Re: [BackupPC-users] issue with two computers

2024-07-23 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2024-07-23 07:03, Johnny PINSON wrote: Hey there, here is my command (typed from a shell) /usr/bin/rsync_bpc --bpc-top-dir /data/BackupPC --bpc-host-name evo --bpc-share-name /root --bpc-bkup-num 0 --bpc-bkup-comp 3 --bpc-bkup-prevnum -1 --bpc-bkup-prevcomp -1 --bpc-bkup-inode0 2 --bpc-at

Re: [BackupPC-users] issue with two computers

2024-07-19 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2024-07-19 04:36, Johnny PINSON wrote: Good afternoon, I'm facingan issue and would request some help please. All computers at work are using backuppc, whether running linux, macos and windows and it works fine but two servers are having problems : - I can log on those computers from serve

Re: [BackupPC-users] Windows Server Backup Errors (SMB)

2024-05-20 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2024-05-20 13:46, Mark Murawski wrote: Running: /usr/local/bin/smbclient win2k3.intellasoft.lan\\Storage -U Administrator -E -d 1 -c tarmode\ full -Tc - It looks like the backup does back up a large amount of data from the Share, but I'm not sure exactly what's the best way to tell wha

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up Windows 11

2024-03-12 Thread Michael Stowe
#x27;re all set. On 2024-03-12 08:42, Dave Bachmann wrote: Yes, I'm using Samba. Why wouldn't it cover everything? I believe I have all my file/folder permissions properly set but I don't understand what you meant by "junctions to file semantics". Please clarify.

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up Windows 11

2024-03-11 Thread Michael Stowe
You're likely running into a few unrelated issues, from dealing with junctions to file semantics, to Windows permissions. Are you using SMB/CIFS? Because that's unlikely to cover everything you want. On 2024-03-11 14:41, Dave Bachmann wrote: I've recently added a Windows 11 machine to a hom

Re: [BackupPC-users] Setup for Windows backup with rsync

2024-01-27 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2024-01-27 10:16, Stephen Blackwell wrote: Well, this is where I'm a bit confused. Who is the "backup user"? The NAS has one user called steve. If I ssh into the NAS and enter the docker that Backuppc is running in, that has one user called backuppc. There is no user called backuppc on the W

Re: [BackupPC-users] Setup for Windows backup with rsync

2024-01-26 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2024-01-26 13:46, Stephen Blackwell wrote: I'm just getting back to this. I've set up ssh on my Windows machine and I verified that I can log in from a linux box using a username and password. I thought I would be able to set backuppc up to use rsync by looking at whatever error messages

Re: [BackupPC-users] Different strategies on same host

2023-06-29 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2023-06-28 15:49, Norman J. Goldstein wrote: I want to have a different strategy for backing up photos than for backing up documents that I am editing.  Basically, it would be a rare event to do a full backup of my photos.   I assume that the host name, say myPC, must correspond to myPC.pl i

Re: [BackupPC-users] Need help for BackupPC and windows client

2023-06-22 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2023-06-22 06:31, Patrick Begou wrote: Hi, I'm using BackupPC for a while (my version is a little bit old: 3.3.1 😁) with Linux clients. I'm trying to setup a windows client (the only windows client I have, all others are Linux). On this windows laptop there is a firewall closing all the

Re: [BackupPC-users] smb2cli_req_compound_submit: Insufficient credits. 0 available, 1 needed

2022-01-03 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2022-01-03 11:38, Ademir Rodrigues wrote: Hello Can I help me with this problem? The server is return this message e backup is partial XferErr NT_STATUS_INTERNAL_ERROR listing smb2cli_req_compound_submit: Insufficient credits. 0 available, 1 needed The first, and most obvious, advice

Re: [BackupPC-users] smbclient throws NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED when listing Documents folder on Windows 10

2021-09-20 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2021-09-20 18:44, Aaron Anderson wrote: I'm using a docker image of BackupPC 4.4 which has smbclient 4.14. My backups have been SMB failing on a Win 10 client and I'm trying to figure out why. My command line is: /usr/bin/smbclient MACHINE\\Documents -U USER%PASSWORD -E -d 5 -c tarmo

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC 4.4.0: Incremental smb backup is skipping not backed-up files under certain conditions

2021-06-11 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2021-05-26 07:01, Jens Potthast wrote: Hi, My Problem: When doing an incremental backup with smb, only files with mtime newer than the date and time of the last backup are being backed up. To reproduce: If I copy a file with an old ctime, the file is not included in the backup even if it

Re: [BackupPC-users] Conf{PoolNightlyDigestCheckPercent} on btrfs and zfs

2021-05-04 Thread Michael Huntley
On 2021-05-04 00:45, Ghislain Adnet wrote: No, because that's like turning off the airbags on your car because you already have seatbelts. thanks for your answer, i am trying to understand more about this. If this check is to prevent bitrot or disk corruption of an existing file, and if rsy

Re: [BackupPC-users] Conf{PoolNightlyDigestCheckPercent} on btrfs and zfs

2021-05-02 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2021-04-30 00:09, Ghislain Adnet wrote: hi, Should this setting put to 0 on ZFS or BTRFS as the filesystem allready do checksumming and will detect issues ? No, because that's like turning off the airbags on your car because you already have seatbelts.

