Hi All,
I am wanting to run a backuppc server that will backup all of our servers
including some that
run SLES with OES that have NSS volumes. Is this possible and what distro would
be best to
run the backuppc server?
TIA,
Paul
You can use any distro of your choice. Just download the package from sf.net
and fire away.
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Thanks and Regards,
Anand Gupta
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From: Paul Hennion p...@bhs.org.za
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 10:59:45
To: backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [BackupPC-users]
Um, yes, but what about sharing the nss volumes? how does one authenticate?
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On 10 Jun 2009 at 9:39, anand...@gmail.com wrote:
You can use any distro of your choice. Just download the package from sf.net
and fire away.
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Thanks and Regards,
Anand Gupta
-Original Message-
On Jun 09, Les Mikesell wrote:
The usual reason for backups stopping is that your disk space is nearly
full but the error message makes this look like some other problem.
There's well over 600 gigs available on the current storage pool so I
don't think this is the issue. I've just gone
Solved:
For reference if anyone else has this problem, it seems that at some
point (presumably to stop backups) someone has changed the FullPeriod
option to -1, which upon reading the comments in greater detail seems to
disable backups from running.
Having changed this to a positive value - I
Sorry not sure on that, but i am sure some one on the mailing list knows
and will reply to you.
Thanks and Regards,
Anand Gupta
Original Message
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing Us an NSS volume on OES2
From: Paul Hennion p...@bhs.org.za
To: anand...@gmail.com, General
Steve Redmond wrote:
On Jun 09, Les Mikesell wrote:
The usual reason for backups stopping is that your disk space is nearly
full but the error message makes this look like some other problem.
There's well over 600 gigs available on the current storage pool so I
don't think this is the
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 10:16:33PM +0200, Pieter Wuille wrote:
I don't know how common this usage is, but in our setup we have a lot of
backuppc hosts that are physically located on a few machines only. It
would be nice if it were possible to allow hosts on different machines to
be backupped
On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 6:24 PM, Ward... James Ward jew...@torzo.com wrote:
I have two etch BackupPC servers and two lenny BackupPC servers. All were
built at the OS level currently running. I like the new BackupPC interface
a lot and would like to upgrade the etch servers to lenny and
John Rouillard wrote:
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 10:16:33PM +0200, Pieter Wuille wrote:
I don't know how common this usage is, but in our setup we have a lot of
backuppc hosts that are physically located on a few machines only. It
would be nice if it were possible to allow hosts on different
Have you specifically done a dist-upgrade from etch to lenny?
On Jun 10, 2009, at 8:14 AM, Jim McNamara wrote:
On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 6:24 PM, Ward... James Ward
jew...@torzo.com wrote:
I have two etch BackupPC servers and two lenny BackupPC servers.
All were built at the OS level
Les Mikesell wrote at about 10:23:10 -0500 on Wednesday, June 10, 2009:
John Rouillard wrote:
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 10:16:33PM +0200, Pieter Wuille wrote:
I don't know how common this usage is, but in our setup we have a lot of
backuppc hosts that are physically located on a few
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 11:50 AM, Ward... James Ward jew...@torzo.comwrote:
Have you specifically done a dist-upgrade from etch to lenny?
On Jun 10, 2009, at 8:14 AM, Jim McNamara wrote:
On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 6:24 PM, Ward... James Ward jew...@torzo.comwrote:
I have two etch BackupPC
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 01:30:35PM -0400, Jim McNamara wrote:
Have you specifically done a dist-upgrade from etch to lenny?
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By the way, top posting (writing above the previous post) is frowned upon by
most mailing lists. Most mail programs handle it well, but
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 11:38:30AM -0400, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
Les Mikesell wrote at about 10:23:10 -0500 on Wednesday, June 10, 2009:
John Rouillard wrote:
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 10:16:33PM +0200, Pieter Wuille wrote:
I don't know how common this usage is, but
in our setup
John Rouillard wrote:
For example, this would allow one to define a config file for Linux
vs. Windows machines or for desktops vs. notebooks or for critical
machines vs. less critical machines (I know you can currently do this
in a kludgey fashion using links or by adding perl code to the
Hi, I want to make backups for some members of my family and I'm trying to find
a way to use something else than netbios names, but rather dynamicdomains like
useralias.no-ip.com . Is there any way to do that with backuppc? Also, two
computers are in the same remote house so I might need to
Hi, I'm trying to find a way to send an email to the personal email of the
people I'm doing their backups for. I tried to search but the terms email and
message are so general it gives me almost all the posts on the forum! :?
