Re: [BackupPC-users] Almost working

2008-10-13 Thread Rob Owens
Kenneth L. Owen wrote: > On this path, my next step is to set up ssh-keys for BackupPC. > Remember, that I am a novice in Linux. I have instructions for creating > the keys but find a discrepancy between the instructions (written for > Debian) and the Fedora setup. When creating keys on the arch

Re: [BackupPC-users] Compression during Xfer

2008-10-13 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 10/10 11:54 , Sebastien Sans wrote: > The compression system of the pool in BackupPc is great, it save a lot > of place, but I didn't found how to compress the tranfers in order to > save my bandwidth. Use compression in your ssh transport. Here's an example I typically use: $Conf{RsyncClientC

Re: [BackupPC-users] Compression during Xfer

2008-10-13 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom schrieb: > On 10/10 11:54 , Sebastien Sans wrote: >> The compression system of the pool in BackupPc is great, it save a lot >> of place, but I didn't found how to compress the tranfers in order to >> save my bandwidth. > > Use compression in your ssh transport. > Here's an

Re: [BackupPC-users] Compression during Xfer

2008-10-13 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 10/13 02:56 , Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: > > $Conf{RsyncClientCmd} = '$sshPath -C -o CompressionLevel=9 -c blowfish-cbc > > -q -x -l rsyncbakup $host $rsyncPath $argList+'; > > Unless you're using an obsoleted SSH protocol in version 1, setting > CompressionLevel does not make any sense - SSH

Re: [BackupPC-users] Almost working

2008-10-13 Thread Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)
Adam Goryachev wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# su backuppc >> bash-3.2$<== This doesn't look as expected > > Actually, yes, this is the default prompt, which is usually modified > in > your ~/.bashrc or ~/.bash_profile files, but the backuppc user doesn't > have/use these files

Re: [BackupPC-users] Almost working

2008-10-13 Thread Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)
Stephen Vaughan wrote: > Why use Fedora at all?? Debian is your friend If you're used to the Fedora way (a.k.a. Red Hat way) of things and want a distribution with a long lifecycle then I'd say CentOS (or RHEL if you need paid support) is a better choice than Debian. Debian is a fine distri

[BackupPC-users] Feature Request - longer path name support

2008-10-13 Thread Ski Kacoroski
Hi, Running Backuppc 2.1.2 on a debian linux server and backing up a linux machine, I ran into a problem backing up a file where the entire path length was 318 characters. Once I shrunk the path length it worked perfectly. Has this been fixed in version 3.1? If not, could you add this to th

Re: [BackupPC-users] Almost working

2008-10-13 Thread Michael Mansour
Hi, > Why use Fedora at all?? Debian is your friend So are so many other Linux distributions... one of the best things about Linux is the range available. I personally use Scientific Linux on all my servers (and clients servers) and have been for many years. If it's good enough for the Large Hed

Re: [BackupPC-users] Almost working

2008-10-13 Thread royden yates
On Sat, 2008-10-11 at 13:10 +0200, Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) wrote: > Kenneth L. Owen wrote: > > > For a number of years I have run a small home network of windows > > machines. I recently decided to move my computing to Linux. I now > > have two machines running Fedora 8. The first machine

Re: [BackupPC-users] Almost working

2008-10-13 Thread Kenneth L. Owen
With the feedback and help with command line, I was able to create the rsa keys (Thanks Nils). When I finished creating the keys, I ran the test given in the instructions: [EMAIL PROTECTED] .ssh]# su -s /bin/bash - backuppc -bash-3.2$ chmod -R go-rwx ~/.ssh -bash-3.2$ ssh -l root 192.168.1.101 w

Re: [BackupPC-users] Almost working

2008-10-13 Thread Kenneth L. Owen
Maybe I did not make the path clear. I am moving away from Windows. I already have a system to maintain the Windows system and am trying to set up a means to have disaster recovery as I transition to Linux. I will only be archiving files from Linux boxes. -- ken -Original Message- From

Re: [BackupPC-users] Almost working

2008-10-13 Thread Adam Goryachev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kenneth L. Owen wrote: > With the feedback and help with command line, I was able to create the rsa > keys (Thanks Nils). When I finished creating the keys, I ran the test given > in the instructions: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] .ssh]# su -s /bin/bash - ba

Re: [BackupPC-users] Almost working

2008-10-13 Thread Adam Goryachev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kenneth L. Owen wrote: > With the feedback and help with command line, I was able to create the rsa > keys (Thanks Nils). When I finished creating the keys, I ran the test given > in the instructions: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] .ssh]# su -s /bin/bash - ba

Re: [BackupPC-users] Almost working

2008-10-13 Thread Kenneth L. Owen
If I understand you correctly: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ su - Password: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# su -s /bin/bash - backuppc -bash-3.2$ ssh -l root WinServer whoami root -bash-3.2$ It works this way, too. -- ken (note: names have been changed to protect confidentiality.) -Original Message- F

[BackupPC-users] Feature Request: Link to latest Full

2008-10-13 Thread Yazz D. Atlas
How difficult would it be to have BackupPC create a link to the last Full backup. The reason this would be handy to me is I'm required to backup to tape to a system I don't have much control over. I just want to tell the backup service a simple directorie to grab. I would like to be able to tell th

Re: [BackupPC-users] Almost working

2008-10-13 Thread royden yates
On Mon, 2008-10-13 at 20:01 -0400, Kenneth L. Owen wrote: > If I understand you correctly: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ su - > Password: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# su -s /bin/bash - backuppc > -bash-3.2$ ssh -l root WinServer whoami > root > -bash-3.2$ > > It works this way, too. -- ken > > (note:

Re: [BackupPC-users] Feature Request: Link to latest Full

2008-10-13 Thread Adam Goryachev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Yazz D. Atlas wrote: > How difficult would it be to have BackupPC create a link to the last > Full backup. The reason this would be handy to me is I'm required to > backup to tape to a system I don't have much control over. I just want > to tell the ba

Re: [BackupPC-users] Almost working

2008-10-13 Thread Kenneth L. Owen
Mr. Yates, Since Fedora 8 had BackupPC included in the distribution, user backuppc was already in existence and set for no logon. As root the su -s line changes the user to 'backuppc'. The test below is run as backuppc user on the archive machine establishing a connection to the client machine an

Re: [BackupPC-users] Almost working

2008-10-13 Thread Adam Goryachev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kenneth L. Owen wrote: > Mr. Yates, > Since Fedora 8 had BackupPC included in the distribution, user backuppc was > already in existence and set for no logon. As root the su -s line changes > the user to 'backuppc'. The test below is run as backuppc

Re: [BackupPC-users] Almost working

2008-10-13 Thread Kenneth L. Owen
Sorry, I missed the command line in the first message. The client machine name is mixed case of the form 'HOSTname'. I believe that I read in the documentation that it should be all lower case. I know it works in lower case when logging in via ssh. The shares that I want to backup are in all CA

Re: [BackupPC-users] Almost working

2008-10-13 Thread Adam Goryachev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kenneth L. Owen wrote: > Sorry, I missed the command line in the first message. The client machine > name is mixed case of the form 'HOSTname'. I believe that I read in the > documentation that it should be all lower case. I know it works in lower >