[BackupPC-users] PingCmd for host behind firewall

2010-11-16 Thread Daniel Mueller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm backing up a host behind a router/firewall which in general works fine. The firewall forwards only the ssh port and blocks ping requests. So I tried to set PingCmd to something like $sshPath -l root $host /bin/true Running this manually (as user

Re: [BackupPC-users] Filesystem corruption: consistency of the pool

2010-11-16 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
martin f krafft wrote at about 19:16:52 +0100 on Wednesday, November 3, 2010: > Hello, > > My filesystem holding the backuppc pool was corrupted. While e2fsck > managed to fix it all and now doesn't complain anymore, I am a bit > scared that the backuppc pool isn't consistent anymore. > >

Re: [BackupPC-users] tar on localhost (and shell escaping)

2010-11-16 Thread Dale King
On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 09:00:10AM -0500, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: > If you are on the same machine, you can do directly without ssh > by using sudo (and you can protect a little more by setting up sodoers > properly). Then there is no compression for the local machine... > > $Conf{RsyncClientCm

[BackupPC-users] problem with backuppc_archivestart on mounted directory

2010-11-16 Thread benbit
hi there, i'm trying to archive backups to a mounted directory. the directory is a remote ftp mounted via curlftpfs. first of all, if i use the web interface it works like a charm. but if i try to start it from the shell, i get this error: Executing: /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_archiveHos

Re: [BackupPC-users] Wierd backup problem

2010-11-16 Thread Brad Alexander
I finally got this working... I wound up clearing out the backup list and starting one directory at a time. Everything worked but /root. I ended up getting rid of some really ancient and innocuous-looking files from there, and now it all seems to work. I got rid of a dump.log from 2008, some df a

[BackupPC-users] Error in Digest.c after upgrade Fedora 13 to Fedora 14

2010-11-16 Thread Peter
Hello, I upgraded my BackupPC from Fedora 13 to Fedora 14 yesterday, and now I have a problem with backing up machines. I get the following error messages when trying to backup a machine. 2010-11-16 10:00:12 apollo: Assertion ((svtype)((_svi)->sv_flags & 0xff)) >= SVt_PV failed: file "Digest.

Re: [BackupPC-users] Got fatal error during xfer (Total bytes written: 640049664)

2010-11-16 Thread Guillaume Filion
Le 2010-11-10 14:23, Guillaume Filion a écrit : > Looking at the samba source code, I'd guess that the problem has to do > with the iconv stuff done in lib/util/dprintf.c:d_vfprintf but I didn't > spend a lot of time looking... > > I filed a bug with samba.org: > https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bu