora/EPEL
>> package with a great pleasure.
>> 
> Well I have a little time so I'd be happy to help you. Just tell me how.
>   

Strange paths made SELinux unhappy.
I started to implement the ability to change the bindir at install time,
but I failed...

As far as I remember, BackupPC is not really FHS compliant beacause:
- LOCK file stands in /var/log,
- PID file stands in /var/log,
- binaries stands in /usr/share.
- maybe others I've forget/I've never seen

Also, some kind of temporary files are created althought they should not
(I'll have to investigate a bit to find out what was the problem).

These corrrections would benefit directly to BackupPC project (for the
next release) and to packaging (globally) ; in my opinion.

> Thanks,
> Steve
>   

If you plan to make changes to BackupPC source code, you should use the
current list (or more probably the devel one).
If you have issues/questions/bugs/whatever about the package or SELinux
issues, feel free to report them on the bugzilla (public reports would
benefit to others I guess).

Regards,
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Re: [BackupPC-users] SELinux preventing server connection.

[Johan Cwiklinski]

Hello,

Le 27/04/2010 17:33, Steve Blackwell a écrit :
> On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 13:02:58 -0400
> Steve Blackwell  wrote:
>
>   
>> I'm getting a SELinux AVC when trying to connect to my BackupPC
>> server.
>>
>> I found this bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=512035
>> and in comment 14 it says it was fixed in BackupPC-3.1.0-6.fc11
>> whereas I am running:
>>
>> # rpm -qa | grep BackupPC
>> BackupPC-3.1.0-9.fc11.noarch
>>
>> and I am still seeing the issue.
>> The SELinux list suggested that the BackupPC policy might not be
>> installed by default.
>>
>> Can anyone tell the the current status of this problem? Fixed? Fixed
>> but re-occured? Policy installed by default or no?
>> 
> I haven't had an answer to this yet but the folks on the SELinux list
> gave me some instructions on how to fix it. Unfortunately, it did not
> fix the problem because according to them the .pid file and the .sock
> file need to be in the /var/run directory and not in /var/log. Also
> according to the SELinux folks they requested a long time ago that the
> BackupPC package maintainer correct this but it has not been done.
>
> So, a couple of questions:
>
> 1) Who is the Fedora package maintainer for BackupPC?
>   

I am.

> 2) Is there some reason or objection to making the changes as requested
> by SELinux?
>   

They do not just ask me to change the pid and lock file ; but also to
change the binary dir for example, and that is a very huge change in the
backuppc code I do not know at all (I'm just a packager, not a perl
dev). Additionnaly, I do not have time to do that for now.

> 3) Are there any plans to fix the original problem in F11?
>   

When I used F-11, I had no problems. I've tested under a VM when the bug
was reported, that worked for me. I can "quickly" fix PID file and LOCK
file locations (I did not do that already because it was not enought
having official selinux rules for the daemon according to SELinux team).
That may solve your issue, I really do not know, let me know on the BZ.

By the way, I'm using backuppc with SELinux enabled under F-12 with
exactly the same SELinux rules and files location ; and I do not have
any problems so far.

Basically, just run "restorecon -R -v /var/log/BackupPC" should does the
trick ; files under that directory should be labelled 
"system_u:object_r:httpd_sys_content_t:s0" (the contexts I have on my
F-12 box) and of course have to be owned by "backuppc" user.

On the other hand, I would accept any help improving the Fedora/EPEL
package with a great pleasure.

> Thanks,
> Steve
>   

Regards,
Johan

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Re: [BackupPC-users] how to exclude hiddent files ?

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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,
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Re: [BackupPC-users] Find version number?

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Le 03/03/2010 20:48, Bowie Bailey a écrit :
> Sean Carolan wrote:
>   
>> Please forgive me for such a simple question, but is there a way to
>> easily tell what version of BackupPC we are running?  I have misplaced
>> the original installation tarball that I used.  I think we're on
>> version 3.1.0 but I wanted to confirm this to be sure.
>>   
>> 
> Logon to the Web Admin.  It is at the top of the main status page.
>
>   

This information I also available in the header of the BackupPC files.

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Re: [BackupPC-users] unable to restore via zip archives

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Hello,

Le 21/02/2010 02:36, Craig Barratt a écrit :
> Johan,
>
> Thanks for your help debugging this!
>   

You're welcome :-)

> It turns out it is a bug in Archive::Zip 1.30 (the latest version).
> Earlier versions (eg: 1.23) are ok.
>
> I submitted a bug report and patch for Archive::Zip on cpan.org:
>
> https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=54827
>
> If there is a need I could also try to do a fix in BackupPC that
> avoids the bug in Archive::Zip 1.30.
>   

Well, for the moment, I think waiting that to be fixed in Archive::Zip
is the best solution.

