Re: [BackupPC-users] converting a backup from inc to full

2008-02-05 Thread Andreas Vögele
dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > One of main main issues is that my business has a month end process that > happens on the last business day of the month, not the last calendar day. > makes it hard to get that full backup without manually firing it off. I > have a fairly convoluted cron script t

Re: [BackupPC-users] Information needed

2008-02-05 Thread dan
that dell perc/2 is really an LSI megaraid. each of those channges will handle 12 drives, 1-6 as drives, 7 for controller, and 8-14 as drives. i do see an issue here and that is that the perc/2 is out of manufacture and you may have trouble finding a replacement if your card fails, which means th

[BackupPC-users] Strange backup failures when updated to new kernel

2008-02-05 Thread Michael Mansour
Hi, Ever since I updated to the latest Linux kernel (Use Scientific Linux 4.5), I get these same backup errors everyday on each of the SL4.5 servers: Xfer PIDs are now 26468,26747 [ skipped 20459 lines ] usr/src/kernels/2.6.9-67.0.1.EL-smp-x86_64/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2100/Makefile: md4 doesn't

[BackupPC-users] Hard links & encryption

2008-02-05 Thread Robin Lee Powell
I've been using my own scripts http://digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/hobbies/backups.html to remotely mirror backuppc's date in an encrypted fashion. The problem is, the time rsync takes seems to keep growing. I expect this to continue more-or-less without bound, and it's already pretty onerous.

Re: [BackupPC-users] (no subject)

2008-02-05 Thread Gilles Guiot
Hello thanks for the reply. Just solved the problem. uninstalled completely backuppc and apache. (remove --purge + rm backuppc) then installed apache2 (just noted it was the installed package when apt-get install apache). Then selected apache2 at the backuppc installation prompt.. et voilà si

Re: [BackupPC-users] Improving security, and user options

2008-02-05 Thread Rich Rauenzahn
There are several secure ways to set up a read-only backup system, but that loses the convenience of browsing and restoring files via the web interface. But, users can still directly download files or tar archives, so it is a reasonable approach, and probably the right thing to do for now. An

Re: [BackupPC-users] Improving security, and user options

2008-02-05 Thread Joe Krahn
Rich Rauenzahn wrote: > > > Joe Krahn wrote: >> (Maybe this should be posted to -devel?) >> Unrestricted remote root access by a non-root user is generally not a >> secure design. There are many ways to restrict the access to backup >> > > This seems like a good chance to explain how I handle

Re: [BackupPC-users] (no subject)

2008-02-05 Thread GerryMc
Being a novice I hesitate to give advice but I had the same problem which I solved by adding a link apache.conf to backuppc.conf as I found on this site: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/BackupPC Then restart apache. Hope that helps GerryMc -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROT

Re: [BackupPC-users] Improving security, and user options

2008-02-05 Thread Rich Rauenzahn
Joe Krahn wrote: > (Maybe this should be posted to -devel?) > Unrestricted remote root access by a non-root user is generally not a > secure design. There are many ways to restrict the access to backup > This seems like a good chance to explain how I handle the rsync security -- I prefer it

[BackupPC-users] Improving security, and user options

2008-02-05 Thread Joe Krahn
(Maybe this should be posted to -devel?) Unrestricted remote root access by a non-root user is generally not a secure design. There are many ways to restrict the access to backup activities, but they can't be enforced if the access includes unrestricted write access. I think that the secure approac

[BackupPC-users] (no subject)

2008-02-05 Thread Gilles Guiot
Hello all, I'm on a server installed with debian testing (iso in date of 2008/02/04) I installed the latest version of backup PC byt apt-get. Everything went fine, like with other installs of backuppc. Only glitch is that i cant 'access the interface http://localhost/backuppc I keep getting a mes

Re: [BackupPC-users] Information needed

2008-02-05 Thread Jonathan Dumaresq
Wow good explanation here. I will try to answer some of the interogation 1- The os I think to use is Ubuntu (gutsy) serveur edition 2- The expansion card that I have is a PERC/II that I think I a raid controller. I have 4 channel on it. I use 3 of them If I understand my raid c

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC Sles 10

2008-02-05 Thread Neil Wilson
Lammersdorf, Lorenz wrote: > good morning, > > i'm not very familiar with suse, i'm more into debian. usually apache2 > creates two directories called "mods-available" and "mods-enabled". depending > on your installation, you'll find there perl.load containing just one line of > code: > > Load