Re: [BackupPC-users] SELinux preventing server connection.

Le 30/04/2010 00:09, Kris Lou a écrit : > I emailed the Zmanda folk, and they uploaded the SRPM to the below link. OK, the RPMs are really not the same at all. This one, for example, does not provide any SELinux module, there are probably other differences I've not seen (specfiles are very differe

Re: [BackupPC-users] email not working

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Eddie Gonzales > mailto:egonza...@buckeyeusd.org>> wrote: > > This is what the log says after I put my domain in the “other > destination for which mail is accepted” section of the exim4 config > screen…s

Re: [BackupPC-users] email not working

I'm not an Exim expert by any means, but I've wrangled with it a few times, with some success. It seems like the easiest solution, though, is to change the delivery email address. If you want local delivery, shouldn't you tell BackupPC to direct mail to egonza...@backupserver.oms.local? On Thu,

Re: [BackupPC-users] How do I install on NETGEAR ReadyNAS NV+?

I enabled apt-get (which is disabled by default but available from NETGEAR), updated all of the repositories, and simply installed everything from there. Aside from the package I manually installed to fix the chfn command problem from an earlier post, everything else is from the repos NETGEAR had w

Re: [BackupPC-users] How do I install on NETGEAR ReadyNAS NV+?

Omair Khan wrote: > I forgot to say this: all of my targets have static IP addresses. If > you're saying I don't need nmblookup since the server and the clients > all have static IPs, why am I getting the perl error? > > On 29 April 2010 22:44, Omair Khan > wro

Re: [BackupPC-users] How do I install on NETGEAR ReadyNAS NV+?

I forgot to say this: all of my targets have static IP addresses. If you're saying I don't need nmblookup since the server and the clients all have static IPs, why am I getting the perl error? On 29 April 2010 22:44, Omair Khan wrote: > Hello again, > > So I tried running BackupPC by going to /u

Re: [BackupPC-users] How do I install on NETGEAR ReadyNAS NV+?

Hello again, So I tried running BackupPC by going to /usr/share/backuppc/bin and manually starting ./BackupPC. I also tried running it with /etc/init.d/backuppc start but got the same error both times: proton01:~# Starting backuppc: /usr/bin/perl: relocation error: usr/lib/perl5/auto/Compress/Zli

[BackupPC-users] Concrete proposal for feature extension for pooling

Meh it's okay. I'd still like a feature like this, but I've never gotten a DNS server to apply multiple IPs to a hostname sadly, only the other way around. Oh well. +-- |This was sent by saturn2...@gmail.com via Backup Central.

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up a backup?

Can you backup your archive? Should it be compressed? On Apr 29, 2010, at 5:48 PM, "Timothy Murphy" wrote: > I find backuppc works extremely well. > I backup my shared /common directory > on a different my CentOS-5.4 machine. > > But I'm thinking I'd like to be 110% safe, > and backup my backu

[BackupPC-users] Backing up a backup?

I find backuppc works extremely well. I backup my shared /common directory on a different my CentOS-5.4 machine. But I'm thinking I'd like to be 110% safe, and backup my backup on an external HD. What is the simplest way of doing this? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +3

[BackupPC-users] Noted Observations & Complaints Using BackupPC for 5 mon

Yeah, that's what I meant, depth, not number. There are very few changes to most of my systems, what does change are the file folders I'm backing up on my main rig. Those files change daily, but not all of them of course. What are your thoughts? Probably less level changes are good if there are

Re: [BackupPC-users] SELinux preventing server connection.

I emailed the Zmanda folk, and they uploaded the SRPM to the below link. Kris Lou k...@themusiclink.net On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 11:33 AM, Johan Cwiklinski wrote: > Hello, > > Le 29/04/2010 19:43, Kris Lou a écrit : > > Out of curiosity, is there a difference (besides version/release of > > Back

Re: [BackupPC-users] How do I install on NETGEAR ReadyNAS NV+?

