Running 3.1.0, installed via synaptic on Ubuntu 11.04. After spending a lot of time refining my excludes, thinking windows open files were preventing a successful full backup completing, I tried ma
I just ran the _dump script manually again, this time fully deleting everything under TOPDIR except the pool directories and with the -v verbose option. The ending of the process was the same, exce
Author: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2011 14:23:51 -0500
The ubuntu package should have set everything up correctly. You didn't change TOPDIR or mount something underneath it after the install, did you? -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com -- Speci
On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 2:23 AM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com> wrote: The ubuntu package should have set everything up correctly. You didn't change TOPDIR or mount something underneath
Author: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2011 15:14:30 -0500
I don't see any other message yet, but the way to get it right is to just mount the partition you want to use for storage in the place where backuppc wants it (should be /var/lib/backuppc with the de
On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 3:14 AM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com> wrote: I don't see any other message yet, but the way to get it right is to just mount the partition you want to use for st
If you do this before the install, everything should land in the right place and get the right permissions. The critical things are that the pool/cpool/pc directories must all be in the same filesy
Author: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2011 15:50:27 -0500
The ubuntu package should create a backuppc user and that should be the owner of everything under TOPDIR. I think you need to diagnose why the link fails but trying the same operation from the shell
On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 3:50 AM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com> wrote: The ubuntu package should create a backuppc user and that should be the owner of everything under TOPDIR. I think
Sorry, editing mangled the referents of my pronouns: I've heard of some software/systems being unable to traverse them [SYMLINKS] - in fact I've read they're [BIND MOUNTS] pretty much transparent r
On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 3:50 AM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com> wrote: The ubuntu package should create a backuppc user and that should be the owner of everything under TOPDIR. I think y
Author: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2011 16:27:56 -0500
I mean try to create a hardlink between a file under the pc directory to under the cpool directory. su -s /bin/bash backuppc cd /var/lib/backuppc/pc touch testfile ln testfile ../cpool/testfile that
Author: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2011 16:38:18 -0500
In general, backuppc needs rw permission on everything, and apache (www-data on debian/ubuntu) needs read access to some of it. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com -- Special Offer -- Downlo
you may not see the real error message. Does the drive in question have a filesystem that handles hard links? Everything is ext3, currently all in one filesystem, and as I said, as soon as I chown/
Author: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2011 16:46:34 -0500
I think the fact that the link step isn't completing is your real problem, but I still don't know why. If you get that far it should work or tell you why in the logs. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell AT g
On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 4:38 AM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com> wrote: In general, backuppc needs rw permission on everything, and apache (www-data on debian/ubuntu) needs read access to
I think the fact that the link step isn't completing is your real problem, but I still don't know why. If you get that far it should work or tell you why in the logs. Sorry our posts crossed. By "
is there **anything** else I should do to ensure a "clean" system state before re-installing BackupPC? -- Special Offer -- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE! Finally, a world-class log management s
This time I'm planning to delete the backuppc user Is anything more than removing the line from /etc/passwd required for this? as well as: /var/lib/backuppc /etc/backuppc /var/log/backuppc /u
Author: Timothy J Massey <tmassey AT obscorp DOT com>
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2011 21:37:42 -0400
Quick reply (on iPad): I have used symlink for most of a decade now with zero issues on a dozen severs. Timothy J. Massey Out of the Box Solutions Inc. Sent from my iPad On Sep 2, 2011, at 5:09 PM, h