On 01/22 11:44 , B. Cook wrote:
> Or is there a better, more efficient way?
sudo is the way to go. I actually use tar on my local machines, because the
amount of OS data to be backed up (and it's local, so bandwidth isn't a
problem) is small enough that it's probably faster to use tar than rsync.
Here's a localhost.pl from one of my boxen:
backuppc:~# cat /etc/backuppc/localhost.pl
#
# Local server backup of /etc as user backuppc
#
$Conf{XferMethod} = 'tar';
# For tar, if the exclude file contains a "/" it is assumed to be anchored
# at the start of the string. Since all the tar paths start with "./",
# BackupPC prepends a "." if the exclude file starts with a "/". Note
# that GNU tar version >= 1.13.7 is required for the exclude option to
# work correctly. For linux or unix machines you should add
# "/proc" to $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} unless you have specified
# --one-file-system in $Conf{TarClientCmd} or --one-file-system in
# $Conf{RsyncArgs}. Also, for tar, do not use a trailing "/" in
# the directory name: a trailing "/" causes the name to not match
# and the directory will not be excluded.
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = ['/proc', '/sys', '/var/lib/backuppc/pc',
'/var/lib/backuppc/cpool', '/var/lib/backuppc/pool',
'/var/lib/backuppc/trash', '/var/lib/backuppc/log',
'/var/lib/backuppc/burn', '/var/lib/backuppc/archive', '/var/log', '/tmp',
'/var/tmp'];
$Conf{TarShareName} = ['/'];
$Conf{TarClientCmd} = '/usr/bin/env LC_ALL=C /usr/bin/sudo $tarPath -c -v -f
- -C $shareName --totals';
# turning off compression on these files, so they can be recovered without
# backuppc.
# wouldn't make sense to need your backup server,
# in order to recover your backup server, now would it?
$Conf{CompressLevel} = 0;
--
Carl Soderstrom
Systems Administrator
Real-Time Enterprises
www.real-time.com
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