Re: [BackupPC-users] Noob Question Time... backup up localhost

2009-05-21 Thread Skip Guenter
Duh, no. Thanx much. On Wed, 2009-05-20 at 23:29 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: Skip Guenter wrote: I'm guessing the error is a ssh problem from this: full backup started for directory / Running: /usr/bin/ssh -q -x -l root c17-desktop /usr/bin/rsync --server --sender --numeric-ids

Re: [BackupPC-users] Noob Question Time... backup up localhost

2009-05-21 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
Skip Guenter wrote at about 03:25:53 -0500 on Thursday, May 21, 2009: Duh, no. Thanx much. I think you may be confusing no passwords with no security. I assume the respondent (whom you answered remarkably rudely) meant did you set ssh up to use passkeys rather than passwords. As long as you

Re: [BackupPC-users] backup the backuppc pool with bacula

2009-05-21 Thread Dan Pritts
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 11:35:36AM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: Have you ever restored one of these tapes, and if so, how long did it take? As a wild guess, I'd expect a couple of days where an image copy would be an hour or two. I did this with solaris ufsdump/ufsrestore once. Making the

Re: [BackupPC-users] backup the backuppc pool with bacula

2009-05-21 Thread Rob Terhaar
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom chr...@real-time.com wrote: On 05/19 12:04 , Tim Cole wrote: How often do you want to backup the server?  What about using rsync to backup the pool?  I want to mirror my primary backup server to another system daily so I can switch to

Re: [BackupPC-users] zfs send

2009-05-21 Thread Rob Terhaar
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 10:49 AM, Dan Pritts da...@internet2.edu wrote: I've seen a couple posts from people who are using ZFS as the backend for backuppc but no discussion of this, sorry if my searches missed it. Anyone done a zfs send and then zfs receive to duplicate the backuppc

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd over ssh

2009-05-21 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
daniel wrote at about 10:53:23 -0400 on Thursday, May 21, 2009: Hi Joe, This is exactly what I am looking for at the moment. Can you please post you changes? Am I the only one who has NO CLUE what he is talking about? - What exactly is the 'this' that you are looking for? - Who is

[BackupPC-users] who be rude?

2009-05-21 Thread Skip Guenter
May I ask, who was rude to who... I'm not seeing it? I hope you did not misinterpret my Duh, no about my own ignorance in response to Les's question Did you set up the ssh keys needed to make it work without passwords? but I suspect so. Skip On Thu, 2009-05-21 at 09:25 -0400, Jeffrey J.

Re: [BackupPC-users] who be rude?

2009-05-21 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
Sorry. I interpreted Duh as in being that was obvious. 'No' as in I would not do that. Skip Guenter wrote at about 14:55:44 -0500 on Thursday, May 21, 2009: May I ask, who was rude to who... I'm not seeing it? I hope you did not misinterpret my Duh, no about my own ignorance in response

Re: [BackupPC-users] Noob Question Time... backup up localhost

2009-05-21 Thread Skip Guenter
I have been looking at this and back to a how-to I was trying to follow. For the case of backing up the localhost (c17-desktop) trying to exclude the /var/lib/backuppc directory where c17-desktop is the BackupPC server... I can not follow where to copy ssh keys to/from. Does anybody have time

Re: [BackupPC-users] who be rude?

2009-05-21 Thread Skip Guenter
No problem and thanx for the explanation. I see it now, but that was not my intent. It was Duh obvious to all but me and no I had not set it up. I'll keep a better eye on this going forward. On Thu, 2009-05-21 at 16:01 -0400, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: Sorry. I interpreted Duh as in being

Re: [BackupPC-users] Noob Question Time... backup up localhost

2009-05-21 Thread Tim Cole
Skip - take a look at this how-to for centos. Aside from setting up repos the sudo and ssh key tutorials should apply: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/BackupPC Skip Guenter wrote: I have been looking at this and back to a how-to I was trying to follow. For the case of backing up the localhost

Re: [BackupPC-users] Noob Question Time... backup up localhost

2009-05-21 Thread Les Mikesell
Skip Guenter wrote: When I do: sudo su backuppc followed by: ssh -x -l backuppc c17-desktop date i get: ssh: connect to host c17-desktop port 22: Connection refused Which I believe ya'll are telling me is because I don't have ssh-keys set up correctly. No, you haven't gotten that far.

Re: [BackupPC-users] Noob Question Time... backup up localhost

2009-05-21 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
Les Mikesell wrote at about 16:30:35 -0500 on Thursday, May 21, 2009: Skip Guenter wrote: When I do: sudo su backuppc followed by: ssh -x -l backuppc c17-desktop date i get: ssh: connect to host c17-desktop port 22: Connection refused Which I believe ya'll are telling me is

Re: [BackupPC-users] Noob Question Time... backup up localhost

2009-05-21 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Les Mikesell wrote on 2009-05-21 16:30:35 -0500 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Noob Question Time... backup up localhost]: Skip Guenter wrote: [...] I do have user backuppc set up to be able to run rsync w/o a password via: sudo visudo which shows: # User privilege specification root

Re: [BackupPC-users] backup the backuppc pool with bacula

2009-05-21 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Rob Terhaar wrote on 2009-05-21 13:01:58 -0400 [Re: [BackupPC-users] backup the backuppc pool with bacula]: [...] Try Rsync v3, it has much lower memory requirements since it builds the file list incrementally. by all means, try it. But it's not the file list that is the specific problem

Re: [BackupPC-users] backup the backuppc pool with bacula

2009-05-21 Thread Rob Terhaar
Good point Holger- I don't have hardlink counts or stats, but it should only take about 10mns of work to download/compile rsync3, and run a benchmark on your pool ;) On 5/21/09, Holger Parplies wb...@parplies.de wrote: Hi, Rob Terhaar wrote on 2009-05-21 13:01:58 -0400 [Re: [BackupPC-users]

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd over ssh

2009-05-21 Thread Daniel Harvey
Hi Jeffrey, At the risk of spamming the list again, I apologise. I only joined the list and the forum immediately before the post. And, I agree that I *thought* this is a topic-based forum rather than a mailing list - I went to www.backupcentral.com, selected the menu Forums and them Open Source