[BackupPC-users] Strane errors with smb

2006-06-10 Thread Michael Zehrer
Hi all, I'm doing a smb type backup and I recieve tons of errors like this in the Xfer.log: tarExtract: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tarExtract: >i/rd3s452C[&2l0['E$].;OW/U+g'\D->U^YA4aePeMD05\8`hEODp#=BE_*lYnJ tarExtract: VQ;N*A@&/IBG,ZKBJpbJMI@6/8."[EMAIL PROTECTED](`3_(;J-]BD] tarExtract: f%C[m,gse&d`t*h

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC on a non-24x7 server

2006-06-10 Thread Wolfgang Karall
On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 22:51 -0700, Craig Barratt wrote: > The problem is that BackupPC_nightly generates output that > the server parses so it can update the stats. If you run > it manually then the server doesn't get to update the results. > The CGI script asks the server the current stats, whic

Re: [BackupPC-users] Strane errors with smb

2006-06-10 Thread Craig Barratt
Michael Zehrer writes: > I'm doing a smb type backup and I recieve tons of errors like this in > the Xfer.log: > > tarExtract: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > tarExtract: >i/rd3s452C[&2l0['E$].;OW/U+g'\D->U^YA4aePeMD05\8`hEODp#=BE_*lYnJ > tarExtract: VQ;N*A@&/IBG,ZKBJpbJMI tarExtract: Y?JQK'T]G>@6/8."[EMAIL

[BackupPC-users] Seteuid

2006-06-10 Thread Randall Barlow
Hi, I'm a new user to BackupPC and so am also new to the mailing list. Sorry, but I will probably be having quite a few "newbie" questions over the next few days as I try to get this thing working properly. My current problem seems to be a seteuid problem. If I go to the web interface, I get

[BackupPC-users] Backup Failed

2006-06-10 Thread Randall Barlow
I've got a host called lappy786, and it is a windows machine with the cygwin version of sshd. I'm getting the following errors: 2006-06-10 11:00:19 lappy786 is dhcp 10.20.34.117, user is 2006-06-10 11:00:19 full backup started for directory /home 2006-06-10 11:00:21 Got fatal error during xfer (

Re: [BackupPC-users] Seteuid

2006-06-10 Thread Les Mikesell
On Sat, 2006-06-10 at 09:42, Randall Barlow wrote: > Hi, I'm a new user to BackupPC and so am also new to the mailing list. > Sorry, but I will probably be having quite a few "newbie" questions over > the next few days as I try to get this thing working properly. My > current problem seems to

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup Failed

2006-06-10 Thread Les Mikesell
On Sat, 2006-06-10 at 10:13, Randall Barlow wrote: > I've got a host called lappy786, and it is a windows machine with the > cygwin version of sshd. I'm getting the following errors: > > 2006-06-10 11:00:19 lappy786 is dhcp 10.20.34.117, user is > 2006-06-10 11:00:19 full backup started for dire

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup Failed

2006-06-10 Thread nilesh vaghela
We are running successfully cygwin sshd and rsync on winxp / win2000 and win 98 too. It had given excellent result. you need to create proper ssh key authentication for backuppc. try to create administrator user in windows pc and add ssh key base authentication between windows and linux backup s

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup Failed

2006-06-10 Thread Randall Barlow
Les Mikesell wrote: > It may have been fixed recently but it has been a long-standing > bug in cygwin that rsync under sshd would start up, then stall > after transferring some small but random amount of data. > Actually, now that I think about it I always had run rsync from the windows machine

[BackupPC-users] [Fwd: Re: Seteuid]

2006-06-10 Thread Randall Barlow
Sorry, I sent this to Les, and not to the list! --- Begin Message --- Les Mikesell wrote: It isn't or you wouldn't have that error. Is everything installed from a packaged distribution or did you build your own perl? You could su -s /bin/bash apache then try to execute /var/www/cgi-bin/Backu

Re: [BackupPC-users] [Fwd: Re: Seteuid]

2006-06-10 Thread Les Mikesell
On Sat, 2006-06-10 at 12:24, Randall Barlow wrote: > Can't do seteuid! > > This is a packaged distro (rPath Linux), so I didn't build perl. So is > there a way to get it to use suidperl? I can't help much with that distro. On fedora you would yum install perl-suidperl I use Centos, which also

[BackupPC-users] Hooray for BackupPC!

2006-06-10 Thread Randall Barlow
Just wanted to write back and say thanks for all the help today! I have the system working backing up two PCs, and it seems to work great! I ended up running backuppc as the apache user to get past the user problem, and then I used the smb protocol for the windows machine. So we have working

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup Failed

2006-06-10 Thread Les Mikesell
On Sat, 2006-06-10 at 11:09, nilesh vaghela wrote: > We are running successfully cygwin sshd and rsync on winxp / win2000 > and win 98 too. > > It had given excellent result. Are you using a normal install from www.cygwin.com or a modified package? I just did an update to mine and it still stall