Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up whole linux system

2010-09-28 Thread Boniforti Flavio
Hello! I know we're about to go a bit OT, but could you please tell me how you eventually would recover to the last running configuration of y Debian server by recovering also the installed packages? I am now thinking about backing up my /etc only: do you think that would be enough, considering t

Re: [BackupPC-users] Automated config reload?

2010-09-28 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 11:16:51PM -0700, Craig Barratt wrote: > Robin writes: > > > We add a lot of stuff automatically to our backuppc configs, and > > manually going into the UI and doing the config reload is easy > > to forgot. Can it be done on the command line without breaking > > any backu

Re: [BackupPC-users] Automated config reload?

2010-09-28 Thread Craig Barratt
Robin writes: > We add a lot of stuff automatically to our backuppc configs, and > manually going into the UI and doing the config reload is easy to > forgot. Can it be done on the command line without breaking any > backups (i.e. without restarting)? Run this command: INSTALLDIR/bin/Backup

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up whole linux system

2010-09-28 Thread B. Alexander
Hi Flavio, If I am honest, I only back up critical files on the system (/boot, /lib/modules, /home, /root, /etc, /usr/local, etc) using backuppc, because I can regenerate a Debian base install without packages in about 15 minutes, and with a relatively small package list like is generally on a fir

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up whole linux system

2010-09-28 Thread Rangel Caio
Hi Flavio, I realy think backuppc isn't the best choice, see http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/limitations.html. I've used fsarchiver to this pourpose and, if it's needed, you can use backuppc in order to back up files which are modified frequently, as configuration files. Best Regards, Rangel

[BackupPC-users] Backing up whole linux system

2010-09-28 Thread Boniforti Flavio
Hello people. I need to back up my Debian server, which mainly acts as a gateway (iptables) and proxy (squid). I¹d like to back it up in a way that should enable me to recover the whole system onto a new harddisk drive, if the actual one would fail. Is backupPC right for this purpose, or would it

[BackupPC-users] Automated config reload?

2010-09-28 Thread Robin Lee Powell
We add a lot of stuff automatically to our backuppc configs, and manually going into the UI and doing the config reload is easy to forgot. Can it be done on the command line without breaking any backups (i.e. without restarting)? -Robin -- http://singinst.org/ : Our last, best hope for a fant

Re: [BackupPC-users] backing up large files from windows machines

2010-09-28 Thread Mark Potter
I believe that those limits, as documented, are out of date. I know the cygwin rsync had such a limit (but I thought it was 2 or 4G), but that has since been resolved if using the latest distribution from cygwin. I currently have one 68G file in one of my backups performed using SMB. Hmm, thinki

Re: [BackupPC-users] copied over files, incremental backup didn't get them

2010-09-28 Thread Mark Potter
Not an expert so I may get some of the finer details off. > How and why did this happen? The SMB incremental backup uses the file modification date-time as the key to determine what should be backed up. Taking the date-time of the previous backup this incremental is to be based off of, minus a l

Re: [BackupPC-users] How to troubleshoot restore issues with .zip?

2010-09-28 Thread Doug Lytle
Christian Völker wrote: > Hi, > > I'm backing up several Linux (CentOS) machines. Backup qorks quite fine- > but I can't restore to .zip. > Craig found a bug in Archive::Zip, opened a ticket on it in February. Apparently, they're not too concerned with it. The latest BackupPC 3.2.0 work