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc errors

2021-04-01 Thread Michael Stowe
NT_STATUS_IO_TIMEOUT seems pretty straightforward On 2021-04-01 03:21, s.chimere--- via BackupPC-users wrote: Hello Norm, Thanks I will do some more digging and reach out again if you don't mind. Regards. Symbol. From: Norman Goldstein Sent: Thursday, April 1, 2021 6:15 AM To: backuppc-u

Re: [BackupPC-users] btrfs questions

2021-03-06 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2021-03-06 01:55, John Botha (SourceForge) wrote: Hi, I am about to take the plunge with BackupPC, and would appreciate input on the following three points regarding using btrfs for the data (bit rot protection is key for me). From what I've read, btrfs (like many file systems) suffers o

Re: [BackupPC-users] Which filesystem for external backup drive?

2021-02-11 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2021-02-11 05:45, G.W. Haywood via BackupPC-users wrote: Hi there, On Thu, 11 Feb 2021, backu...@kosowsky.org wrote: Michael Stowe wrote at about 20:50:45 + on Wednesday, February 10, 2021: > On 2021-02-09 16:34, G.W. Haywood via BackupPC-users wrote: > > Not su

Re: [BackupPC-users] Which filesystem for external backup drive?

2021-02-10 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2021-02-09 16:34, G.W. Haywood via BackupPC-users wrote: Hi there, On Tue, 9 Feb 2021, backu...@kosowsky.org wrote: G.W. Haywood via BackupPC-users wrote at about 14:26:30 + on Friday, February 5, 2021: > > [Red Hat is] dropping BTRFS because they can't support it in the way they'd > l

Re: [BackupPC-users] Which filesystem for external backup drive?

2021-02-05 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2021-02-05 06:26, G.W. Haywood via BackupPC-users wrote: Hi there, On Thu, 4 Feb 2021, Kenneth Porter wrote: On Wed, 3 Feb 2021, backuppc@kosowsky wrote: > On Wed, 3 Feb 2021, Kenneth Porter wrote: > > > I'm deploying a system with an external (USB) 1.5 TB drive. How should I > > format it?

Re: [BackupPC-users] Which filesystem for external backup drive?

2021-02-04 Thread Michael Stowe
27;s proven to be excellent in a mirror or singles. If you're using Red Hat, you might want to go with ext4, otherwise, btrfs or ext4 are excellent choices. xfs isn't. -- Michael ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.

Re: [BackupPC-users] Imnproving backup speed

2021-01-07 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2021-01-07 00:39, Sorin Srbu wrote: Hello all! Trying to improve the backup speed with BPC and looked into setting noatime in fstab. But this article states some backup programs may bork if noatime is set. https://lonesysadmin.net/2013/12/08/gain-30-linux-disk-performance-noatime-nodira

Re: [BackupPC-users] Windows (rsyncd) Backup issues

2021-01-02 Thread Michael Martinek
real pain. One question I have about VSS – once I have that set up, isn’t that “enough” of a backup? Why would I then want to back up using BackupPC? Or am I missing something? Thanks! Clay From: Michael Stowe mailto:michael.st...@member.mensa.org>> Sent: Friday, January 1, 202

Re: [BackupPC-users] Windows (rsyncd) Backup issues

2021-01-01 Thread Michael Stowe
easonably good at Linux; but, "know enough to be dangerous" about Windows. Can you expand a bit? Thanks! From: Michael Stowe Sent: Friday, January 1, 2021 11:32 AM To: General list for user discussion, questions and support Cc: cl...@n7qnm.net Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Windows

Re: [BackupPC-users] Windows (rsyncd) Backup issues

2021-01-01 Thread Michael Stowe
We'll probably need a few more details than that to provide specific help, but the symptoms you describe are consistent with not running rsyncd on a shadow volume. On 2021-01-01 09:02, cl...@n7qnm.net wrote: Just started (trying to) use rsyncd to back up a Windows 10 laptop. It's been runn

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup only directory structure not any files

2020-12-18 Thread Michael Martinek
If it is all on the same share then it may not be so easy. If you want heavy customization, it may be easier to write a bash script that acts as a wrapper to rsync. Then based on the $hostIP, $shareName, $fileList, you can build and execute a custom rsync command (including using "rsync $@ " to

Re: [BackupPC-users] Incremental files missing when supplied

2020-12-10 Thread Michael Martinek
her missing files that the database has records referencing, or we could end up with files that exist but the database has no records of. Restoring in either case would lead to bad data, so the solution to that problem was to be explicit on what gets included in an incremental backup. Hope th

