Re: [BackupPC-users] Noob Question Time... backup up localhost
2009-05-21 16:37:39
I have been looking at this and back to a how-to I was trying to follow.
For the case of backing up the localhost (c17-desktop) & trying to
exclude the /var/lib/backuppc directory where c17-desktop is the
BackupPC server...
I can not follow where to copy ssh keys to/from. Does anybody have time
to baby step me thru this?
When I do: "sudo su backuppc"
followed by: "ssh -x -l backuppc c17-desktop date"
i get: "ssh: connect to host c17-desktop port 22: Connection refused"
Which I believe ya'll are telling me is because I don't have ssh-keys
set up correctly.
I do have user backuppc set up to be able to run rsync w/o a password
via: "sudo visudo"
which shows:
# User privilege specification
root ALL=(ALL) ALL
backuppc ALL=NOPASSWD: /user/bin/rsync
Thanx in advance, Skip
On Wed, 2009-05-20 at 21:56 -0500, Skip Guenter wrote:
> I installed BackupPC from the Ubuntu repositories several days ago with
> the intent of getting it set up and running as soon as a HDD came in.
> Well last night I was reading thru some of the doc and took a look at
> the control webpage and much to my surprise saw that a host was there
> (localhost) and had done something... but also had an error about it's
> name not matching netbios name. I changed it's name and deleted the
> backup files under /var/lib/backuppc/pc/localhost.
>
> After some more reading I change 5 things from the default install:
>
> 1) changed default method to rsync
> 2) changed logs kept from 14 to 9
> 3) changed the host name "localhost" to "c17-desktop"
> 4) checked the box override box called "FixedIPNetBiosNameCheck"
> 5) changed blackout period to be 7.5 thru 18.5
>
> Then requested a full backup on c17.
>
> It returned a new error on the host summary page:
> c17-desktop skip 0 0.00 0 idle backup failed (Unable to read 4 bytes)
>
> This is the machine that BackupPC was installed on. I guess getting
> that machine backed up is as good as anyplace to start.
>
> I also, via the web interface attempted to exclude some directories and
> file types which ended up creating /etc/backuppc/c17-desktop.pl that
> contains:
>
> $Conf{FixedIPNetBiosNameCheck} = '0';
> $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
> '*.old' => [],
> '/var/lib/backuppc' => [],
> '/tmp' => [],
> '/lost+found' => [],
> '/proc' => [],
> '/cdrom' => [],
> '/mnt' => []
> };
>
> After saving these change I attempted another full backup and got the
> same error: backup failed (Unable to read 4 bytes)
>
> So, questions:
>
> 1) Is it advisable/legit to use rsync on the local machine backing up
> itself?
>
> 2) Do my directory and file exclusions make any sense for backing up the
> machine that BackupPC is on?
>
> 3) How can I find out more about this error I'm getting?
>
> PS: HDD just arrived so I'll get the RAID 1 set up tonight or tomorrow
> and figure out how to point BackupPC to that.... think I read there's a
> topDIR variable someplace.
>
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