Re: [BackupPC-users] Unable to link to

2006-01-20 Thread Craig Barratt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I recently reinstalled BackupPC on a new backup server, and it's running > well (backing up over 1 TB of data daily/weekly). That is, except for some > errors for one of the backed up client partitions. Here is an extract of > the XferLOG (things in angle brackets are m

Re: [BackupPC-users] cgi-bin error cannot find lib

2006-01-20 Thread Craig Barratt
Andrew Rice writes: > Ok anyone else come across this error when trying to run the cgi-bin script > from the webpage? > > Software error: > > Can't locate BackupPC/Lib.pm in @INC (@INC contains: > /home/backuppc/install/lib > /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5 I

Re: [BackupPC-users] Active Directory integration

2006-01-20 Thread Olumuyiwa Taiwo
Hi Justin, Because of the line in smb.conf that says winbind use default domain = yes your users can log in with just their user names. This works for me, and I'm surprised it doesn't seem to work for you. Just to be sure, check that the line is present in smb.conf. It seems t

Re: [BackupPC-users] I get the error "Only privileged users can...''

2006-01-20 Thread Olumuyiwa Taiwo
Hello Justin, 1. An ADS domain group is fine. You don't need local Linux groups, so revert to $Conf{CgiAdminUserGroup} = 'backuppcadmins'; in your config.pl file, but note that you have a space in your own setting, which shouldn't be there. 2. I was tempted to say that you hadn't i

Re: [BackupPC-users] Q: Offsite copy-backup to removable SATA HotSwap LVM Sets?

2006-01-20 Thread Dan Pritts
On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 04:49:50PM -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > Even a normal rsync transfer of anything with changes builds > a new copy of the file and replaces the old only when the > new temp copy is complete. Hmmm... I guess that means the > partition image scheme needs disk space for a 2nd

[BackupPC-users] Unable to link to

2006-01-20 Thread Bernardo . Rechea
Hi, all, I recently reinstalled BackupPC on a new backup server, and it's running well (backing up over 1 TB of data daily/weekly). That is, except for some errors for one of the backed up client partitions. Here is an extract of the XferLOG (things in angle brackets are my own munging; the f<1>/

Re: [BackupPC-users] Q: Offsite copy-backup to removable SATA HotSwap LVM Sets?

2006-01-20 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 16:44, Dan Pritts wrote: > On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 03:53:33PM -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > > > > I'd expect to see quite a lot of temp file activity that would > > result in changes to unused space on the live system. It would > > Yeah, you're right - i think of this as all

Re: [BackupPC-users] Q: Offsite copy-backup to removable SATA HotSwap LVM Sets?

2006-01-20 Thread Dan Pritts
On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 03:53:33PM -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > > I'd expect to see quite a lot of temp file activity that would > result in changes to unused space on the live system. It would Yeah, you're right - i think of this as all being rsync based but it sort of is and sort of isn't. Fi

Re: [BackupPC-users] Multiple different shares on different Win workstations

2006-01-20 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 14:44, Raf wrote: > I've long searched in the docs and mailing-list's > archive but I haven't found a way to backup > multiple different source on different Win machines > without using rsync. > Is there a way to backup a similar scenery: > stationA shareA,shareB > stationB s

Re: [BackupPC-users] Q: Offsite copy-backup to removable SATA HotSwap LVM Sets?

2006-01-20 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 15:12, Dan Pritts wrote: > > You'd probably want to fill > > all the empty space with nulls every time too, so you don't > > transfer all the changes where files have been deleted. > > Wouldn't matter except on the first transfer, since on the target > would have the same j

Re: [BackupPC-users] Q: Offsite copy-backup to removable SATA HotSwap LVM Sets?

