Greetings. Me again. I upgraded my backup server and configured two hard drives into a single logical volume with LVM for my TopDir, and successfully configured BackupPC to backup a share on one of m
I think I spotted a mistake in my own speculative config. See below. I believe the $Conf{RsyncShareName} statement should involve '/' rather than '/etc'. The directory I want to backup is /etc which
Author: Matthias Meyer <Matthias.Meyer AT gmx DOT li>
Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2008 23:47:24 +0100
$Conf{RsyncShareName} should contain the directories which should backuped. If it contain '/' than all subdirectories, including /etc will be backuped, if it is not on another filesystem and you use
Author: Holger Parplies <wbppc AT parplies DOT de>
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 00:24:56 +0100
Hi, Mark Adams wrote on 2008-12-08 14:37:54 -0700 [Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupFilesExcludes for Linux]: right, and there's a second one along the same line ... This should be '/home' => [ '/maddams/t
Author: "Jeffrey J. Kosowsky" <backuppc AT kosowsky DOT org>
Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2008 19:24:50 -0500
Holger Parplies wrote at about 00:24:56 +0100 on Tuesday, December 9, 2008: Also (I believe that) using multiple share names on the same filesystem will not preserve hard links that are split across
Thanks for the tip Jeff. I think I understand what you're saying here about preserving hard links, but I'm still just learning a thing or two about rsync. Just for the sake of simplicity, I adapted H