There are several implied references here to likely problems with rsync and how
they are all deal breakers. I've been trying to find a solution to this
problem for weeks and have not found any direct documentation or evidence to
support what is being said here. I'm not skeptical, though, I
Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote at about 11:38:30 -0400 on Wednesday, June 10, 2009:
Les Mikesell wrote at about 10:23:10 -0500 on Wednesday, June 10, 2009:
John Rouillard wrote:
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 10:16:33PM +0200, Pieter Wuille wrote:
I don't know how common this usage is, but in
jhaglund wrote:
I'd really like to know the specifics of the hardlink and inode problem
talked about in this thread like how to find out how many I have and what the
threshold is for Trouble and how the rest of the community deals with getting
pools of 100+GB offsite in less than a week of
jhaglund wrote:
There are several implied references here to likely problems with rsync and
how they are all deal breakers. I've been trying to find a solution to this
problem for weeks and have not found any direct documentation or evidence to
support what is being said here. I'm not
jhaglund wrote:
What does one use if not rsync?
In an admittedly non-backuppc environment I've been
experimenting with using 'rsync -W' (this means
don't use the rsync algorithm) to see if
problems similar to the ones you describe go away.
I'm still not sure of the result.
Using rsync with
Hi!
I have backuppc runing on my home LAN, backing up 5 different computers,
and working very well. However, I have a USB disk where I keep some
stuff that I would like to back up as well. Is there a way of doing this
with backuppc? It is not always turned on and plugged in, so setting its
mount
Hi Magnus,
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 09:05:26PM +, Magnus Larsson wrote:
What I would like is to have it as a separate host, and then do manual
backups when I want to. Can I do this even though the host it is
connected to already is a backuppc host? This would mean defining one
host as a
Hi,
Tino Schwarze wrote on 2009-06-10 23:20:29 +0200 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing
up a USB-disk?]:
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 09:05:26PM +, Magnus Larsson wrote:
What I would like is to have it as a separate host, and then do manual
backups when I want to. Can I do this even though the
Tino Schwarze wrote:
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 01:30:35PM -0400, Jim McNamara wrote:
Have you specifically done a dist-upgrade from etch to lenny?
[...90 lines snipped...]
By the way, top posting (writing above the previous post) is frowned upon by
most mailing lists. Most
error403 wrote:
Hi, I'm trying to find a way to send an email to the personal email of the
people I'm doing their backups for. I tried to search but the terms email
and message are so general it gives me almost all the posts on the forum! :?
Something like
Chris Robertson wrote:
error403 wrote:
Hi, I want to make backups for some members of my family and I'm trying to
find a way to use something else than netbios names, but rather
dynamicdomains like useralias.no-ip.com . Is there any way to do that with
backuppc?
Define the host as
Les Mikesell wrote:
Chris Robertson wrote:
error403 wrote:
I'm thinking of installing/using some sftp server sofware on their
computer.
Better would be an rsyncd service, as that would allow you to only
transfer changes.
If they are unix/linux/mac boxes you
Hi,
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 17:57, Holger Parplieswb...@parplies.de wrote:
note that you could even set the PingCmd to a shell script that checks
whether the disk is mounted (eg. '[ -f /path/to/usbdisk/.thisistheusbdisk ]'
if you have a file '.thisistheusbdisk' in the root of your USB disk's
Hi,
Les Mikesell wrote on 2009-06-10 15:45:22 -0500 [Re: [BackupPC-users] backup
the backuppc pool with bacula]:
jhaglund wrote:
There are several implied references here to likely problems with rsync
and how they are all deal breakers. [...] I just need to understand what's
going on.
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Holger Parplies wrote:
Hi,
Tino Schwarze wrote on 2009-06-10 23:20:29 +0200 [Re: [BackupPC-users]
Backing up a USB-disk?]:
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 09:05:26PM +, Magnus Larsson wrote:
You may simple configure another host (name it, for
Tino Schwarze wrote at about 23:20:29 +0200 on Wednesday, June 10, 2009:
Hi Magnus,
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 09:05:26PM +, Magnus Larsson wrote:
What I would like is to have it as a separate host, and then do manual
backups when I want to. Can I do this even though the host it
Holger Parplies wrote at about 04:22:03 +0200 on Thursday, June 11, 2009:
Hi,
Les Mikesell wrote on 2009-06-10 15:45:22 -0500 [Re: [BackupPC-users] backup
the backuppc pool with bacula]:
jhaglund wrote:
There are several implied references here to likely problems with rsync
Great, thanks!!
That part on checking whether the disk is mounted - could you give me
some more details on that? Never used such a script here.
Magnus
ons 2009-06-10 klockan 23:57 +0200 skrev Holger Parplies:
Hi,
Tino Schwarze wrote on 2009-06-10 23:20:29 +0200 [Re: [BackupPC-users]
Dear All,
i am using BackupPC to succesfully backup up linux client and working fine.
i also have 2 novell Netware servers which i would like to backup with
backuppc
does backuppc support backin up Novell Netware servers
I have 4.11 and 5 server
thanks and regards
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