similar to: BackupPC problem - wrong user

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.

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'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

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

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

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

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

Hi Tim if you try with suexec? suomi On 2015-09-08 12:18, Timothy Murphy wrote: > 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

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 running BackupPC under Centos-5.2. 1. Will BackupPC backup files in NFS-mounted directories? If so, is there any simple way of preventing this? 2. I have seen it suggested that it is not a good idea to backup onto a partition on the same drive as the BackupPC server? Is that true? If so, is a partition on a separate drive on the same machine also bad? Ps Apologies if this has been

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

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

kpolberg at olberg.name wrote: >>> 2. The graphical interface seems to be treated as an extra, >>> but what other way is there of accessing BackupPC? >>> Is there a CLI approach? >>> If so, where is the list of transfer requests kept? > 2. You can do all operations through CLI, all of it is mentioned in the > documentation. >

> On May 6, 2015, at 9:46 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > > Alessandro Baggi wrote: >> I list, >> I'm new with backup ops and I'm searching a good system to accomplish this >> work. I know that on centos there are bacula and amanda but they are too >> tape oriented. Another is that they are very powerfull but more complex. I >> need a solution for

On 5/7/2015 4:56 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > The worst thing about BackupPC is the insane error message > "Unable to read 4 bytes", which comes up if anything is wrong. > Possibly the worst error message anywhere? thats an rsync protocol message, and yeah, debugging connection/authentication issues is a bit ugly. -- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz

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. The graphical interface seems to be treated as an extra, > but what other way is

Hi, everyone. I wrote a guide for installing and configuring BackupPC on a CentOS host using rsync as the primary backup method. As best as one can proof read their own writing, I did so, but please read through and feel free to correct and change any typos. <http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/BackupPC> Regards, Max

> -----Original Message----- > From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On > Behalf Of Timothy Murphy > Sent: den 7 maj 2015 23:21 > To: centos at centos.org > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Backup PC or other solution > > >> The worst thing about BackupPC is the insane error message > >> "Unable to read 4 bytes", which comes