This is exactly what I thought, thanks for clarifying this for me. I am going to have to go with the individual pseudo-hosts solution, not all that complex but not super clean either. Maybe in version 4 of BackupPC we will be able to define separate jobs on a single host, but this workaround is fine for now.
/Christian -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom Sent: Monday, July 16, 2007 1:47 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup takes a lof of time On 07/16 01:26 , Christian Lahti wrote: > And in /etc/hosts define so those hostnames are pingable. > > 192.168.xxx.xxx tuvalu-a > 192.168.xxx.xxx tuvalu-b > 192.168.xxx.xxx tuvalu-c > ... No, you don't need anything in /etc/hosts. That's what this line in tuvalu-a.pl takes care of: $Conf{ClientNameAlias} = 'tuvalu'; > Alternatively you are saying I can combine all of these into a single server, the config tuvalu.pl as: > > $Conf{BackupFilesOnly} = { > 'tuvalu-a' => ['/export/home/a*'], > 'tuvalu-b' => ['/export/home/b*'], > 'tuvalu-c' => ['/export/home/c*'], > }; not $Conf{BackupFilesOnly}, rather $Conf{RsyncShareName} (or $Conf{SmbShareName} if you're using SMB as your mechanism). > This is what I am somewhat confused about, I basically want to separate > each letter of the alphabet on tuvalu:/export/home into a different backup > set, ideally on the same server definition but I can roll with the > separate "hosts" if I have to. Depends what you mean by a 'different backup'. If you have all the shares collected under one backup profile as a list under $Conf{RsyncShareName}; then they all get backed up at the same time (and if one fails, you have a bit more trouble getting backups of all of them). If you want the backups of each share to be fully independent, then you need to set up separate backup 'profiles' of each. That will allow the backups to be done at different times (be careful not to allow them to collide); and if one fails, the others might succeed. Also means that each backup will take much less time. The downside is the added complexity. -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