[BackupPC-users] Incremental files missing when supplied

2020-12-07 Thread Michael Martinek
: - I have been at this now for a few days and I have pretty much run out of ideas. If anyone can assist or has an idea then I would greatly appreciate a hand. Thanks in advance, Michael Martinek ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists

Re: [BackupPC-users] backup Windows10 clients

2020-10-22 Thread Michael Huntley
Try /cygdrive/c/users/ktenny Cheers! > On Oct 22, 2020, at 4:47 PM, Kent Tenney wrote: > >  > BackupPC 4.4, > cygwin-rsyncd-3.1.2.1 > > I've been trying for some time to get this working, > been unable to get past a chdir error > > in C:\rsyncd\rsyncd.log: > rsync: chdir //users/ktenney fa

Re: [BackupPC-users] backup Windows10 clients

2020-10-04 Thread Michael Stowe
There are a few problems to solve: open files, permissions, and the transfer itself. The transfer, IMHO, is the easy part. I've currently settled on a combination of Windows Linux subsystem for sshd, then escalate the privileges and transfer the shadow copies. It has proven reliable and

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc Errors

2020-08-04 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2020-08-04 03:55, s.chimere--- via BackupPC-users wrote: Hello, Good day Hope everyone is doing okay amid the pandemic, I have been using backuppc since last year and it has been working okay, but recently pings from the backuppc started failing I fixed that using this https://u21823

Re: [BackupPC-users] Necro'd: Use S3 buckets for the pool

2020-07-20 Thread Michael Huntley
I found S3 slower than my dead grandma trying to cross the street. No offense grandma D! Cheers, Michael > On Jul 20, 2020, at 5:37 PM, Kris Lou via BackupPC-users > wrote: > >  > This hasn't been addressed for a while, and I didn't find anything in recent >

Re: [BackupPC-users] config.pl "built-in" script to backup Windows shares with Virtual Shadow Service Copy

2020-07-01 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2020-06-30 19:35, backu...@kosowsky.org wrote: Michael Stowe wrote at about 23:09:55 + on Tuesday, June 30, 2020: > On 2020-06-29 21:51, backu...@kosowsky.org wrote: > > Over the years, many have asked and struggled with backing up remote > > Windows shares with shadow

Re: [BackupPC-users] config.pl "built-in" script to backup Windows shares with Virtual Shadow Service Copy

2020-06-30 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2020-06-29 21:51, backu...@kosowsky.org wrote: Over the years, many have asked and struggled with backing up remote Windows shares with shadow copies. Shadow copies are useful since they allow both the backup to be 'consistent' and allow for reading files that are otherwise 'busy' and unreadab

Re: [BackupPC-users] How does --checksum work in v4?

2020-06-08 Thread Michael Huntley
I’m fine with both action items. I back up millions of emails and so far the restores I’ve performed have never been an issue. mph > On Jun 8, 2020, at 3:01 PM, Craig Barratt via BackupPC-users > wrote: > >  > Jeff & Guillermo, > > Agreed - it's better to scan small subsets of the pool.

Re: [BackupPC-users] How does BackupPc handle renamed files

2020-06-02 Thread Michael Huntley
BackupPC creates an digest of every file. You can copy and rename identical files and BackupPC will only ever backup a single version of the file based on its digest. Cheers, Mph > On Jun 1, 2020, at 11:30 PM, user655362...@outlook.com wrote: > > Are then renamed files transferred again ? >

Re: [BackupPC-users] how to install SCGI , exactly??

2020-05-26 Thread Michael Walker - Rotech Motor Ltd .
Well... CPAN certainly wasn't working. So I tried installing from the tarball: root@redacted:/usr/share/SCGI# perl Build.PL Created MYMETA.yml and MYMETA.json Creating new 'Build' script for 'SCGI' version '0.6' root@redacted:/usr/share/SCGI# ./Build Building SCGI root@redacted:/usr/share/SCGI# .

Re: [BackupPC-users] BUG? Using --omit-dir-times in rsync backup sets all dir dates to beginning of Epoch

2020-05-24 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2020-05-23 23:47, backu...@kosowsky.org wrote: Regarding your comment: However, I don't think it makes sense to "fix" it, since a backup shouldn't add metadata that changes each time you backup some data that hasn't changed. Actually, the whole point of --ignore-dir-times is that the dir

Re: [BackupPC-users] Testing full restore of backuppc... MULTIPLE BUGS???

