Re: Getting rid of backuppc password protection.

2022-07-17 Thread Gary L. Roach
On 7/17/22 2:07 AM, Nicolas George wrote: Gary L. Roach (12022-07-16): Some time ago I installed backuppc and then decided to not use it. Even though I purged the program and made sure that I deleted all directories, I still get a backuppc password request when starting any of my programs

Re: Getting rid of backuppc password protection.

2022-07-17 Thread Nicolas George
Gary L. Roach (12022-07-16): > Some time ago I installed backuppc and then decided to not use it. Even > though I purged the program and made sure that I deleted all directories, I > still get a backuppc password request when starting any of my programs. > Anyone had this problem and i

Re: Getting rid of backuppc password protection.

2022-07-17 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
lps: >> > > Were I to install backuppc, 21 other packages would arrive with it > (including Recommends). Did you purge all those too? Another route I might try if I'd been purging some and "rm -r" others is to maybe reinstall then "apt get autoremove backuppc". T

Re: Getting rid of backuppc password protection.

2022-07-16 Thread David Wright
On Sat 16 Jul 2022 at 19:13:25 (-0700), Gary L. Roach wrote: > On 7/16/22 5:51 PM, David wrote: > > On Sun, 17 Jul 2022 at 10:24, Gary L. Roach wrote: > > > > > Some time ago I installed backuppc and then decided to not use it. Even > > > though I purged the pro

Re: Getting rid of backuppc password protection.

2022-07-16 Thread Gary L. Roach
Kernel Version: 5.10.0-13-amd64 OS Type: 64-bit Processors: 4 × AMD FX(tm)-4350 Quad-Core Processor Memory: 15.6 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: AMD CAICOS Gary R On 7/16/22 5:51 PM, David wrote: On Sun, 17 Jul 2022 at 10:24, Gary L. Roach wrote: Some time ago I installed backuppc and then

Re: Getting rid of backuppc password protection.

2022-07-16 Thread David
On Sun, 17 Jul 2022 at 10:24, Gary L. Roach wrote: > Some time ago I installed backuppc and then decided to not use it. Even > though I purged the program and made sure that I deleted all > directories, I still get a backuppc password request when starting any > of my programs. Any

Getting rid of backuppc password protection.

2022-07-16 Thread Gary L. Roach
Hi all, Some time ago I installed backuppc and then decided to not use it. Even though I purged the program and made sure that I deleted all directories, I still get a backuppc password request when starting any of my programs. Anyone had this problem and if so, do you know how to get rid of

Debian Buster and backuppc

2021-04-24 Thread Gary L. Roach
Hi all, Has anyone gotten backuppc version 4 to work on Debian Buster. I tried to install version 4 and got a missing dependency. The version of libgci-pm-perl has changed from version 4.40-1 in buster to version 4.51-1 in Bullseye. Can I safely upgrade to version 4.51-1 without breaking my

Re: Apache Backuppc problem

2018-08-11 Thread Dale Forsyth
https://www.mycause.com.au/page/183259/a-smile-will-change-a-day-love-that-changed-my-world From: Gary Roach Sent: Sunday, 12 August 2018 3:50 AM To: Debian User Subject: Apache Backuppc problem Hi all. Debian Stretch OS I have installed the BackupPC /Apache2

Re: Apache Backuppc problem

2018-08-11 Thread Bob Weber
On 8/11/18 1:50 PM, Gary Roach wrote: Hi all. Debian Stretch OS I have installed the BackupPC /Apache2 package before and had no trouble accessing the BackupPC GUI at localhost/backuppc. This time (using apt install backuppc) I keep getting a window asking if I wish to save a bin file. The

Apache Backuppc problem

2018-08-11 Thread Gary Roach
Hi all. Debian Stretch OS I have installed the BackupPC /Apache2 package before and had no trouble accessing the BackupPC GUI at localhost/backuppc. This time (using apt install backuppc) I keep getting a window asking if I wish to save a bin file. The server downloads a file like W6gLcuk0

