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I am interested in understanding the thing with BackupPC. What does it have compared to basic rsync? - It has a webui Is it like a central backup server? if so, how it works with windows clients(if it is?) Just want to make sure.. I understood right. Why did you choose this over other software? Thanks, Eliezer On 20/09/2015 16:51, Timothy Murphy wrote: > I'd be interested in any

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

On 9/20/2015 6:00 PM, Eliezer Croitoru wrote: > I am interested in understanding the thing with BackupPC. > What does it have compared to basic rsync? its a full blown backup service for any number of client hosts, it maintains a pool of full and incremental backups going back as far as you care, and this pool is fully dedupped to reduce its size. it uses rsync to fetch files from the

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

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

On 9/18/2015 8:39 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > 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 >>

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

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

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

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 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

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

For some time now i have been running BackupPC 3.1.0 on CentOS 5.1 x86_64 however after upgrading to CentOS 5.2 BackupPC will not start. "sudo /etc/init.d/backuppc start" return OK but there is no BackupPC processes. This fails also. # sudo -u backuppc /usr/bin/BackupPC -d # echo $? 0 This succeeds, but of course does not fork. # sudo -u backuppc /usr/bin/BackupPC So for some

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 error: No package backuppc available. I searched the Testing, Extras and CentOS Plus repositories, and found a BackupPC package only in Testing, at http://dev.centos.org/centos/5/testing/x86_64/RPMS/backuppc-3.1.0-1.el5.centos.x86_64.rpm which I