Author: Timothy Murphy <gayleard AT eircom DOT net>
Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2011 23:57:48 +0100
Can one sensibly back up / with BackupPC? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland --
Author: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2011 18:36:11 -0500
On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 5:57 PM, Timothy Murphy <gayleard AT eircom DOT net> wrote: Sure, but if you don't use --one-file-system in the options, be sure to exclude the pseudo mounts like /proc, /sys (
Author: Arnold Krille <arnold AT arnoldarts DOT de>
Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2011 01:32:15 +0200
As linux allows reading of "locked" files / has no concept of locking files exclusively, the answer is yes. The result you get is the same as if you would hard power-off your machine and restart it.
Author: Holger Parplies <wbppc AT parplies DOT de>
Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2011 00:08:38 +0200
Hi, Arnold Krille wrote on 2011-09-03 01:32:15 +0200 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up slash partition]: the confusing thing about that question is that it is probably not what you want to ask. Yes, y
Author: Arnold Krille <arnold AT arnoldarts DOT de>
Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2011 01:11:12 +0200
Hi, Backing up slash partition]: Backing up / (including /var/lib/backuppc/pc) into /var/lib/backuppc/pc/localhost. Unless you exclude that dir by excludes or -- one-filesystem (given that dir is on
Author: Holger Parplies <wbppc AT parplies DOT de>
Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2011 02:41:38 +0200
Hi, Arnold Krille wrote on 2011-09-04 01:11:12 +0200 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up slash partition]: that only happens in the unusual case of backing up the BackupPC server itself (where backing u