Craig Walker's questions

I'm having a problem with an identity pool on a new IIS server.

Here's my Event viewer text:

Event Type: Warning
Event Source:   W3SVC
Event Category: None
Event ID:   1021
Date:       6/12/2009
Time:       1:44:50 PM
User:       N/A
Computer:   <scrubbed>
Description:
The identity of application pool, '<scrubbed>' is invalid.  If it remains invalid when the first request for the application pool is processed, the application pool will be disabled.  The data field contains the error number.

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Data:
0000: 69 05 07 80               i..?    

Google suggests that it's something to do with the user of the app pool which I set in the "Identity" tab. The most common problems are:

1. Setting the wrong password
2. Not adding the user to the IIS_WPG group

I've tried and retried both of these (and restarted the IIS service), and nothing seems to be fixing it. What other things should I be looking for.

FWIW, the identity user is a domain (not local) user. This same setup is working fine on another (supposedly identical) server/setup.

I have Time Machine working nicely, making snappshotted backups on a regular basis. The backed up files are easily & quickly available.

I would like to make an offsite copy of these backups for ultimate safety. I already have a webhost (Dreamhost) with lots of available space. I'd like to find the best way to transfer these files.

Ideally, this system should as many of the following as possible:

• Fast
• Low-bandwidth
• Secure / encrypted on the remote end
• Preserving the various snapshots / versions that TM makes
• Able to browse the backed up files through standard UNIX shell commands (like "ls")
• Reliable: a broken remote backup operation shouldn't render the entire backup unusable
• Easy to set up