> Craig
>   

Thank you very much,
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Re: [BackupPC-users] unable to restore via zip archives

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Hello,

(Sending again to the list, I did not pay attention that one has been
sent to Craig only)

Le 26/01/2010 08:43, Craig Barratt a écrit :
> Johan writes:
>   
>> The user that has reported me the error on the bugzilla did that also,
>> the error is:
>> Can't locate object method "tell" via package "IO::Handle" at
>> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0/Archive/Zip/Member.pm line 746.
>> 
> Interesting.  It appears Archive::Zip is trying to seek() the output
> file, which in the case of httpd is a pipe.  There are certain cases
> for compressed files where it expects to do that.
>
> What versions of perl, Archive::Zip, IO::Handle and IO::Seekable do
> you have?
>   

I got (on Fedora 12):
- perl-5.10.0
- perl-Archive-Zip-1.30

I do not have IO::Handle nor IO::Seekable installed (I cannot find any
references to these ones in the documentation ; are they mandatory?).

> BackupPC_zipCreate calls the Archive::Zip function writeToFileHandle()
> with a zero second argument to tell it that the output file isn't
> seekable, so I don't know why Archive::Zip is still trying to seek
> the output file.
>
> You mentioned running BackupPC_zipCreate manually works ok.
> Can you see what happens if you pipe BackupPC_zipCreate into,
> eg, wc?
>
> BackupPC_zipCreate -h host -s share -c 5 -n -1 files... | wc
>
> If that fails then it will be easier to debug.
>   

Well, I feel terribly sorry... But I've made a mistake :-(

The issue appears also on command line... I had ommited the space
between '-c' and the value during my tests...

Anyways, error is exactly the same:
-bash-4.0$ /usr/share/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_zipCreate -h localhost -c 5
-n1 -s / /etc/httpd/conf.d -t > test.zip
Can't locate object method "tell" via package "IO::Handle" at
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0/Archive/Zip/Member.pm line 746.

> Craig
>   

Thanks,
Johan

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Re: [BackupPC-users] unable to restore via zip archives

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Hi,

Le 26/01/2010 22:01, Craig Barratt a écrit :
> Johan writes:
>
>   
>> Well, I feel terribly sorry... But I've made a mistake :-(
>>
>> The issue appears also on command line... I had ommited the space
>> between '-c' and the value during my tests...
>> 
> No problem - that makes debugging easier.
>
>   
>> Anyways, error is exactly the same:
>> -bash-4.0$ /usr/share/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_zipCreate -h localhost -c 5
>> -n1 -s / /etc/httpd/conf.d -t > test.zip
>> Can't locate object method "tell" via package "IO::Handle" at
>> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0/Archive/Zip/Member.pm line 746.
>> 
> I thought the IO::* modules were built into the perl distribution.
> On my two machines they are installed below /usr/lib/perl5/5.10/ARCH,
> not below site_perl or vendor_perl.
>
> Why don't you try installing IO::File (which should pull in IO::Handle
> and IO::Seekable)?
>   

Well, all these ones seems to be shipped by the perl package on my
Fedora, following files are present on my system:
/usr/lib64/perl5/5.10.0/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/IO/File.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/5.10.0/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/IO/Handle.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/5.10.0/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/IO/Seekable.pm

That should be ok I think.

> Craig
>   

Thanks,
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Re: [BackupPC-users] unable to restore via zip archives

[Johan Cwiklinski]

Hi Craig,

Le 25/01/2010 01:28, Craig Barratt a écrit :
> Johan,
>
> I looked at the small broken zip file but couldn't determine
> why it wasn't written correctly.
>
> Just to confirm - BackupPC_zipCreate does work correctly when
> you run it manally with compression turned on?
>
> Next, I would suggest looking in lib/BackupPC/CGI/Restore.pm:
>
> #
> # Fork the child off and manually copy the output to our stdout.
> # This is necessary to ensure the output gets to the correct place
> # under mod_perl.
> #
> $bpc->cmdSystemOrEvalLong(["$BinDir/BackupPC_zipCreate",
>  "-h", $host,
>  "-n", $num,
>  "-c", $In{compressLevel},
>  "-s", $share,
>  @pathOpts,
>  @fileList
> ],
> sub { print(@_); },
> 1,  # ignore stderr
> );
>
> Please change the last "1" to a "0" and try again.  The zip file
> will almost certainly still be broken, so just save it.  If there
> are any error messages written to stderr they will now be mixed
> into the zip file output.  So perhaps there is an error message
> you will see if you run:
>
> strings restore.zip
>
> Craig
>   

The user that has reported me the error on the bugzilla did that also,
the error is:
Can't locate object method "tell" via package "IO::Handle" at
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0/Archive/Zip/Member.pm line 746.

