Re: [BackupPC-users] Scheduling archiving host
2009-06-15 02:45:02
Hy Les,
> These would be the locations that you told backuppc to back
> up. If you go to the host's 'edit config' screen and click
> the Xfer link you would see one or more share names. Or,
> browsing the backups, they would the the tops of the trees in
> the left navigation. (If you only have one you might not
> realize that there can be more).
Ah, ok! I thought that Xfer could have something to do with that, thanks
for confirming that.
> > Would something like this be OK?
> >
> > /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_tarCreate -h polti -n -1 /mnt/USB
>
> You need to provide the -s argument, and the last argument is
> a filter to select which files/directories you want to
> include in the output.
> The output is written to stdout, so unless you want it on the
> screen you need to pipe to another program (gzip, dd,
> split...) or redirect to a file.
OK, so "/bin/gzip .gz" *has to be* there...
> > I was looking at the "original" commandline I posted, and
> the things
> > are almost clear:
> >
> > /usr/bin/split = has to be used only if splitting archives (I don't
> > need it); polti 36 = hostname and number of backup to archive.
> >
> > Following part is not clear to me:
> >
> > /bin/gzip .gz 0000000 /mnt/USB *
> >
> > Is this meaning that the tarball is gzipped? In that case, what are
> > the parameter that follow the binary path?
>
> The arguments to archivehost don't have much to do with
> BackupPC_tarCreate. I'm not sure, but I'd guess that those
> are the path to the gzip program, a template for how to
> build multiple filenames (suffix and numeric pattern), a
> directory to hold them, and the file/dir pattern match
> (*=everything). You don't need to worry about those because
> you'll construct the rest of the pipeline yourself in your
> scheduled command so you can do whatever you want.
OK, I'll try my best and post here...
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