Re: [BackupPC-users] I've Tried Everything

On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 5:27 PM, Zach Lanich wrote: > everyone thats been helping me: i ran this: > > sudo -u backuppc /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_dump -v -f backupclient > > from the terminal and heres the result: > > http://www.4shared.com/office/fkw5q5Ed/errlog2.html > > i had rsync enabl

Re: [BackupPC-users] I've Tried Everything

everyone thats been helping me: i ran this: sudo -u backuppc /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_dump -v -f backupclient from the terminal and heres the result: http://www.4shared.com/office/fkw5q5Ed/errlog2.html i had rsync enabled at the time On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 12:20 AM, Zach Lanich wrote

Re: [BackupPC-users] I've Tried Everything

I deleted the config file. i prolly dont need it. On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Zach Lanich wrote: > >> Not sure. Could you explain how to to do so properly? >> >> > Unless there is some reason to override the defaults in > /etc/ssh/ssh_

Re: [BackupPC-users] I've Tried Everything

On Thursday 16 February 2012 13:07:01 you wrote: > backuppc runs as user backuppc on the Server, but logs into the client/host > as root. so there shouldnt be any permissions issues. and ssh works fine > and authenticates automtically using ssh keys. I am not giving up that fast (because I know it

Re: [BackupPC-users] I've Tried Everything

On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Zach Lanich wrote: > Not sure. Could you explain how to to do so properly? > > Unless there is some reason to override the defaults in /etc/ssh/ssh__config for the backuppc user only, I would simply remove the /var/lib/backuppc/.ssh/config file. If you need to ke

Re: [BackupPC-users] I've Tried Everything

Not sure. Could you explain how to to do so properly? On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 2:02 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Zach Lanich wrote: > >> the command you gave me outputs: >> >> Bad owner or permissions on /var/lib/backuppc/.ssh/config >> >> > I don't think I've ever

Re: [BackupPC-users] I've Tried Everything

On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Zach Lanich wrote: > the command you gave me outputs: > > Bad owner or permissions on /var/lib/backuppc/.ssh/config > > I don't think I've ever seen a config file there, but that sounds bad. Did you change it to be owned by the backuppc user and not writable by

Re: [BackupPC-users] I've Tried Everything

On Thu, 2012-02-16 at 13:22 -0500, Zach Lanich wrote: > also, because of small dns issues, i just added 192.168.1.2 > zachs-macbook-pro to the etc/hosts file and that seems to work fine > for resolving my reserved ip So now that you have sorted out this problem what happens if you try the backup a

Re: [BackupPC-users] Accessing old backuppc server

On 2/16/2012 11:45 AM, Arnold Krille wrote: > On Thursday 16 February 2012 11:08:38 Bowie Bailey wrote: >> On 2/16/2012 10:50 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: >>> On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 8:45 AM, Bowie Bailey >> >>> > wrote: >>> My backup method involves sending a mirrored drive

Re: [BackupPC-users] I've Tried Everything

the command you gave me outputs: Bad owner or permissions on /var/lib/backuppc/.ssh/config I have set up root user on the mac and am able to see it authenticates automatically when sshing into it and using ssh -l root host_ip whoami i get "root" as the output On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 12:52 PM, Ti

Re: [BackupPC-users] I've Tried Everything

Every time I have created a new client I have to run: /sudo -u backuppc /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_dump -v -f [insert_your_backupclient_name_here]/ This is the first suggestion at; http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/backuppc/index.php?title=Troubleshooting I am suggesting this becau

Re: [BackupPC-users] I've Tried Everything

On Thu, 2012-02-16 at 09:59 -0500, Zach Lanich wrote: > After using the # cat /var/lib/backuppc/.ssh/Config > StrictHostKeyChecking on, im now getting: > > Running: /usr/bin/ssh -q -x -n -l root zachs-macbook-pro env LC_ALL=C > /usr/bin/tar -c -v -f - -C /Users/zlanich/Sites --totals . > full bac

Re: [BackupPC-users] I've Tried Everything

PLEASE DON'T TOP-POST - it makes it nearly impossible to follow the thread, especially with multiple people chiming in Zach Lanich wrote at about 02:01:53 -0500 on Thursday, February 16, 2012: > This is all the Log has in it when I try rsync: > > 2012-02-15 21:59:02 full backup started for dire

Re: [BackupPC-users] I've Tried Everything

On Thursday 16 February 2012 10:49:53 Zach Lanich wrote: > Yep, that's exactly what I did to test the ssh. I have no issues with my > network or ssh locally or remotely outside of backuppc. But you did that as root or as your user. backuppc normally runs as user "backuppc" and there it has its ow

Re: [BackupPC-users] Accessing old backuppc server

On Thursday 16 February 2012 11:08:38 Bowie Bailey wrote: > On 2/16/2012 10:50 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 8:45 AM, Bowie Bailey > > > > wrote: > > My backup method involves sending a mirrored drive offsite on a > > regular > > basi

Re: [BackupPC-users] Accessing old backuppc server

On 2/16/2012 10:50 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 8:45 AM, Bowie Bailey > wrote: > > My backup method involves sending a mirrored drive offsite on a > regular > basis. This drive contains the OS, BackupPC program, and the pool. > > N

