Re: New BackupPC Server Hardware; Existing Data Pool

2024-02-21 Thread Tim Evans
On 2/20/24 08:57, Tim Evans wrote: On 2/20/24 07:51, Richard Shaw wrote: On Tue, Feb 20, 2024 at 6:43 AM Tim Evans <mailto:tkev...@tkevans.com>> wrote:     The new BackupPC server starts up--I can see it in process listing;     httpd web server is working as well.  I get prompted to

Re: New BackupPC Server Hardware; Existing Data Pool

2024-02-20 Thread Tim via users
On Tue, 2024-02-20 at 07:43 -0500, Tim Evans wrote: > The new BackupPC server starts up--I can see it in process listing; > httpd web server is working as well.  I get prompted to log in to the > server admin page as expected, then get the following httpd "503" error: >

Re: New BackupPC Server Hardware; Existing Data Pool

2024-02-20 Thread Tim Evans
On 2/20/24 07:51, Richard Shaw wrote: On Tue, Feb 20, 2024 at 6:43 AM Tim Evans <mailto:tkev...@tkevans.com>> wrote: The new BackupPC server starts up--I can see it in process listing; httpd web server is working as well.  I get prompted to log in to the server admi

Re: New BackupPC Server Hardware; Existing Data Pool

2024-02-20 Thread Richard Shaw
On Tue, Feb 20, 2024 at 6:43 AM Tim Evans wrote: > The new BackupPC server starts up--I can see it in process listing; > httpd web server is working as well. I get prompted to log in to the > server admin page as expected, then get the following httpd "503" error: >

New BackupPC Server Hardware; Existing Data Pool

2024-02-20 Thread Tim Evans
[ I have also posted this to the low-traffic BackupPC-Users list, but wanted a broader look ] I'm replacing the very old computer that has run as my local BackupPC server, and want to retain the server's data pool (i.e., all the existing backups). The old server wrote its data

Re: BackupPC

2017-12-23 Thread Ted Roche
If you type: dnf info backuppc It will tell you you can find the homepage at: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ and from there find documentation on how to configure and run BackupPC. On Sat, Dec 23, 2017 at 8:21 AM, Ger van Dijck wrote: > Hi folks, > > > I have a (maybe stup

Re: BackupPC

2017-12-23 Thread fred roller
Also, there are no stupid questions. On Sat, Dec 23, 2017 at 8:26 AM, Richard Shaw wrote: > On Sat, Dec 23, 2017 at 7:21 AM, Ger van Dijck > wrote: > >> Hi folks, >> >> >> I have a (maybe stupid) question : I have installed BackupPC , but I can >> not la

Re: BackupPC

2017-12-23 Thread fred roller
Also, there are no stupid questions. On Sat, Dec 23, 2017 at 8:26 AM, Richard Shaw wrote: > On Sat, Dec 23, 2017 at 7:21 AM, Ger van Dijck > wrote: > >> Hi folks, >> >> >> I have a (maybe stupid) question : I have installed BackupPC , but I can >> not la

Re: BackupPC

2017-12-23 Thread Richard Shaw
On Sat, Dec 23, 2017 at 7:21 AM, Ger van Dijck wrote: > Hi folks, > > > I have a (maybe stupid) question : I have installed BackupPC , but I can > not launche the application. > > I also can not find the app listed in Applications. > > So where can I find the app and

BackupPC

2017-12-23 Thread Ger van Dijck
Hi folks, I have a (maybe stupid) question : I have installed BackupPC , but I can not launche the application. I also can not find the app listed in Applications. So where can I find the app and start the program BackupPC ? Regards, Ger van Dijck. -- Using Opera's mail client:

Re: BackupPC 4.1.0 testing needed - Any BackupPC users on the group?

2017-03-30 Thread Richard Shaw
f I > restore a version that is _not_ the most recent backup? Hard links were only used in v3 for deduplication, the restored file would not be a hard link to my knowledge, however, that question may be better asked on the backuppc user list. Thanks, Richard ___

Re: BackupPC 4.1.0 testing needed - Any BackupPC users on the group?

2017-03-30 Thread Robert Nichols
On 03/30/2017 07:32 AM, Richard Shaw wrote: I have taken over maintenance of the BackupPC package and have made the update to 4.1.0 available through COPR[1] for now for a couple of reasons: 1. It's a huge change, hardlinks are no longer used for deduplication, but v4 can read v3 backup

BackupPC 4.1.0 testing needed - Any BackupPC users on the group?

