Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC on VLAN

2012-01-16 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 12:11 AM, Kevin Kimani wrote: > Hi guys, > > I have setup backuppc running on Centos5.7. I have a vlan setup with > different subnets. Am trying  to resolve the computer names by name hence > using nmblookup. Am only able to resolve the machine on the same subnet as > the b

[BackupPC-users] BackupPC on VLAN

2012-01-16 Thread Kevin Kimani
Hi guys, I have setup backuppc running on Centos5.7. I have a vlan setup with different subnets. Am trying to resolve the computer names by name hence using nmblookup. Am only able to resolve the machine on the same subnet as the backup server. I can ping machines on the other subnets but when I

Re: [BackupPC-users] Laptops with multiple ethernet cards/MAC addresses

2012-01-16 Thread Les Mikesell
On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 6:43 PM, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: > > >  > Also, do you plug the laptop in regularly anywhere else?  Maybe you >  > could do a static assignment on the wired port but don't activate it >  > anywhere else - and then keep the DCHP assignment for the wifi >  > side. > > True

Re: [BackupPC-users] OT: NAS GUI for native Linux (preferably RHEL)

2012-01-16 Thread hansbkk
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 5:31 AM, Timothy J Massey wrote: > "Tyler J. Wagner" wrote on 01/12/2012 04:53:49 PM: > > > So how about FreeNAS with BackupPC installed? > > > > http://harryd71.blogspot.com/search/label/backuppc > > Honest answer? My prejudice against non-Linux UNIX, especially with > s

Re: [BackupPC-users] Laptops with multiple ethernet cards/MAC addresses

2012-01-16 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
Les Mikesell wrote at about 17:57:27 -0600 on Monday, January 16, 2012: > On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 5:32 PM, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky > wrote: > > >  > 1) Use a better (real) Firewall > >  > > >  > That would be, by *FAR*, the best solution.  Other solutions: > >  > > >  > 2) Use a better (real)

Re: [BackupPC-users] Laptops with multiple ethernet cards/MAC addresses

2012-01-16 Thread Les Mikesell
On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 5:32 PM, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: >  > 1) Use a better (real) Firewall >  > >  > That would be, by *FAR*, the best solution.  Other solutions: >  > >  > 2) Use a better (real) DNS server with client-update capabilities (See #1) >  > 3) Use a better (real) DHCP server (Se

Re: [BackupPC-users] Laptops with multiple ethernet cards/MAC addresses

2012-01-16 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote at about 17:00:45 -0500 on Monday, January 16, 2012: > The laptops I back up have both a wired and wireless Ethernet > connection with (different) MAC addresses. > > I use static DNS so that when the laptops are attached at home they > are given a fixed (known) IP ad

Re: [BackupPC-users] Laptops with multiple ethernet cards/MAC addresses

2012-01-16 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
Timothy J Massey wrote at about 17:26:43 -0500 on Monday, January 16, 2012: > "Jeffrey J. Kosowsky" wrote on 01/16/2012 05:00:45 > PM: > > > The problem is that my new Verizon router does not allow the same IP > > address to be correlated with different MAC addresses. > > > > So now it s

Re: [BackupPC-users] Can't fork

2012-01-16 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
Timothy J Massey wrote at about 17:13:44 -0500 on Monday, January 16, 2012: > Peter Thomassen wrote on 01/16/2012 12:31:05 AM: > > > On 01/11/2012 08:00 PM, Timothy J Massey wrote: > > > I would add this: 45 GB and 185,000 files is, in my opinion, far from > big. > > > I have a number of s

Re: [BackupPC-users] OT: NAS GUI for native Linux (preferably RHEL)

2012-01-16 Thread Steve Willoughby
On 16-Jan-12 14:31, Timothy J Massey wrote: > Honest answer? My prejudice against non-Linux UNIX, especially with > something as important as backup. I don't want to run into subtle issues Fair enough, as long as you admit it's prejudice on your part. There's a lot of history of Unix being prove

Re: [BackupPC-users] OT: NAS GUI for native Linux (preferably RHEL)

2012-01-16 Thread Timothy J Massey
"Tyler J. Wagner" wrote on 01/12/2012 04:53:49 PM: > So how about FreeNAS with BackupPC installed? > > http://harryd71.blogspot.com/search/label/backuppc Honest answer? My prejudice against non-Linux UNIX, especially with something as important as backup. I don't want to run into subtle issu

Re: [BackupPC-users] Can't fork

2012-01-16 Thread Timothy J Massey
Peter Thomassen wrote on 01/16/2012 12:31:05 AM: > On 01/11/2012 08:00 PM, Timothy J Massey wrote: > > I would add this: 45 GB and 185,000 files is, in my opinion, far from big. > > I have a number of servers backing up hosts that are 5 to 10 times as big, > > and bigger. and that is with 1 GHz