Re: [BackupPC-users] Accessing old backuppc server

On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 8:45 AM, Bowie Bailey wrote: > My backup method involves sending a mirrored drive offsite on a regular > basis. This drive contains the OS, BackupPC program, and the pool. > > Now I need to access some information from one of the old backups. I > can boot it up normally,

Re: [BackupPC-users] I've Tried Everything

Yep, that's exactly what I did to test the ssh. I have no issues with my network or ssh locally or remotely outside of backuppc. On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 10:37 AM, Estanislao López Morgan wrote: > Have you tried to do "ssh -l root host_ip whoami" and see what you get? If > your root permitions ar

Re: [BackupPC-users] I've Tried Everything

On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 8:59 AM, Zach Lanich wrote: > After using the # cat /var/lib/backuppc/.ssh/Config StrictHostKeyChecking > on, im now getting: > > Running: /usr/bin/ssh -q -x -n -l root zachs-macbook-pro env LC_ALL=C > /usr/bin/tar -c -v -f - -C /Users/zlanich/Sites --totals . > full back

Re: [BackupPC-users] I've Tried Everything

On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 8:48 AM, Zach Lanich wrote: > This is the Host Pages Log. There's nothing in the Xfer LOG. > > 2012-02-15 22:09:56 full backup started for directory /Users/zlanich/Sites > 2012-02-15 22:10:14 Got fatal error during xfer (a > ./mvc/public/js/ckeditor/_source/skins/office20

Re: [BackupPC-users] I've Tried Everything

Have you tried to do "ssh -l root host_ip whoami" and see what you get? If your root permitions are ok, you should a "root" as response. Regards On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Zach Lanich wrote: > This is the Host Pages Log. There's nothing in the Xfer LOG. > > 2012-02-15 22:09:56 full bac

[BackupPC-users] Full backup locks up computer.

I have a fairly old computer, a ~6yr old dual 3.4GHz Pentium 4 that is running Fedora 12. It's (past) time for an upgrade. I'm want to do a clean install as the requirements for boot partition size have increased and so I need a good complete backup before I start. The problem I'm having is that

Re: [BackupPC-users] Accessing old backuppc server

On 2/16/2012 9:57 AM, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > On 02/16 09:45 , Bowie Bailey wrote: >> Now I need to access some information from one of the old backups. I >> can boot it up normally, but I want to make sure that BackupPC does not >> try to run any backups or do any cleanup while I'm worki

Re: [BackupPC-users] I've Tried Everything

After using the # cat /var/lib/backuppc/.ssh/Config StrictHostKeyChecking on, im now getting: Running: /usr/bin/ssh -q -x -n -l root zachs-macbook-pro env LC_ALL=C /usr/bin/tar -c -v -f - -C /Users/zlanich/Sites --totals . full backup started for directory /Users/zlanich/Sites Xfer PIDs are now 29

Re: [BackupPC-users] Accessing old backuppc server

On 02/16 09:45 , Bowie Bailey wrote: > Now I need to access some information from one of the old backups. I > can boot it up normally, but I want to make sure that BackupPC does not > try to run any backups or do any cleanup while I'm working with it. I > know there's a flag I can set to prevent

Re: [BackupPC-users] I've Tried Everything

This is the Host Pages Log. There's nothing in the Xfer LOG. 2012-02-15 22:09:56 full backup started for directory /Users/zlanich/Sites 2012-02-15 22:10:14 Got fatal error during xfer (a ./mvc/public/js/ckeditor/_source/skins/office2003/dialog.cssTar exited with error 65280 () status) 2012-02-15 2

[BackupPC-users] Accessing old backuppc server

My backup method involves sending a mirrored drive offsite on a regular basis. This drive contains the OS, BackupPC program, and the pool. Now I need to access some information from one of the old backups. I can boot it up normally, but I want to make sure that BackupPC does not try to run any b

Re: [BackupPC-users] I've Tried Everything

On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 7:48 AM, Zachary Lanich wrote: > Yessir. Ssh auth seems to work fine. Using tar it gets half way through > before erroring > > There should be more detailed information in the Xferlog or Errors link for the backup on the host page. If you are getting some files it may be

Re: [BackupPC-users] I've Tried Everything

Yessir. Ssh auth seems to work fine. Using tar it gets half way through before erroring On Feb 16, 2012, at 5:21 AM, Arnold Krille wrote: > On Thursday 16 February 2012 02:01:53 Zach Lanich wrote: >> This is all the Log has in it when I try rsync: >> >> 2012-02-15 21:59:02 full backup started

Re: [BackupPC-users] I've Tried Everything

On 2012-02-16 10:21, Arnold Krille wrote: > You did become the backuppc-user on the backupserver and then did one first > "ssh root@" to accept the host-fingerprint and make sure the > passwordless login works? You can avoid the prompt in future with this: # cat /var/lib/backuppc/.ssh/config S

Re: [BackupPC-users] I've Tried Everything

On Thursday 16 February 2012 02:01:53 Zach Lanich wrote: > This is all the Log has in it when I try rsync: > > 2012-02-15 21:59:02 full backup started for directory /Users/zlanich/Sites > 2012-02-15 21:59:35 Got fatal error during xfer (Child exited prematurely) Oh! A premature exitulation! You