Re: [BackupPC-users] using cron to schedule backups

2005-08-24 Thread Jean-Michel Beuken
Hello, in the same idea, about starting a full backup at well-defined day of the week (sunday for example), is it possible to use the $Conf{DumpPreUserCmd} ? I had looked in the code and the problem that there isn't return code after executing the script defined by DumpPreUserCmd in the Ba

Re: [BackupPC-users] A little help with SSH

2005-08-24 Thread Marty
Mark Cockrell wrote: Les Mikesell wrote: On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 08:10, Mark Cockrell wrote: debug1: Next authentication method: publickey debug1: Trying private key: /home/backuppc/.ssh/identity debug1: Offering public key: /home/backuppc/.ssh/id_rsa debug1: Authentications that can continue

Re: [BackupPC-users] A little help with SSH

2005-08-24 Thread Mark Cockrell
Les Mikesell wrote: On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 15:09, Mark Cockrell wrote: Do these lines from /var/log/messages help? Aug 24 15:01:23 warrior sshd(pam_unix)[5711]: authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=ssh ruser= rhost=10.0.0.7 user=root Aug 24 1

Re: [BackupPC-users] A little help with SSH

2005-08-24 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 15:09, Mark Cockrell wrote: > > > Do these lines from /var/log/messages help? > > Aug 24 15:01:23 warrior sshd(pam_unix)[5711]: authentication failure; > logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=ssh ruser= rhost=10.0.0.7 user=root > Aug 24 15:01:23 warrior sshd[5711]: pam_ldap: error tr

Re: [BackupPC-users] A little help with SSH

2005-08-24 Thread Mark Cockrell
Les Mikesell wrote: On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 14:27, Mark Cockrell wrote: I have done that repeatedly. I even went so far as to physically copy the id_rsa file from the BackupPC server to the client rename it authorized_keys2. I don't know why it's not able to match them up.

[BackupPC-users] Endless link process?

2005-08-24 Thread Ward... James Ward
Hi, I've been using an Ubuntu server with a 1.75TB USB RAID array to back up ~1TB of data for a few months now, but I seem to have a problem. One of my biggest and most complex systems to back up is a big Apple G5. The link process has been running since 8/22 13:56 and shows no sign of ever fini

Re: [BackupPC-users] A little help with SSH

2005-08-24 Thread mna.news
Le mercredi 24 Août 2005 21:27, Mark Cockrell a écrit : >> [..} > >is, the private /home/backuppc/.ssh/id_rsa didn't go with the > >copy of id_rsa.pub that you should have appended to the > >remote /root/.ssh/authorized_keys2. If you think you did this > >right, I'd start over from scratch and gen

Re: [BackupPC-users] A little help with SSH

2005-08-24 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 14:27, Mark Cockrell wrote: > I have done that repeatedly. I even went so far as to physically > copy the id_rsa file from the BackupPC server to the client rename it > authorized_keys2. I don't know why it's not able to match them up. You want to keep the id_rsa file

Re: [BackupPC-users] A little help with SSH

2005-08-24 Thread Mark Cockrell
Les Mikesell wrote: On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 08:10, Mark Cockrell wrote: debug1: Next authentication method: publickey debug1: Trying private key: /home/backuppc/.ssh/identity debug1: Offering public key: /home/backuppc/.ssh/id_rsa debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,

Re: [BackupPC-users] using cron to schedule backups

2005-08-24 Thread Scott Gamble
> On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 13:56, Scott Gamble wrote: > > Hunh - so the word is be patient and see if it wakes up and does what its > > suppose to? > > Only if you have one of the constraints: too many already running > or backuppc_nightly running. Yeah neither of those things appear to be at iss

Re: [BackupPC-users] using cron to schedule backups

2005-08-24 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 13:56, Scott Gamble wrote: > Hunh - so the word is be patient and see if it wakes up and does what its > suppose to? Only if you have one of the constraints: too many already running or backuppc_nightly running. > I don't see any kind of immediate feedback beyond that oka

Re: [BackupPC-users] using cron to schedule backups

2005-08-24 Thread Scott Gamble
Hunh - so the word is be patient and see if it wakes up and does what its suppose to? I don't see any kind of immediate feedback beyond that okay message. New territory, asking questions you understand. I mean when I hit the GO button I want it to go - thats why the cron script. What command is

Re: [BackupPC-users] using cron to schedule backups

2005-08-24 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 13:21, Scott Gamble wrote: > On a related note, this is what I see when i execute the following > > ark ~ # sudo -u backuppc /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_serverMesg backup > 10.0.0.21 mail backuppc 1 > Got reply: ok: requested backup of mail > > But nothing happens. I a

Re: [BackupPC-users] using cron to schedule backups

2005-08-24 Thread Scott Gamble
Thanks Craig Well that answers my question but begs another - by using BackupPC_serverMesg is there no way to specify that it use the specific .pl file? If not would it be possible to simply run something like this instead? sudo -u backuppc /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_dump -i host1 && sudo

[BackupPC-users] user accounts

2005-08-24 Thread Tomi
is there any way for a backuppc 'normal user' to access the web interface and have only access to their host config site ?? or do I have to manually configure it on the apache server ? many thanx P.D: I´ll appreciate any suggestions/comments on how to do it --

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC Clusters server.

