similar to: BackupPC: two newbie questions

1. I'm running - or trying to run - BackupPC under Centos-5.2, and have been looking at various BackupPC HOWTOs and tutorials. I see that the "Falko" tutorial at <http://www.howtoforge.com/linux_backuppc> recommends (on page 3) that one should enter one's username, "falko" in this case, as the user in /etc/BackupPC/hosts . Other tutorials suggest one should use

I'm almost completely ignorant about samba on Windows machines, In particular I know nothing about Windows permissions, if that is relevant here. I am running BackupPC on a CentOS-5.3 machine. It works perfectly for backing up Linux folders, but I have great difficulty extending it to Windows clients. To be precise, I have a share called "EA Games D" on a machine running Windows XP

I was a bit surprised to find that BackupPC does not seem to be available on my CentOS-5.2 system. What do people use to backup Centos systems? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland

I have a 1.5TB Western Digital hard disk (WD15EADS-00R6B0) on my CentOS-5.7 server, which has become incredibly slow for some operations, eg rsync, BackupPC archive, e2fsck, although it seems to work fine for ordinary file operations, and "smartctl -a /dev/sdb" does not report any errors. For example, running "e2fsck -p /dev/sdb5" on a 250GB partition on this disk took over 24

When I try to start BackupPC with "sudo systemctl restart backuppc" on my CentOS-7 server (running kernel 3.10.0-229.14.1.el7.x86_64) I get the following error in /var/log/BackupPC/LOG 2015-09-26 13:58:14 Reading hosts file 2015-09-26 13:58:14 unix bind() failed: No such file or directory This message occurs in the Perl script /usr/share/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC : my $sockFile

Fabian Arrotin wrote: >> This message occurs in the Perl script >> /usr/share/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC : >> >> my $sockFile = "/var/run/BackupPC/BackupPC.sock"; >> unlink($sockFile); if ( !bind(SERVER_UNIX, sockaddr_un($sockFile)) >> ) { print(LOG $bpc->timeStamp, "unix bind() failed: $!\n"); >> exit(1); } >> >> As far as

Bowie Bailey wrote: > On 9/13/2015 10:58 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: >> >> I take it then that there is no CLI method >> of setting up and running BackupPC ? > > Sure there is. All of the configuration is stored in text config > files. There is a main config file for global options and each host has > a config file in it's own directory. Yes, it was pointed

Ulf Volmer wrote: Thanks for your response, which clarifies matters for me. >> I have a couple of questions that this raises. >> 1. Why exactly does backuppc want to ssh to root? > To enable access to all of the files on the client. >> Is this just a way of running BackupPC as root? > Why do you want this? It's not required to run backuppc as user root. I

I use Windows very little, and am not knowledgeable about it. But I'm trying to use samba to backup my wife's laptop on my CentOS server with BackupPC (and samba). This runs fine, except that one directory/folder is not backed up, even though I have specified that it is to be shared. Is each Windows XP folder "owned" by a user? Can anyone point me to a document (online)

I recently moved BackupPC from CentOS-6 to CentOS-7. But when I browse to localhost/BackupPC I'm told Error: Wrong user: my userid is 48[apache], instead of 984(backuppc) As far as I can tell, the BackupPC settings are exactly the same as they were before the move. It seems htttpd is running the program as user apache rather than backuppc, as required. Is there a simple setting in

I'd be interested in any corrections or comments on the following instructions (basically for myself): We assume that BackupPC has been installed: sudo yum install BackupPC 1. BackupPC must be run by the user backuppc. Accordingly the lines User apache Group apache in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf should be changed to User backuppc Group backuppc 2. The user backuppc must be able to

I finally got BackupPC working under Centos-7.1 after several hours of pain. I had been running it for several years under CentOS-6, and probably CentOS-5, but there seem to me to have been several new issues that arise with CentOS-7. In my experience, the official documentation on this, <http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html>, is more or less useless unless you have a very long

On 09/13/2015 03:48 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Timothy Murphy wrote: > >> I thought I'd write a 1-page note to myself of the steps I took, >> in preparation for CentOS-8... >> I have a couple of questions that this raises. >> >> 1. Why exactly does backuppc want to ssh to root? >> Is this just a way of running BackupPC as root? >> >> 2.

There is an upgraded BackupPC in the testing repository. It is version 3.0.0, which was released in January. The setup differences between version 2.1.2 and this version is that some file directories have shifted locations: 1. /var/lib/backuppc/conf is now instead /etc/BackupPC/ 2. /var/lib/backuppc/log is now /var/log/BackupPC =============================== If you are upgrading ... you

Ok, downloading the BackupPC RPM directly did not work to myriad dependencies and sub-dependencies. How do I add the Test repository to my yum config, please? Aleksey On 7/31/08, Aleksey Tsalolikhin <atsaloli.tech at gmail.com> wrote: > Hi. I just installed CentOS for the first time, to make a BackupPC server. > > However, when I try to install BackupPC using yum, I get the

Hi. I've installed BackupPC 3.1.0 from Testing repository, to Cent OS 5.2 x86_64, and I am hitting an SE Linux denial - the httpd cannot talk to the BackupPC socket: type=AVC msg=audit(07/31/2008 17:18:53.623:410) : avc: denied { connectto } for pid=11767 comm=httpd path=/var/log/BackupPC/BackupPC.sock scontext=user_u:system_r:httpd_t:s0 tcontext=user_u:system_r:initrc_t:s0

Hi all, I installed BackupPC on one of my Centos 5.4-machines following the wiki at http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/BackupPC#head-725ed151d366bcf182cea92f765c373900cfc9dc, where BackupPC is installed from the c5-testing repo. root at mach012 ~/ [0]# rpm -qa backuppc backuppc-3.1.0-1.el5.centos root at mach012 ~/ [0]# Seeing how there's been some updates to BackupPC in the near past, I

Hello Everyone, Has anyone tried to install BackupPC v4 on CentOS 8 from epel? I just did and this happened: [root at resurrect ~]# dnf --enablerepo epel install BackupPC Last metadata expiration check: 0:18:41 ago on Tue 15 Oct 2019 08:03:59 PM EDT. Error: Problem: conflicting requests - nothing provides par2cmdline needed by BackupPC-4.3.1-2.el8.x86_64 - nothing provides

Hello, Been working on this for a couple days and I am stuck! Followed the CentOS WIKI on BackupPC to the letter. It may be outdated, not sure. I also looked at the tutorial on HowToForge. I'm trying to get a windows client to backup via smb. I created the user 'backuppc' on the windows client with admin priviledges. I can map the drive/share from my CentOS Samba server using

Hi there list :) I use backuppc to take backup of a bunch of hosts, but I ran into problems with the last one I set up, I can't find anything that is different on this one...but it won't work... So any hints would be greatly appreciated, here are the files ryncd.conf: log file=/var/log/rsyncd pid file=/var/run/rsyncd.pid [all] comment = All disk path = / use