On 4/29/2010 5:09 PM, Omair Khan wrote: > I took your advice, Les, and re-installed the passwd package to get > chfn. I found how to do this specifically on the ReadyNAS at > http://www.blog.vacs.fr/index.php?post/2009/03/22/Installing-Mysql-server-on-a-ReadyNAS-duo. > I then reinstalled BackupPC (

Re: [BackupPC-users] How do I install on NETGEAR ReadyNAS NV+?

I took your advice, Les, and re-installed the passwd package to get chfn. I found how to do this specifically on the ReadyNAS at http://www.blog.vacs.fr/index.php?post/2009/03/22/Installing-Mysql-server-on-a-ReadyNAS-duo. I then reinstalled BackupPC (apt-get install --reinstall backuppc). However,

Re: [BackupPC-users] Using backuppc with LVM snapshots to reduce rsync server load.

Hi, - "Kameleon" wrote: > I have been using backuppc for quite some time now. I use it at home in a xen > domu to back up all my servers/machines at home and here at work I use it on > a physical host to backup all of our servers. I use rsync method of backing > up where applicable and

Re: [BackupPC-users] Best Linux base

The easiest way to get exim working is to dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config then answer the questions. For the record, I run backuppc on Debian/sid, and have been running it for about 4 years. --b On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 3:42 PM, Eddie Gonzales wrote: > My issues were mainly do to my lack of linux

Re: [BackupPC-users] Best Linux base

Good to know. So many flavors of things that do the same thing make it hard to troubleshoot sometimes. I rather go with the most used to get better help. -Original Message- From: Les Mikesell [mailto:lesmikes...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010 1:23 PM To: backuppc-users@lists.so

Re: [BackupPC-users] Best Linux base

On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 3:22 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On 4/29/2010 2:42 PM, Eddie Gonzales wrote: > > My issues were mainly do to my lack of linux knowledge but now it's > > getting the exim mail service on my debian to send me emails. I know I > > will rebuild if I put this in production so wan

[BackupPC-users] Using backuppc with LVM snapshots to reduce rsync server load.

I have been using backuppc for quite some time now. I use it at home in a xen domu to back up all my servers/machines at home and here at work I use it on a physical host to backup all of our servers. I use rsync method of backing up where applicable and rsyncd on the windows machines. One thing I

Re: [BackupPC-users] Best Linux base

On 4/29/2010 2:42 PM, Eddie Gonzales wrote: > My issues were mainly do to my lack of linux knowledge but now it's > getting the exim mail service on my debian to send me emails. I know I > will rebuild if I put this in production so wanted to know If I should > change bases if I do to make things e

Re: [BackupPC-users] Best Linux base

My issues were mainly do to my lack of linux knowledge but now it's getting the exim mail service on my debian to send me emails. I know I will rebuild if I put this in production so wanted to know If I should change bases if I do to make things easier to get all working. On Apr 29, 2010, at 12:

Re: [BackupPC-users] Best Linux base

My first install was Ubuntu 6.x, and I'm now running under 8.10. For a client I installed under Ubuntu 8.10, and recently moved them to a Debian 5 install instead (better support from XenServer). Gerald - "Eddie Gonzales" wrote: > > I been testing backuppc on a Debian distro and had s

Re: [BackupPC-users] Best Linux base

On 4/29/2010 2:18 PM, Eddie Gonzales wrote: > > I been testing backuppc on a Debian distro and had some issues but > wanted to see if there is a base that has the least problems with > installing backuppc.. What kind of issues? Installing on Centos 5.x from the EPEL yum repository should come up

Re: [BackupPC-users] Noted Observations & Complaints Using BackupPC for 5 mon

On 4/29/2010 2:02 PM, Saturn2888 wrote: > > So what's the maximum amount of incrementals I should do then? For wireless > devices it's best to keep it going and let the server handle the rest, for my > wired computers, I'm assuming anywhere from 6-8 is plenty and I should > probably not do more

[BackupPC-users] Best Linux base

I been testing backuppc on a Debian distro and had some issues but wanted to see if there is a base that has the least problems with installing backuppc.. -- ___ BackupPC-users

[BackupPC-users] Noted Observations & Complaints Using BackupPC for 5 mon

So what's the maximum amount of incrementals I should do then? For wireless devices it's best to keep it going and let the server handle the rest, for my wired computers, I'm assuming anywhere from 6-8 is plenty and I should probably not do more than that. +

Re: [BackupPC-users] SELinux preventing server connection.

