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igor99
Dec 02, 2008Aspirant
Install BackupPC on Readynas NV+
I am wondering, if anyone has already tried to install Backuppc on a Readynas. As I would like to backup remote machines with daily snapshots, ie a different folder per machine for every day. I am ...
marfea
Aug 10, 2009Aspirant
I've had a slightly different experience with installing backuppc on a Readynas Duo. My best attempt has been as follows:
1. Install togglessh, enablessh and apt.
2. SSH into the NAS, and enter the following:
This failed as follows:
So I too cannot find htpasswd2, but the installer has successfully created the backuppc user.
Looking into the lack of nmblookup, dpkg -l | grep sa?mba? reveals:
So there is obviously a "special" version of smbclient that doesn't include nmblookup. This is a bit of a pain, because this is how backuppc finds machines to back up.
Q1: Does anyone have ideas as to where I can find (or in desperation compile) nmblookup?
Weirdly, when I start backuppc manually (using /etc/init.d/backuppc start), I get a different error:
Q2: How do I solve the zlib problem?
1. Install togglessh, enablessh and apt.
2. SSH into the NAS, and enter the following:
apt-get update
apt-get --reinstall install perl perl-base perl-modules perl-doc
apt-get install backuppc
This failed as follows:
/var/lib/dpkg/info/backuppc.postinst: line 83: htpasswd2: command not found
Starting backuppc: 2009-08-10 06:54:24 $Conf{NmbLookupPath} = '/usr/bin/nmblookup' is not a valid executable program
invoke-rc.d: initscript backuppc, action "start" failed.
So I too cannot find htpasswd2, but the installer has successfully created the backuppc user.
Looking into the lack of nmblookup, dpkg -l | grep sa?mba? reveals:
ii samba 3.0.34.netgear2 a LanManager-like file and printer server fo
ii samba-common 3.0.34.netgear2 Samba common files used by both the server a
ii smbclient 3.0.34.netgear2 a LanManager-like simple client for Unix
ii smbfs 3.0.34.netgear2 mount and umount commands for the smbfs (for
So there is obviously a "special" version of smbclient that doesn't include nmblookup. This is a bit of a pain, because this is how backuppc finds machines to back up.
Q1: Does anyone have ideas as to where I can find (or in desperation compile) nmblookup?
Weirdly, when I start backuppc manually (using /etc/init.d/backuppc start), I get a different error:
Starting backuppc: /usr/bin/perl: relocation error: /usr/lib/perl5/auto/Compress/Zlib/Zlib.so: undefined symbol: Perl_Gthr_key_ptr
Q2: How do I solve the zlib problem?
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