Re: [BackupPC-users] Backups no longer run automatically

2010-03-08 Thread Les Mikesell
Chris Baker wrote: > I noticed this morning that my backups had not run over the weekend. They > are supposed to be automated and run every day. A full backup runs weekly. > Incremental backups run every night or day. Friday, Saturday, and Sunday > backups were all missed. This was for every single

[BackupPC-users] Backups no longer run automatically

2010-03-08 Thread Chris Baker
I noticed this morning that my backups had not run over the weekend. They are supposed to be automated and run every day. A full backup runs weekly. Incremental backups run every night or day. Friday, Saturday, and Sunday backups were all missed. This was for every single computer. I'm naturally

Re: [BackupPC-users] Bare Metal Restore for Microsoft Windows XP

2010-03-08 Thread Michael Stowe
> Michael Stowe wrote at about 15:00:06 -0600 on Monday, March 8, 2010: > > > Your method does allow for the most recent (more or less) snapshot of > most > > > of the relevant windoz files but doing an image every so often would > > > essentially do the same thing. > > > > To clarify a bit:

Re: [BackupPC-users] Bare Metal Restore for Microsoft Windows XP

2010-03-08 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
Michael Stowe wrote at about 15:00:06 -0600 on Monday, March 8, 2010: > > Your method does allow for the most recent (more or less) snapshot of most > > of the relevant windoz files but doing an image every so often would > > essentially do the same thing. > > To clarify a bit: it allows for

Re: [BackupPC-users] Bare Metal Restore for Microsoft Windows XP

2010-03-08 Thread Michael Stowe
> Perhaps I missed something in reading this, or my interpretation of a > 'bare metal restore' is different from yours. I use the term "bare metal" in the sense that when the process is started, there is no software or operating system installed. In other words, I'm talking about the system being

Re: [BackupPC-users] Bare Metal Restore for Microsoft Windows XP

2010-03-08 Thread John Hudak
Perhaps I missed something in reading this, or my interpretation of a 'bare metal restore' is different from yours. My definition of 'bare metal restore' is taking essentially an image of the current disk, copying it to some media, and then using that image to do a bit-by-bit (sector-by-sector, tr

Re: [BackupPC-users] Bare Metal Restore for Microsoft Windows XP

2010-03-08 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
Michael Stowe wrote at about 10:40:04 -0600 on Monday, March 8, 2010: > > On Sat, 6 Mar 2010, Michael Stowe wrote: > > > >> > >> Out of necessity, I had an opportunity to try out restoring a system > >> from > >> scratch with nothing but BackupPC backups. I'm happy to report that the > >> p

Re: [BackupPC-users] Bare Metal Restore for Microsoft Windows XP

2010-03-08 Thread Michael Stowe
> Although I haven't tested it on a bare metal restore, I believe that > my code that runs subinacl (and also optionally getfacl) to back up > the Windows ACL's should take care of all file ownership, permissions, > and ACLs (note that 'getfacl' only captures a subset of the full > Windows acl's).

Re: [BackupPC-users] web interface issues

2010-03-08 Thread Andrew Schulman
> So the web interface works well after getting the config options set > properly. Indeed... thanks for the reminder. Looking back through my config.pl again as you suggested, I found the options CgiAdminUserGroup and CgiAdminUsers, helpfully commented that these are the users who can see the fu

Re: [BackupPC-users] web interface issues

2010-03-08 Thread Nicholas Hadaway
My problems with backuppc are almost completely solved. :) I ran through /etc/BackupPC/config.pl one more time and found some misconfiguration. Take the time to go through that file and get things set right... Even if you thought you already set it... double check it... what really helped the m

Re: [BackupPC-users] archive host questions

2010-03-08 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 03/07 05:42 , Gerald Brandt wrote: > I've been trying to automate archive (from iSCSI to USB drive) for offsite > backups. Last Fridays ran fine (but took almost 20 hours). This Fridays > failed at exactly 1200 minutes in, by a SIGALRM. Is there a time limit on > archives? Check this value in

Re: [BackupPC-users] Bare Metal Restore for Microsoft Windows XP

2010-03-08 Thread Michael Stowe
> On Sat, 6 Mar 2010, Michael Stowe wrote: > >> >> Out of necessity, I had an opportunity to try out restoring a system >> from >> scratch with nothing but BackupPC backups. I'm happy to report that the >> process works, with a few limitations and quirks. >> >> I've documented it here: >> >> http:

Re: [BackupPC-users] archive host questions

2010-03-08 Thread Josh Malone
On Sun, 7 Mar 2010 17:42:10 -0600 (CST), Gerald Brandt wrote: > Hi, > > I've been trying to automate archive (from iSCSI to USB drive) for > offsite backups. Last Fridays ran fine (but took almost 20 hours). This > Fridays failed at exactly 1200 minutes in, by a SIGALRM. Is there a time > limit o

Re: [BackupPC-users] web interface issues

2010-03-08 Thread Andrew Schulman
> Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera... its all the same... > /var/log/httpd/error_log shows no errors > /var/log/BackupPC/LOG shows no errors > /etc/hosts is normal > /etc/BackupPC/hosts is normal > Attached to this message is a screenshot of what my web interface looks > like now. I also have