[BackupPC-users] Stop emailing

2007-05-07 Thread Kris Jordan
Since it doesn't seem to be documented, what's the proper way to prevent email from being sent for a certain host? I have a host that I disabled backups for using $Conf{BackupsDisable}, but it continues to send email saying that there have been no recent backups for that host every few days. I'

Re: [BackupPC-users] Finding hosts on a new install

2007-05-07 Thread Allen Stowe
Rob Munsch wrote: > Hello list, > > I've inherited a messy WinXX environment in a place with a few > linux servers, and am trying to get backuppc going as a solution. > They are currently without any kind of backup plan at all (ouch!). We > hope backuppc can prevent a lot of nightmares. >

Re: [BackupPC-users] Rebuilding backups file

2007-05-07 Thread Rodrigo Real
Rodrigo Real <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hi guys I am writing just to give some feedback. I upgraded my system to etch (debian current stable version), and upgraded the backuppc package to 3.0.0-2, which is a packaged version of backuppc for debian unstable. Everything is going fine, I reconst

Re: [BackupPC-users] Finding hosts on a new install

2007-05-07 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 05/07 07:31 , Rob Munsch wrote: >I'm reading about the hosts file, adding hosts, and nmblookup and >getting a sinking feeling... I have over 100 PCs here with various >manufacturer-default names (HP1337ROFL etc) and no naming scheme >whatsoever. Can i get away with a >From

[BackupPC-users] Finding hosts on a new install

2007-05-07 Thread Rob Munsch
Hello list,       I've inherited a messy WinXX environment in a place with a few linux servers, and am trying to get backuppc going as a solution.  They are currently without any kind of backup plan at all (ouch!).  We hope backuppc can prevent a lot of nightmares.       I'm reading about th

Re: [BackupPC-users] Problems backing up client, input appreciated

2007-05-07 Thread Les Mikesell
James Kyle wrote: > Version: Backuppc 3.0 > System: OSX Client > Log Level: 9 > Time Out: Set to a very large number, like 72000 > > The logs appear to go normally until it hits the following file: > .arneekstrom/arneekstrom.sparseimage: > > > > It sticks on this file for hours re

[BackupPC-users] Problems backing up client, input appreciated

2007-05-07 Thread James Kyle
Version: Backuppc 3.0 System: OSX Client Log Level: 9 Time Out: Set to a very large number, like 72000 The logs appear to go normally until it hits the following file: .arneekstrom/arneekstrom.sparseimage: It sticks on this file for hours repeating the same entry in the logs o

Re: [BackupPC-users] Tar Backup aborts (Connection Timed out)

2007-05-07 Thread Les Mikesell
Simon Köstlin wrote: >> > The network should be ok. FTP transfer has also good speed. I ran the > following command on the backuppc Server in a Shell: > /usr/bin/ssh -q -x -n -p 14377 -l backuppc -i /home/backuppc/.ssh/id_dsa > 192.168.10.201 nice -n 19 env LC_ALL=C sudo /bin/tar -c -v -f - -C /hom

[BackupPC-users] Allow web access to clients to make backups?

2007-05-07 Thread B Wooster
Still struggling to get permissions and usernames sorted out, so hoping someone already using BackupPC can help out. Is this tool appropriate to build a private "remote-backup" service that can be offered to friends and family? So, on my Linux server, I would like to run BackupPC server. Then, w

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC and OS X

2007-05-07 Thread Ski Kacoroski
On Wed, 2 May 2007 11:08:01 -0400 Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On May 2, 2007, at 9:02 AM, Holger Parplies wrote: > > > resource forks. You know more about Macs than I do (what they look > > like, for > > instance ;-). The list archives know even more. > I have not yet tried tar on 10.

Re: [BackupPC-users] SSH Tunnel HOWTO for BackupPC

2007-05-07 Thread Johan Ehnberg
Johan Ehnberg wrote: > Dear BackupPC users and developers, > > I have created a short HOWTO for BackupPC on using SSH tunnels > automatically with each job. This is the first version, but it should be > complete. > > The HTML version of the document can be found on: > http://www.ehnberg.net/joh

Re: [BackupPC-users] Tar Backup aborts (Connection Timed out)

2007-05-07 Thread Simon Köstlin
> Simon Köstlin wrote: > >>> It does not look like a tar problem but rather like one of the >>> underlying >>> network. What does the network topology look like? Is there a firewall >>> between BackupPC server and client host? A DSL link (that gets >>> disconnected >>> once every 24 hours by your p

Re: [BackupPC-users] Tar Backup aborts (Connection Timed out)

2007-05-07 Thread Simon Köstlin
> If you are using DHCP instead of static IP addressing, it might be > that the connections are getting lost when the IP address comes for > lease renewal from the DHCP server. This might > result in a loss of network connection depending on the time it takes > for the IP address to get renewed? >