Re: [BackupPC-users] PST files -- accelerated "retiring"?

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Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
> Ken D'Ambrosio wrote at about 09:34:42 -0400 on Wednesday, July 8, 2009:
>  > Hi, all.  Not having used BackupPC for about five years, I was wondering,
>  > first and foremost, if there had come into existence a mechanism for
>  > backing up open PST files.  Secondly, since PST files are
>  > disproportionately large when it comes to incrementals, is there any way
>  > to delete them at an accelerated rate?
>  > 
> 
> 1. Read the threads on using shadow mounts to backup open files like
>    pst's. If you want, you can use the script that I posted to the
>    group for automagically setting up and taking down shadow mounts
> 
> 2. I also wrote a script, BackupPC_deleteFile for selectively deleting
>    one or more files from one or more backups. One could presumably
>    automate it to regularly delete past pst files using a simple cron
>    job or equivalent. Again check out the archives. 

There is also a rsync binary that was posted which was able to
automatically utilise shadow mounts to backup open files. I tried the
above scripts, and got rather lost, rather than debug and work through
it, I tried the rsync binary, which has worked perfectly since, and so I
haven't touched it again....

Jeffrey, have you looked at the rsync binary which supports shadow mount
backups? How does that compare to what your set of scripts do? I'd just
be interested in whether your scripts offer some advantage I haven't
considered...

PS, recently I did a format and re-install of windows 2003 server up to
the point of the first reboot (about 30-40 mins). Then I restored the
entire c drive of a machine backed up using the rsync binary which
supports backing up open files. Then booted the machine, which seemed to
work perfectly... I'm not suggesting this is the ideal disaster recovery
method, but it did work for me in this instance....

Regards,
Adam

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Adam Goryachev
Website Managers
www.websitemanagers.com.au
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