2006-01-20 Thread Dan Pritts
> On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 03:03:00PM -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > > I think the same idea occurred to me a while back but rsync > > refused to use a device directly. > > Annoying. Could be patched in rsync, though. I bet that > Wayne would consider an option to do this. ...coincidentally, se

Re: [BackupPC-users] Q: Offsite copy-backup to removable SATA HotSwap LVM Sets?

2006-01-20 Thread Dan Pritts
On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 03:03:00PM -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > I think the same idea occurred to me a while back but rsync > refused to use a device directly. Annoying. Could be patched in rsync, though. I bet that Wayne would consider an option to do this. > You'd probably want to fill > al

Re: [BackupPC-users] Q: Offsite copy-backup to removable SATA HotSwap LVM Sets?

2006-01-20 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 14:22, Dan Pritts wrote: > > The number of hardlinks makes rsync (or other file-oriented) copies > > impractical if the archive is large at all, > > It occurs to me that you could, rather than rsyncing at the filesystem, > rsync the raw device that holds the filesystem. Th

[BackupPC-users] Multiple different shares on different Win workstations

2006-01-20 Thread Raf
Kind list members. I've long searched in the docs and mailing-list's archive but I haven't found a way to backup multiple different source on different Win machines without using rsync. Is there a way to backup a similar scenery: stationA shareA,shareB stationB shareC,shareA stationC shareB,share

Re: [BackupPC-users] Q: Offsite copy-backup to removable SATA HotSwap LVM Sets?

2006-01-20 Thread Dan Pritts
On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 02:10:12PM -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > The number of hardlinks makes rsync (or other file-oriented) copies > impractical if the archive is large at all, It occurs to me that you could, rather than rsyncing at the filesystem, rsync the raw device that holds the filesystem.

Re: [BackupPC-users] cgi-bin error

2006-01-20 Thread Dan Pritts
On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 09:12:53AM -0600, Andrew Rice wrote: > I am able to run the script on the server as the user backuppc and it appears > to run just fine but I cannot run it > from the web anywhere...any ideas? > look at your web server logs. danno --

Re: [BackupPC-users] Exclude folders question

2006-01-20 Thread Dan Pritts
On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 01:58:34PM +0100, Lars Tobias Børsting wrote: > Hi, > > I've been using BackupPC for a month now, and I like it very much! Same here. Great piece of software, kudos. > 1. Is it possible to use regexps for the $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} >variable? I'm pretty sure tha

Re: [BackupPC-users] Q: Offsite copy-backup to removable SATA HotSwap LVM Sets?

2006-01-20 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 13:54, Dan Pritts wrote: > > > > I don't think it will be practical to let one backuppc system > > back up another, although I've always wished it could for > > a similar scenario where the 'sub' levels are in remote > > offices. I think it could be made to work but would r

Re: [BackupPC-users] Q: Offsite copy-backup to removable SATA HotSwap LVM Sets?

2006-01-20 Thread Dan Pritts
On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 11:37:14AM -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > > I don't think it will be practical to let one backuppc system > back up another, although I've always wished it could for > a similar scenario where the 'sub' levels are in remote > offices. I think it could be made to work but wo

Re: [BackupPC-users] Q: Offsite copy-backup to removable SATA HotSwap LVM Sets?

2006-01-20 Thread Dan Pritts
On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 02:28:09PM -0500, Tim Chipman wrote: > > Additionally, I suppose - based on how quick the data pool evolves, rsync > could be used to update the (rotating disk pool raid5 data) which might > be faster than doing (reformat and clean copy) each week. Or maybe not. given the

[BackupPC-users] Failing Backups

2006-01-20 Thread Tony Nelson
Hi All, I'm running BackupPC-2.1.2 quite successfully on my network. Over the past couple of days something very odd has happened backing up Lotus Notes mail files on one particular server. Looking at the transfer log I find: [snip] create 644 400/401 163053568 mail/cbotwin.nsf create

Re: [BackupPC-users] Q: Offsite copy-backup to removable SATA HotSwap LVM Sets?

