Author: "Michael Stowe" <mstowe AT chicago.us.mensa DOT org>
Date: Fri, 11 May 2012 16:42:16 -0500
Based on some of the work here http://www.goodjobsucking.com/?p=62 and elsewhere, I finally put together a package that allows more-or-less instant installation of a scripted client for Windows machi
Author: Adam Goryachev <mailinglists AT websitemanagers.com DOT au>
Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 15:49:21 +1000
Firstly, I'd like to say "THANK YOU!", you have done truly an amazing amount of work to get this far, and thank you very much, it will make my life much easier I'm sure. Secondly, a couple of things
Author: "Michael Stowe" <mstowe AT chicago.us.mensa DOT org>
Date: Sun, 20 May 2012 16:25:14 -0500
Hmmm, I'm not sure why it wouldn't have created the rsyncd.secrets file, but I'll see what's wrong with it. I'll also add some more explanation to the installer, since it's possible to just skip and
Author: Adam Goryachev <mailinglists AT websitemanagers.com DOT au>
Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 10:22:02 +1000
rsyncd.secrets file, explanation to the secrets you! No problem, I hope it helps. One question, after my successful install and first backup last week, backuppc hasn't been able to do a second succes
Author: "Michael Stowe" <mstowe AT chicago.us.mensa DOT org>
Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 07:58:31 -0500
Yes -- a reboot will do it (of course) but so will placing a file called "wake.up" in the backuppc client directory. -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways
Author: Adam Goryachev <mailinglists AT websitemanagers.com DOT au>
Date: Tue, 22 May 2012 12:22:40 +1000
backup last week, backup (it just /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC cmd /c /etc/backuppc/scripts/preusercmd.sh hostname messed something client? ie, to file called Tried "echo > wake.up" in a dos prom
Author: Adam Goryachev <mailinglists AT websitemanagers.com DOT au>
Date: Fri, 25 May 2012 01:17:19 +1000
course) but so will placing a file called Thanks, the wake.up file didn't help, but a reboot solved the problem. I've now rolled this out across another three servers, and it has worked quite well. T
First, thanks for doing this. I've had the original post bookmarked for quite some time (years, it seems) with plans to implement, and this simplifies the process quite a bit. Performance is much
Author: "Michael Stowe" <mstowe AT chicago.us.mensa DOT org>
Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 09:59:48 -0500
Not only are you exactly correct, but your fix is exactly what I left out when I posted it the first time (I apparently deleted that line and hadn't noticed.) The client side hasn't changed, but I'm
Author: Adam Goryachev <mailinglists AT websitemanagers.com DOT au>
Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 01:42:37 +1000
correct, but your fix is exactly what I left out line and hadn't the scripts I do. Just a little reminder that on each machine I've tried to install the client on, the rsyncd.secrets file wasn't crea
Author: "Michael Stowe" <mstowe AT chicago.us.mensa DOT org>
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2012 14:27:36 -0500
Turns out it wouldn't create rsyncd.secrets unless the installation directory already existed when the installer was started (whoops!) I've fixed this, and a few other things, available here: http:/
I'm trying to work with this to get it to restore files to their original paths via rsyncd as well. Basically, I'm having the restore pre-cmd follow the same path as the dump pre-cmd ($type is helpf
Author: "Michael Stowe" <mstowe AT chicago.us.mensa DOT org>
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 21:13:33 -0500
cygwin-rsync may not be able to handle this natively; I haven't had much success. It may be worthwhile to backup/restore ACL's separately: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=235