2020-05-22 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2020-05-22 16:49, backu...@kosowsky.org wrote: Michael Stowe wrote at about 22:18:50 + on Friday, May 22, 2020: > On 2020-05-22 11:42, backu...@kosowsky.org wrote: > > 1. Sockets are restored as regular files not special files --> BUG? > > Why would one back

Re: [BackupPC-users] BUG? Using --omit-dir-times in rsync backup sets all dir dates to beginning of Epoch

2020-05-22 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2020-05-22 16:52, backu...@kosowsky.org wrote: Michael Stowe wrote at about 23:46:54 + on Friday, May 22, 2020: > On 2020-05-22 16:19, backu...@kosowsky.org wrote: > > Michael Stowe wrote at about 22:24:13 + on Friday, May 22, 2020: > > > On 2020-

Re: [BackupPC-users] BUG? Using --omit-dir-times in rsync backup sets all dir dates to beginning of Epoch

2020-05-22 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2020-05-22 16:19, backu...@kosowsky.org wrote: Michael Stowe wrote at about 22:24:13 + on Friday, May 22, 2020: > On 2020-05-22 09:15, backu...@kosowsky.org wrote: > What it does is omit directories from the modification times that it > sets. In other words, you're tel

Re: [BackupPC-users] BUG? Using --omit-dir-times in rsync backup sets all dir dates to beginning of Epoch

2020-05-22 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2020-05-22 09:15, backu...@kosowsky.org wrote: If I add '--omit-dir-times' to $Conf{RsyncArgsExtra}, then the backups set all the directory dates to the beginning of the Epoch. For example drwxr-xr-x 3 backuppc www-data 1024 Dec 31 1969 pc/ (note this is 1/1/70 00:00:00 GMT) This is i

Re: [BackupPC-users] Testing full restore of backuppc... MULTIPLE BUGS???

2020-05-22 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2020-05-22 11:42, backu...@kosowsky.org wrote: 1. Sockets are restored as regular files not special files --> BUG? Why would one back up a socket? If you really think this is sensible, you should be able to accomplish it with "--devices --specials" as part of your rsync command lines. Fr

Re: [BackupPC-users] how to install SCGI , exactly??

2020-05-22 Thread Michael Walker - Rotech Motor Ltd .
lt;mailto:backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net>" mailto:backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net>> Sent: 5/22/2020 1:00:20 AM Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] how to install SCGI , exactly?? On 5/21/20 7:54 PM, Michael Walker - Rotech Motor Ltd. wrote: I cannot find any details on how to

[BackupPC-users] how to install SCGI , exactly??

2020-05-21 Thread Michael Walker - Rotech Motor Ltd .
Installed... General Server Information * The servers PID is 1302, on host [redacted], version 4.3.2, started at 2020-05-21 09:18. But cant launch a backup yet - I'm stuck with the error 2020-05-21 16:44:49 scgi : BackupPC_Admin_SCGI: can't load perl SCGI module - install via CPAN; exit

Re: [BackupPC-users] Tar exited with error 1280 () status

2020-05-20 Thread Hoeft, Michael
For all those who have experience with Perl this might be clear, I finally came up with it: You can't use quotation marks on the command line. After I removed them from the password, it worked. -- Originalnachricht -- Von: "Hoeft, Michael" mailto:ho...@ottoheuss.com&g

[BackupPC-users] Tar exited with error 1280 () status

2020-05-18 Thread Hoeft, Michael
e error is probably thrown in the file Xfer/Tar.pm in line 183. "sysread" returns the number of successfully read bytes. In this case it seems that only 0 bytes can be read from "pipeTar". The question is why? The feeling is that I have already tried every possible command

Re: [BackupPC-users] Filesystem Recommendation for 100 TB

2020-04-28 Thread Michael Huntley
I think zfs is perfectly acceptable as well. Cheers, Mph > On Apr 28, 2020, at 9:31 AM, Robert Trevellyan > wrote: > >  > Any reason not to use ZFS? > > Robert Trevellyan > > >> On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 11:59 AM Andrew Maksymowsky >> wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I believe the last time this w

Re: [BackupPC-users] Filesystem Recommendation for 100 TB

2020-04-28 Thread Michael Huntley
I’m still enjoying xfs. Cheers! Mph > On Apr 28, 2020, at 8:58 AM, Andrew Maksymowsky > wrote: > > Hello, > > I believe the last time this was asked was a few years ago and I was > wondering if anything has changed. > We’ve been running backuppc for a few years and now have new server for

Re: [BackupPC-users] V4 - eventual effects of wrong sequence when removing Host

2020-04-18 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2020-04-17 03:20, R.C. wrote: Hi all Is the following Host remove sequence correct? - remove Host backups (one by one) with BackupPC_backupDelete - run BackupPC_nightly 0 255 - remove host from hosts file - reload server configuration - remove pc/ folder manually What would happen if a wrong

Re: [BackupPC-users] {Disarmed} Using ssh to enable shadow copies, rsyncd on Windows

2020-03-12 Thread Michael Stowe
l a set of scripts on the Windows host. On 2020-03-12 03:15, Pete Geenhuizen wrote: Michael, Which binaries that you've packaged are you referring to and if needed where can I find them? Thanks Pete On 3/12/20 1:26 AM, Michael Stowe wrote: With each security update and version bump of S

