On Friday 21 September 2012 16:22:29 Tony Molloy wrote:
> On Friday 21 September 2012 16:11:26 Tony Molloy wrote:
> > On Friday 21 September 2012 13:17:26 Daniel J. Doughty wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I've got BackupPC running and backing up linux boxes fine. I'm
> > > now trying to back up a Windows 2003 box. I've got the SMB
> > > shared out and now want to set the password in backuppc but
> > > just want to do it for this host. So I went searching for the
> > > CONFDIR/pc/ subdir and couldn't find it. All I can find is my
> > > TOPDIR/pc/ subdir.
> > >
> > > Any idea what I'm missing here?
> >
> > Incredible I am just doing the same thing myself. Installing
> > BackupPC-3.2 on a CentOS-6.3 box replacing 3.1 on an old
> > CentOS-5.8 box and was just about to ask the same question.
> >
> > I'm just running a test now.
> >
> > I created the /etc/BackupPC/pc directory and put a per-host
> > config file there so I'll see if the backup kicks off in a few
> > minutes and let you know.
> >
> > Tony
>
That's it. Create the directory /etc/BackupPC/pc. owner
backuppc:backuppc. Copy the per-host file into it, owner
backuppc:backuppc, and away you go.
Or you could go with Les's way and configure the web interface, which
you'll probably want to do anyway. Thank's Les ;-)
Tony
> Ok BackupPC seemed to find the per-host config file, just didn't do
> any backup. But that could be another problem ;-(
>
> It created the directory /var/lib/BackupPB/pc/host. So I assume
> that meant it found the config file and attempted a backup which
> failed. Just an empty LOG file and a LOCK file in the directory.
>
> Tony
>
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