I found that the backuppc ssh key was indeed obsolete. I replaced all of
the old ones and all seems to be going well so far.
Thanks for the advice.
Jack Nilles
Les Mikesell wrote:
If it is asking for a password, that means your ssh keys on the targets
need to be updated to match the new host
*Re: [BackupPC-users] recurrent backup failed' messages*
From: Matthias Meyer - 2010-07-29 20:12
Jack M. Nilles wrote:
I'm moving BackupPC to a new machine, running SUSE 11.2. After
installation I get nothing but the dreaded pink background and:
'backup failed (Unable
I'm moving BackupPC to a new machine, running SUSE 11.2. After
installation I get nothing but the dreaded pink background and:
'backup failed (Unable to read 4 bytes)'
messages for each host being backed up. Yet, if I start a backup via:
sudo -u backuppc /usr/local/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_dump -v
nd of
disk images (real disks, external
RAID, SAN or NAS based drives) but it would be up to you to ensure
redundancy in case one of the
components failed (or just became unavailable temporarily).
IHS ... Jack
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 7:37 AM, yodo64
wrote:
>
> Hi all
>
> I am wonderin
check any log files you find in /var/log too! messages is a good one to
start with, but depending on the
exact configuration, you might find other log files there too.
Chris Robertson wrote:
> Chris Baker wrote:
>
>> Which logs should I check?
>>
>
> /var/log/messages
>
>
>> And what
It has the same issue with UNIX mount points. Such is the nature of
rsync. I have managed
to avoid Vista sofar, but I guess I may need to build a system sometime.
Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
> Does BackupPC know how to treat NTFS junction points.
> They are analogous to *nix symbolic links but o
Yes, the ubuntu install is different from the 'source' install, so the
documentation doesn't fit exactly.
After trying the Ubuntu package, I had to totally remove it and install
from the sourceforge files (not .deb either)
The install went nicely, even though it isn't the 'ubuntu way', it
worked
I don't know what happened to it, but at one time there was development
being done on a 'distributed
file system', where the data was 'raided' across many systems, so if
some of the systems 'went away'
the data was still there and updated. And when they came back, it was
automatically put back
was IBMs TSM). It might be possible to
do that in BackupPC,
but we need to get someone that knows more BackupPC than I do to answer
that.
But I agree, please give us a bit more detail of the problem / issue you
are trying to address,
t
Yes it is easy. It is pretty efficient. Don't get all the fulls scheduled
for the same time. You are right, fulls are needed occasionally.
That is one of the reasons I like IBMs TSM (not free, by any stretch of the
imagination), because it does 'incremetals forever'.
It is database intensive t
Ok, I have not found this, and it must be 'out there' somewhere.
I would like to be able to do a 'bear metal restore' for both Linux and
Windows.
I have done it using a commercial product on Windows (basics were:
build a 'new' installation with just the minimal network basics, with the
c:\windows
Personally I think building a qemu virtual machine with a LOT of swap is a
'best answer' of the options you outlined.
Other options are to run a re-linking program (I had one at some time, but
it was in Perl, but it worked. Ran slow, but
did well at globally getting rid of all duplicate files a
The great thing about compiling it on your machine is you KNOW that it is
compiled using YOUR libraries, and does not make assumptions about other
'supported' libraries being installed. If you 'tweak' the config, you can
even get it optimized for your CPU and leave out some 'features' you don't
ne
similar) issue on AIX some years ago.
Lots of luck, Jack
-Original Message-
Subject: [BackupPC-users] Too many links?
Hello,
I'm running BackupPC 3.0.0 on CentOS 4, with ext3 file systems. When trying
to backup one of our servers, BackupPC logs the below error:
Too many links at /bac
it is probably against your companies security policy, but to get around
this you can use cygwins ssh to connect to your PC at home for a tunnel,
rather than having your backuppc at home try to connect to your work PC.
You need the tunnel to be a stable consistant connection, that backuppc can
I ues a backup system before that had a "incremental forever" backup policy.
The first "incremental" was really a full, and after that, like BackupPC
with rsync, it scanned for changes, and only backedup what it needed to.
Unless you forced it, you never did (or needed to) do a full backup again.
