Re: [Bobs-devel] information request and a patch

[Joe Z. <joe...@za...>]

Giuseppe Sacco wrote:

>hi bobs developers,
>I was looking for a free (as in speech) backup system and found your
>program. My requests are client/server architecture, backup on disk,
>connect via rsync/ssh, client operability via browser, store on crypted
>file systems, store of only diff.
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>
Bobs stores the full "current" backup and incrementals. The rest of your 
requirements seem compatible.

>Basically, what I need is to create repository where to store backups of
>different machines. Every machine should have its own crypted volume on
>the backup server.
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>
The crypted volumes would be up to you. You could create links where 
bobs expects the directories to be.

>My "client" machines are behind a firewall and a NAT system, so every
>backup/restore and every communication should start from the client.
>  
>
bobs is initiated from the server. It can use rsync over ssh but it 
needs a route to the client.

>The question is: is bobs for me?
>  
>
The major problem I see is bobs backups are initiated from the bobs 
backup server, not the client. If the client could initiate some kind of 
connection, such as vpn, so bobs has a route to it, then it could work.

>I am compiling and installing bobs on a Debian/powerpc machine and I
>only found a problem in the configure script that is actually looking
>for 'httpd' as web server, while here I have apache-ssl. I just created
>a patch in order to make configure test for http, apache, apache-ssl.
>
>Thanks,
>Giuseppe
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>
Thanks for the patch! I will use it. I didn't know about the other web 
process names.

>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>--- configure.orig	2004-04-19 03:46:33.000000000 +0200
>+++ configure	2004-06-15 16:02:39.711204880 +0200
>@@ -1710,7 +1710,7 @@
> echo "$as_me:$LINENO: checking for web server user id" >&5
> echo $ECHO_N "checking for web server user id... $ECHO_C" >&6
> 
>-if PSOUTPUT=$(ps -C httpd -o user,rgroup,pid,ucomm --sort pid); then
>+if PSOUTPUT=$(ps -C httpd,apache,apache-ssl -o user,rgroup,pid,ucomm --sort pid); then
> 	myHTTPDUSER=$(echo "$PSOUTPUT" | tail -n 1 | cut -f 1 -d ' ')
> 	echo "$as_me:$LINENO: result: $myHTTPDUSER" >&5
> echo "${ECHO_T}$myHTTPDUSER" >&6
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