[BackupPC-users] [OT] SELinux, firewalls and such ...

2009-06-26 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Les Mikesell wrote on 2009-06-26 13:05:51 -0500 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Having Several Issues]: > Admiral Beotch wrote: > > [...] SELinux is an awesome security framework and should never be > > disabled. It's like a firewall for processes. One wouldn't disable a > > firewall because it kept an

Re: [BackupPC-users] Having Several Issues

2009-06-26 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
Admiral Beotch wrote at about 10:41:07 -0700 on Friday, June 26, 2009: > Once I get it all figured out, I'll definitely send the information off to > the packager. Again, excellent catch on mounting the disk to the default > TOPDIR before installing the rpm. I cant wait to try that in a couple d

Re: [BackupPC-users] Kernel Panic, BackupPC + ext3

2009-06-26 Thread Peter Walter
Nate wrote: At 04:26 PM 3/4/2009, Nate wrote: We seem to be routinely having this issue where the server backuppc is running on throws a kernel panic and thus hard locks the machine. It's completely random, sometimes happens daily, sometimes we can have a lucky 2-3 weeks without a lockup. I

Re: [BackupPC-users] Kernel Panic, BackupPC + ext3

2009-06-26 Thread Nate
At 04:26 PM 3/4/2009, Nate wrote: >We seem to be routinely having this issue where the server backuppc >is running on throws a kernel panic and thus hard locks the >machine. It's completely random, sometimes happens daily, sometimes >we can have a lucky 2-3 weeks without a lockup. I've taken a >s

Re: [BackupPC-users] Having Several Issues

2009-06-26 Thread Admiral Beotch
Thanks Filipe and everyone else who gave me some input. I believe this will solve all my current issues. I'm really excited to have found this package and a great backup solution. Thanks again for everyone's help! On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 10:22, Filipe Brandenburger wrote: > > I thought I would

Re: [BackupPC-users] Having Several Issues

2009-06-26 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Admiral Beotch wrote on 2009-06-26 09:41:51 -0700 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Having Several Issues]: > On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 09:09, Les Mikesell wrote: > [...] > > ...so I'm surprised you didn't follow the directions for a mount or soft > > link at /var/lib/backuppc that should be somewhere on

Re: [BackupPC-users] Having Several Issues

2009-06-26 Thread Les Mikesell
Admiral Beotch wrote: > Once I get it all figured out, I'll definitely send the information off > to the packager. Again, excellent catch on mounting the disk to the > default TOPDIR before installing the rpm. I cant wait to try that in a > couple days. > > I dont want to fork this thread, but

Re: [BackupPC-users] Exclude from backup

2009-06-26 Thread Vladislav Tchernev
Thank you guys for your feedback. FYI the "XferMethod" I am using is rsync and the suggested config listed bellow is working. Apparently, one have to specify a share(s) in "RsyncShareName" and use it in "BackupFilesExclude" to specify what exactly to be excluded under that share. $Conf{BackupFi

Re: [BackupPC-users] Having Several Issues

2009-06-26 Thread Admiral Beotch
Once I get it all figured out, I'll definitely send the information off to the packager. Again, excellent catch on mounting the disk to the default TOPDIR before installing the rpm. I cant wait to try that in a couple days. I dont want to fork this thread, but I have a strong stance on this issue

Re: [BackupPC-users] Exclude from backup

2009-06-26 Thread Les Mikesell
Adam Goryachev wrote: > >> Hi All, >> I am new to backuppc and was trying to figure out how to exclude dir/files >> from a backup. I have played around with the GUI, setting >> Xfer->BackupFilesExclude and Xfer->RsyncArgs (--exclude="..."), as > well as >> directly editing the conf files (the gl

Re: [BackupPC-users] Having Several Issues

2009-06-26 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
Hi, On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 13:07, Les Mikesell wrote: > Admiral Beotch wrote: >>     What I'm wondering is, if you had mounted your drive on >>     /var/lib/backuppc before the yum install (or had set it up during the >>     Centos install) would any of the other steps have been necessary? >> >>

Re: [BackupPC-users] Having Several Issues

2009-06-26 Thread Les Mikesell
Admiral Beotch wrote: > > What I'm wondering is, if you had mounted your drive on > /var/lib/backuppc before the yum install (or had set it up during the > Centos install) would any of the other steps have been necessary? > > > Good point. I will test this when my new hardware gets h