T
What is the right way to remove a client computer and its backups?
Is there a clean way without letting them 'age off'?
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I think only registered users can edit anyway, if I remember right.
So there is some 'social protection from vandalism.
Yes, keeping it all in one place would be great!
On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 13:23 -0700, Craig Barratt wrote:
> Nils writes:
>
> > > http://www.wiki.sourceforge.net/
> > >
> > >
I think it would be great to have using ClamAV or AVG as an OPTION on
scanning files coming in from clients. If they are found in need, then
need to be quarantined (and admin alarmed at the end of the backup
period once a day) with the normal information kept that the AV software
already does plus
Where I worked one time, to make sure the clients machines were on at
night, we asked the workers to REBOOT, not SHUTDOWN their machine when
they leave.
That way the M$ machines got fresh reboots regularly (in a kind manner)
and the nightly network tasks could do their thing (virus scans, update
p
This is how I moved backuppc home directory on my ubuntu 2.x system, as
root:
/etc/init.d/backuppc stop
mkdir /backup/backuppc
chown backuppc.backuppc /backup/backuppc
cd /var/lib/backuppc;tar cf - . | (cd /opt/backuppc;tar xvf - )
cd ..
mv /var/lib/backuppc /var/lib/backuppc.save
ln -s /var/lib/ba
I have a 2.x install I am using that came in via apt to our ubuntu
backup server. I would like to go to 3.x.
Is there some migration information I have missed? Or does it need to
be a 'wipe and start over' situation?
l' and show me at least 3 different
options. If they are a good VAR, they will be happy to do it, if they
think you are really interested. Talk to their pre-sales SE first, kind
of an interview to see if you believe that 'he knows from where he
speaks'.
I hope this helps. ... J
on the
> > backuppc server, and then still use /etc/hosts.
>
> Ok, you suggest two way of giving the same IP to the two network
> interfaces of the laptop. Can't we give the different IP but the same
> hostname ? (Jack: if yes, how ?)
>
> I also heard of "avahi"
detected by your backuppc server.
Other folks, please speak up in case I am spouting information 'from
where I do not know' :)
On Fri, 2007-09-28 at 19:15 +0200, Sébastien Barthélemy wrote:
> Le vendredi 28 septembre 2007 à 09:55 -0500, Jack Coats a écrit :
> > yes, expounded
from the server using nmblookup. (I
forget the full syntax right now, sorry)
On Fri, 2007-09-28 at 11:30 +0200, Sébastien Barthélemy wrote:
> Le jeudi 27 septembre 2007 à 09:54 -0500, Jack Coats a écrit :
> On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 16:41 +0200, Sébastien Barthélemy wrote:
> >
The short answer is, yes.
On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 16:41 +0200, Sébastien Barthélemy wrote:
> Hello everybody.
>
> I use backuppc at home to backup 4 computers, including a laptop. All of
> them are on a private network behind a wireless router (provided by my
> ISP). The laptop can be connected by
I only ever have seen one backup package that allowed that fine grained
restores. ... SyBack by SyncSort, Inc. on the IBM VM operating system
for CMS users.
Any user could restore any file they owned or could read to wherever
they had write permissions to.
That would be a 'killer enhancement to
Does someone have a 'systems state' backup procedure for a Windows XP
system (I need to do it for a Win2003 server also, but one issue at a
time)?
I used to do IBM TSM backups, and TSM generated a directory in the root
of the windows system drive, and it put all the needed systems state
backup the
The company I work for sells Asterisk based machines and DHCP is a big
deal for VOIP phones.
We find that it helps sometimes to TURN OFF the Linksys DHCP and let our
server do it. You might try that with your backup server. The Linksys
can still be the default gateway to the 'world', but you can
likely before it
> even attempted to. If you go to the host summary and view the error log
> it might give you more detail on what problem was. If that doesn't help
> try running the RsyncClientCmd by hand on the CLI and see what kind of
> error message you get.
>
> Jack
permission to issue sudo /usr/bin/rsync
without being prompted for a password.
I really don't want to clutter up the list, but I will gladly send any config
information that is needed for debugging.
I have been beating my head on this for quite a while, so your assistance is
appreciated. .
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