Re: [BackupPC-users] host resolution problem

2011-03-20 Thread Travis Fraser
a notebook called myNotebook. It can't be resoved using DNS resolution, but nmblookup can find it. If you control the DHCP server, why not assign a known IP address to each of the laptops? Then use either DNS, or put the laptop entries into the hosts file on the backuppc server. -- Travis

Re: [BackupPC-users] Using NFS share as BackupPC pool

2007-12-04 Thread Travis Fraser
. The underlying filesystem on the NAS must support hardlinks I would think. Does the Synology box use Linux for the OS? Travis Fraser - SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future of Linux Business White Paper from Novell. From

Re: [BackupPC-users] Can't get excludes to work

2007-10-27 Thread Travis Fraser
\\*' = [ '' ], '/backup/*' = [ '' ], '*' = [ '\\backup\\*', '/backup/*' ] }; -- Travis Fraser [EMAIL PROTECTED] - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files

Re: [BackupPC-users] Can't get excludes to work

2007-10-26 Thread Travis Fraser
character. In playing around with excludes a while back, I found it depends on what the transfer method is. For smb, the backslash works for excludes. For rsync, the forward slash. -- Travis Fraser [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [BackupPC-users] Logwatch rule

2007-10-02 Thread Travis Fraser
me a daily status email as well as generates an RSS feed. It is in the list archives, but if you want I can email it to you. -- Travis Fraser [EMAIL PROTECTED] - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all

Re: [BackupPC-users] Error starting a backup

2007-07-17 Thread Travis Fraser
where I specified I wanted the backups to be stored. It's owned by the apache user since this is the user that runs the 'httpd' server. Is apache the user that runs backuppc? -- Travis Fraser [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up excluded directories

2007-05-11 Thread Travis Fraser
, but on some machine, directories excluded in their configuration files are still being backed up. From target machine's configuration file: $Conf{SmbShareName} = 'sarah'; $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = ['/MYMUSI~1','/WINDOWS','PROGRA~1']; -- Travis Fraser [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [BackupPC-users] excludedir problems

2007-04-27 Thread Travis Fraser
and back slashes with no luck. /user3 folder is allways backed up. This is used in test controlled enviroment, backup meets our needs. For smb excludes, I have only gotten backslashes to work. -- Travis Fraser [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [BackupPC-users] vmware windows problem

2007-04-15 Thread Travis Fraser
on the winxp machine have permissions to access everything you want to backup? -- Travis Fraser [EMAIL PROTECTED] - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take

Re: [BackupPC-users] vmware windows problem

2007-04-15 Thread Travis Fraser
On Sun, 2007-04-15 at 12:56 -0400, David Relson wrote: On Sun, 15 Apr 2007 10:16:55 -0400 Travis Fraser wrote: ...[snip]... Any thoughts on what I've done wrong? Does the backuppc user on the winxp machine have permissions to access everything you want to backup? -- Travis

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsync 2.6.9 issues

2007-04-10 Thread Travis Fraser
with -D. -- Travis Fraser [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief

Re: [BackupPC-users] More thoughts on Laptop backups

2007-03-04 Thread Travis Fraser
with a given machine and not just the mac address? Use rsync over ssh with a public key. The visitor's laptop will not have the key. -- Travis Fraser [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join

Re: [BackupPC-users] More thoughts on Laptop backups

2007-03-04 Thread Travis Fraser
is bridged to the wired)? -- Travis Fraser [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics

Re: [BackupPC-users] syntax for excluded files

2007-02-18 Thread Travis Fraser
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} _or_ $Conf{BackupFilesOnly} but not both for smb. Excludes are relative to the share name. Look at the docs. -- Travis Fraser [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC exclusion per-share using arrays in $Conf{BackupFilesExclude}

2007-01-30 Thread Travis Fraser
/mysql/data', '/lib/mysql/mysql', '/log/mysql/mysql.log', '/log/mysql/mysql-bin*', '/spool/exim4' ], }; - cut here Would you be running into problems because the other rsync share names are included in /? -- Travis

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC Data Directory on a Network Attached Storage

2007-01-25 Thread Travis Fraser
not start. I only found a log directory on the Share with the LOG file in which was an error like bind() failed. Does anybody know why SMB does not work with BackupPC? Or are there any other solutions like to mount a FTP connection? -- Travis Fraser [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [BackupPC-users] Email reports

2007-01-15 Thread Travis Fraser
# # This script implements a positive status email and an RSS feed. # # The script is called from BackupPC_nightly. # # AUTHOR # Travis Fraser [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # Credit to Rich Duzenbury for the original idea. # # # Requires XML::RSS # # Edit the variable $serverName to suit depending on DNS status