New install of Jesse for backuppc use

2016-06-22 Thread Mark Neidorff
It has been about 7 years since I've been on the list. I decided to implement a comprehensive backup solution and chose backuppc. I also built a new mini-ITX PC for this use--Intel Core i3, 8 Gb RAM, 750 GB HDD, wired networking---and Debian Jesse for the software. To be fair, befo

backuppc plus smbclient in jessie

2015-06-15 Thread Graham Seaman
Hi I have an elderly machine which has been successfully running backuppc, mainly with linux clients but including use of smb to backup Windows hosts. I recently upgraded from squeeze to wheezy and found that backuppc no longer worked correctly with smbclient: the backup terminates with no

Restore problems with backuppc and apache

2012-11-23 Thread Gary Roach
I have a Wheezy system setup with backuppc to back up 3 computers - all ext3/4 systems. I have been trying to restore to a cold iron system. Every time I try to create a restore.tar file the process stops at 331KB when the file should be about 21GB. The file contains the directories and no

Restore problems with backuppc and apache

2012-11-23 Thread Gary Roach
I have a Wheezy system setup with backuppc to back up 3 computers - all ext3/4 systems. I have been trying to restore to a cold iron system. Every time I try to create a restore.tar file the process stops at 331KB when the file should be about 21GB. The file contains the directories and no

Re: BackupPC restore problem

2012-11-15 Thread Gary Roach
too worried because I have a complete backup system. Of course I am having trouble with the restore. The data's all there on the backup disk but BackupPC only restored the directories and none of the data. I am trying to create a tar file and manually transfer the data across but am having

Re: BackupPC restore problem

2012-11-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2012-11-14 at 17:53 -0800, David Christensen wrote: > On 11/14/12 12:48, Gary Roach wrote: > > I got home from vacation, fired up the systems and one of the hard > > drives was trashed. Two days of recovery attempts didn't work so I > > reformatted and reinstalled the Debian Squeeze system.

Re: BackupPC restore problem

2012-11-14 Thread David Christensen
On 11/14/12 12:48, Gary Roach wrote: I got home from vacation, fired up the systems and one of the hard drives was trashed. Two days of recovery attempts didn't work so I reformatted and reinstalled the Debian Squeeze system. What do you mean by "trashed"? Have you run any hardware diagnostic

BackupPC restore problem

2012-11-14 Thread Gary Roach
Hi all I sent a copy of this to the backuppc mailing list but response is a bit slow. So if someone has some experience with backuppc and can help, it will be sincerely appreciated. I got home from vacation, fired up the systems and one of the hard drives was trashed. Two days of recovery

Re: backuppc failed full backup of itself

2012-07-02 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
2012/6/27 Keith McKenzie : > The system isn't backed up normally, as you would have installation > media to restore it; you would just backup configuration. Having said > that, if you do want to back it up, use a live media, not the running > system. > > (Usually it is only your data that is irrep

Re: backuppc failed full backup of itself

2012-06-27 Thread Keith McKenzie
The system isn't backed up normally, as you would have installation media to restore it; you would just backup configuration. Having said that, if you do want to back it up, use a live media, not the running system. (Usually it is only your data that is irreplaceable.) HTH -- Sent from FOSS (F

backuppc failed full backup of itself

2012-06-26 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
# aptitude show backuppc | grep Version Version: 3.1.0-9.1 # uname -a Linux backuppc 2.6.32-5-686 #1 SMP Sun May 6 04:01:19 UTC 2012 i686 GNU/Linux using default backup setting for localhost, it failed full backup with below error messages: Contents of file /var/lib/backuppc/pc/localhost

Re: How to report a bug related to multiple packages (insserv, autofs, backuppc)

2012-03-08 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 07 mar 12, 13:30:12, Sylvain wrote: > 2012/3/7 Camaleón : > > Anyway, I would have expected some kind of warning at the logs coming > > from backuppc indicating a problem for accessing to the configured mount > > point which was not available at that time and thus fail

Re: How to report a bug related to multiple packages (insserv, autofs, backuppc)

2012-03-07 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 07 Mar 2012 13:30:12 +0100, Sylvain wrote: > 2012/3/7 Camaleón : >> Anyway, I would have expected some kind of warning at the logs coming >> from backuppc indicating a problem for accessing to the configured >> mount point which was not available at that time and thus