2006-01-20 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 08:07, Justin R. Pessa wrote: > No problem! Like you, I spent a while trying to wrap my head around the > way I was running BackupPC, to make certain it was a realistic > procedure. I'm glad to see others have come to use similar methods! If you browse through the list arch

[BackupPC-users] cgi-bin error

2006-01-20 Thread Andrew Rice
I am able to run the script on the server as the user backuppc and it appears to run just fine but I cannot run it from the web anywhere...any ideas? -- Andrew Rice Jr Systems Analyst Carrier Management Systems, Inc. 500 Chestnut Street, Suite 500 Abilene, TX 79602 USA support: (325) 672-0975

[BackupPC-users] cgi-bin error cannot find lib

2006-01-20 Thread Andrew Rice
Ok anyone else come across this error when trying to run the cgi-bin script from the webpage? Software error: Can't locate BackupPC/Lib.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /home/backuppc/install/lib /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/i386-linu

Re: [BackupPC-users] Can't start Backuppc

2006-01-20 Thread Craig Barratt
Jamie Myers writes: > Was hoping someone might be able to help me with this. I have had Backuppc > running for a while, but after being away for a week, I can back to find it > overloading the cpu so I restarted the box... Now I get : > > /etc/rc.d/init.d/backuppc start .. > > Starting BackupPC:

Re: [BackupPC-users] Can't start Backuppc

2006-01-20 Thread Justin R. Pessa
Is this a Gentoo box? I've had a similar issue once on my machine. See who the owner is for /backup and see what /etc/conf.d/backuppc says for owner. Maybe an emerge world busted the permissions. Likely a bug in the ebuild perhaps? - j Justin R. Pessa - BOFH Brontes Technologies 400 West C

Re: [BackupPC-users] Q: Offsite copy-backup to removable SATA HotSwap LVM Sets?

2006-01-20 Thread Justin R. Pessa
Tim, No problem! Like you, I spent a while trying to wrap my head around the way I was running BackupPC, to make certain it was a realistic procedure. I'm glad to see others have come to use similar methods! For the future I plan on implementing your method of disk rotations, with the second

Re: [BackupPC-users] Can't start Backuppc

2006-01-20 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 06:21, Jamie Myers wrote: > Hey everyone... > > Was hoping someone might be able to help me with this. I have had > Backuppc running for a while, but after being away for a week, I can > back to find it overloading the cpu so I restarted the box... Now I > get : > > /etc/rc.

[BackupPC-users] Exclude folders question

2006-01-20 Thread Lars Tobias Børsting
Hi, I've been using BackupPC for a month now, and I like it very much! I have two questions: 1. Is it possible to use regexps for the $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} variable? The goal is to be able to exclude ay users TemporaryInternetFiles and mozilla-cache and any other cache that I can id

[BackupPC-users] Can't start Backuppc

2006-01-20 Thread Jamie Myers
Title: Can't start Backuppc Hey everyone... Was hoping someone might be able to help me with this. I have had Backuppc running for a while, but after being away for a week, I can back to find it overloading the cpu so I restarted the box... Now I get : /etc/rc.d/init.d/backuppc start .. Start

[BackupPC-users] rsyncd 2.6.6 + backupPC 2.1.2

2006-01-20 Thread Celine Laperne
hello, I get in trouble when using the following items: - on the backup server : BackupPC 2.1.2, using its own rsync perl module - on the box being backed up : rsync 2.6.6 , runing as a daemon (rsyncd) the module to be backed up is a rather big area : ~120 Gb the rsyncd daemon is configured wit

Re: [BackupPC-users] I get the error "Only privileged users can...''

2006-01-20 Thread Craig Barratt
"Justin Best" writes: > First, my congratulations to Craig for creating a truly useful and unique > piece of software. I am very impressed. You sure know how to get your questions answered :). The problem is that the regexp that matches CgiAdminUsers isn't robust to special characters in the str