Re: [BackupPC-users] Email reports

2007-01-15 Thread Travis Fraser
On Tue, 2007-01-16 at 08:24 +1100, Les Stott wrote: Travis Fraser wrote: On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 10:30 +0100, Francisco Daniel Igual Peña wrote: Hi, Is it possible that Backuppc sends weekly (or daily, dont mind) reports to a specific email even though there are no errors

Re: [BackupPC-users] smb scheduled backup fails, but manual works

2006-12-06 Thread Travis Fraser
start an incremental backup after which the home page shows 'Pings to king-graham have succeeded 2 consecutive times.' Any help is appreciated. Thanks. Is this a laptop where it might go into suspend or leave the network? -- Travis Fraser [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [BackupPC-users] Nagios plugin

2006-08-22 Thread Travis Fraser
months back I wrote a script that is called from backuppc_nightly. If anyone is interested, let me know. -- Travis Fraser [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff

Re: [BackupPC-users] Ubuntu to debian etch

2006-06-22 Thread Travis Fraser
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Re: [BackupPC-users] Windows client: Unable to read 4 bytes

2006-06-13 Thread Travis Fraser
the files in the remote module? -- Travis Fraser [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/

Re: [BackupPC-users] Funny ssh Problems

2006-06-12 Thread Travis Fraser
window for some reason, any ideas? ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ -- Travis Fraser [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [BackupPC-users] Funny ssh Problems

2006-06-12 Thread Travis Fraser
Nils Breunese (Lemonbit Internet) wrote: Travis Fraser wrote: What version of rsync are you using? Later versions need --devices changed to -D in $Conf{RsyncArgs}. I guess I need to change this for $Conf{RsyncRestoreArgs} as well? I would think so, although I haven't tested

Re: [BackupPC-users] Re: rsync with VSS-support

2006-05-24 Thread Travis Fraser
directory out of the way (to the Trash, temporarily) without success. The .msi file is very cool tho, works great, even on a win98 box. Ought to use that for the regular backuppc-rsyncd package. -- Travis Fraser [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- All

Re: [BackupPC-users] Conf{BackupFilesExclude} not working

2006-05-18 Thread Travis Fraser
/gmane.comp.sysutils.backup.backuppc.general/5423/match=windows+smb+exclude http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.backup.backuppc.general/6311/match=windows+smb+exclude -- Travis Fraser [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web

Re: [BackupPC-users] Problem with BackupFilesExclude

2006-05-16 Thread Travis Fraser
. Tony Use a backslash instead of the forward slash in the excludes. -- Travis Fraser [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC_nightly admin task failing

2006-05-16 Thread Travis Fraser
On Fri, 2006-05-05 at 14:05 -0400, Travis Fraser wrote: Hi, I have been running BackupPC-2.1.1 on a gentoo system for months and it has worked fine. Last week I edited the main config file to change the $Conf{RsyncArgs} to account for an upgrade to rsync-2.6.8 (I changed the flag --devices

Re: [BackupPC-users] Rsync 2.6.7-1 (fileListReceive failed)

2006-05-16 Thread Travis Fraser
Peter Palfrader wrote: On Thu, 30 Mar 2006, Andy wrote: Most of my systems run Debian Sarge with rsync 2.6.4-6, but one runs Debian Etch and last night rsync updated to 2.6.7-1. I havnt been able to do any backups of this box since. I get the following error in the xfer.log:

[BackupPC-users] BackupPC_nightly admin task failing

2006-05-05 Thread Travis Fraser
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Re: [BackupPC-users] cygwin-rsyncd vs. backuppc-rsyncd

2005-11-21 Thread Travis Fraser
success recently, but I don't know what they did differently. I think Joe is using rsyncd, not rysnc with ssh transport. Rysnc does not work with Cygwin ssh last I tried. It will work only for small transfers and then crap out. -- Travis Fraser [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupFilesExclude is not working with SMB Transfer

2005-11-02 Thread Travis Fraser
{BackupFilesExclude} = [ '\foo' ] $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = [ '\foo', '\*\bar' ] Per-share excludes can be done as well: $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = { 'share1$' = [ '\foo' , '\bar' ], 'share2$' = [ '\foobar' ], }; -- Travis Fraser [EMAIL PROTECTED

[BackupPC-users] Is there a way to schedule dump from command line

2005-09-06 Thread Travis Fraser
I have looked through the docs and found the command BackupPC_serverMesg backup all to queue all hosts for backup, but was wondering how to do this for just one host. I would like to be able to trigger the backup from the server's console. -- Travis Fraser [EMAIL PROTECTED