Re: How to report a bug related to multiple packages (insserv, autofs, backuppc)

2012-03-07 Thread Sylvain
2012/3/7 Camaleón : > Anyway, I would have expected some kind of warning at the logs coming > from backuppc indicating a problem for accessing to the configured mount > point which was not available at that time and thus failing. Me too, and I didn't understand why I wasn't

Re: How to report a bug related to multiple packages (insserv, autofs, backuppc)

2012-03-07 Thread Camaleón
o my mind. "Problems" and "straightforward" do not usually go in the same phrase, by their own nature :-) >> So backuppc daemon is starting but fails because it cannot access to >> the configured external USB hard disk? You can check the service status >>

Re: How to report a bug related to multiple packages (insserv, autofs, backuppc)

2012-03-07 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 2:46 AM, Sylvain wrote: > 2012/3/6 Tom H : >> >> AFAICT, a bug should be filed against backuppc to change its init >> script to have "$remote_fs" (or "$all"!) in "Required-Start" or >> "autofs" in "

Re: How to report a bug related to multiple packages (insserv, autofs, backuppc)

2012-03-06 Thread Sylvain
2012/3/6 Tom H : > AFAICT, a bug should be filed against backuppc to change its init > script to have "$remote_fs" (or "$all"!) in "Required-Start" or > "autofs" in "Should-Start". autofs doesn't seem to be included in $remote_fs

Re: How to report a bug related to multiple packages (insserv, autofs, backuppc)

2012-03-06 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 06 Mar 2012 12:35:21 +0100, Sylvain wrote: > I installed backuppc the other day, configured it and it works fine > except for one thing: it doesn't start at boot. I looked in the backuppc > logs and in the syslog and saw nothing suspicious. If I start it > manually

Re: How to report a bug related to multiple packages (insserv, autofs, backuppc)

2012-03-06 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 6:35 AM, Sylvain wrote: > > I installed backuppc the other day, configured it and it works fine > except for one thing: it doesn't start at boot. I looked in the > backuppc logs and in the syslog and saw nothing suspicious. If I start > it manually with

Re: How to report a bug related to multiple packages (insserv, autofs, backuppc)

2012-03-06 Thread Keith McKenzie
On 06/03/12 11:35, Sylvain wrote: Hey there, I installed backuppc the other day, configured it and it works fine except for one thing: it doesn't start at boot. I looked in the backuppc logs and in the syslog and saw nothing suspicious. If I start it manually with /etc/init.d/backuppc star

How to report a bug related to multiple packages (insserv, autofs, backuppc)

2012-03-06 Thread Sylvain
Hey there, I installed backuppc the other day, configured it and it works fine except for one thing: it doesn't start at boot. I looked in the backuppc logs and in the syslog and saw nothing suspicious. If I start it manually with /etc/init.d/backuppc start, it works just fine. There are

Re: backuppc a dog to get rid of now blocking updates

2011-11-24 Thread Harry Putnam
Brian writes: > On Wed 23 Nov 2011 at 05:15:40 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting: >>syntax error: unknown user 'backuppc' in statoverride file >> >> Can the `stateoverride' file mentioned be edited? If

Re: backuppc a dog to get rid of now blocking updates

2011-11-24 Thread Harry Putnam
Rob Owens writes: > You could try: > > aptitude reinstall backuppc > > and see if that gets you anywhere. Thanks, I did mention in OP that I could neither install nor remove. Surely there is someway to get rid of the pesky stuff. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to d

Re: backuppc a dog to get rid of now blocking updates

2011-11-23 Thread Brian
On Wed 23 Nov 2011 at 05:15:40 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting: >syntax error: unknown user 'backuppc' in statoverride file > > Can the `stateoverride' file mentioned be edited? If so, where is it? > > Searches of /

Re: backuppc a dog to get rid of now blocking updates

2011-11-23 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 04:59:27AM -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > I decided to try out backuppc and set it up for a trial... decided it > way more complicated and overdone for my needs and uninstalled it. > > Only it didn't really get uninstalled. I don't remember now all the