[BackupPC-users] Using ssh to enable shadow copies, rsyncd on Windows

2020-03-11 Thread Michael Stowe
With each security update and version bump of Samba, winexe is becoming more and more finicky, so I thought it time to see if Window's own ssh could be used for the same purpose. While it's not as straightforward as I'd hoped, it does work and doesn't require anything other than the binaries I'd

Re: [BackupPC-users] Full backup will not complete

2020-03-10 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2020-03-09 02:11, George Campbell wrote: Hello, I am new to this list, so please let me know if there is anything missing from my question... I have setup backuppc as a docker (version 4.3.2) on an Ubuntu server. My client is a Windows 10 running RPC. A full backup runs and I can see lots

Re: [BackupPC-users] Incrementals and Full backups on v4

2020-02-13 Thread Michael Huntley
>> with *ALL* backups available totally ? >> I'll be able to restore *any* file from *any* backup , in example, >> even from the #18 ? >> >>> Il giorno gio 13 feb 2020 alle ore 16:07 Michael Huntley >>> ha scritto: >>> >>> Hi Gandalf

Re: [BackupPC-users] Incrementals and Full backups on v4

2020-02-13 Thread Michael Huntley
Hi Gandalf, Not with v4. V4 uses reverse deltas, so your most recent backup is a filled, or complete backup. V4 calculates the difference between today and yesterday, and so on backwards. Just think of it as incrementals going back in time and carrying your full with you each day. You hav

Re: [BackupPC-users] Windows 10 fell into hibernation when "rsyncd" backup is done

2020-01-20 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2020-01-17 10:05, DI Harald ARNOLD wrote: Hi to all, I am a newbee at this list. I found nothing about this thread in old archives. I installed backuppc on a linux openSuSE Tumbleweed box to backup two methods of a "Windows 10" box by "rsyncd". Everything is working fine, both "methods" are

Re: [BackupPC-users] Win10 rsync and shadow

2020-01-11 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2020-01-09 12:23, Greg Harris wrote: Anyone tried enabling the in-built Win10 SSH server and then using straight rsync, not rsyncd, with cygwin-rsync client? Additionally, and maybe I should create a separate thread, but does the cygwin-rsync client that's bundled on the GitHub page use th

Re: [BackupPC-users] Issue with configure.pl not recognizing user

2020-01-02 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2020-01-02 14:14, White FrosT wrote: Thanks Michaelm "passwd backuppc" seems to work fine, but the configure script does not. I did the modifications using usermod, useradd etc. Is there anyone that knows the configure script in depth and can help me with a step by step debug of this issue?

Re: [BackupPC-users] Issue with configure.pl not recognizing user

2019-12-31 Thread Michael Stowe
directory vipw: /opt/etc/passwd is unchanged Neither does adding a shell to the user (/sbin/nologin) change anything. Thanks for any additional idea's! Op di 31 dec. 2019 om 16:54 schreef mlm : On 12/30/2019 6:57 PM, Michael Stowe wrote: On 2019-12-30 12:24, White FrosT wrote: Dea

Re: [BackupPC-users] Issue with configure.pl not recognizing user

2019-12-30 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2019-12-30 12:24, White FrosT wrote: Dear list, I have an issue installing backuppc on my new network disk running Linux 4.2.8 ARMv71. I think I have managed all preconditions in perl (v5.28.1) and are ready to install, but I run into an issue with configure.pl [1]. It doesn't let me set the

Re: [BackupPC-users] Does backuppc support bare metal restore?

2019-11-27 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2019-11-25 05:51, Marek Grossman wrote: Hello, I can't find the clear answer on backuppc WEB site, so I ask you here. Does BackupPC support bare metal restore in nowadays or not (last notice is from 2007)? Is there any other way to restore completely Windows 7/10 installation with mo

Re: [BackupPC-users] home directory empty

2019-09-28 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2019-09-28 04:34, Bob Wooden wrote: > I recently built (on newer hardware) a BackupPC v.4.3.1 on CentOS 7 using > hobbes1069/BackupPC repo. > > Letting BackupPC do backups and time has passed (couple of weeks) and this > morning I discover, while "browsing backups" that the /home directory

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC_dump stalls with SIGTTOU on Windows client using rsync

2019-09-04 Thread Michael Huntley
Perhaps cranking up log level to 8 or 9 may help. Mph > On Sep 4, 2019, at 2:56 PM, Mike Hughes wrote: > > No responses. Too much detail? Let me rephrase it: > > Windows rsync backup no worky! > plz halp!!! > :-D > >> On Thu, 2019-08-15 at 14:44 -0500, Mike Hughes wrote: >> Working to add a

Re: [BackupPC-users] smbclient gets NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED

2019-08-30 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2019-08-29 19:55, Bob McClure Jr wrote: On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 10:48:45PM +, Michael Stowe wrote: On 2019-08-29 14:47, Michael Stowe wrote: > On 2019-08-29 13:02, Bob McClure Jr wrote: > >> I'm at wit's end -- a short trip. I have a very simple setup of a

