dden by intermediate NAT routers.
Thanks for your response.
Your remark above made me realize my error;
I was accessing my remote server over vpn,
and forgot to add the vpn ip addresses to the "Require ip" list.
.6.26:41816] AH01630: client denied by server configuration:
/usr/share/BackupPC/sbin/BackupPC_Admin
I don't see anything in /usr/share/BackupPC/sbin/BackupPC_Admin.pl
that I could reasonably change.
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appropriate user.
I'm not sure exactly how BackupPC_Admin is started,
or what user runs it.
This problem started yesterday after I re-booted the server,
possibly into a new kernel.
Any explanation or suggestion gratefully received.
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> ## allow from ::1
> ## require valid-user
>require all granted
>
Apologies - I found my /etc/httpd/conf.d/BackupPC.conf
was a mixture or past and present.
I guess I would still wonder why there has been this change
from the classical "allow from" to "Require
han
> from the same host as the server will be denied access.
> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_authz_host.html
I don't understand why there is the double restriction
Allow from
and
Require
in /etc/httpd/conf.d/BackupPC.conf
Both seem to me to have much the same effe
experience BackupPC is very good indeed once it is set up.
But it is also rather difficult to set up, in both CentOS 6 and 7.
in my experience.
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'm in a similar dilemma with regards to CentOS 7 upgrades but I figure I
> have 5 more years to deal with it. Hopefully some kind soul will be
> maintaining 4.x in EPEL by then.
What exactly is the dilemma?
What is wrong with version 3.3.1, as a matter of interest?
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server on which it is running,
by browsing to localhost/backuppc ?
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nd restart httpd ?
2. Did you run sudo htpasswd -c /etc/BackupPC/apache.users
3. Does backuppc own all the files in /var/lib/BackupPC ?
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even longer (911.7 minutes).
I'm backing up on a CentOS-5.7 machine
(onto a CentOS-6.1 machine).
There seems to be no report of anything wrong.
I wonder if anyone can suggest a reason for this tardiness?
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Can one sensibly back up / with BackupPC?
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s a local user with the same uid or not.
Thanks for the responses.
I see now that there was a mistake in /etc/exports on machine B.
The archive is (hopefully) presently under way.
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-autoipd ,
which has UID 102 on machine A.
This seems to prevent backuppc from archiving onto /archive .
Is there any simple way of changing a UID
(together with all the files it owns)?
Alternatively, is there a way of telling backuppc to ignore the UIDs?
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What are "other" transfer errors, as in
18 xferErrs (0 bad files, 0 bad shares, 18 other)
?
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arger than the original.
So I changed to "rsync -auvzH" and now it is the same size.
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Tyler J. Wagner wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-06-07 at 01:34 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
>> Is there any kind of BackupPC data on the machine itself
>> required for recovery of the archived material?
>
> If your installation is Ubuntu, you need:
>
> /etc/backuppc
> /var
e archived material?
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At present I (occasionally) archive my BackupPC onto another system
through an NFS mount.
Is this necessary?
Could I just specify the archive destination as machineX:/archive/ ?
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Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
> Timothy Murphy wrote at about 17:57:18 + on Friday, March 18, 2011:
> > In my (very long, I started with a paper-tape machine) experience
> > one almost always gets better advice on Windows problems
> > from Unix/Linux gurus.
>
> W
h
on my Fedora laptop.
JuK is really very good ...
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one almost always gets better advice on Windows problems
from Unix/Linux gurus.
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ely to get sensible advice
(even about Windows problems) on Linux forums like this one.
Of course, a Windows query on a Linux forum will lead to a lot of ranting,
but one frequently gets an answer among the screams.
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it running.
Also, when I have a bad memory module, as in this case,
I get hundreds of errors in Test 2, after a couple of minutes.
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le buy a car with tyres already on it, I think.
I do actually install the tyres recommended by Mitsubishi
in my Mitsubishi car.
Don't people usually do that?
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7;ve
> been using Amanda for a long time.
I should have said that there does not seem to be
a Microsoft backup program.
I'm reluctant to run non-MS programs,
for the same reason that I do not like to run
unofficial Fedora or CentOS programs,
since I have found that they frequently cause probl
It reminds me rather of CUPS in this regard.
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y running a Fedora Live CD
that a memory module was faulty
(the machine's Diagnostic program said it was fine).
Incidentally, is there a Windows backup program as good as BackupPC?
The standard Windows backup program has no facility
to make incremental backups, as far as I can see,
and also seems ino
very small archives"
and "reasonable amount of time".
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Les Mikesell wrote:
> The source is always the ultimate documentation. If you have that you can
> always find out what the program does and how.
Not in a finite length of time.
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he only developer.
I wasn't referring to BackupPC specifically in my remarks in this thread.
The documentation is not particularly good, but it is not very bad either.
"Unable to read 4 bytes" is a completely useless error message,
but there are plenty of those about in Linux as in
rved as a paying customer of a company he then has the right
> to complain to.
I completely disagree.
Any program offered to the public should be properly documented.
This has nothing to do with open source.
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he sourceforge official documentation is absurdly long.
So I would advise the OP to stick to BackupPC, and persevere.
Sooner or later it will work, and after that there will be nothing to do.
But if you have continuing problems, try to explain a little more clearly
exactly what the symptoms are.
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l hard disk
as described above.
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eg because of a hard disk failure.
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Thanks as ever for your valuable advice.
Tim
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unted as /BackupPC .
Can I just mount a partition on the new drive as /BackupPC instead?
Doesn't BackupPC expect to find the old backups in place?
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o not entirely clear whether if I added
a further internal drive /dev/sdc/ to my machine
whether it would be relatively easy
to transfer the BackupPC data from the USB disk to the new disk.