Looks like we do not get here what is expected... Let me know if I can
make visible some other errors messages that could help you a bit.

Thanks,
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Re: [BackupPC-users] unable to restore via zip archives

[Johan Cwiklinski]

Hi Craig,

Le 20/01/2010 21:25, Craig Barratt a écrit :
> Johan,
>
> Have you looked at the contents of the small zip file that
> is downloaded with zip compression turned on?
>
> Perhaps it contains an error message or html text of some kind.
>   

Unfortunately, I have not seen anything like an error message nor html
text :-(
"file" commad says that's a zip file, "unzip" command says that's not a
valid one ("End-of-central-directory signature not found. [...]").
vim shows sort of binary data...

> Also, is there anything in the LOG file?
>   

LOG file does not show anything else than the attempt to restore a zip file:
"2010-01-20 22:34:47 User trasher downloaded zip archive for venus,
backup 190; files were: /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf"

Trying to restore the above (httpd.conf from venus host) gives me the
following zip file:
http://ulysses.fr/restore.zip

Maybe that broken file could help you finding out what's wrong here...
To produce the file I've just asked to restore a zip file from the web
interface, with a compression of 5.

> Craig
>   

Thanks,
Johan

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Re: [BackupPC-users] unable to restore via zip archives

[Johan Cwiklinski]

Hello,

Le 20/01/2010 00:43, Matthias Meyer a écrit :
> Johan Cwiklinski wrote:
>
>   
>> Hello,
>>
>> Le 02/10/2009 18:15, Boyko Yordanov - Exsisto Ltd. a écrit :
>> 
>>> Hello list!
>>>
>>> I've been playing w/ BackupPC version 3.2.0beta0 for a couple of days
>>> and I am facing the following issue:
>>>
>>> I am unable to restore files via zip archives with compression (1-9).
>>> The web interface prompts me to save the file, but then the file is
>>> usually just a few kilobytes in size (no matter how many files I am
>>> selecting for restoration) and I am unable to extract anything from
>>> it. I am able to download a zero compression "zip" archive, but
>>> nothing if I set the compression to higher values. The other restore
>>> methods are working fine. I have all the necessary perl modules
>>> installed including Archive::Zip and the ones it depends on. There are
>>> no errors in the BackupPC log file, actually it just logs a normal
>>> entry like I've successfully downloaded the zip archive - but I did
>>> not.. at least the file I get seems somehow broken.
>>>
>>> Could it be a bug or a known issue? Anyone noticing the same behavior
>>> w/ his BackupPC setup? I have two boxes running this version of
>>> BackupPC - I can't use zip archives for restoration on both of them,
>>> its just not working for me.
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> Boyko
>>>   
>>>   
> I running BackupPC on Debian and I can restore via zip files with
> compression 9.
> Did you try a restore via .tar file too?
>   

Yes, tar file works as excpected.

> Do you can restore your files with a "normal" restore via your transfer
> method?
>   

What's a "normal restore"? If you mean restoring on the host, without
getting a zip or tar file, that works well too.

> br
> Matthias
>
>   

Regards,
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Re: [BackupPC-users] unable to restore via zip archives

[Johan Cwiklinski]

Hello,

Le 02/10/2009 18:15, Boyko Yordanov - Exsisto Ltd. a écrit :
> Hello list!
>
> I've been playing w/ BackupPC version 3.2.0beta0 for a couple of days  
> and I am facing the following issue:
>
> I am unable to restore files via zip archives with compression (1-9).  
> The web interface prompts me to save the file, but then the file is  
> usually just a few kilobytes in size (no matter how many files I am  
> selecting for restoration) and I am unable to extract anything from  
> it. I am able to download a zero compression "zip" archive, but  
> nothing if I set the compression to higher values. The other restore  
> methods are working fine. I have all the necessary perl modules  
> installed including Archive::Zip and the ones it depends on. There are  
> no errors in the BackupPC log file, actually it just logs a normal  
> entry like I've successfully downloaded the zip archive - but I did  
> not.. at least the file I get seems somehow broken.
>
> Could it be a bug or a known issue? Anyone noticing the same behavior  
> w/ his BackupPC setup? I have two boxes running this version of  
> BackupPC - I can't use zip archives for restoration on both of them,  
> its just not working for me.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Boyko
>   

The exact same problem has been reported to me with 3.1 on Fedora's
Bugzilla :
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=543660

- from the web interface, if you try to get a zip file to restore with a
compression value > 0 ; you'll get a wrgon empty zip file.
- from the web interface, if you try to get a zip with compression=0 ;
you'll get a valid file
- from the command line, all goes well, with any compression level (so I
guess this is not a missing perl module)

There is no error message anywhere, and I do not know which args are
passed to the command from the web interface.
That should be a problem to debug the issue, so if someone could tell me
what to change in the code to get some message helping on debug I should
maybe produce more detailled error (sorry, but I do not know perl :( ).