2017-03-30 Thread Richard Shaw
I have taken over maintenance of the BackupPC package and have made the update to 4.1.0 available through COPR[1] for now for a couple of reasons: 1. It's a huge change, hardlinks are no longer used for deduplication, but v4 can read v3 backups. 2. Some of the settings in /etc/BackupPC/conf

Re: [Maybe OT] BackupPC Aborts Backup at 8GB on F23

2016-02-28 Thread Tim Evans
On 02/28/2016 07:52 PM, jd1008 wrote: Where to look? Thanks. See http://forum.videohelp.com/threads/314405-Can-t-overcome-the-8gb-barrier-on-NTFS https://sourceforge.net/p/sevenzip/discussion/45797/thread/094f42d7/ https://www.ualberta.ca/dept/chemeng/AIX-43/share/man/info/C/a_doc_lib/aixbman

Re: [Maybe OT] BackupPC Aborts Backup at 8GB on F23

2016-02-28 Thread jd1008
On 02/28/2016 05:44 PM, Tim Evans wrote: I have just upgraded, to F23, a CentOS 6.7 system that has been reliably running BackupPC (http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/) to back up a Windows 7 system via SMB for several years. After the F23 upgrade, which also included an upgrade of BackupPC to

[Maybe OT] BackupPC Aborts Backup at 8GB on F23

2016-02-28 Thread Tim Evans
I have just upgraded, to F23, a CentOS 6.7 system that has been reliably running BackupPC (http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/) to back up a Windows 7 system via SMB for several years. After the F23 upgrade, which also included an upgrade of BackupPC to version 3.3.1, backups are now always

BackupPc install

2015-02-23 Thread Tony Molloy
Hi, I've just installed BackupPC on my home server from the Fedora repos ( Fedora 21 ). It doesn't seem to have installed a systemd service file. So the question is how do I start BackupPC. I have it installed on CentOS 6 at work so configuration shouldn't be a proble. I k

Re: BackupPC - a brief rant

2014-06-25 Thread Ian Malone
On 25 June 2014 16:09, Liam Proven wrote: > On 24 June 2014 12:03, Ian Malone wrote: >> PS, you've misspelt Microsoft. If you want to be consistent you need >> to make up humorous[1] misspellings of NetworkManager and Evolution >> too. >> [1] For low values of humorous. > > > I suggest MICROS~1.

Re: BackupPC - a brief rant

2014-06-25 Thread Liam Proven
On 24 June 2014 12:03, Ian Malone wrote: > PS, you've misspelt Microsoft. If you want to be consistent you need > to make up humorous[1] misspellings of NetworkManager and Evolution > too. > [1] For low values of humorous. I suggest MICROS~1. It's what Win9x turned the name of the "Microsoft Off

Re: BackupPC - a brief rant

2014-06-25 Thread Liam Proven
On 23 June 2014 21:16, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 06/23/2014 11:43 AM, Liam Proven wrote: >> >> Now let's assume we were both Japanese. Could we record and search >> accurately for a written sentence in English? > > > Considering that most Japanese students study English in school? Probably. :¬) All

Re: BackupPC - a brief rant

2014-06-24 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 24 June 2014, Ian Malone sent: > PS, you've misspelt Microsoft. If you want to be consistent you need > to make up humorous[1] misspellings of NetworkManager and Evolution > too. They've worked very hard to earn their denigrations... -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux

Re: BackupPC - a brief rant

2014-06-24 Thread Ian Malone
On 24 June 2014 09:13, Tim wrote: > Allegedly, on or about 23 June 2014, Ian Malone sent: >> Though I'll bet the error doesn't actually mean that the clock is not >> set correctly. The usual experience is it'll be something else going >> wrong for which the underlying cause is the clock set incorr

Re: BackupPC - a brief rant

2014-06-24 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 23 June 2014, Ian Malone sent: > Though I'll bet the error doesn't actually mean that the clock is not > set correctly. The usual experience is it'll be something else going > wrong for which the underlying cause is the clock set incorrectly and > anonymous error is being rep

Re: BackupPC - a brief rant

2014-06-23 Thread Ian Malone
On 23 June 2014 19:43, Liam Proven wrote: > On 23 June 2014 20:33, Tim wrote: >> Tim: Why the hell couldn't the computer just have said to set the clock manually, since it couldn't manage to do it itself, instead of some moronic number code? >> >> >> Liam Proven: >>> I know this wa

Re: BackupPC - a brief rant

2014-06-23 Thread Joe Zeff
On 06/23/2014 11:43 AM, Liam Proven wrote: Now let's assume we were both Japanese. Could we record and search accurately for a written sentence in English? Considering that most Japanese students study English in school? Probably. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscr

