[BackupPC-users] code 5 error?

2008-07-25 Thread Sean Carolan
I'm trying to backup a Windows Vista host running cygwin-rsyncd, but keep getting this error: kurobox:/tmp# rsync -av [EMAIL PROTECTED]::docs . @ERROR: auth failed on module docs rsync error: error starting client-server protocol (code 5) at main.c(1383) [receiver=2.6.9] Anyone know why this mig

Re: [BackupPC-users] Why isn't this being backed up?

2008-07-25 Thread Craig Barratt
James writes: > ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] sudo script_calling_rsync The symptoms are that you are running rsync as a uid other than 0. How are you sure that rsync is uid 0? Or even if rsync is uid 0, are there filesystem mount options that force uid 0 to another uid (eg: nobody)? One thing to chec

Re: [BackupPC-users] Problems with sudo rsync and OpenVZ Containers

2008-07-25 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 2008-07-25 17:03:32 +0200 [[BackupPC-users] Problems with sudo rsync and OpenVZ Containers]: > > Hi all, > > I have problems to make rsync-backups inside of OpenVZ-Containers. > [...] > On the server side, I see the following: > > [...] > Running: /usr/bin/ssh -q

Re: [BackupPC-users] Howto backup BackupPC running on a RAID1 with mdadm for offline-storage

2008-07-25 Thread Les Mikesell
dan wrote: > the problem with zfs snapshots is that you will have to be very careful > about organizing the data. you are taking a snapshot of a live > filesystem but what does it depend on? If I understand the process right, you make a zfs snapshot first, so what you send isn't from a live f

Re: [BackupPC-users] Howto backup BackupPC running on a RAID1 with mdadm for offline-storage

2008-07-25 Thread dan
the problem with zfs snapshots is that you will have to be very careful about organizing the data. you are taking a snapshot of a live filesystem but what does it depend on? and when you send it to the other machine is that dependancy met? what if you miss sending a snapshot? The problem here is

Re: [BackupPC-users] Why isn't this being backed up?

2008-07-25 Thread Ward... James Ward
I sent the config files in a separate e-mail. For linux to linux backups, I'm using: ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] sudo script_calling_rsync Ward... James Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Sysadmin (520) 290-0910x268 ICQ: 201663408 On Jul 25, 2008, at 11:14 AM, Jon Craig wrote: Are you layering rsync

Re: [BackupPC-users] Why isn't this being backed up?

2008-07-25 Thread Jon Craig
Are you layering rsync over ssh? If so the same setting may apply. I've always used rsync in daemon mode because I'm not very concerned with the security within my home network. Did you check your xfer log and see what disposition rsync made for the files in question? The full log gives you a fi

Re: [BackupPC-users] Why isn't this being backed up?

2008-07-25 Thread Ward... James Ward
Sorry, no rsyncd involved. I'm backing up as UID 0 over an ssh connection. Ward... James Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Sysadmin (520) 290-0910x268 ICQ: 201663408 On Jul 24, 2008, at 12:18 PM, Jon Craig wrote: On 7/24/08, Ward... James Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -rwxr-x--- 1 root

Re: [BackupPC-users] Howto backup BackupPC running on a RAID1 with mdadm for offline-storage

2008-07-25 Thread Les Mikesell
dan wrote: > i have tested the send and receive functionality of zfs on openbsd. the > problem is that it sends the entire fileset, block by block. this is > not going to work for remote replication within a reasonable timeframe. You have to do that once, but I thought you could do one snapsho

Re: [BackupPC-users] Howto backup BackupPC running on a RAID1 with mdadm for offline-storage

2008-07-25 Thread dan
i have tested the send and receive functionality of zfs on openbsd. the problem is that it sends the entire fileset, block by block. this is not going to work for remote replication within a reasonable timeframe. rsync is about the only option. i know it does not scale well with file count but

[BackupPC-users] Problems with sudo rsync and OpenVZ Containers

2008-07-25 Thread tech
Hi all, I have problems to make rsync-backups inside of OpenVZ-Containers. I'll try to explain the problem with the following three cases: 1) Direct backups of a host-server as user 'backuppc' and *with* sudo -> ok 2) Backup inside of a VPS as user 'backuppc' *without* sudo -> ok 3) Backup insi

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup linux host

2008-07-25 Thread Kurt Tunkko
fatima ech-charif wrote: > i want to backupp my host (server backuppc) but i can't i have this > problem Hint: Please don't send new emails with a different subjectline regarding the same problem (your mail from yesterday: http://tinyurl.com/6fv6jt) Have you trued the suggestions I made in my

Re: [BackupPC-users] example of configuration file config.pl

2008-07-25 Thread fatima ech-charif
hi i use this configuration but i have this problem : Got fatal error during xfer (inet connect: Connexion refusée) Backup aborted (inet connect: Connexion refusée) thanks 2008/7/24 Jon Craig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 7/24/08, Kurt Tunkko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > You need to install

[BackupPC-users] Backup linux host

2008-07-25 Thread fatima ech-charif
hi i want to backupp my host (server backuppc) but i can't i have this problem i use rsyncd 2008-07-24 17:47:24 Got fatal error during xfer (auth failed on module root) 2008-07-24 17:47:29 Backup aborted (auth failed on module root) 2008-07-24 17:59:49 full backup started for directory / (bas

[BackupPC-users] "BackupPC_compressPool -t" says "Finished with 1423 errors!!!!"

2008-07-25 Thread Martin Leben
Hi, I ran this yesterday: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ time /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_compressPool -t [...] Error: Can't write 2855461 bytes to /var/lib/backuppc/pool/7/1/8/7183089ef8c34f68a56a2cbe5b84fbdf Error: Can't write 2855461 bytes to /var/lib/backuppc/pool/7/1/8/7183089ef8c34f68a56a2cbe5

Re: [BackupPC-users] Authentication and data transfer security: rsyncd vs. samba vs. rsync over SSH

2008-07-25 Thread Tino Schwarze
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 09:31:34AM +0200, Kurt Tunkko wrote: > Questions > = > 1) Regarding security: How does samba compares to rsyncd? The authentication might be better, but AFAIK, packet contents are not encrypted. Looking at the docs of smb.conf, there seems to support for packet enc

[BackupPC-users] Authentication and data transfer security: rsyncd vs. samba vs. rsync over SSH

2008-07-25 Thread Kurt Tunkko
Hello, my first attempt with BackupPC was to try to backup windows clients via rsync over ssh (cygwin) but transfer rates were very slow, so I switched to rsyncd. All clients on the LAN and some laptops connected via VPN are now using rsyncd. Since these clients are all running windows xp/2k

Re: [BackupPC-users] [BackupPC-devel] Ubuntu Upgrade from 3.0.0 to 3.1.0 problem

2008-07-25 Thread Kurt Tunkko
Jon Craig wrote: > Ubuntu 7.04 (aka feisty fawn) > backuppc v2 and v3.0 via apt (v3.0 is in backports) > to install v3.1, first install v3.0 by "apt-get install backuppc" > (from backports), then download the regular install script from > http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ and run it, it will update