Hi, I have a problem for which I'm not sure a proper solution exists, but let me try anyway. In my current setup, I have a BackupPC server with about 4.0TB of storage of which 2.7TB is in use. One ho
Author: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2013 08:46:00 -0600
I think you've missed the main point of backuppc which is that it pools all files with identical content regardless of where it finds them. Assuming you are storing the archive on a single filesystem
Author: Mark Campbell <mcampbell AT emediatrade DOT com>
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2013 07:48:44 -0700
I've not personally tried this, so someone else who has can comment on whether this would work or not, but it seems to me that if you were to rename your backups to the new servername, that they woul
Hi, Thanks for the quick response. I assumed that BackupPC was just creating hardlinks in the pool for files on the same location. If what you say is correct, does that mean it calculates checksums o
Author: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2013 09:46:19 -0600
Yes - the pool/cpool directory is full of extra hardlinks where the hash of the content is the name to quickly match up new items (plus a little extra work to deal with collisions). Rsync just follow
Author: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2013 10:10:17 -0600
I'm not sure how much temp space will be required for the initial run. I think backuppc does something clever to handle matching small files in memory to avoid any extra disk writes, but large ones m
Author: "Michael Stowe" <mstowe AT chicago.us.mensa DOT org>
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2013 10:42:53 -0600
I *have* tried this, just last week, in fact, and it worked perfectly well. -- Symantec Endpoint Protection 12 positioned as A LEADER in The Forrester Wave(TM): Endpoint Security, Q1 2013 and "remai
Author: Arnold Krille <arnold AT arnoldarts DOT de>
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2013 22:22:19 +0100
On Wed, 6 Mar 2013 10:10:17 -0600 Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com> wrote: Which might be a good opportunity to split one big server with one big backup-share into several "servers" with ma
Author: Trey Dockendorf <treydock AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2013 01:19:32 -0600
I also can confirm renaming the old servers backups to new name 'just works'. - Trey -- Symantec Endpoint Protection 12 positioned as A LEADER in The Forrester Wave(TM): Endpoint Security, Q1 2013 an
Author: Holger Parplies <wbppc AT parplies DOT de>
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2013 15:28:37 +0100
Hi, Mark Campbell wrote on 2013-03-06 07:48:44 -0700 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Keep backup data when source host/directory changes]: alternatively, you can use ClientNameAlias to point the *old* server c
Author: Mark Campbell <mcampbell AT emediatrade DOT com>
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2013 07:40:15 -0700
I am--my clients linux & windows alike use rsync as a daemon. I'm not aware of any other way to do rsync for Windows. -- Symantec Endpoint Protection 12 positioned as A LEADER in The Forrester Wave(
Author: John Rouillard <rouilj-backuppc AT renesys DOT com>
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2013 15:00:58 +0000
You can use rsync just like you would on Unix: ssh direct execution of rsync without rsycnd. This won't work IIRC if you need to use VSS (unless there is a VSS aware rsync) but otherwise it works fin
Author: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2013 10:10:27 -0600
Really? Is there a non-cygwin based rsync? We have some windows boxes where the admin has installed freesshd and doesn't like cygwin and I'd like to be able to use rsync with them. -- Les Mikesell le
Author: Mark Campbell <mcampbell AT emediatrade DOT com>
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2013 09:31:41 -0700
So in other words, you still need a daemon; whether it's rsync directly, or a cygwin/native ssh daemon running on the client machine that then execute rsync. In my case, since all my backups are done
Author: John Rouillard <rouilj-backuppc AT renesys DOT com>
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2013 16:33:04 +0000
*checks notes*. Sorry my mistake cwRsync is not native, it's cygwin under the hood as is DeltaCopy IIRC. The sshd was native (freesshd sounds familiar) although I didn't record which ssh server I was
Author: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2013 10:58:37 -0600
Yes, the choice is mostly whether you want generic remote execution capability or pre-configured directory targets for file copies. You may not need other remote commands or if you have winexe workin