Re: BackupPC - a brief rant

2014-06-23 Thread Liam Proven
On 23 June 2014 20:33, Tim wrote: > Tim: >>> Why the hell couldn't the computer just have said to set the clock >>> manually, since it couldn't manage to do it itself, instead of some >>> moronic number code? > > > Liam Proven: >> I know this was a rhetorical question, but: >> >> These days softwa

Re: BackupPC - a brief rant

2014-06-23 Thread Tim
Tim: >> Why the hell couldn't the computer just have said to set the clock >> manually, since it couldn't manage to do it itself, instead of some >> moronic number code? Liam Proven: > I know this was a rhetorical question, but: > > These days software is expected to be localised into hundreds o

Re: BackupPC - a brief rant

2014-06-23 Thread Liam Proven
On 22 June 2014 17:04, Tim wrote: > Why the hell couldn't the > computer just have said to set the clock manually, since it couldn't > manage to do it itself, instead of some moronic number code? I know this was a rhetorical question, but: These days software is expected to be localised into h

Re: BackupPC - a brief rant

2014-06-22 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2014-06-22 at 15:24 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Do you mean that rsync actually sent the message, > or that it was an error in rsync that motivated BackupPC to send it? IIRC when I saw it it was something in /var/log/rsnapshot or /var/log/cron, but it was a while back. poc --

Re: BackupPC - a brief rant

2014-06-22 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 22 June 2014, Timothy Murphy sent: > Incidentally, in defence of my rant, I've found that > when I actually try to trace an error message in the source - > I used to do this quite a lot with NetworkManager > when it used to send out error messages which just said > "Failure 2

Re: BackupPC - a brief rant

2014-06-22 Thread Timothy Murphy
was an error in rsync that motivated BackupPC to send it? I've never had the message directly from rsync, although I use it all the time. Also, I'm pretty sure (but not certain) that I've had the message from BackupPC for other reasons, perhaps before rsync is called. In any case, Ba

Re: BackupPC - a brief rant

2014-06-20 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 20 Jun 2014 14:21:52 -0400 George Avrunin wrote: > It can also occur with BackupPC when keyless ssh isn't set up right > and ssh is giving a prompt (e.g., on the first ssh login to a host). Has > happened to me more than once... Yea, that's the reason you find every

Re: BackupPC - a brief rant

2014-06-20 Thread George Avrunin
ot it recently trying to copy a very old system's root > > to a virtual image and I had to download the source rpm > > for rsync and build the new rsync on the old system. > > Yes, that sounds about right. I was too lazy to backtrack and look it up > again :-) > > poc

Re: BackupPC - a brief rant

2014-06-20 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2014-06-20 at 12:13 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Fri, 20 Jun 2014 16:48:38 +0100 > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > AFAIK it's actually an error from rsync (I've seen it in rsnapshot as > > well, which is also rsync-based). Google for more. > > And apparently, what it actually means is:

Re: BackupPC - a brief rant

2014-06-20 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 20 Jun 2014 16:48:38 +0100 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > AFAIK it's actually an error from rsync (I've seen it in rsnapshot as > well, which is also rsync-based). Google for more. And apparently, what it actually means is: "Hey! I'm trying to talk to an incompatible version of rsync on the

Re: BackupPC - a brief rant

2014-06-20 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2014-06-20 at 15:50 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Many applications give unhelpful error messages, > but I've never met any quite as useless > as the invariable message from BackupPC: > "Unable to read 4 bytes" > If only it could sometimes say > "Una

Re: BackupPC - a brief rant

2014-06-20 Thread Marcus Leech
Is BackupPC packaged for Fedora now?    While this particular error message is, I agree, pretty useless, I'll make a general comment.   Software is, necessarily, notorious for generally only being able to "present the evidence immediately before it".  Most applications, for example

BackupPC - a brief rant

2014-06-20 Thread Timothy Murphy
Many applications give unhelpful error messages, but I've never met any quite as useless as the invariable message from BackupPC: "Unable to read 4 bytes" If only it could sometimes say "Unable to read 3 bytes" or even "Hooray, was able to read 1 byte"

BackupPC problems since upgrade to F17

2012-05-31 Thread George Avrunin
to add "namespace inbox {inbox = yes}" to my dovecot.conf to let claws-mail get my e-mail, but otherwise things seem to mostly be working fine. But I'm having some problems with BackupPC. I use this machine to backup itself and a couple of other Fedora boxes (still at F16 and F15)

