On 10/08 02:21 , Terence Berendt wrote:
> I need some help and hope this email is not considered spamming and that I'm 
> on the correct list.
> I have inherited a BackupPC installation from a previous administrator who is 
> no longer with the company.  Unfortunately, I am not at all familiar with the 
> software or even Linux (the host) for that matter.  Everything was going well 
> and I found the interface easy to use until recently when the hard drive 
> filled up and we can no longer back up.
> The higher ups in the company want to move the old data to another location, 
> such as a USB drive and then adjust the backup so that it only retains data 
> for a more reasonable amount of time.  I looked at the documentation and 
> cannot figure out how to setup an archive properly (assuming that's what I 
> really want to do).
> I hope someone can take pity on this newbie and give me some tips/help.

Is this BackupPC v3.0 or higher? i.e. do you have a web interface for
editing the configuration files, or do you have to do that by hand?

You may want to try limiting the amount of stuff you back up, in order to
make space.

Because of BackupPC's file-deduplicating feature ('pooling'); removing older
backups doesn't save as much space as you think it might, except on very
busy hosts (i.e. ones where much of the data changes a lot).

If the install is from a Debian or Ubuntu package, you'll find the data
under /var/lib/backuppc/pc/<hostname>. If you try deleting any of the
subdirectories under there; you'll find that you have to wait a night (or
possibly more, depending on settings) for the space to be freed, unless you
run the BackupPC_nightly job by hand. There should be instructions somewhere
in the archives of this mailing list about how to do this properly.

copying data to an external drive is an awkward proceedure; and far from
polished yet. consult the archives (use google to search, not sourceforge's
search tool) for some discussion of this. If you're still stymied, ask again
and perhaps someone can give more guidance.

If you want to understand backuppc; just read /etc/backuppc/config.pl end to
end. The comments in there should explain 90% of it.

-- 
Carl Soderstrom
Systems Administrator
Real-Time Enterprises
www.real-time.com

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