Re: [BackupPC-users] Having Several Issues

2009-06-26 Thread Admiral Beotch
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 09:09, Les Mikesell wrote: > > What I'm wondering is, if you had mounted your drive on > /var/lib/backuppc before the yum install (or had set it up during the > Centos install) would any of the other steps have been necessary? > Good point. I will test this when my new ha

Re: [BackupPC-users] Having Several Issues

2009-06-26 Thread Les Mikesell
Admiral Beotch wrote: > Les, > > Here's my hasty notes from my install using CentOS 5.3, epel's current > backuppc. Excuse the mess.. I just ordered a new dedicated backup server > and will be re-installing again from scratch to validate and clean up my > procedure. I'll repost in a nicer forma

Re: [BackupPC-users] Having Several Issues

2009-06-26 Thread Admiral Beotch
Les, Here's my hasty notes from my install using CentOS 5.3, epel's current backuppc. Excuse the mess.. I just ordered a new dedicated backup server and will be re-installing again from scratch to validate and clean up my procedure. I'll repost in a nicer format when it's all done. Admrial Beotch

[BackupPC-users] Amazon S3 and/or EC2 or other off-site storage ideas

2009-06-26 Thread Mark Phillips
I am looking for inexpensive off-site storage that is compatible with backuppc. Is anyone using backuppc to backup files to Amazon S3? I have googled for some articles on this topic, and all I have found are old ones. It seems 1. S3 does not "allow" hard links and use of rsync. There is a s3sync o

Re: [BackupPC-users] Exclude from backup

2009-06-26 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Vladislav Tchernev wrote on 2009-06-26 11:00:08 -0400 [[BackupPC-users] Exclude from backup]: > [...] What I have tried to do is to exclude /proc but it seems I > can't manage to get rid of it since the error log keeps complining about it. > Bellow are some settings (I ended setting thouse

Re: [BackupPC-users] Exclude from backup

2009-06-26 Thread Adam Goryachev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Vladislav Tchernev wrote: > Hi All, > I am new to backuppc and was trying to figure out how to exclude dir/files > from a backup. I have played around with the GUI, setting > Xfer->BackupFilesExclude and Xfer->RsyncArgs (--exclude="..."), as well as

Re: [BackupPC-users] Exclude from backup

2009-06-26 Thread Mark Maciolek
hi, Should look more like this: $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = { '*' => [ '/tmp', '/proc' ] }; Vladislav Tchernev wrote: > Hi All, > I am new to backuppc and was trying to figure out how to exclude dir/files > from a backup. I have played around with the GUI, setting > Xfer->Bac

Re: [BackupPC-users] Having Several Issues

2009-06-26 Thread Tony Molloy
On Friday 26 June 2009 13:28:56 Les Mikesell wrote: > Tony Molloy wrote: > > On Friday 26 June 2009 01:04:50 Admiral Beotch wrote: > >> I haven't finished reading the selinux/apache document, but while > >> testing out the restore process with my previous chcon statement, I > >> realized backuppc w

[BackupPC-users] Exclude from backup

2009-06-26 Thread Vladislav Tchernev
Hi All, I am new to backuppc and was trying to figure out how to exclude dir/files from a backup. I have played around with the GUI, setting Xfer->BackupFilesExclude and Xfer->RsyncArgs (--exclude="..."), as well as directly editing the conf files (the global and the host specific ones) but

Re: [BackupPC-users] Having Several Issues

2009-06-26 Thread Les Mikesell
Tony Molloy wrote: > On Friday 26 June 2009 01:04:50 Admiral Beotch wrote: >> I haven't finished reading the selinux/apache document, but while testing >> out the restore process with my previous chcon statement, I realized >> backuppc was unable to write some restore files to the TOPDIR filesystem

Re: [BackupPC-users] email report after backup

2009-06-26 Thread ADNET Ghislain
This information you can find in __TOPDIR__/pc/$host/backups. The DumpPostUserCmd is the right way. There are several variables you can take as parameter to your script. The one you need is $xferOK br Matthias thanks a lot ! this is exactly what i wanted :) i just have to find what column

Re: [BackupPC-users] Having Several Issues

2009-06-26 Thread Tony Molloy
On Friday 26 June 2009 01:04:50 Admiral Beotch wrote: > I haven't finished reading the selinux/apache document, but while testing > out the restore process with my previous chcon statement, I realized > backuppc was unable to write some restore files to the TOPDIR filesystem so > I changed the cont