Regards,
Johan

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Re: [BackupPC-users] MySQL

[Johan Cwiklinski]

Hello,

Le 12/11/2009 16:28, James Wells a écrit :
> Depends how you want to restore things - we use it to just backup the 
> /var/lib/mysql directories , but this means you have to restore the whole 
> database at once to restore things (you can restore to another server and 
> just select the data you want, as required of course).
>   

Backup of files under mysql directory will not work if you use innodb
databases (at least)...

For such a backup, you will have to stop the database, do the file copy
and then restart ; or proceed mysqldump command.

Anyways, I'm not sure that simply copying files is really recommended,
even if it appears to work (it should only work 99 per cent of time ;) ).

Regards,
Johan

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Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC migration FC7 to FC10

[Johan Cwiklinski]

Le 05/06/2009 01:49, Claude Gélinas a écrit :
> I need to migrate my backupPC server from FC7 to FC10 but I can't just
> upgrade my server. I've installed a new HD with FC10 on the same server
> so now I need to know how to transfer my setting form the old HD to the
> new one without losing my setup. All my backuped file are on a partition
> mounted on /var/lib/BackupPC so I can mount that partition on FC10 the
> same way.
>
> How do I transfer my old setup to FC10.
>
> Thanks
>
> Claude
>   
Hello,

If you've used the official RPM from Fedora, all configuration files are
under /etc/BackuPC. This path and /var/lib/BackupPC (were stands your
backups) are normally the only ones you have to care about.

Additionnaly, you may want to keep the content of /var/log/BackupPC ;
were log files stands.

Hope that help,
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Re: [BackupPC-users] can't backup certain files

[Johan Cwiklinski]

Alex Dehaini a écrit :
> I am using windows XP professional. I haven't setup any inclusion in
> the master config file; what settings should I edit to allow these
> file types or to allow all file types?
>
> Lex
>
> On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 3:26 PM, dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > wrote:
>
> which version of windows on the client?  do you have exclusions
> setup in the master config file to skip those filetypes?
>
> On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 8:48 AM, Alex Dehaini
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
>
> Hi Guys,
>
> I am backing up a windows machine using smb. The backup works
> but I can't backup certain files i.e. .exe, .jpg files. I can
> backup .doc and .pdf files. Any ideas?
>
Hello,

Not sure it's really BackupPC related... I remember that Windows refuses
to copy some files when they're in use ; you maybe could check if it was
the case for these files when you've tried to bakcup them.

Hope that helps,
Johan

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Re: [BackupPC-users] SELinux issue with BackupPC 3.1.0 on Fedora 6

[Johan Cwiklinski]

Johan Cwiklinski a écrit :
> As I've alredy said on the BackupPC's mailing list, you've got (imo) tow 
>   
Hi again,

My apologizes... I've responded to the thread privately this morning, 
not on the list... Myabe my eyes were still closed :-)

Regard,
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Re: [BackupPC-users] SELinux issue with BackupPC 3.1.0 on Fedora 6

[Johan Cwiklinski]

Hi,

Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) a écrit :
> Aleksey Tsalolikhin wrote:
>
>   
>> Hi.  I am trying to get BackupPC working on a Fedora Core 6 server.
>>
>> I installed BackupPC with "yum install backuppc" and "yum install  
>> httpd".
>>
>> But when I fire up the Web interface, it says
>>
>>   Error: Unable to connect to BackupPC server
>> 
>
> I guess you didn't start the backuppc daemon. Try 'service backuppc  
> start'.
>
>   
>> And I have an SE Linux error message:
>>
>> avc:  denied  { write } for  pid=5120 comm="perl5.8.8"
>> name="BackupPC.sock" dev=dm-0 ino=56393744
>> scontext=user_u:system_r:httpd_t:s0
>> tcontext=user_u:object_r:var_log_t:s0 tclass=sock_file
>>
>> If I turn off SE Linux, BackupPC works fine.   But per our policy,
>> this server must have SE Linux turned on.
>>
>> How to make this work, please?
>> 

Indeed, that's an SELinux related problem.

Problem here is :
1- fc6 is no longer supported
2- (the most important one) BackupPC's version shipped with FC6 is 
probably 2.x series, I've implemented SELinux polivy for BackupPC 
starting at 3.x ; so path are differents, etc, etc, etc.

As I've alredy said on the BackupPC's mailing list, you've got (imo) tow 
options :
1- upgrade to F-8 or F-9
2- use audit2allow to build your own policy module

Anyways, I do not thing using an old BackupPC version is a good thing.

>
> I guess you'd need to ask the Fedora Project, but I don't think  
> they'll respond to bug reports about releases that reached end of life  
> last year.
>
> Nils Breunese.

Regards,
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