Re: [BackupPC-users] Noob Question Time... backup up localhost

2009-05-21 Thread Tim Cole
Skip - take a look at this how-to for centos. Aside from setting up repos the sudo and ssh key tutorials should apply: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/BackupPC Skip Guenter wrote: > I have been looking at this and back to a how-to I was trying to follow. > For the case of backing up the localhost

Re: [BackupPC-users] backup the backuppc pool with bacula

2009-05-19 Thread Tim Cole
Boniforti Flavio wrote: >> Hi, >> >> there is a regular discussion on how to backup/move/copy the >> backuppc pool. Did anyone try to backup the pool with bacula? >> > > Hello there... > > I don't know about bacula, but would like myself also to get a backup of > the BackupPC server: anybod

Re: [BackupPC-users] Behavior of BackupFilesExclude for rsync

2009-05-15 Thread Tim Cole
Matthias Meyer wrote: > Tim Cole wrote: > > >> Sorry for the html - I forget thunderbird is set to do that by default. >> I am not using cygwin, so the windows shares are mounted via cifs on an >> embedded linux appliance at the remote end. The path to the mounted

Re: [BackupPC-users] Behavior of BackupFilesExclude for rsync

2009-05-15 Thread Tim Cole
Sorry for the html - I forget thunderbird is set to do that by default. I am not using cygwin, so the windows shares are mounted via cifs on an embedded linux appliance at the remote end. The path to the mounted shares on the remote end is "/mnt/lpl/" I have actually been careful to match ca

Re: [BackupPC-users] Behavior of BackupFilesExclude for rsync

2009-05-12 Thread Tim Cole
Ian, I have a similar question.  I'm using rsync for transfer and need to exclude a few windows directories such as system volume.  I added the path to the directory as rsync sees it on the other end "/mnt/windows/system volume information" but it doesn't get excluded.  I see a permission deni

[BackupPC-users] invalid mail option

2009-05-08 Thread Tim Cole
I'm having trouble getting backuppc configured to send status emails. In the log I noticed it's trying to use the -t option which doesn't work. I tried changing the mail path from /bin/mail to /usr/sbin/sendmail, but I don't think that will work correctly either. The log entry is: 2009-05-0