Author: "Jeffrey J. Kosowsky" <backuppc AT kosowsky DOT org>
Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 17:37:30 -0400
Daniel Carrera wrote at about 23:02:57 +0200 on Friday, May 22, 2009: I think your missing Les's point about this being designed from a Unix/server philosophy. BackupPC runs *all* the time. Even when
Author: "Jeffrey J. Kosowsky" <backuppc AT kosowsky DOT org>
Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 17:41:13 -0400
Renke Brausse wrote at about 23:31:09 +0200 on Friday, May 22, 2009: I spent weeks tweaking it for my setup (most of the time was spent figuring out how to add NFS to my consumer NAS devices and figu
Author: Daniel Carrera <daniel.carrera AT theingots DOT org>
Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 23:57:02 +0200
Yes. I thought BackupPC was more like a cron job that runs once every hour. My current script runs every 2 hours, so I always know when it's not running. But if BackupPC runs all the time, then that'
Author: Holger Parplies <wbppc AT parplies DOT de>
Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 23:57:04 +0200
Hi, Daniel Carrera wrote on 2009-05-22 23:02:57 +0200 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Noob questions]: starting from version 3.2.0beta0 you do, before that, you don't. BackupPC will be doing something: having
the configuration at home is similar to the one at work (and to be honest: I played with backuppc while I was paid in office, not while my leisure time ;) ) - and as my (l)users delete _often_ files
Author: Holger Parplies <wbppc AT parplies DOT de>
Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 00:22:33 +0200
Hi, Daniel Carrera wrote on 2009-05-22 21:57:23 +0200 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Noob questions]: with BackupPC, using the web interface, it's much the same, because it lets every backup appear "filled" e
Author: Daniel Carrera <daniel.carrera AT theingots DOT org>
Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 00:44:32 +0200
Thanks. Actually, I was a bit confused about the subject. I thought that the file name was stored in the inode and that a directory was a list of inodes. But a simple test reveals that I'm wrong and
Author: Chris Robertson <crobertson AT gci DOT net>
Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 14:48:39 -0800
Check out rdiff-backup (http://rdiff-backup.nongnu.org/). It sounds like a good fit. Chris -- Register Now for Creativity and Technology (CaT), June 3rd, NYC. CaT is a gathering of tech-side develope
Author: Les Mikesell <les AT futuresource DOT com>
Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 18:22:19 -0500
It is really intended to be available for web-based browsing, downloads, or restores all the time. The client machine 'owners' can do that themselves. The quick fix might be a cron job to start/stop
Author: Daniel Carrera <daniel.carrera AT theingots DOT org>
Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 01:41:04 +0200
Snag is that I don't know ahead of time how long BackupPC needs to finish a given backup. I don't want to interrupt it part-way through a backup. I would be nice if I could get BackupPC to stop itsel
Author: Les Mikesell <les AT futuresource DOT com>
Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 18:55:10 -0500
I don't think scheduled stopping/starting would be a problem in practice - and if it is, perhaps you'll be convinced to add a dedicated server to handle it. The timing is pretty consistent unless you
Author: Holger Parplies <wbppc AT parplies DOT de>
Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 02:54:01 +0200
Hi, Les Mikesell wrote on 2009-05-22 18:55:10 -0500 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Noob questions]: you *could* use the DumpPostUserCmd to send a serverMesg to shutdown BackupPC, but I wouldn't recommend that
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I believe! I just had to get some backups built and so installed sbackup last night on the 3 critical machines, manually ran a full and let it do an incremental in the wee hours. I'm not sure much of
Author: Daniel Carrera <daniel.carrera AT theingots DOT org>
Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 08:25:21 +0200
I take it you also don't think that having BackupPC wake up to find no backup media will be a problem either. Right? I can see myself getting a dedicated backup server in the future. Though part of m
Author: Daniel Carrera <daniel.carrera AT theingots DOT org>
Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 08:44:20 +0200
How about if I setup additional cron jobs to run BackupPC_link regularly? (e.g. run BackupPC on even-number hours and BackupPC_link on odd-number hours). Similarly, could I setup another cron job to
Author: Adam Goryachev <mailinglists AT websitemanagers.com DOT au>
Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 16:49:17 +1000
I've seen on this list some people have managed to use an external HDD (well, a NAS) to actually run Backuppc, sounds like your environment would be well suited to this solution... small requirements
Author: Daniel Carrera <daniel.carrera AT theingots DOT org>
Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 17:13:47 +0200
What is a NAS? I'm not sure I understand your suggestion. Can you explain it a bit more? Daniel. -- Register Now for Creativity and Technology (CaT), June 3rd, NYC. CaT is a gathering of tech-side de
Author: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 11:21:17 -0500
What it needs is to be on when the other PC is available for a backup and for some time at midnight when it cleans up expired items from the pool. When I said you could schedule it with cron I guess
Author: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 11:28:10 -0500
I'm fairly sure that it will exit at startup if it can't make a link under the pc and cpool directories. That's a common problem when people try to change the storage location, but it should also fai