Author: Mark Campbell <mcampbell AT emediatrade DOT com>
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2015 14:37:53 -0700
In my experience, just removing a server doesnt delete the files, nor reduce disk space on the system, even when youve gone into the BackupPC/pc/<host>/ dir and deleted the dir(s) that have a number
Author: Holger Parplies <wbppc AT parplies DOT de>
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2015 00:51:50 +0200
Hi, Kris Lou wrote on 2015-04-15 12:57:54 -0700 [Re: [BackupPC-users] How to manage disk space?]: I doubt that, because it seems to be impossible to exactly define what the script should look for :-)
Author: Holger Parplies <wbppc AT parplies DOT de>
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2015 01:01:58 +0200
Hi, Mark Campbell wrote on 2015-04-15 14:37:53 -0700 [Re: [BackupPC-users] How to manage disk space?]: as always when that is suggested: WRONG. NEVER call BackupPC_nightly directly. possibly trash yo
Author: Alexander Moisseev <moiseev AT mezonplus DOT ru>
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2015 08:45:44 +0300
There is a safe way to start BackupPC_nightly immediately - via the daemon: -- Alexander -- BPM Camp - Free Virtual Workshop May 6th at 10am PDT/1PM EDT Develop your own process in accordance with th
Author: Christian Völker <chrischan AT knebb DOT de>
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2015 11:46:37 +0200
Hi all, I am aware of the schedule timer. So usually I do configure it here so BackupPC does not perform backups at daytime. This would decrease performance for the users. $Conf{WakeupSchedule} is co
Author: Marios Zindilis <marios AT zindilis DOT com>
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2015 16:19:04 +0300
Hi all, I am aware of the schedule timer. So usually I do configure it here so BackupPC does not perform backups at daytime. This would decrease performance for the users. $Conf{WakeupSchedule} is c
Author: Christian Völker <chrischan AT knebb DOT de>
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2015 15:58:41 +0200
Hi Marios, yes! That is exactly what I was looking for. Great stuff! Thanks for the hint. BackupPC is great! Greetings Christian -- BPM Camp - Free Virtual Workshop May 6th at 10am PDT/1PM EDT Develo
Author: Marios Zindilis <marios AT zindilis DOT com>
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2015 18:28:34 +0300
I created a script to keep off-site archives of backups taken with BackupPC. I've had this running on my backup hosts for a few months, and I'm satisfied with its functionality, so I thought I'd shar
Author: gregrwm <backuppc-users AT whitleymott DOT net>
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2015 12:26:53 -0500
iiuc backuppc currently has no feature to disperse the likelihood that several or many full backups will consistently be aligned to occur on the same day. indeed it's quite likely that many full back
Author: Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom <chrome AT real-time DOT com>
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2015 14:34:07 -0400
I'll throw this idea out at the same time in case some clever soul can figure out how to work them together: It would be nice to be able to specify that certain hosts should not be backed up at the s
Author: Marios Zindilis <marios AT zindilis DOT com>
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2015 22:59:33 +0300
I'll throw this idea out at the same time in case some clever soul can figure out how to work them together: It would be nice to be able to specify that certain hosts should not be backed up at the
Author: gregrwm <backuppc-users AT whitleymott DOT net>
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2015 11:48:16 -0500
i've used BackupPC_fixLinks.pl in the past with success, on RHEL. i'm trying to use it again, this time on ubuntu: # sudo -ubackuppc -H ./BackupPC_fixLinks.pl -f -q Use of qw(...) as parentheses is
Author: Holger Parplies <wbppc AT parplies DOT de>
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 00:15:53 +0200
Hi, gregrwm wrote on 2015-04-22 11:48:16 -0500 [[BackupPC-users] BackupPC_fixLinks.pl]: I believe the problem is in line 49: On the bright side, this reminds me of why there is no hLib.pm and there n
Not sure if this is useful to anyone else but I've implemented Implemented three new SCGI actions that return JSON. I use it to control my hosts via some proprietary software that interprets JSON. -
SCGI via nginx and I'm seeing a lot of BackupPC_Admin_SCGI processes that aren't cleaning up. Currently I have 141 child BackupPC_Admin_SCGI processes. Has anyone else seen this behavior? Please not
Hi, I just want to make sure this is right before I do a test run. I want to only backup the c:\shadow directory on a Windows 2003 server. This is my config file: $Conf{SmbShareName} = [ 'c$' ]; $Con
Author: "akeem abayomi" <akeem077 AT yahoo DOT com>
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2015 06:31:39 +0000
http://www.fitdaddyblueprint.com/wx/nwyobwufigtrxbnzrekfxqunmrdu.xejpgasjhhoihsotsmejvk 4/28/2015 6:31:39 PM -- One dashboard for servers and applications across Physical-Virtual-Cloud Widest out-of-
Author: Alexander Moisseev <moiseev AT mezonplus DOT ru>
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2015 15:33:52 +0300
Changing of $Conf{FullKeepCnt} could cause unexpected backups removal. Simple test of BackupPC_dump subroutines: BackupExpire and BackupFullExpire: https://gist.github.com/moisseev/d5a8a499a7b69b1f04
Author: Tim Fletcher <tim AT night-shade.org DOT uk>
Date: Fri, 01 May 2015 00:07:51 +0100
Evening all, I recently improved my BackupPC backups for my Linux systems by using Capabilities to allow a none root user to read all files on the system using rsync. I've written up the process in c
Author: Christian Völker <chrischan AT knebb DOT de>
Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2015 11:30:35 +0100
Hi list! BackupPC does not handle ACL's, SElinux, etc. Those must be separately backed up... I did some research on this topic and stumbled at this page: http://www.lesbonscomptes.com/pages/extattrs.