> > On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 21:08:23 +0200 > Johan Cwiklinski wrote: > > >> Hello, >> >> Le 27/04/2010 20:30, Steve Blackwell a écrit : >> >>> BZ=bugzilla? >>> >>> >> Yes :) That is a better place to report package specific issues, all >> of that SELinus stuff is not really BackupPC

Re: [BackupPC-users] SELinux preventing server connection.

Hello, Le 29/04/2010 19:43, Kris Lou a écrit : > Out of curiosity, is there a difference (besides version/release of > BackupPC) between the Fedora/EPEL rpm and the rpm available from Zmanda? > > http://www.zmanda.com/download-backuppc.php > > Kris Lou > k...@themusiclink.net > First of all, t

Re: [BackupPC-users] SELinux preventing server connection.

Out of curiosity, is there a difference (besides version/release of BackupPC) between the Fedora/EPEL rpm and the rpm available from Zmanda? http://www.zmanda.com/download-backuppc.php Kris Lou k...@themusiclink.net On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 10:34 AM, Steve Blackwell wrote: > On Tue, 27 Apr 201

Re: [BackupPC-users] SELinux preventing server connection.

On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 21:08:23 +0200 Johan Cwiklinski wrote: > Hello, > > Le 27/04/2010 20:30, Steve Blackwell a écrit : > > BZ=bugzilla? > > > > Yes :) That is a better place to report package specific issues, all > of that SELinus stuff is not really BackupPC relevant. > > > I had alway run

Re: [BackupPC-users] email not working

This is what the log says after I put my domain in the "other destination for which mail is accepted" section of the exim4 config screen...still not working. 2010-04-29 10:11:47 1O7XH8-0004tQ-WF <= backu...@backupserver.oms.local U=backuppc P=local S=550 2010-04-29 10:11:47 1O7XH8-0004tQ-WF **

Re: [BackupPC-users] Noted Observations & Complaints Using BackupPC for 5 mon

On 4/29/2010 10:25 AM, Saturn2888 wrote: > > > I noticed last night something else that seems an issue. While Rsync should > be faster because it doesn't have to download files, it also seems to check > all the previous backups for that file on that host. As you might be able to > tell, it's sea

[BackupPC-users] rsync on windows

Ah, you used OpenVPN. I backup a host using that too but over the Internet. Did the freezing up stop? +-- |This was sent by saturn2...@gmail.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +

[BackupPC-users] Noted Observations & Complaints Using BackupPC for 5 mon

Sorin, with your setup, VLANs don't seem out of the question. In another case, I seem to be figuring out more and more why my machines are taking so long, Windows and Linux ones included. This PC started backing up over 8 hours ago. I looked at the PID, nothing. I looked at the Xfer PID, here'

[BackupPC-users] Moved cable, backup kept going

I've had it happen to me, then 6 hours later it's like "backup failed, disconnection" or something. I think there's a timeout issue in some cases. Was yours really still working or did it eventually time out? +-- |This was sent

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc on linux, mac os X client

On 4/29/2010 8:46 AM, Robert Minvielle wrote: > > Ok, that seems to work, but it dies halfway in... how do you increase verbose > logging? > Does anyone know why it would do this: > > 2010-04-28 09:01:46 full backup started for directory admin > 2010-04-29 05:02:12 Aborting backup up after signal

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc on linux, mac os X client

Ok, that seems to work, but it dies halfway in... how do you increase verbose logging? Does anyone know why it would do this: 2010-04-28 09:01:46 full backup started for directory admin 2010-04-29 05:02:12 Aborting backup up after signal ALRM 2010-04-29 05:02:13 Got fatal error during xfer (abor