Any suggestions or advice gratefully received.
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I find backuppc works extremely well.
I backup my shared /common directory
on a different my CentOS-5.4 machine.
But I'm thinking I'd like to be 110% safe,
and backup my backup on an external HD.
What is the simplest way of doing this?
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Is there anywhere a worse error message
than "Unable to read 4 bytes"?
If it sometimes changed, say "Unable to read 13 bytes",
that might at least convey some information.
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05 with 4GB RAM and 2 SATA disks, 250GB and 80GB,
running CentOS-5.3, which cost me about 450 euro in a Dell sale.
A full backup of 45GB takes about 100 minutes,
while an incremental backup takes 90 seconds.
So it seems to me one could backup your 430GB quite easily,
if you made sure full backups
weekdays between 10am
> and 4am.
Yes, I guess I was being silly.
I tried clicking on BlackoutPeriods, and wrongly assumed
that this was how one set them.
> If this is a typical 9-5 business, I would tend to set hourBegin to 6 or
> 7 and hourEnd to 18 or 19.
It's not.
It's a home serve
27;s authorized_keys,
ie doing exactly what I did for different computers,
it is now working fine.)
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Tino Schwarze wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 02:43:11AM +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote:
>
>> What is the best way to backup a folder -
>> in fact, my mail folder /home/tim/Maildir -
>> with backuppc running on the same computer?
>>
>> I assume that I need t
What is the best way to backup a folder -
in fact, my mail folder /home/tim/Maildir -
with backuppc running on the same computer?
I assume that I need to allow backuppc to read this folder?
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rst.
Actually, my needs are very slight -
I just want to backup a single MySQL database
running BackupPC on the same machine.
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Doug Lytle wrote:
> I use mysqldump to a directory and then have that backed up using
> BackupPC via rsync.
Thanks, that sounds the simplest solution.
Is there any way to tell BackupPC to run mysqldump
before the nightly backup?
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What is the best way to use BackupPC to backup a MySQL database?
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o back it up with BackupPC .
>> In my BackupPC conf file for harriet I have under Smb Settings
>> "EA Games D"
>>
>> But when I run a backup (incremental or full)
>> I get the error in /var/log/BackupPC/LOG
>> 2009-10-17 14:43:43 Got fatal error
tal error during xfer (tree connect failed:
NT_STATUS_BAD_NETWORK_NAME)
Any advice or suggestions gratefully received.
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ain rather than a workgroup.
Do I have to run 2 instances of my Samba server (on a Fedora machine)?
If so, is there any way of doing this within the standard service setup?
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Can I use BackupPC to transfer files
from one Window machine to another?
If so, how?
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original installation quite difficult;
I thought that the instructions could have been improved.)
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How do I ensure that backups occur at 5am?
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he error of my ways.
I have even removed the authorized_keys on the server's backuppc
and this does not affect BackupPC's usage.
I was right about Berlusconi, though.
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ord of what I looked at.
When I say "tutorial" I include answers -
possible from people who knew as little about the matter as me -
to queries about setting up BackupPC.
I probably looked at 50-60 of these.
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(made as the backuppc user on the backuppc server) needs to
> be in root's home directory on the clients, appended to
> .ssh/authorized_keys or .ssh/authorized_keys2. Again, this doesn't
> have much to do with backuppc. It is the way ssh works with any remote
> command.
Is it not
as access to the server as
> backuppc user from reading (modifying, deleting) all the data in your
> backups, so protect your server well. In particular, do *not* put
> gratuitious passwordless ssh keys in ~backuppc/.ssh/authorized_keys on the
> BackupPC server - you do not need them; in
inimum necessary to play music on my laptop.
run BackupPC, etc.
I don't want to tweak anything, unless that is essential.
I assume the distributor has done that for me,
and I haven't been disappointed so far with CentOS-5.2 in this regard.
If I have a few spare brain-cells left after this,
I wo
it works by clicking on Server=>Host Summary
Click on the new client, "mary".
Click on "Start Full Backup" and confirm this.
Click on mary=>LOG fi
; > unless one looks "behind the scenes".
>
> As I said, "behind the scenes" means "what *you* configured". If you use
> the default values, you will need to understand what they mean. You should
> at least have *looked at* the values, in which case you
the list know.
An error message should make some sense to the user.
What information is "Unable to read 4 bytes" meant to convey?
As far as I am concerned it might as well have said
"Unable to read Sanscrit".
Assuming the problem i
Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) wrote:
> Timothy Murphy wrote:
>
>> Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) wrote:
>>
>>>> Is there incidentally a simple test to determine
>>>> if ssh is working as required by BackupPC?
>>>
>>> See if the BackupPC
d to be the essential point in getting BackupPC working.
Amazingly, it did not see to be stated clearly in any of the tutorials
I looked at.
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Must an ssh server be running on BackPC clients?
Is there incidentally a simple test to determine
if ssh is working as required by BackupPC?
As far as I can see, one has to exchange keys
between backuppc on the server and root on the clients.
Is that correct?
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d create a user backuppc on the server,
but the entry in /etc/passwd reads
backuppc:x:101:104::/var/lib/BackupPC:/sbin/nologin
Should this be altered?
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s-ma
1. I don't want NFS-mounted subdirectories of the nominated directory
to be backed up.
Would they be excluded anyway?
If not, is there any way of excluding them?
2. I've seen it suggested that one should not backup onto a partition
on the BackupPC server;
Is that good advice?
If so, is a separate
o, is a partition on a separate drive on the same machine also bad?
Ps Apologies if this has been posted before;
I have had some problems communicating with mailing lists.
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