From: Ben A. <ben...@ts...> - 2010-05-19 15:11:06
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I have a question that I am sure has been asked MANY a time on here, but I am trying to back up a Windows system without using Cygwin1.dll which is what the RSYNCD and RSYNC methods use. I was exploring SAMBA (*SMB). *The computers in question are a member of a Domain, and I am typing in TSAV\username and password and using a user with Domain Admin privileges. I also put the FQDN and Simple Domain name in the field ClientNameAlias<https://tsavsbackuppc1.tsav.local/BackupPC?action=view&type=docs#item__conf_clientnamealias_> My question is this: Why can I back up C$\ which backs up all of the C drive, but can not back up ONLY C$\Documents and Settings\ which is all I want to back up? Am I following the right instructions to make SMB work? Thanks, ~Ben ____________________________________________________ *Ben Adams* | *tsav** IT Administrator *775 barber street, athens, georgia 30601 voice.706|534|7350 fax.706|243|4940 |
From: Bowie B. <Bowie_Bailey@BUC.com> - 2010-05-19 15:53:43
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Ben Adams wrote: > > I have a question that I am sure has been asked MANY a time on here, > but I am trying to back up a Windows system without using Cygwin1.dll > which is what the RSYNCD and RSYNC methods use. I was exploring SAMBA > (*SMB). *The computers in question are a member of a Domain, and I am > typing in TSAV\username and password and using a user with Domain > Admin privileges. I also put the FQDN and Simple Domain name in the > field ClientNameAlias > <https://tsavsbackuppc1.tsav.local/BackupPC?action=view&type=docs#item__conf_clientnamealias_> > > > > > My question is this: Why can I back up C$\ which backs up all of the C > drive, but can not back up ONLY C$\Documents and Settings\ which is > all I want to back up? Am I following the right instructions to make > SMB work? > You did not post the configuration you were trying to use, so I'll have to guess... My guess is that you were specifying the share name as "C$\Documents and Settings\". This will not work since it is not an SMB share name. You use the share "C$" and then use the "BackupFilesOnly" option to specify "/Documents and Settings". The config would look like this: $Conf{SmbShareName} = [ 'C$' ]; $Conf{BackupFilesOnly} = { 'C$' => [ '/Documents and Settings' ] }; On another topic... If you are in a domain, it may not be the best idea from a security standpoint to backup the C$ share since you have to put the admin user and password in the config file. What I do is create a read-only share that is only accessible by a special domain user that is only used for backups. You can do restores via tar/zip file or change the share to RW long enough to run the restore. And in your case, you could create the share on the "Documents and Settings" directory so you don't even have to worry about the BackupFilesOnly setting. -- Bowie |
From: Ben A. <ben...@ts...> - 2010-05-19 18:33:21
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Bowie, You are a life-saver. You were right that I was using C$\Documents And Settings. Now, I changed that and the backup works. Here is another question for you or anyone else: With Rsyncd, I could say backup everything under Documents and Settings EXCEPT for My Music and My Pictures. Is there a way to do that using SMB? Thanks, ~Ben -----Original Message----- From: Bowie Bailey [mailto:Bowie_Bailey@BUC.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2010 11:54 AM To: bac...@li... Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Question on Backing Up Windows Ben Adams wrote: > > I have a question that I am sure has been asked MANY a time on here, > but I am trying to back up a Windows system without using Cygwin1.dll > which is what the RSYNCD and RSYNC methods use. I was exploring SAMBA > (*SMB). *The computers in question are a member of a Domain, and I am > typing in TSAV\username and password and using a user with Domain > Admin privileges. I also put the FQDN and Simple Domain name in the > field ClientNameAlias > <https://tsavsbackuppc1.tsav.local/BackupPC?action=view&type=docs#item__co nf_clientnamealias_> > > > > > My question is this: Why can I back up C$\ which backs up all of the C > drive, but can not back up ONLY C$\Documents and Settings\ which is > all I want to back up? Am I following the right instructions to make > SMB work? > You did not post the configuration you were trying to use, so I'll have to guess... My guess is that you were specifying the share name as "C$\Documents and Settings\". This will not work since it is not an SMB share name. You use the share "C$" and then use the "BackupFilesOnly" option to specify "/Documents and Settings". The config would look like this: $Conf{SmbShareName} = [ 'C$' ]; $Conf{BackupFilesOnly} = { 'C$' => [ '/Documents and Settings' ] }; On another topic... If you are in a domain, it may not be the best idea from a security standpoint to backup the C$ share since you have to put the admin user and password in the config file. What I do is create a read-only share that is only accessible by a special domain user that is only used for backups. You can do restores via tar/zip file or change the share to RW long enough to run the restore. And in your case, you could create the share on the "Documents and Settings" directory so you don't even have to worry about the BackupFilesOnly setting. -- Bowie -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list Bac...@li... List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ |
From: Bowie B. <Bowie_Bailey@BUC.com> - 2010-05-19 19:08:10
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Ben Adams wrote: > Bowie, > > You are a life-saver. You were right that I was using C$\Documents And > Settings. Now, I changed that and the backup works. Here is another > question for you or anyone else: With Rsyncd, I could say backup > everything under Documents and Settings EXCEPT for My Music and My > Pictures. Is there a way to do that using SMB? Unfortunately, with SMB you cannot use both BackupFilesOnly and BackupFilesExclude on a single share. Your best bet is to make a new share for your "Documents and Settings" folder and then set up the exclusions for it. $Conf{SmbShareName} = [ 'DocsAndSettings' ]; $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = { 'DocsAndSettings' => [ '/My Music', 'My Pictures' ] }; Take a look at the documentation built into the GUI. When you edit the configs, every setting name is a hotlink into the documentation. -- Bowie |
From: Sorin S. <sor...@or...> - 2010-05-20 07:17:06
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>-----Original Message----- >From: Ben Adams [mailto:ben...@ts...] >Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2010 4:41 PM >To: Bac...@li... >Subject: [BackupPC-users] Question on Backing Up Windows > >My question is this: Why can I back up C$\ which backs up all of the C drive, but can >not back up ONLY C$\Documents and Settings\ which is all I want to back up? Am I >following the right instructions to make SMB work? Smells like NTFS-permissions might be off. OTOH, the domain admin-account should be able to access that stuff anyway. I've tried this before too, but couldn't get Samba to play. Do you have all the legacy ntlm challenge/respons settings enabled on the domain? It will definitely not work otherwise. Maybe with Samba4. You might want to look into DeltaCopy, which is a rsyncd-based system. Works very well over here. -- /Sorin |
From: Ryan M. <je...@gm...> - 2010-05-20 14:24:43
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On 5/20/2010 3:16 AM, Sorin Srbu wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Ben Adams [mailto:ben...@ts...] >> Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2010 4:41 PM >> To: Bac...@li... >> Subject: [BackupPC-users] Question on Backing Up Windows >> >> My question is this: Why can I back up C$\ which backs up all of the C >> > drive, but can > >> not back up ONLY C$\Documents and Settings\ which is all I want to back up? >> > Am I > >> following the right instructions to make SMB work? >> > Smells like NTFS-permissions might be off. OTOH, the domain admin-account > should be able to access that stuff anyway. > > I've tried this before too, but couldn't get Samba to play. Do you have all > the legacy ntlm challenge/respons settings enabled on the domain? It will > definitely not work otherwise. Maybe with Samba4. > > You might want to look into DeltaCopy, which is a rsyncd-based system. Works > very well over here. > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > > _______________________________________________ > BackupPC-users mailing list > Bac...@li... > List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net > Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ > Another option would be to avoid domain authentication altogether and create a local admin account on the box just for BackupPC to auth via smb. This is not to say domain auth can not/will not work, but local auth always worked here. Save a few headaches. -- Ryan Manikowski ry...@de... | 716.771.2282 |
From: Sorin S. <sor...@or...> - 2010-05-21 06:35:36
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>-----Original Message----- >From: Ryan Manikowski [mailto:je...@gm...] >Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 4:24 PM >To: bac...@li... >Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Question on Backing Up Windows > >Another option would be to avoid domain authentication altogether and create a local >admin account on the box just for BackupPC to auth via smb. > >This is not to say domain auth can not/will not work, but local auth always worked >here. Save a few headaches. That's actually what I did. Kinda'. Used a local account, but run the whole shebang with rsyncd with the help of Deltacopy. No Samba involved though. This was the only thing I could get to work. -- /Sorin |