2005-08-24 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 08:43, Olivier LAHAYE wrote: > Your solution is working well and it is similar to my current configuration > (all laptop are syncing their D drive to the home dir of the user that owns > the laptop on a Filer:user work saved). > The problem is that due to multiple instances o

Re: [BackupPC-users] using cron to schedule backups

2005-08-24 Thread Craig Barratt
Scott Gamble writes: > I know this has been touched on repeatedly - and from kinda glossing through > the archives I gather that its not a new idea at all, but is there any > reason why scheduling of backups couldn't be handled exclusively by cron > instead of the backuppc mechanism? The time fun

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC Clusters server.

2005-08-24 Thread Olivier LAHAYE
Your solution is working well and it is similar to my current configuration (all laptop are syncing their D drive to the home dir of the user that owns the laptop on a Filer:user work saved). The problem is that due to multiple instances of the same file on the server, we run out of space (80 la

RE: [BackupPC-users] using cron to schedule backups

2005-08-24 Thread Brown, Wade ASL (GE Healthcare)
Yes, the nightly scripts must run exclusively on the pools (no backup/restore should be running) However, if you execute BackupPC_serverMesg instead of BackupPC_dump, you should be ok. - Wade -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Scott Gamble

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPCd / opened files / wishlist?

2005-08-24 Thread Olivier LAHAYE
> [...] > > - What will be the benefits of this clients compared to rsync/smb or tar > > transfer methods? > > It will be similar to rsync but significantly faster (since it will > be native C code at both ends, and doens't use cygwin on WinXX) and > it will provide a path for ACLs and other met

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC Clusters server.

2005-08-24 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 05:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Second, you didn't say that backing up the clients would annoy the users. > > Now it's an issue? > YES and this is a big YES: Why? because user never want backup (privately or > at work). and there are many reasons for that. Privately, the

Re: [BackupPC-users] A little help with SSH

2005-08-24 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 07:51, Mark Cockrell wrote: > > Did you try passwordless login with the -v option? This should indicate any > > errors. Errors are also logged to a log file, but I don't recall which one. > > > > > Ah, good call. When I do that I get the following error message. Any

Re: [BackupPC-users] A little help with SSH

2005-08-24 Thread Mark Cockrell
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 13:42:45 -0400 From: Marty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] A little help with SSH Mark Cockrell wrote: > Les Mikesell wrote: > >>On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 11:35, Mark Cockrell wrote: >>

[BackupPC-users] Backup aborted(Unable to read 4 bytes)

2005-08-24 Thread dosseh edjé
Hello,  I'm trying to install BackupPC-2.1.1 on Fedora Core 3 with xfer method:rsyncd. When trying to do INSTALL-DIR-/bin/BackupPC_dump -v -f $host i receive: Backup aborted(Unable to read 4 bytes) as error message. Please someone can help me? regards   Appel audio GRATUIT partout dans le monde

Re: [BackupPC-users] Got fatal error during xfer

2005-08-24 Thread Craig Barratt
Tony Del Porto writes: > On Aug 4, 2005, at 7:32 PM, Craig Barratt wrote: > > > Tony Del Porto writes: > > > >> I'm testing BackupPC with a couple of machines and full backups don't > >> complete. The test machines are a Redhad 7.2 machine and an OS 10.3.9 > >> machine. Both are using tar (or xta

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPCd / opened files / wishlist?

2005-08-24 Thread Craig Barratt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I've seen seen on the BackupPC-devel mailing list archive that a new xfer > method is seems currently in development called BackupPCd. > > I have few questions about that: > > - What will be the benefits of this clients compared to rsync/smb or tar > transfer meth

Re: [BackupPC-users] purge single file from all backups

2005-08-24 Thread Craig Barratt
"Kris S. Amundson" writes: > I would like to purge a single file from ever existing on our back > system. How can I do this? If it is a particular path common to all backups, you can manually "mangle" the name (add "f" to the start of each directory and file) and just rm the files. The copy of

Idea for failover [was: Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC Clusters server.]

2005-08-24 Thread lahaye
Les, As I read your answer, I see that the solution I proposed is far from being easily doable (eventhough it look sexy) with the current release of BackupPC. But maybe BackupPC could be enhanced to be able to have a slave. I mean: during the nightly job, new files are identified. For such fil

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC Clusters server.

2005-08-24 Thread lahaye
> First off - calm down. This is a voluntary list. Sorry, maybe you missunderstood me, I'm not upset in anyway and I'm very calm. I'm just trying to propose solutions that could help BackuPC beeing seen as a realy wonderfull solution. As for your comment, please discuss privately before shouting

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC Clusters server.

2005-08-24 Thread Damian O'Hara
Olivier, First off - calm down. This is a voluntary list. Second, you didn't say that backing up the clients would annoy the users. Now it's an issue ? Perhaps the users of those machines who have previously lost data due to a poor (or no) backup regime would be more than happy to be backed up to

Re: [BackupPC-users] using cron to schedule backups

2005-08-24 Thread Scott Gamble
uh, in the event the formatting of my post gets mangled in your mail client, you can view it here. The crontab section is much easier to read when formatted properly. http://blackcannon.org/wiki/index.php/LETTER Thanks again everyone. Please respond to the list and not my email address. Thanks

[BackupPC-users] using cron to schedule backups

2005-08-24 Thread Scott Gamble
I know this has been touched on repeatedly - and from kinda glossing through the archives I gather that its not a new idea at all, but is there any reason why scheduling of backups couldn't be handled exclusively by cron instead of the backuppc mechanism? The time functionality on backuppc seems t