Re: backuppc fails to start after f15->f16

2011-12-06 Thread Neal Becker
Neal Becker wrote: > BackupPC[2535]: /usr/bin/perl: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib64/perl5\ > /vendor_perl/auto/Cwd/Cwd.so: undefined symbol: Perl_Gthr_key_ptr > > Any ideas? > Fixed. Seems that anaconda left a bit of a mess. I had a mix of f15 and f16 packages for perl. Most

backuppc fails to start after f15->f16

2011-12-05 Thread Neal Becker
BackupPC[2535]: /usr/bin/perl: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib64/perl5\ /vendor_perl/auto/Cwd/Cwd.so: undefined symbol: Perl_Gthr_key_ptr Any ideas? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: BackupPC error

2011-08-11 Thread Daniel J Walsh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/11/2011 02:04 PM, Richard Shaw wrote: > On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 12:02 PM, Daniel J Walsh > wrote: >> On 08/11/2011 12:06 PM, Richard Shaw wrote: >>> On a side note, I think the current 3.2.1 release has some >>> SELinux issues. I updated mine ba

Re: BackupPC error

2011-08-11 Thread Richard Shaw
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 12:02 PM, Daniel J Walsh wrote: > On 08/11/2011 12:06 PM, Richard Shaw wrote: >> On a side note, I think the current 3.2.1 release has some SELinux >> issues. I updated mine based on the SEAlterts and created my own >> package. I sent my updates to the package maintainer fo

Re: BackupPC error

2011-08-11 Thread Daniel J Walsh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/11/2011 12:06 PM, Richard Shaw wrote: > On a side note, I think the current 3.2.1 release has some SELinux > issues. I updated mine based on the SEAlterts and created my own > package. I sent my updates to the package maintainer for Fedora but

Re: BackupPC error

2011-08-11 Thread Reid Rivenburgh
ard Shaw wrote: > On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 11:07 AM, Reid Rivenburgh wrote: >> It looks like I needed to create /var/run/BackupPC, owned by account >> backuppc.  I notice in the changelog for the most recent package that >> the socket creation was moved there, but it seems it didn

Re: BackupPC error

2011-08-11 Thread Richard Shaw
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 11:07 AM, Reid Rivenburgh wrote: > It looks like I needed to create /var/run/BackupPC, owned by account > backuppc.  I notice in the changelog for the most recent package that > the socket creation was moved there, but it seems it didn't make sure > the

Re: BackupPC error

2011-08-11 Thread Reid Rivenburgh
It looks like I needed to create /var/run/BackupPC, owned by account backuppc. I notice in the changelog for the most recent package that the socket creation was moved there, but it seems it didn't make sure the directory exists. Reid On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 9:58 AM, Reid Rivenburgh

Re: BackupPC error

2011-08-11 Thread Richard Shaw
On a side note, I think the current 3.2.1 release has some SELinux issues. I updated mine based on the SEAlterts and created my own package. I sent my updates to the package maintainer for Fedora but I do not believe he's incorporated them yet. Richard -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproj

Re: BackupPC error

2011-08-11 Thread Reid Rivenburgh
Ah, that's a good point, those two lines of the LOG file may not be related, which would be misleading. I should check if any sockets are being created. Thanks for the tip. Reid On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 9:55 AM, j.e.aneiros wrote: > Well I never have used BackupPC software but fo

Re: BackupPC error

2011-08-11 Thread Reid Rivenburgh
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Richard Shaw wrote: > On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 10:01 AM, Reid Rivenburgh wrote: >> Hi.  I'm running F15 and have been using BackupPC successfully for >> years.  I rebooted my computer this morning and noticed that BackupPC >> failed t

Re: BackupPC error

2011-08-11 Thread j.e.aneiros
Well I never have used BackupPC software but for me the problem is not the hosts file. I think the program is trying to open a UNIX socket file and for some reason (the directory where the file should reside no longer exists or some permission problems) is failing. I was able to replicate you

Re: BackupPC error

2011-08-11 Thread Richard Shaw
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 10:01 AM, Reid Rivenburgh wrote: > Hi.  I'm running F15 and have been using BackupPC successfully for > years.  I rebooted my computer this morning and noticed that BackupPC > failed to start.  Its log file has this: > > 2011-08-11 08:00:25 Reading hos

BackupPC error

2011-08-11 Thread Reid Rivenburgh
Hi. I'm running F15 and have been using BackupPC successfully for years. I rebooted my computer this morning and noticed that BackupPC failed to start. Its log file has this: 2011-08-11 08:00:25 Reading hosts file 2011-08-11 08:00:25 unix bind() failed: No such file or directory But the