Re: backuppc a dog to get rid of now blocking updates

2011-11-23 Thread Harry Putnam
>From atitude full-upgrade [...] dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting: syntax error: unknown user 'backuppc' in statoverride file Can the `stateoverride' file mentioned be edited? If so, where is it? Searches of /etc/ and /var/ come up dry. -- To UNSUBSCRIB

backuppc a dog to get rid of now blocking updates

2011-11-23 Thread Harry Putnam
I decided to try out backuppc and set it up for a trial... decided it way more complicated and overdone for my needs and uninstalled it. Only it didn't really get uninstalled. I don't remember now all the steps I took but do recall it involved reinstalling it at some point to try

Re: [BackupPC-users] Put pool on an nfs mounted Solaris zfs share

2011-11-20 Thread Tim Connors
On Thu, 17 Nov 2011, Harry Putnam wrote: > On debian many of the things that would be done by user during an > install from sources are done for you. I ended up with the main files > at /var/lib/backuppc. which contains a whole pile of some kind of data > files. I see them in place

Re: [BackupPC-users] Put pool on an nfs mounted Solaris zfs share

2011-11-17 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 11:38 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > > So if I put /var/lib/backuppc (and everything under it) on an nfs share > that resides on a solaris machine with zfs... it should work alright? Yes, perhaps with a bit of performance loss compared to local storage. -- Les

Re: [BackupPC-users] Put pool on an nfs mounted Solaris zfs share

2011-11-17 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 10:55 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > > I haven't finished the docs yet, maybe it tell what this stuff > is... but for purposes of this post I wondered if it would be wisest > to let the directories and files under /var/lib/backuppc also reside > on the nfs s

Re: How to diagnose backuppc issues?

2007-04-22 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Apr 21, 2007 at 01:37:59AM -0700, mxc wrote: > > Hi there, > > I installed backuppc to do backups of our servers. For the first three weeks > everything went fine and then suddenly the backups stopped working. > Initially

How to diagnose backuppc issues?

2007-04-21 Thread mxc
Hi there, I installed backuppc to do backups of our servers. For the first three weeks everything went fine and then suddenly the backups stopped working. Initially backuppc reported that the ping response time was greater than 20msec and there it stopped the backup of the server. I changed the

BackupPC 2.1.2-6 on Debian Etch(stable)

2007-04-17 Thread Brendan Simon
I am currently running BackupPC 2.1.1-2sarge2 on Debian Sarge (oldstable). I want to upgrade the backup server to Etch (stable) which has BackupPC 2.1.2-6. Are there any known gotchas in upgrading from from 2.1.1 to 2.1.2 ??? I also see that BackupPC has released 2.1.3 and also 3.0.0

BackupPC help required in debian

2006-01-04 Thread david robert
Hi Guys,   I have installed Backuppc in debiansarge from apt-get   Installation was fine and now i need to configure the backup to copy to a remote machine.   I have instaled backupPC in sorce machine and now i am planning to copy the source machine data to destination data using rsyncd

Re: backupPC on sarge

2005-10-27 Thread Siju George
ed_keys and not authorized_keys2. Thankyou once again. Kind Rgeards Siju > Justin. > > -Original Message- > From: Siju George [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 9:11 AM > To: Debian User > Subject: backupPC on sarge > > Hi all, > > I am try

RE: backupPC on sarge

2005-10-25 Thread Piszcz, Justin
Looks as if you need to copy your public key into the authorized_keys2 file on the remote machine for user root. Justin. -Original Message- From: Siju George [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 9:11 AM To: Debian User Subject: backupPC on sarge Hi all, I am

backupPC on sarge

2005-10-25 Thread Siju George
Hi all, I am trying to backup the etc folder on a remote machine using backuppc and I get the following error. Could someone please tell me what could be wrong? Thankyou so much. Kind Regards Siju -- Running: /usr/bin/ssh -q -x -l root linsrv /usr/bin/rsync --server --sender

Re: [BackupPC-users] Separate subnet no pring

2005-07-20 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 09:00, Adam Dobrin wrote: > I'm having trouble using backuppc from a separate subnet. I have a VPN > connection from an offiste location to my network; and while the remote > machine *can* ping into the internal network, and perl's gethostbyname >

Re: [BackupPC-users] Re: OT: Archives nearly useless? (Google doing evil?)