Re: [BackupPC-users] RsyncP and --whole-file

On Thursday 29 April 2010 13:44:52 Tyler J. Wagner wrote: > I use local rsync for backing up the server itself (indeed, for about 70 > servers), and it has always been fine for me. I don't think the > checksumming really makes much difference, as once it is copied (to > itself) it will still have

Re: [BackupPC-users] RsyncP and --whole-file

On Thursday 29 April 2010 13:58:12 Paul Gideon Dann wrote: > Or am I making a huge mistake chosing rsync over tar for localhost backup? I use local rsync for backing up the server itself (indeed, for about 70 servers), and it has always been fine for me. I don't think the checksumming really ma

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup with tar

Jakub Jedelsky wrote: > Hi all, > > I have maybe really stupid question. I need to know how backuppc work > with XferMethod set as "tar".. > Was first of all maked a tar file on client-side and after that sent via > ssh or ... is tar file sending continuously? e.g. I want to backup about > 50GB fr

[BackupPC-users] RsyncP and --whole-file

Dear BackupPC users, I'm doing a bit of a review of my BackupPC configuration, largely because I originally set it up with Tar, and when my server decided it wanted to backup my laptop using Tar over WiFi (when I was away from my desk), it was rather painful. So now it's using Rsync and all se

[BackupPC-users] Backup with tar

Hi all, I have maybe really stupid question. I need to know how backuppc work with XferMethod set as "tar".. Was first of all maked a tar file on client-side and after that sent via ssh or ... is tar file sending continuously? e.g. I want to backup about 50GB from client, but there is only 2GB of

Re: [BackupPC-users] Noted Observations & Complaints Using BackupPC for 5 mon

>-Original Message- >From: Saturn2888 [mailto:backuppc-fo...@backupcentral.com] >Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010 9:51 AM >To: backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net >Subject: [BackupPC-users] Noted Observations & Complaints Using BackupPC for >5 mon > > >Well I do have a Linux AD server. I als

[BackupPC-users] suggestion for enhancement

Raman Gupta's suggetion was definitely the best. Should Rsync copy files in alphabetical order, than you can imagine how far you are by judging what's on the drive. Right now BackupPC is in the /Windows folder in one of my machines. Since there are a ton of itty bitty files in there, usually ne

[BackupPC-users] Noted Observations & Complaints Using BackupPC for 5 mon

Well I do have a Linux AD server. I also have a WinServer2008R2 for 6 months, but it's having issues connecting into the domain for whatever reason. I was referring to the SSH encryption. I don't recall Samba using encryption for file transfers, just for user/pass, maybe even just pass. Are yo

Re: [BackupPC-users] Noted Observations & Complaints Using BackupPC for 5 mon

>-Original Message- >From: Saturn2888 [mailto:backuppc-fo...@backupcentral.com] >Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010 5:50 AM >To: backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net >Subject: [BackupPC-users] Noted Observations & Complaints Using BackupPC for >5 mon > > >So you still need Cygwin even if you do

Re: [BackupPC-users] Noted Observations & Complaints Using BackupPC for 5 mon

>-Original Message- >From: Saturn2888 [mailto:backuppc-fo...@backupcentral.com] >Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010 1:18 AM >To: backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net >Subject: [BackupPC-users] Noted Observations & Complaints Using BackupPC for >5 mon > > >I've been reading a lot. Apparently Rsy

Re: [BackupPC-users] Sudden "fileListReceive failed"-error

>-Original Message- >From: Gerald Brandt [mailto:g...@majentis.com] >Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2010 6:38 PM >To: sorin srbu; General list for user discussion, questions and support >Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Sudden "fileListReceive failed"-error > >I just turned that on, and I'm hoping

Re: [BackupPC-users] Sudden "fileListReceive failed"-error

>-Original Message- >From: Les Mikesell [mailto:lesmikes...@gmail.com] >Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2010 2:49 PM >To: sorin.s...@orgfarm.uu.se; General list for user discussion, questions and >support >Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Sudden "fileListReceive failed"-error >Per the docs, you nee