RE: [BackupPC-users] Error: Unable to connect to BackupPC server

[Brown, W. (M. ASL) <Mat...@me...>]

Mladen,

What do you mean "mangled and not compressed"?

Are you sure you are getting valid backups?  Any thing odd in either the
client or server log?  How about the httpd log?

- Wade



-----Original Message-----
From: Mladen Zagorac [mailto:ml...@ku...]
Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2003 5:22 AM
To: Doug Lytle
Cc: bac...@li...
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Error: Unable to connect to BackupPC
server


Doug,

thanks a lot for this thorough explanation. it helped me get my 
BackupPC_Admin up and running --- which means that I get to see the 
interface all right, finally, I shall say.

however, as you could have expected ;) when one problem is solved, 10
more 
appear. as an admin of backuppc I get to see all the computers on the
left 
side of the BackupPC interface. although backups have been performed,
and 
compression has been set (but that's another problem, since files are
just 
mangled and not compressed) ... all the tables for all computers under 
backup are completely empty. I have no idea why. what could possibly be 
wrong? I'm sure it's something really obvious that I am missing.

one other thing ... on the BackupPC homepage there are several
screenshots 
of what BackupPC interface looks like. one of them shows browsing of
backed 
up files and another shows restoration procedure. I was never able to 
access/see those screens. how can I access them? could it be that there
is 
something wrong with one of the installed perl modules?

I'm sure that all those problems have straight forward solutions, but I 
suppose I'm not able to spot solutions.

I would really appreciate it if someone could help me out with those.

rgds,

Mladen

At 08:22 PM 4/9/2003 -0400, Doug Lytle wrote:
>Mladen,
>
>This is how I set mine up.  First, my current setup:
>
>       Mandrake 9.1
>       Apache 2.0
>       AMD XP 1800+
>       128mb memory
>       Webmin 10.80
>       Samba
>
>I ran the configure.pl and told it to run BackupPC as apache
>I install to:
>
>    /home/backuppc
>    /home/backupdata
>
>Location to install BackupPC_Admin
>
>    /var/www/cgi-bin
>
>I check the authorities for BackupPC_Admin and make sure that Group 
>execute is set.  chmod g+x BackupPC_Admin
>I edit the config.pl file in the /home/backupdata/conf
>
>I then added my first name as an administrator, I setup the folders I 
>wanted backed up and specified user name and
>password to use to access the machine via smb.
>
>Edit the /home/backupdata/conf/hosts file and put in a test host.  I
used 
>my Windows 2000 box called home-machine.
>
>My host file has:
>
>    home-machine         0         su...@dr...      doug
>
>Then copy the linux-backuppc file to /etc/init.d/backuppc
>Make sure it has the Group execute bit is set.  chmod g+x backuppc
>
>I create a user name and password for Apache with the following
command:
>
>    htpasswd -c /etc/httpd/conf/passwd doug (The -c option is only used
on 
> the initial create of the passwd file)
>
>In Webmin, under servers, Apache Webserver.  Under Virtual Servers, I 
>select default server and then click on the /var/www/cgi-bin listing
and 
>select access control.  After that, enter the following:
>
>    Authentication realm name:      ACCESS
>    Authentication type:                  Basic
>    All valid users:                          "Make sure this is
selected"
>    User text file:                             /etc/httpd/conf/passwd
>
>Save settings and restart Apache if necessary.
>
>Then go into the /home/backuppc/bin
>Type:      ./BackupPC -d (Runs backuppc as a daemon)
>
>Make sure Apache is running and bring up a browser.
>
>If you are on the same machine as Apache/BackupPC the go to:
>
>    http://localhost/cgi-bin/BackupPC_Admin
>
>Type your username and password.
>
>You should be set at this point.
>
>Doug




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