Re: [BackupPC-users] smbclient gets NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED

2019-08-29 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2019-08-29 14:47, Michael Stowe wrote: > On 2019-08-29 13:02, Bob McClure Jr wrote: > >> I'm at wit's end -- a short trip. I have a very simple setup of a Linux >> server (CentOS 6) running BackupPC to back up a Win 10 Pro machine. BackupPC >> is BackupP

Re: [BackupPC-users] smbclient gets NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED

2019-08-29 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2019-08-29 13:02, Bob McClure Jr wrote: I'm at wit's end -- a short trip. I have a very simple setup of a Linux server (CentOS 6) running BackupPC to back up a Win 10 Pro machine. BackupPC is BackupPC-3.3.1-5.el6.x86_64 from the EPEL repo. On the Win 10 box, I created a normal user "backuppc

Re: [BackupPC-users] Why ping before backup?

2019-08-08 Thread Michael Huntley
It’s simply to check if the host is answering. I use ‘echo’ Cheers, mph > On Aug 8, 2019, at 10:05 PM, Kenneth Porter wrote: > > Why does BackupPC ping the host to be backed up before starting its backup. > (I'm using rsyncd.) I'm thinking of replacing the ping command with "rsync > $host::

Re: [BackupPC-users] PoolSizeNightlyUpdatePeriod and BackupPCNightlyPeriod

2019-08-08 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2019-08-08 02:08, Gandalf Corvotempesta wrote: Any advice on this ? I have to keep the nighly job as light as possible Il giorno ven 19 lug 2019 alle ore 11:31 Gandalf Corvotempesta ha scritto: On official docs, max value is 16. As I have a very slow server with a very big pool, is 16 the

Re: [BackupPC-users] Starting BackupPC server manually

2019-08-03 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2019-08-03 14:14, Norman Goldstein wrote: > On 2019-08-03 2:08 p.m., Michael Stowe wrote: > > On 2019-08-03 08:24, Norman Goldstein wrote: Am running Fedora 30 x86-64, BP > 4.3.1 > Am not able to start the BackupPC server manually. > > I would like to be able to run t

Re: [BackupPC-users] Starting BackupPC server manually

2019-08-03 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2019-08-03 08:24, Norman Goldstein wrote: > Am running Fedora 30 x86-64, BP 4.3.1 > Am not able to start the BackupPC server manually. > > I would like to be able to run the BC server manually, to be able to debug > into it. When I do, as root: > > systemctl stop backuppc > > this stops th

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC_tarCreate quits when a backup starts

2019-07-16 Thread Michael Selway
ackupPC_tarCreate. At 23:38:09 the BackupPC_tarCreate finishes with a success exit status. The tar file it made is perfectly formed but a fraction of the size it should be. Help! Happy to debug, though I'm not familiar with BackupPC's internals. Any theories as to where to look wou

Re: [BackupPC-users] Problem with multibyte character

2019-06-15 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2019-06-15 19:20, backu...@kosowsky.org wrote: I am running backuppc 4.3.0 on Linux Ubuntu 18.04 I have a file copied over from an old Windows installation to my Linux server with name: -rwx-- 1 user1 user1 28672 May 11 2005 'r'$'\351''ponse.doc' This file gives an error under backupp

Re: [BackupPC-users] BACKUPPC V4 - rsync-bpc error connecting to client

2019-06-07 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2019-06-05 12:52, David Wynn via BackupPC-users wrote: > Hi Mike ... don't know if I replied correctly to this or not And NO - I > have not changed the RsyncBackupPCPath, it is still /usr/local/bin/rsync_bpc. > And YES, the 192.168.1.6 is the IP address to our Netstore device. Just >

Re: [BackupPC-users] restore issue on backuppc 4.1.5

2019-06-04 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2019-06-04 07:33, Philip Parsons (Velindre - Medical Physics) wrote: > Thanks for the reply Michael. > > I've tried to restore to another share on another server and am getting > NT_STATUS_BAD_NETWORK_NAME > > I don't want to overwrite the existing dat

Re: [BackupPC-users] restore issue on backuppc 4.1.5

2019-05-22 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2019-05-22 05:32, Philip Parsons (Velindre - Medical Physics) wrote: Hi, I'm having an issue with restoring to a share and am trying to deal with this before it becomes a need to restore situation! We're using BackupPC v4.1.5. I've had the following error when trying to restore: Running: /

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backups missing entire directories: "file has vanished"

2019-05-07 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2019-05-07 13:39, Raman Gupta wrote: Certain directories (and their contents) on one of my hosts are not getting backed up at all, even with a "Full" backup. I use rsync as my Xfer method, with BackupPC 4.3.0 on Fedora (rpms BackupPC-4.3.0-1.fc29.x86_64, BackupPC-XS-0.58-1.fc29.x86_64). Look

