I found the reason and a (for now) quick solution.
The Reason first (from:
http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/tar/NEWS?rev=1.125root=tarview=auto):
GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes.
Please send GNU tar bug reports to bug-tar@gnu.org
version 1.16 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2006-10-21
* After
The XP machine is messed up. It is XP pro but I do not have a Folder
Options in my control panel or in Windows Explorer in order to turn off
simple file sharing. I confirmed that the current user was a member of the
Administrator group. What I did is go in and create a new Admin user and
that new
Can anyone help me with this error. Installed on Fedora Core 5 using yum.
[Tue Dec 05 08:07:40 2006] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] (13)Permission
denied: Could not open password file: /etc/BackupPC/apache.users
[Tue Dec 05 08:07:40 2006] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] access to
/BackupPC failed, reason:
Ahhh, that would make sense (I guess as still learning Linux). I installed
Debian on one smallish sized drive using ext3, tested backupPC, decided to
go further but needed to add additional drive space. In doing so I ran
across a couple comments somewhere about using ReiserFS instead of ext2
I have a Win2k box running the rsyncd package. It is over an 802.11g
link (about 1MB/s throughput when copying via windows shares manually,
but over rsync it's getting closer to 350k). Thus it takes about 40 or
so hours to backup the system. I've taken to excluding tons of stuff
just to get
Eric writes:
I did notice that there was no compression of files even though
compression was set to default 3. This may be a misunderstanding
on my part of how BackupPC works (maybe compression only works
using tar or rsync, I don't know).
If you haven't installed Compress::Zlib then
Mac writes:
Ahhh, that would make sense (I guess as still learning Linux). I installed
Debian on one smallish sized drive using ext3, tested backupPC, decided to
go further but needed to add additional drive space. In doing so I ran
across a couple comments somewhere about using ReiserFS
