Re: [BackupPC-users] Can't switch users to BackupPC in terminal?

2018-03-21 Thread Marc Gilliatt
ng the source code of io.c would offer a clue, but it's a pretty generic error, so it's probably time to enable verbose logging on both ends and do some proper debugging. I'd do that by running rsync at the command-line. Robert Trevellyan On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 11:13 AM, Marc Gi

Re: [BackupPC-users] Can't switch users to BackupPC in terminal?

2018-03-13 Thread Marc Gilliatt
list for user discussion, questions and support Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Can't switch users to BackupPC in terminal? I'd say its worth a try. Robert Trevellyan On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 10:30 AM, Marc Gilliatt mailto:m.gilli...@live.co.uk>> wrote: So I should set my ConnectT

Re: [BackupPC-users] Can't switch users to BackupPC in terminal?

2018-03-13 Thread Marc Gilliatt
ng to the man pages, the ConnectTimeout and ServerAlive settings only apply to ssh_config, i.e. the BPC end, whereas the other settings only apply to sshd_config, i.e. the host you are trying to backup. Robert Trevellyan On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 10:12 AM, Marc Gilliatt mailto:m.gilli...@live.

Re: [BackupPC-users] Can't switch users to BackupPC in terminal?

2018-03-13 Thread Marc Gilliatt
e to delve into /etc/ssh_config and /etc/sshd_config. Look for ConnectionTimeout, ClientAliveInterval, ClientAliveCountMax and ServerAliveInterval. More details via man ssh_config and man sshd_config. Robert Trevellyan On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 9:51 AM, Marc Gilliatt mailto:m.gilli...@live.co.uk>

Re: [BackupPC-users] Can't switch users to BackupPC in terminal?

2018-03-13 Thread Marc Gilliatt
SSH connection is timing out. Robert Trevellyan On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 12:46 PM, Marc Gilliatt mailto:m.gilli...@live.co.uk>> wrote: I believe I solved my issue of the hostname, I had to use the IP address for some reason, I cant use the FQDN. Also, when I try to run a backup

Re: [BackupPC-users] Can't switch users to BackupPC in terminal?

2018-03-12 Thread Marc Gilliatt
eter Sent: 12 March 2018 15:54:53 To: backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Can't switch users to BackupPC in terminal? On 12.03.2018 15:09, Marc Gilliatt wrote: > I'm sorry, I'm not too sure on what you mean by working in /srv/backuppc? > > >

Re: [BackupPC-users] Can't switch users to BackupPC in terminal?

2018-03-12 Thread Marc Gilliatt
__ From: Robert Trevellyan Sent: 12 March 2018 15:39:09 To: General list for user discussion, questions and support Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Can't switch users to BackupPC in terminal? It should go in the authorized_keys file, not the known_hosts file. Robert Trev

Re: [BackupPC-users] Can't switch users to BackupPC in terminal?

2018-03-12 Thread Marc Gilliatt
srv/backuppc' (or 'cd /var/lib/backuppc')? On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 10:09 AM, Marc Gilliatt mailto:m.gilli...@live.co.uk>> wrote: I'm sorry, I'm not too sure on what you mean by working in /srv/backuppc? I copied and pasted the RSA key from my backuppc server to

Re: [BackupPC-users] Can't switch users to BackupPC in terminal?

2018-03-12 Thread Marc Gilliatt
ost and append it to the authorized_keys file. Robert Trevellyan On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 5:33 AM, Marc Gilliatt mailto:m.gilli...@live.co.uk>> wrote: Hi Robert, I tried what you had mentioned, but sadly that didn't work. I'm still getting permission denied w

Re: [BackupPC-users] Can't switch users to BackupPC in terminal?

2018-03-12 Thread Marc Gilliatt
exit Robert Trevellyan On Thu, Mar 8, 2018 at 6:05 AM, Marc Gilliatt mailto:m.gilli...@live.co.uk>> wrote: So I've tried to copy my RSA key to one of my hosts whilst I was root, and that worked fine, I could successfully ssh into that host. However, when I switch users to backuppc, a

Re: [BackupPC-users] Can't switch users to BackupPC in terminal?

2018-03-08 Thread Marc Gilliatt
ed now it is to install the new keys Permission denied (publickey,password). $ ssh root@10.16.0.16 I don't know why I cant copy my RSA key to my host whilst I am the backuppc user? ____ From: Marc Gilliatt Sent: 05 March 2018 10:54:23 To: backuppc-users@lists.sou

Re: [BackupPC-users] Can't switch users to BackupPC in terminal?

2018-03-05 Thread Marc Gilliatt
bin/ssh-copy-id: INFO: attempting to log in with the new key(s), to filter out any that are already installed /usr/bin/ssh-copy-id: INFO: 1 key(s) remain to be installed -- if you are prompted now it is to install the new keys Permission denied (publickey,password).

[BackupPC-users] Can't switch users to BackupPC in terminal?

2018-03-05 Thread Marc Gilliatt
I've installed BackupPC 4 and I cant switch users to backuppc to add hosts? I've tried... su - backuppc but it just keeps going back to the terminal, it never switches users. I've tried adding hosts via the GUI, and for some reason, the backups are failing giving the same error message...

Re: [BackupPC-users] Upgrading to backuppc-4.1.3 FAILED!

