Simpler answer: IF you left the original /var/lib/backuppc as is (read: with its original directories), then you're doomed and need to stop backuppc, umount HD (virtual or not) and remove these direc
Author: Paolo Basenghi <paolo.basenghi AT fcr.re DOT it>
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2015 15:02:55 +0200
If you did follow BPC install instructions, BPC should work with a non root user (say backuppc). Then you can give mount point directory restrictive permissions (while backuppc filesystem is unmounte
Author: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2015 17:39:02 -0500
On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 5:31 AM, Jürgen Depicker <Jurgen.Depicker AT let DOT I think that is a fairly unlikely scenario unless it is an external drive being optionally automounted. When I've seen dri
Les Mikesell wrote at about 17:39:02 -0500 on Tuesday, July 14, 2015: Maybe not too unlikely. I have a consumer NAS device that I NFS mount. One of the disks failed causing the NAS to crash and someh
Author: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2015 21:44:04 -0500
I think what happens with NFS depends on the mount options in fstab. If you want, you can force the mounting system to hang and wait for the server to be available again (which might not be that desi
Author: Jürgen Depicker <Jurgen.Depicker AT let DOT be>
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2015 08:29:12 +0000
Hi guys, I must say, I'm again really happy about the help I have received from all of you through this list! Since Backuppc works so nicely, it had been a couple of years that I last had to ask some
Author: Daniel30 <backuppc-forum AT backupcentral DOT com>
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2015 18:55:43 -0700
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Author: anduriltdm <backuppc-forum AT backupcentral DOT com>
Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2015 02:29:21 -0700
Hello, I've just installed BackupPC. I checked "Configure Automatically Apache2" but when I go on the index (http://IP/backuppc), my browser downloads a file and the page become blank. Thank you. +--
Author: Bob of Donelson Trophy <bob AT donelsontrophy DOT net>
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2015 20:39:49 -0500
I went away from this and now I am back. Stephen, your link returns a "404." Could you check it, please. And, it has been so long since I installed from a tar.gz file that I have gone brain dead. I h
Author: Adam Goryachev <mailinglists AT websitemanagers.com DOT au>
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2015 11:24:45 +1000
Hi all, I've been using BackupPC v4 for a number of months, but I still haven't managed to get it working properly for a couple of hosts. One host is a windows 2008R2 machine which is a VM. I have a
Author: Bob of Donelson Trophy <bob AT donelsontrophy DOT net>
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2015 06:54:33 -0500
I am receiving this email: The following directories are bogus and are not being used by BackupPC. This typically happens when PCs are removed from the backup list. If you don't need any old backups
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Author: Michael Stowe <mstowe AT chicago.us.mensa DOT org>
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2015 10:02:18 -0500
Well, that filename is a bit of a treat. The shell will try to expand it and you may have unintended consequences unless you escape the stars ... cd /var/lib/backuppc/pc cd 192.168.\*\*\*.119 (or) cd
Author: Bob of Donelson Trophy <bob AT donelsontrophy DOT net>
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2015 10:43:02 -0500
Okay, I might have handled that incorrectly . . . the "**" (triple asterisk signs) were to obscure the ip address on the mailing list only. That is NOT the ip address my server is using for a client.
Author: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2015 14:06:34 -0500
That should work, but note that the space won't be released until a backuppc_nightly run removes all the pooled files that will then only have one link in the pool or cpool directory tree. -- Les Mik
Author: Bob of Donelson Trophy <bob AT donelsontrophy DOT net>
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2015 16:31:40 -0500
I know this is a very general request but, I have been trying to install BackupPC4.0.0alpha3.tar,gz on Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS. It is not as simple as "Install essentials, install BackupPC-XS-0.3.0.tar.gz
Author: David Cramblett <david AT functionalchaos DOT net>
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2015 15:18:20 -0700
Bob, What kind of issue are you running in to? I installed about 6-9 months ago on CentOS 7. I didn't write down any instructions though - I'm terrible about that. I only ran into a couple of issues
Author: Bob of Donelson Trophy <bob AT donelsontrophy DOT net>
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2015 06:32:10 -0500
Thanks for the reply, David. I have thought about switching distro to CentOS. I have seen other mailing posts that mention the use of it and have some experience with CentOS. (Not that I am against U
Author: David Cramblett <david AT functionalchaos DOT net>
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2015 10:24:43 -0700
Bob, Here is my config.pl. Anything in braces{ } is data I sanitized before sharing my config file. == config.pl == $Conf{ServerHost} = '{BACKUPPC_HOST}.{MY_DOMAIN}'; $Conf{ServerPort} = -1; $Conf{Se
Author: Bob of Donelson Trophy <bob AT donelsontrophy DOT net>
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2015 14:31:00 -0500
This is a BIG help. Thank you. I have re-installed my server with CentOS7. Resolved all (I think) my dependencies issues. Currently having some file permissions issues with Apache. My linux education