Re: [BackupPC-users] Rsync backup does not start

2019-05-06 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2019-05-06 00:26, THÉBAULT Arnaud wrote: HI, I am new to backuppc.. again ( I was used to work with it nearly 15 years ago…) I have an issue when trying to backup a Windows 10 computer with rsyncd. When initiating the backup from the backupPC GUI, it never starts. There is no error messa

Re: [BackupPC-users] RsyncClientCmd

2019-04-30 Thread Michael Huntley
Hi Stefan, On 2019-04-30 08:28, Stefan Schumacher wrote: Hello, in BackupPC 3 i used a modified RsyncClientCmd to nice and ionice rsync on the backup hosts so that it would stay responsive even when being backupped and under webserver load at the same time. The variable is called RsyncClientCmd

Re: [BackupPC-users] Partial backup is not saved

2019-04-29 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2019-04-29 08:08, Tapio Lehtonen wrote: I split a host to two backups, because dump directory contains virtual machine dump files which are big and are taken every night. So I needed shorter keep time for those backups to not run out of disk on the backup host. But this new backup setup does

Re: [BackupPC-users] Windows client restore

2019-04-28 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2019-04-28 09:15, Gopal Dhapa wrote: Hello support Team. When I use backuppc in Linux client it's working okay but windows client is not specify director backup it's take full c drive backup. Also windows client backup not restore it's given my status access denied using smb xfer method. Ple

Re: [BackupPC-users] ssh tunnel established, but backuppc doesn't begin backup

2019-04-25 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2019-04-24 14:21, Justin Magers wrote: I'm trying to tunnel through a computer (HOST) to which I (justin) have ssh access to so that rsyncd has a secure connection for BackupPC. The tunnel is setup using DumpPreUserCmd: $sshPath -M -S ~/.ssh/sockets/stradella -fN -l justin -L 8874:stradella.

Re: [BackupPC-users] Fwd: Re: backuppc behind nginx which is on another host

2019-04-19 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2019-04-19 06:11, Mathew Perry wrote: one step further. I now can access the web interface partly. difficult to describe. everything is top down scrollable, over 3 pages downwards. no css or so formating. - FROM: Michael Stowe SENT: Friday, April 19, 2019 5:25 AM TO

Re: [BackupPC-users] Fwd: Re: backuppc behind nginx which is on another host

2019-04-19 Thread Michael Stowe
ehind nginx are both http or https. As for example chrome is using HSTS, the domain runs https for a long time. I don't think that i need to change a whole working and running nginx conf on higher level than on the backuppc directive. ----- FROM: Michael Stowe SENT: Thursday

Re: [BackupPC-users] Fwd: Re: backuppc behind nginx which is on another host

2019-04-19 Thread Michael Stowe
runs https for a long time. I don't think that i need to change a whole working and running nginx conf on higher level than on the backuppc directive. ----- FROM: Michael Stowe SENT: Thursday, April 18, 2019 7:39 AM TO: General list for user discussion, questions and

Re: [BackupPC-users] Fwd: Re: backuppc behind nginx which is on another host

2019-04-18 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2019-04-18 01:40, Mathew Perry wrote: hmmm... no! The Requested URL /BackupPC_Admin was not found on this server FYI: the url which "comes back" from nginx looks like: https://u2182357.ct.sendgrid.net/wf/click?upn=rBK8reUlX8Sxr7Iz1fV-2F7T8nrzTGGnwx9UNS1WVjQxnVSBGmhdBbJoi5j5f7UDEJ_OypFYC

Re: [BackupPC-users] Fwd: Re: backuppc behind nginx which is on another host

2019-04-18 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2019-04-17 21:27, Mathew Perry wrote: you explained it exactly. But i've posted my directive already. If i would know what to do know with my nginx config, i wouldn't ask here. 🙂 Ah. Let's fix it. This should suffice: location /backuppc/ { proxy_pass https://u2182357.ct.sendgrid.net/wf

Re: [BackupPC-users] Fwd: Re: backuppc behind nginx which is on another host

2019-04-17 Thread Michael Stowe
sible. - FROM: Michael Stowe SENT: Tuesday, April 16, 2019 4:40 AM TO: General list for user discussion, questions and support CC: Mathew Perry SUBJECT: Re: [BackupPC-users] Fwd: Re: backuppc behind nginx which is on another host On 2019-04-16 01:23, Mathew Perry wrote: Hi Michael the example was

Re: [BackupPC-users] Fwd: Re: backuppc behind nginx which is on another host

2019-04-16 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2019-04-16 01:23, Mathew Perry wrote: Hi Michael the example was from local LAN. backuppc is running and working and nginx runs with a lot other services behind it. I'm not that new to nginx, more a "new" user to backuppc. normally the directive /pathto/ needs a change in

