Rob Owens wrote: > 1) I've successfully "pre-populated" backups in the following way. > > a) Configure backuppc to backup my host machine (myhost.com) over the > internet. > b) Take my host machine (myhost.com) and physically place it on the same > local network as my BackupPC server. > c) Determine the local IP address of the host machine (lets say it's > 192.168.1.100) > d) Edit /etc/hosts on the BackupPC machine to include the following line: > 192.168.1.100 myhost.com
I probably should have included the following steps: e) Perform a backup of myhost.com f) When the backup is complete, remove the /etc/hosts line from step d) and remove the host machine from the local network. -Rob > > This "tricks" the BackupPC machine into looking on the local network for > myhost.com > > 2) For remote backups, you should probably use rsync or rsyncd as your > transport. That way only the changes are transferred, even with "full" > backups. "Full" to rsync only means that it does extra checking of the > files. Specifically, it uses the --ignore-times option. So to be > clear, using rsync or rsyncd you will need to transfer the entire backup > only once. > > Search the archives for "rsync incremental-only backups for eternity" in > July of 2007. > > -Rob > > Toni Van Remortel wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Two issues we have before using BackupPC are this: >> 1) Can we pre-populate backups with offsite backup data? >> 2) Can we set BackupPC to only make incremental backups? >> >> The reason for 1) is that we have big remote data servers that need to >> be backed up over slow lines. So we can take local backups to eg USB >> disks and use them as 'start point' for incremental backups. Thus >> reducing data transfers for the remote servers. >> 2) is an obvious result of explanation 1) :-) >> >> Thanks. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > _______________________________________________ > 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: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