2005-07-20 Thread Marty
Steve Lamb wrote:> I just did a search for "debian sata dvd burner". Here's the link: You're right. Apparently I didn't do enough testing, or the problem was temporary, and now seems to be limited to the sourceforge lists or at least backuppc-user, and

Re: [BackupPC-users] Re: OT: Archives nearly useless? (Google doing evil?)

2005-07-19 Thread Steve Lamb
Marty wrote: > Steve Lamb wrote: >>> No, it's just some recent change that google made. >> So you claim. And your proof is... what? > See my answer above. What you gave was not proof. It was supposition based on your observations on a *dynamic system*. IE, the same term used today is

Re: [BackupPC-users] Re: OT: Archives nearly useless? (Google doing evil?)

2005-07-19 Thread Marty
l previously getting google hits for both backuppc-users and debian-users, and many other technical list archives without the extra qualifying terms that require one to know in advance where the answer to their question lies. I think that if recent lawsuits are behind google's changes, then

Re: [BackupPC-users] Re: OT: Archives nearly useless? (Google doing evil?)

2005-07-19 Thread Steve Lamb
Marty wrote: > I wonder how SPI would respond to that statement. Would be interesting, wouldn't it. I mean you are talking about a collective of individuals who have decided that some software should be funded. Just because they say it is "in the public interest" doesn't mean the public want

Re: [BackupPC-users] Re: OT: Archives nearly useless? (Google doing evil?)

2005-07-19 Thread Marty
Steve Lamb wrote: Marty wrote: Steve Lamb wrote: The public has no interest. But google shareholders do? I hope that's not what you mean. Nope. Simply pointing out that "the public" is an entity which in and of itself has no interests. "The public" is a collection of individuals

Re: [BackupPC-users] Re: OT: Archives nearly useless? (Google doing evil?)

2005-07-19 Thread Steve Lamb
Marty wrote: > Steve Lamb wrote: >> The public has no interest. > But google shareholders do? I hope that's not what you mean. Nope. Simply pointing out that "the public" is an entity which in and of itself has no interests. "The public" is a collection of individuals, each of whom hav

Re: [BackupPC-users] OT: Archives nearly useless? (Google doing evil?)

2005-07-19 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 15:26, Marty wrote: > Maybe the most optimistic explanation would be just that google is > knucking under to the rampant copyright or lawsuit madness that's > plaguing the USA, but that still leaves a problem for technical > list users. I've moved some of my busier list subs

Re: [BackupPC-users] Re: OT: Archives nearly useless? (Google doing evil?)

2005-07-19 Thread Marty
Steve Lamb wrote: Marty wrote: I don't see what legitimate purpose it might serve, and I wonder if the posters' wishes or search engine users' interests, or even public interests, enter into consideration? I suppose not. The public has no interest. But google shareholders do? I hope th

Re: Backuppc

2004-09-21 Thread Sturla Holm Hansen
Stephen Patterson wrote: On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 13:40:11 +0200, Sturla Holm Hansen wrote: Anyone tried backuppc ( http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ ) If so, here's my files: Fatal error (bad version): Host key verification failed. Sounds like ssh is being bitchy wrt to the identity key for each

Re: Backuppc

2004-09-16 Thread Stephen Patterson
On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 13:40:11 +0200, Sturla Holm Hansen wrote: > Anyone tried backuppc ( http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ ) > If so, here's my files: > Fatal error (bad version): Host key verification failed. Sounds like ssh is being bitchy wrt to the identity key for each host. Can

Backuppc

2004-09-16 Thread Sturla Holm Hansen
Anyone tried backuppc ( http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ ) If so, here's my files: /etc/backuppc/hosts: hostdhcpusermoreUsers # <--- do not edit this line localhost 0 backuppc even0 even /etc/backuppc/even.pl $Conf{XferMethod} = '