Re: [BackupPC-users] CentOS 4.7 suid fails repeatedly with BackupPC

2008-12-12 Thread Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)
Les Mikesell wrote: >> [r...@telephony conf.d]# cat /etc/selinux/config >> # This file controls the state of SELinux on the system. >> # SELINUX= can take one of these three values: >> # enforcing - SELinux security policy is enforced. >> # permissive - SELinux prints warnings instead

Re: [BackupPC-users] CentOS 4.7 suid fails repeatedly with BackupPC

2008-12-12 Thread Jim McNamara
> > > Is that a cut/paste error or do you actually have targeted uncommented? > By the way, it takes a reboot to make a change take effect. > > -- >Les Mikesell >lesmikes...@gmail.com > > That wasn't a cut/paste error, targeted came up uncommented from the get go. I went through the instal

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc on the same (server) system?

2008-12-12 Thread dan
I make the assumption that the hardware is commodity level. The benefits in cost and performance of commodity hardware cant be overlooked but because commodity hardware typically lacks redundant power supplies and uses consumer level hard disks it is more prone to failure. To combat this you woul

Re: [BackupPC-users] Feature or bug? Full backup (mis)numbered as level 1

2008-12-12 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote at about 13:26:47 -0500 on Friday, December 12, 2008: > I did the first backup on a new machine but aborted it part way > through because I had the excludes wrong. It was recorded as a partial > level 0 backup. > > I then ran BackupPC_dump from the command line using

[BackupPC-users] Fully automated script for creating shadow copies and launching rsyncd

2008-12-12 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
The enclosed script (and a 1-line cmd.exe helper) cleanly and automatically sets up shadow copies, mounts them, and launches the rsync daemon without requiring any special configuration or changes to your existing (non-shadow) rsyncd.conf script. It also cleanly unwinds all the above when you are d

Re: [BackupPC-users] Feature or bug? Full backup (mis)numbered as level 1

2008-12-12 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote at about 13:26:47 -0500 on Friday, December 12, 2008: > I did the first backup on a new machine but aborted it part way > through because I had the excludes wrong. It was recorded as a partial > level 0 backup. > > I then ran BackupPC_dump from the command line using

Re: [BackupPC-users] CentOS 4.7 suid fails repeatedly with BackupPC

2008-12-12 Thread Les Mikesell
Jim McNamara wrote: > On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 12:10 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > >> Jim McNamara wrote: >>> Hello all! I'm normally a Debian guy, but for a project I'm forced to use >>> CentOS 4.7. I installed BackupPC 3.1.0 from source. I'm trying to get >>> BackupPC running on that box, and I cann

Re: [BackupPC-users] Feature or bug? Full backup (mis)numbered as level 1

2008-12-12 Thread Mark Adams
Just wanted to post up a "me too!" I started to hand-edit the file just to make it read correctly, but it may not be such a big deal. Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: > I did the first backup on a new machine but aborted it part way > through because I had the excludes wrong. It was recorded as a par

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up the backup to an external USB drive

2008-12-12 Thread Rich Rauenzahn
> Yesterday I read a little about the LVM snapshot, I didn't know that LVM > had this feature. When I read that suggestion I thought that snapshot > was a sort of dd. By now I am running a dd on the snapshot, I opened > some space on the lvm by reducing the root size and created the snapshot. >

[BackupPC-users] Feature or bug? Full backup (mis)numbered as level 1

2008-12-12 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
I did the first backup on a new machine but aborted it part way through because I had the excludes wrong. It was recorded as a partial level 0 backup. I then ran BackupPC_dump from the command line using '-i' (incremental) which completed without errors The partial backup was (appropriately) repla

Re: [BackupPC-users] Exclude complexity in version 2.1.2pl1

2008-12-12 Thread John Rouillard
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 07:51:57PM -0500, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: > John Rouillard wrote at about 17:48:02 + on Thursday, December 11, 2008: > > On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 12:14:48AM -0800, Craig Barratt wrote: > > > James writes: > > > > > > > I have the following config line: > > > > >

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up the backup to an external USB drive

2008-12-12 Thread Rodrigo Real
Hi Les Mikesell wrote: > Rodrigo Real wrote: > The only problem I see is that I don't have disk space to make a > snapshot and after it to dd the file to the usb disk, I never used this > snapshot feature, I will see if I can redirect the file as a pipe > directly to the usb drive

Re: [BackupPC-users] CentOS 4.7 suid fails repeatedly with BackupPC

2008-12-12 Thread Jim McNamara
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 12:10 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > Jim McNamara wrote: > > Hello all! I'm normally a Debian guy, but for a project I'm forced to use > > CentOS 4.7. I installed BackupPC 3.1.0 from source. I'm trying to get > > BackupPC running on that box, and I cannot seem to get BackupPC_A

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up the backup to an external USB drive

2008-12-12 Thread Rodrigo Real
Adam Goryachev wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Rodrigo Real wrote: >> Hello Adam >> >> Adam Goryachev wrote: >>> Step 1) Use LVM's snapshot feature to take a snapshot of your root and >>> backuppc partitions. >>> Step 2) dd the snapshot to the two partitions on your US

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up the backup to an external USB drive

2008-12-12 Thread Les Mikesell
Rodrigo Real wrote: The only problem I see is that I don't have disk space to make a snapshot and after it to dd the file to the usb disk, I never used this snapshot feature, I will see if I can redirect the file as a pipe directly to the usb drive. >>> You could always reduce y

Re: [BackupPC-users] CentOS 4.7 suid fails repeatedly with BackupPC

2008-12-12 Thread Les Mikesell
Jim McNamara wrote: > Hello all! I'm normally a Debian guy, but for a project I'm forced to use > CentOS 4.7. I installed BackupPC 3.1.0 from source. I'm trying to get > BackupPC running on that box, and I cannot seem to get BackupPC_Admin (or > the testsuid script found here - > http://backuppc.so

[BackupPC-users] CentOS 4.7 suid fails repeatedly with BackupPC

2008-12-12 Thread Jim McNamara
Hello all! I'm normally a Debian guy, but for a project I'm forced to use CentOS 4.7. I installed BackupPC 3.1.0 from source. I'm trying to get BackupPC running on that box, and I cannot seem to get BackupPC_Admin (or the testsuid script found here - http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/debugCGI.htm

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up the backup to an external USB drive

2008-12-12 Thread Rodrigo Real
Hello, Holger Parplies wrote: > Hi, > > Adam Goryachev wrote on 2008-12-12 11:09:14 +1100 [Re: [BackupPC-users] > Backing up the backup to an external USB drive]: >> Rodrigo Real wrote: >>> [...] >>> Adam Goryachev wrote: >>> The only problem I see is that I don't have disk space to make a >>>

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up the backup to an external USB drive

2008-12-12 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Adam Goryachev wrote on 2008-12-12 11:09:14 +1100 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up the backup to an external USB drive]: > Rodrigo Real wrote: > > [...] > > Adam Goryachev wrote: > > The only problem I see is that I don't have disk space to make a > > snapshot and after it to dd the file to t