Re: [BackupPC-users] Pre-populate backups? Only incremental?

2007-10-01 Thread Toni Van Remortel
Rob Owens wrote: > 1) I've successfully "pre-populated" backups in the following way. > > a) Configure backuppc to backup my host machine (myhost.com) over the > internet. > b) Take my host machine (myhost.com) and physically place it on the same > local network as my BackupPC server. > c) Determi

Re: [BackupPC-users] No stats and information about backups = Files & Compression

2007-10-01 Thread Craig Barratt
Romain writes: > Now Full & Inc backups work correctly. > However, I've got anoter problem because the stats and compression > informations about files of backups are " 0 ". > There isn't information. All the issues you are posting are likely related: it appears no files are backed up. Normally

[BackupPC-users] backup of win clients

2007-10-01 Thread daniel
Hello! sorry for my english...I'm newbie with backuppc. I'm runnning backuppc 3.0 on centos 5.0 server. I need to backup some windows clients but i can't do it. I follow the pattern from backuppc sourceforge.net but i really don't know whare i'm wrong. When i try to connect through ssh from the win

Re: [BackupPC-users] Logwatch rule

2007-10-01 Thread Peter Künnemann
Richard I used $Conf{DumpPostUserCmd} to kick off a script that compiles an email about completion of the dumps. You may want to do some extra digging in the associated log files to pimp up the reports but I don't think that it will be neccessary. Peter Richard Bailey wrote: > Hello, I'd lik

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC backs up self, but not other machines

2007-10-01 Thread John Medway, Rim Semiconductors
Well, both ssh and sudo each work correctly, as it turns out. But I am starting to wonder about the actual rsync command and aruments. I don't know all these switches, and just took this from someone's on-line backuppc example, so I think that's what I need to research next. At 08:01 AM 10/1/2

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC backs up self, but not other machines

2007-10-01 Thread John Medway, Rim Semiconductors
Those each work as expected. At 12:31 AM 10/1/2007, Keith Edmunds wrote: >On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 15:13:47 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > > Ideas? > >Run the ssh command interactively as the backuppc user on your server: > >/usr/bin/ssh -l backuppc $host > >then run 'sudo rsync' with no arguments

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up servers behind a PPPoEo-connection

2007-10-01 Thread Les Mikesell
Peter Carlsson wrote: > Hello! > > I'm using BackupPC version 2.1.2pl1 on a Debian (stable) server to > successfully backup itself as well as two other Debian-machines on > the local network. > > What is the best/easiest way to configure BackupPC to also backup > two other machines (one Debian an

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up servers behind a PPPoEo-connection

2007-10-01 Thread Rich Rauenzahn
Peter Carlsson wrote: > Hello! > > I'm using BackupPC version 2.1.2pl1 on a Debian (stable) server to > successfully backup itself as well as two other Debian-machines on > the local network. > > What is the best/easiest way to configure BackupPC to also backup > two other machines (one Debian a

Re: [BackupPC-users] Pre-populate backups? Only incremental?

2007-10-01 Thread Rob Owens
Rob Owens wrote: > 1) I've successfully "pre-populated" backups in the following way. > > a) Configure backuppc to backup my host machine (myhost.com) over the > internet. > b) Take my host machine (myhost.com) and physically place it on the same > local network as my BackupPC server. > c) Determ

[BackupPC-users] Backing up servers behind a PPPoEo-connection

2007-10-01 Thread Peter Carlsson
Hello! I'm using BackupPC version 2.1.2pl1 on a Debian (stable) server to successfully backup itself as well as two other Debian-machines on the local network. What is the best/easiest way to configure BackupPC to also backup two other machines (one Debian and on Windows XP) that is on another ne

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC backs up self, but not other machines

2007-10-01 Thread Rob Owens
John Medway, Rim Semiconductors wrote: > New install via RPM of version 2.1.2pl2 on Fedora 7. > > Trying to back up /root (just the root acct. homedir as a small test) on > itself, succeeds. Trying to back up /root on another Linux host starts, but > never terminates or produces any data. > >

Re: [BackupPC-users] Pre-populate backups? Only incremental?

2007-10-01 Thread Rob Owens
1) I've successfully "pre-populated" backups in the following way. a) Configure backuppc to backup my host machine (myhost.com) over the internet. b) Take my host machine (myhost.com) and physically place it on the same local network as my BackupPC server. c) Determine the local IP address of the

Re: [BackupPC-users] multiple IP for the same host

2007-10-01 Thread Jack Coats
If you have your own (versus an appliance) DHCP server, you could code the DHCP to resolve both of the same ether addresses to a single IP address. Just make sure to NOT use BOTH at the same time on your laptop. (unless you figure out how to do the old 'shotgun' or bonding kind of network things t

[BackupPC-users] Restore datas

2007-10-01 Thread romain . pichard
Iv' got a problem with the restauration of datas. I can't restore datas which were saved on the BackupPC server (Fedora Core 6 - BackupPC 3.0.0) via the web interface because I see that the folder is empty on the web interface even if the backup was ok (there are several files in the .tar). How

[BackupPC-users] Pre-populate backups? Only incremental?

2007-10-01 Thread Toni Van Remortel
Hi, Two issues we have before using BackupPC are this: 1) Can we pre-populate backups with offsite backup data? 2) Can we set BackupPC to only make incremental backups? The reason for 1) is that we have big remote data servers that need to be backed up over slow lines. So we can take local backu

[BackupPC-users] Restore datas

2007-10-01 Thread romain . pichard
Iv'e got a problem with the web interface if I want to restore datas. I can't access to the files which were saved because it tells me that the folder is empty. Consequently, I can't restore the datas. Thanks for your help in advance. Regards, Romain SC2N -S.A Siège Social : 2, Rue Andre Boul

[BackupPC-users] No stats and information about backups = Files & Compression

2007-10-01 Thread romain . pichard
Now Full & Inc backups work correctly. However, I've got anoter problem because the stats and compression informations about files of backups are " 0 ". There isn't information. Examples : N° Backup TypeNbr Files Mo Mo/s... 1 Full0

[BackupPC-users] (no subject)

2007-10-01 Thread romain . pichard
Hello, I would like to configure the incremental backups correctly and Iv'e got this error message (XferLOG.bad.z) : == Running: /usr/bin/smbclient HOST

Re: [BackupPC-users] Smb // NT_STATUS_NO_SUCH_FILE

2007-10-01 Thread Craig Barratt
Romain writes: > Error of full backups : > > == > Running: /usr/bin/smbclient HOST_NAME\\SHARE_NAME -U USER_NAME -E - N -d > 1 -c tarmode\ full -Tc /PATH_OF_BACKUP/BACKUP_NAME.tar > full backup started f

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC backs up self, but not other machines

2007-10-01 Thread Keith Edmunds
On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 15:13:47 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Ideas? Run the ssh command interactively as the backuppc user on your server: /usr/bin/ssh -l backuppc $host then run 'sudo rsync' with no arguments and check that you get a help screen for rsync. Keith

[BackupPC-users] Smb // NT_STATUS_NO_SUCH_FILE

2007-10-01 Thread romain . pichard
Hello, I'm trying to install & configure BackupPC. I installed samba-3.0.24 from Fedora Core 6 and it doesn't work correctly for incr backups. I've got the message : == 2007-10-01 01:00:02 incr backup starte