2018-03-01 Thread Marc Gilliatt
ll of Ubuntu and BackupPC. Is there anything I can do to get BackupPC to work, please? ____ From: Marc Gilliatt Sent: 19 February 2018 09:45:45 To: General list for user discussion, questions and support Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Upgrading to backuppc-4.1.3 FAILED!

Re: [BackupPC-users] Upgrading to backuppc-4.1.3 FAILED!

2018-02-27 Thread Marc Gilliatt
talling BackupPC 4 from git on Ubuntu Xenial 16.04 LTS ...<https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki/Installing-BackupPC-4-from-git-on-Ubuntu-Xenial-16.04-LTS> github.com backuppc - BackupPC is a high-performance, enterprise-grade system for backing up to a server's disk. _____

Re: [BackupPC-users] Upgrading to backuppc-4.1.3 FAILED!

2018-02-20 Thread Marc Gilliatt
I'm having no luck whatsoever with my issue, and I was thinking if I completely uninstalled all of backuppc, every config file etc, could I install the latest version and still keep my previous/archived data, I don't want to lose that? ____ From: Marc Gill

Re: [BackupPC-users] Upgrading to backuppc-4.1.3 FAILED!

2018-02-20 Thread Marc Gilliatt
I'm kinda a newbie to all this - how do I extract the relevant scripts from the .deb file and install them by hand, please? From: Michael Stowe Sent: 19 February 2018 22:56:56 To: General list for user discussion, questions and support Cc: Marc Gilliatt Su

Re: [BackupPC-users] Upgrading to backuppc-4.1.3 FAILED!

2018-02-19 Thread Marc Gilliatt
backuppc status? ____ From: Marc Gilliatt Sent: 19 February 2018 09:45:45 To: General list for user discussion, questions and support Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Upgrading to backuppc-4.1.3 FAILED! Ive just installed the backuppc 4 from a script I found online

Re: [BackupPC-users] Upgrading to backuppc-4.1.3 FAILED!

2018-02-19 Thread Marc Gilliatt
ackupPC-users] Upgrading to backuppc-4.1.3 FAILED! On 2018-02-16 01:05, Marc Gilliatt wrote: I've just tried the _/configure.pl --batch --cgi-dir /var/www/cgi-bin/BackupPC --data-dir /var/lib/backuppc --backuppc01 backuppc --html-dir /var/www/html/BackupPC' _command, and it hasn

Re: [BackupPC-users] Upgrading to backuppc-4.1.3 FAILED!

2018-02-16 Thread Marc Gilliatt
cgi?action=summary HTTP/1.1" 500 809 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/64.0.3282.140 Safari/537.36" From: Marc Gilliatt Sent: 16 February 2018 09:05:19 To: Michael Stowe Cc: Genera

Re: [BackupPC-users] Upgrading to backuppc-4.1.3 FAILED!

2018-02-16 Thread Marc Gilliatt
y way to roll back to my previous version of BackupPC please? ____ From: Michael Stowe Sent: 15 February 2018 06:23:19 To: Marc Gilliatt Cc: General list for user discussion, questions and support Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Upgrading to backuppc-4.1.3 FAILED! FROM: Michael Stowe

Re: [BackupPC-users] Upgrading to backuppc-4.1.3 FAILED!

2018-02-15 Thread Marc Gilliatt
lation or upgrade for BackupPC? If this is an upgrade please tell me the full path of the existing BackupPC configuration file (eg: /etc/BackupPC/config.pl). Otherwise, just hit return. It just keeps repeating itself? From: Michael Stowe Sent: 13 February 2018 09:

Re: [BackupPC-users] Upgrading to backuppc-4.1.3 FAILED!

2018-02-13 Thread Marc Gilliatt
ppc --hostname backuppc --html-dir /var/www/html/BackupPC From: Michael Stowe Sent: 12 February 2018 21:28 To: Marc Gilliatt Cc: General list for user discussion, questions and support Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Upgrading to backuppc-4.1.3 FAILED! On 2018-02-12 12

Re: [BackupPC-users] Upgrading to backuppc-4.1.3 FAILED!

2018-02-12 Thread Marc Gilliatt
Thanks for the quick response. How do I update the config.pl file, please? From: Michael Stowe Sent: 12 February 2018 20:17 To: General list for user discussion, questions and support Cc: Marc Gilliatt Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Upgrading to backuppc-4.1.3

[BackupPC-users] Upgrading to backuppc-4.1.3 FAILED!

2018-02-12 Thread Marc Gilliatt
I tried to download backuppc-4.1.3 tar file from the backuppc website. The upgrade went fine, I went through the upgrade steps and no error was shown, however, the backuppc.server won't start now? In the GUI, I'm getting. Error: Unable to connect to BackupPC server This CGI script (/backuppc

[BackupPC-users] SMB Windows share not backing up - NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED listing \System Volume Information\SRM\*

2018-01-09 Thread Marc Gilliatt
I've emailed before in the past regarding my Windows share not performing its first full backup. And I've lost the email thread so I apologise for emailing again regarding the same issue. I'm using smb for the Xfer Method, I have given the user full permissions and it's still not completing its

[BackupPC-users] Backing up a NFS share on Windows using BackupPC

2017-10-16 Thread Marc Gilliatt
Hi How do I backup an NFS share on a Windows server through BackupPC? I have a share that I would like to backup. I’m using BackupPC on Ubuntu, I’ve never backed up before on a Windows server before. Is the task as simple as backing up a Linux server? Do I still use rsync or smb? I’m not sure h