Re: [BackupPC-users] Laptops with multiple ethernet cards/MAC addresses

2012-01-16 Thread Timothy J Massey
"Jeffrey J. Kosowsky" wrote on 01/16/2012 05:00:45 PM: > The problem is that my new Verizon router does not allow the same IP > address to be correlated with different MAC addresses. > > So now it seems that I can only match the laptop name (used by > BackupPC) against only one of the IP addres

Re: [BackupPC-users] Achiving localhost using tar

2012-01-16 Thread Kenneth L. Owen
On Mon, 2012-01-16 at 15:52 -0500, Kenneth L. Owen wrote: > On Mon, 2012-01-16 at 13:25 -0500, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > > On 01/16 11:38 , Kenneth L. Owen wrote: > > > Before this problem started, it was backing up with no problem. Then I > > > started getting errors: > > > > If you do a

[BackupPC-users] Laptops with multiple ethernet cards/MAC addresses

2012-01-16 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
The laptops I back up have both a wired and wireless Ethernet connection with (different) MAC addresses. I use static DNS so that when the laptops are attached at home they are given a fixed (known) IP address so that BackupPC can find them using my /etc/hosts file. On my old D-Link router, I use

Re: [BackupPC-users] Achiving localhost using tar

2012-01-16 Thread Kenneth L. Owen
On Mon, 2012-01-16 at 13:25 -0500, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > On 01/16 11:38 , Kenneth L. Owen wrote: > > Before this problem started, it was backing up with no problem. Then I > > started getting errors: > > If you do a 'ls -al /home' using a command shell (command line) on the > machine

Re: [BackupPC-users] Achiving localhost using tar

2012-01-16 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 01/16 11:38 , Kenneth L. Owen wrote: > Before this problem started, it was backing up with no problem. Then I > started getting errors: If you do a 'ls -al /home' using a command shell (command line) on the machine in question does it show files, or just the usual '.' and '..' directory entrie

Re: [BackupPC-users] Achiving localhost using tar

2012-01-16 Thread Kenneth L. Owen
On Mon, 2012-01-16 at 09:49 -0500, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > On 01/13 08:09 , Kenneth L. Owen wrote: > > 2012-01-07 01:00:18 Got fatal error during xfer (No files dumped for share > > /home) > > Are there any files in /home? > BackupPC will exit if it does not find any files, because it as

[BackupPC-users] BackupPC_deleteBackup.sh not working

2012-01-16 Thread Estanislao López Morgan
Hi backupers, I am projecting a migration in my backup server file system, to a LVM structure in order to enlarge my actual and future disk capacity. For that pourpose, I have to delete some backups but I am having problems with script /BackupPC_deleteBackup.sh. When I execute it, this is the resul

Re: [BackupPC-users] Achiving localhost using tar

2012-01-16 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 01/13 08:09 , Kenneth L. Owen wrote: > 2012-01-07 01:00:18 Got fatal error during xfer (No files dumped for share > /home) Are there any files in /home? BackupPC will exit if it does not find any files, because it assumes some disastrous error has occurred and it does not want to clobber good

Re: [BackupPC-users] tar Wrapper for ESXi and/or Busybox

2012-01-16 Thread Christian Völker
Hi, I had to realize there's something going wrong with my attempt. Anyone having a clue why the backup does not succeed? vmfs/volumes/B/ad/vmware.log [ skipped 58 lines ] tarExtract: Done: 0 errors, 6 filesExist, 56 sizeExist, 208 sizeExistComp, 57 filesTotal, 6068247 sizeTotal Got fatal error

Re: [BackupPC-users] tar Wrapper for ESXi and/or Busybox

2012-01-16 Thread Christian Völker
Oh, just as an addition: I'm skipping now the snapshot related files *vmss and *vmsn, too. In case you want this too, just add the two "grep" commands. Greetings Christian -- RSA(R) Conference 2012 Mar 27 - Feb 2 Save

[BackupPC-users] tar Wrapper for ESXi and/or Busybox

2012-01-16 Thread Christian Völker
Hi, as some of you might have issues backing up ESXi host I wrote a little wrapper to get it done. First, what are the issues with backing up ESXi? 1. ESXi does not allow ssh access by default 2. If ssh access enabled, it does not allow key-based authentication by default 3. ESXi does not have rs

Re: [BackupPC-users] Suggestions for the new version

2012-01-16 Thread Matthias Meyer
Brad Alexander wrote: > Hi gang, > > Hope everyone had a great Christmas, Hanukkah, or whatever you celebrate, > and look forward to a good and prosperous new year. > > One of my Christmas presents this year was an upgrade for my desktop. > Since it had been 4 or 5 years, and I had accumulated a

Re: [BackupPC-users] Mail error - how to solve

2012-01-16 Thread Matthias Meyer
MaryG wrote: > Hi experts. I hope you can help me with this problem: > I have installed BackupPC 3.2.1 on a "DNS-323" embedded ARM NAS, (running > GNU BSD Net). I'm using it to back up 4 SOHO PCs. Things seem to be > working fine, but I'm getting the following error in the log: > > 01:04:02 adm