Re: [BackupPC-users] Real Time View of What Is Being Copied
On Mon, 2022-03-07 at 13:26 +, G.W. Haywood via BackupPC-users wrote: > > > One common legitimate use case for sparse files is virtual disk images. > > Ah, good point! But nobody in his right mind would use BackupPC > to back them up directly as files, would they? I used to do that until I found out that the Veeam Backup Agent for linux was free and a stand-alone product. My Veeam setup does a daily bare metal backup, while my BackupPC setup does a daily backup of the everchanging smaller stuff in /etc/, /home and such. Stuff that I need to get back fast should the need arise. The folder containing my virtualbox disk images are however excluded for practical reasons. -- Kind regards, Sorin Srbu Find my OpenPGP public key here: https://cloud.srbu.se/index.php/s/KeEsCCDsG7PZG7N signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki Project: https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Archive ACLs
In the past, rather than use the BackupPC archive function, I used rsync from the command line to back-up my Backuppc server to a removable USB drive on a PC on my network. Don’t know if that will work for you but, may be worth exploring. Paul Herron p...@october11th.com | +1 (202) 413-2678 :cell > On Mar 7, 2022, at 10:31 PM, ralph strebbing wrote: > >> On Mon, Mar 7, 2022 at 5:02 PM wrote: >> >> I'm not sure that tarCreate or archiveHost respect ACLs. >> I know that rsync restore does work... > Right, and that's what we're using right now to backup the Hosts. But > now we need to make our offline and offsite backups. So the BackupPC > localhost is now set to Archive xfer mode, and now I need to get ACLs > to preserve throughout this process too. > > Regards, > Ralph > > > ___ > BackupPC-users mailing list > BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net > List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > Wiki:https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki > Project: https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/ ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki Project: https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Archive ACLs
On Mon, Mar 7, 2022 at 5:02 PM wrote: > > I'm not sure that tarCreate or archiveHost respect ACLs. > I know that rsync restore does work... Right, and that's what we're using right now to backup the Hosts. But now we need to make our offline and offsite backups. So the BackupPC localhost is now set to Archive xfer mode, and now I need to get ACLs to preserve throughout this process too. Regards, Ralph ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki Project: https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Archive ACLs
I'm not sure that tarCreate or archiveHost respect ACLs. I know that rsync restore does work... ralph strebbing wrote at about 15:53:24 -0500 on Monday, March 7, 2022: > Hi again, > > So after updating to BackupPC 4.x, ACLs work for rsync (yay). Now what > we're trying to do is get the ACLs working from the Archive host. It > is correctly exporting the tar.gz files, but when I extract them onto > my PC, the files have lost their ownership/group properties and ACLs. > I attempted to modify the arguments on the client end with the > extraction to no avail, so I presume it has something to do with > either the BackupPC_archiveHost or BackupPC_tarCreate scripts. So > ultimately 2 questions: > 1. Is ACL/permission preservation supported with Archives? If so, how > can I achieve this? > 2. If it isn't supported, how should one go about preserving these > with the archives? > > Appreciate any help! > > Regards, > Ralph > > > ___ > BackupPC-users mailing list > BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net > List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > Wiki:https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki > Project: https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/ ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki Project: https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/
[BackupPC-users] Archive ACLs
Hi again, So after updating to BackupPC 4.x, ACLs work for rsync (yay). Now what we're trying to do is get the ACLs working from the Archive host. It is correctly exporting the tar.gz files, but when I extract them onto my PC, the files have lost their ownership/group properties and ACLs. I attempted to modify the arguments on the client end with the extraction to no avail, so I presume it has something to do with either the BackupPC_archiveHost or BackupPC_tarCreate scripts. So ultimately 2 questions: 1. Is ACL/permission preservation supported with Archives? If so, how can I achieve this? 2. If it isn't supported, how should one go about preserving these with the archives? Appreciate any help! Regards, Ralph ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki Project: https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Real Time View of What Is Being Copied
Hi there, On Mon, 7 Mar 2022, Dave Sherohman wrote: Re: Real Time View of What Is Being Copied On 3/5/22 14:36, G.W. Haywood via BackupPC-users wrote: On Sat, 5 Mar 2022, Les Mikesell wrote: Unix/Linux has something calle 'sparse' files ... I can't remember the last time I saw a sparse file used ... One common legitimate use case for sparse files is virtual disk images. Ah, good point! But nobody in his right mind would use BackupPC to back them up directly as files, would they? -- 73, Ged. ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki Project: https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Real Time View of What Is Being Copied
On 3/5/22 14:36, G.W. Haywood via BackupPC-users wrote: On Sat, 5 Mar 2022, Les Mikesell wrote: Unix/Linux has something calle 'sparse' files used by some types of databases where you can seek far into a file and write without using/allocating any space up to that point. The file as stored may not be large but most tools to copy it will act as though the empty parts were filled with nulls. I can't remember the last time I saw a sparse file used *anywhere* in 'real life', although they are occasionally found in malicious mail. One common legitimate use case for sparse files is virtual disk images. I run a fair number of virtual machines at work (I think we're currently at around 90 of them) and sparse files allow me to have a VM with a "1 TB" virtual disk that only takes up a few dozen GB of real disk space and grows as needed to hold additional data. As Les said, copying these files (with, e.g., `cp`) takes time proportional to their virtual size, not their physical size, even though the smaller physical size is preserved by the operation. Don't know whether this applies to rsync, though. Might need to try that next time I need to duplicate one, just to see whether rsync handles sparse files smarter/faster than other tools. ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki Project: https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/
