On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 9:59 AM, The Lunatic <lunatic AT lhaven DOT net> wrote:
>
>> The normal configuration has apache running as one user id, and
>> backuppc as another.  However, the web interface needs to be able to
>> access the backuppc data so the cgi script needs suild permissions.
>>
>
> On my old ubuntu server it had setuid set on the BackupPC_Admin, but
> that system is perl 5.10 based.
>
> My new server uses perl 5.14 (and I think it was 5.12 forward that
> removed setuid), so I use apache/mod_suexec.

I think the mod_suexec takes precedence if the system has it
installed, even if you also have suidperl.  But the effect is the
same.

>> Normally linux will have rsync and ssh as part of the distribution and
>> all you have to do is set up ssh keys for passwordless access.  On
>> windows you get a file-share client's view of the data which won't be
>> enough for a bare-metal restore.   Some people prefer to install
>> cygwin ssh and rsync on windows, but it is not absolutely required.
>>
>
> Backing up through the Windows administrative shares was a problem, for
> me....there were times where Microsoft would break smbclient from
> working, and I'd have to wait for a newer smbclient to have backups
> working again.  I did try the cygwin ssh/rsync, though its not an easy
> install.  Now, I use DeltaCopy to do rsyncd on my Windows systems.
>
> I use rsyncd for most of my *ix systems.

I think deltacopy is just an installer wrapped around cygwin rsync to
start it in standalone daemon mode.  I use it myself on a laptop and
the only issue I've seen is that it runs as a service under my domain
login and when the password changes I have to change the service
startup to match.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
      lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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