Re: [BackupPC-users] Fwd: Re: backuppc behind nginx which is on another host

2019-04-15 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2019-04-15 12:13, Mathew Perry wrote: it's not that easy 🙂 Did you ensure that it was working locally first? with this directive: location /backuppc/ { proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr; proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for; proxy_set_header X-Forwa

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc behind nginx which is on another host

2019-04-15 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2019-04-15 01:19, Mathew Perry wrote: Hi i'm using latest backuppc and want to connect emotely to it. I have nginx on another host, not on same host where backuppc is running on. So, i'm struggling to get the nginx config working to connect to the backuppc host. The configs on the internet

Re: [BackupPC-users] Xfer errors (especially bpc_sysCall_checkFileMatch(/path/to/file): file doesn't exist)

2019-04-05 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2019-04-05 01:11, Daniel Berteaud wrote: Thanks for your response Michael, some comments inline Le 2019-04-04 23:22, Michael Stowe a écrit : On 2019-04-03 05:02, Daniel Berteaud wrote: First, as soon as there's a single error (most common are "file has vanished"), Bac

Re: [BackupPC-users] Xfer errors (especially bpc_sysCall_checkFileMatch(/path/to/file): file doesn't exist)

2019-04-04 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2019-04-03 05:02, Daniel Berteaud wrote: Am I the only one having this kind of errors, or the only one caring about the errors ? Cheers Daniel Le 12/03/2019 à 08:56, Daniel Berteaud a écrit : Hi. I've been using BackupPC since the past 13 years (starting with 2.1.2 I think), with great

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup failed on SERVER (rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(629) [generator=3.0.9.3])

2019-02-27 Thread Michael Huntley
Hi, On 2019-02-27 08:06, Mariano Sanfilippo wrote: Hello, I have a problem with only 2 servers, I was able to make backups without problems before, but since yesterday I have this error message on two servers Backup failed on SERVER (rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12

Re: [BackupPC-users] Support for backuppc v4 on standard Linux distros

2019-02-15 Thread Michael Huntley
On 2019-02-15 09:10, Juergen Harms wrote: > On 15.02.19 04:41, backu...@kosowsky.org wrote: > >> ... >>> I was surprised to find that popular distros like Ubuntu and Debian do >>> not support v4 even though the presumably stable v4.0 was released >>> almost 2 years ago. >>> Any ideas why the dis

Re: [BackupPC-users] Support for backuppc v4 on standard Linux distros

2019-02-14 Thread Michael Huntley
On 2019-02-14 18:16, backu...@kosowsky.org wrote: > I was surprised to find that popular distros like Ubuntu and Debian do > not support v4 even though the presumably stable v4.0 was released > almost 2 years ago. > > Any ideas why the distros haven't moved to v4? > > * Probably an issue of tim

Re: [BackupPC-users] What's the latest on migrating V3 to V4To:

2019-02-13 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2019-02-13 05:57, backu...@kosowsky.org wrote: Looking to finally move to V4. Would love to eat my cake-and-have-it-too by eliminating all those nasty linked pool files while preserving all my old V3 backups. In the past I have done quite a bit of utility hacking into the V3 pool and tree st

[BackupPC-users] Re : Re: Setting up a pair of BackupPC on Debian/Devuan LAN

2019-02-06 Thread Nana Michael via BackupPC-users
How do you configure a client Windows with the protocole Rsyncd and the interface of backuppc ? Kind regards,Michael NANA  Le mer, févr. 6 2019 à 4:35 PM, Gordon Haverland a écrit : Both full and incremental backups seem to be working.  I am using the checksum thing. Below is about

Re: [BackupPC-users] Migrating Hosts

2019-02-04 Thread Michael Huntley
You don’t say whether you are using v3 or v4. Either way one also would need to copy the pool or cpool data. There is a rather lengthy thread devoted to making copies of backups that you might find useful. A search of the archive ought to provide results. Cheers, Mph > On Feb 4, 2019, at 1:

Re: [BackupPC-users] Global vs. local exclude

2019-01-17 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2019-01-17 09:37, Jan Stransky wrote: Hi, sorry for rising another exclude/include thread, but... Does globally defined exclusion rules apply also when there is host-specific one? For example: in configure.pl, for share '*' I have excluded '*.tmp' in host.pl I have share '/home' which has excl

Re: [BackupPC-users] Configuration for Win10 clients

2019-01-17 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2019-01-17 02:45, Mike Bosschaert wrote: Hi, I'm struggling with the configuration of a Win10 client. I'm running 4.2.1 and have several linux clients which have backups daily for years now without any problem, with various different schedules of incremental backups. For some time I'm also b

Re: [BackupPC-users] Upgrade from 3 to 4 or start afresh

2019-01-15 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2019-01-15 05:34, Paul Littlefield wrote: Hello, I look after a 3.3.1-2ubuntu3.3 installation and now all clients do not backup and have tar_process done, err = 0. I have been told that version 4 of BackupPC will fix the errors. I would not expect this, but it's *possible* if you have, say

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