Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up a USB-disk?
Hi, On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 01:50, Magnus Larssonmag...@vista.se wrote: mountpoint -q /path/to/usbdisk (will set $? to 0 if it's mounted, non-zero otherwise) How would I use this value that mountpoint returns, do you mean? The same way you would use the '[ -f /path/to/usbdisk/.fileyouwouldhavetocreate ]', but without creating the file... I'm not really an expert on BackupPC (I only used the basic features so far), but I believe you would use that as a script for PingCmd or maybe DumpPreUserCmd and maybe together with UserCmdCheckStatus (see Jeffrey's previous e-mail). I guess they could give you some more help on how to configure this than I could... HTH, Filipe -- Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
[BackupPC-users] Backing up a USB-disk?
Hi! I have backuppc runing on my home LAN, backing up 5 different computers, and working very well. However, I have a USB disk where I keep some stuff that I would like to back up as well. Is there a way of doing this with backuppc? It is not always turned on and plugged in, so setting its mount point as one directory to backup during normal backup doesn't work (shows as empty folder when I try, when it has not been on for some time during the backup process). And as I gather, an incremental backup when it is disconnected means it shows as empty, even if only one run, right? So finding the backup might be tricky. What I would like is to have it as a separate host, and then do manual backups when I want to. Can I do this even though the host it is connected to already is a backuppc host? This would mean defining one host as a subdir of another host, in the config.pl. With the same host name and ip. Anyone got advice on this? Grateful for any help. Magnus Larsson -- Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up a USB-disk?
Hi Magnus,
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 09:05:26PM +, Magnus Larsson wrote:
What I would like is to have it as a separate host, and then do manual
backups when I want to. Can I do this even though the host it is
connected to already is a backuppc host? This would mean defining one
host as a subdir of another host, in the config.pl. With the same host
name and ip.
You may simple configure another host (name it, for example,
myserver-usbdisk), then set $Config{ClientNamAlias}.
See
http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html#item__conf_clientnamealias_
See also $Conf{BackupsDisable} on how to disable automatic backup of a
particular host:
http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html#item__conf_backupsdisable_
HTH,
Tino.
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Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up a USB-disk?
Hi,
Tino Schwarze wrote on 2009-06-10 23:20:29 +0200 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing
up a USB-disk?]:
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 09:05:26PM +, Magnus Larsson wrote:
What I would like is to have it as a separate host, and then do manual
backups when I want to. Can I do this even though the host it is
connected to already is a backuppc host?
Yes.
This would mean defining one host as a subdir of another host, in the
config.pl. With the same host name and ip.
No. Instead:
You may simple configure another host (name it, for example,
myserver-usbdisk), then set $Config{ClientNamAlias}.
See
http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html#item__conf_clientnamealias_
See also $Conf{BackupsDisable} on how to disable automatic backup of a
particular host:
http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html#item__conf_backupsdisable_
note that you could even set the PingCmd to a shell script that checks
whether the disk is mounted (eg. '[ -f /path/to/usbdisk/.thisistheusbdisk ]'
if you have a file '.thisistheusbdisk' in the root of your USB disk's file
system - please ask if you need more details). Then you can even keep
automatic backups running (just in case you forget manual backups and the
disk happens to be plugged in at wakeup time).
You might also want to set EMailNotifyOldBackupDays or EMailNotifyMinDays.
Regards,
Holger
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Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up a USB-disk?
Hi, On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 17:57, Holger Parplieswb...@parplies.de wrote: note that you could even set the PingCmd to a shell script that checks whether the disk is mounted (eg. '[ -f /path/to/usbdisk/.thisistheusbdisk ]' if you have a file '.thisistheusbdisk' in the root of your USB disk's file system - please ask if you need more details). You can use the mountpoint command (present in RHEL 5 or SuSE 10) to test if that path is a mount point for some volume. mountpoint -q /path/to/usbdisk (will set $? to 0 if it's mounted, non-zero otherwise) No need to create .thisistheusbdisk files inside your USB then. HTH, Filipe -- Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up a USB-disk?
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Holger Parplies wrote:
Hi,
Tino Schwarze wrote on 2009-06-10 23:20:29 +0200 [Re: [BackupPC-users]
Backing up a USB-disk?]:
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 09:05:26PM +, Magnus Larsson wrote:
You may simple configure another host (name it, for example,
myserver-usbdisk), then set $Config{ClientNamAlias}.
See
http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html#item__conf_clientnamealias_
See also $Conf{BackupsDisable} on how to disable automatic backup of a
particular host:
http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html#item__conf_backupsdisable_
note that you could even set the PingCmd to a shell script that checks
whether the disk is mounted (eg. '[ -f
/path/to/usbdisk/.thisistheusbdisk ]'
if you have a file '.thisistheusbdisk' in the root of your USB disk's file
system - please ask if you need more details). Then you can even keep
automatic backups running (just in case you forget manual backups and the
disk happens to be plugged in at wakeup time).
Or using the default config which says that if the share backup is
empty then consider it a failure. Thus you can allow backuppc to
regularly attempt a backup automatically, if the USB disk is not
connected then it will fail, if it is connected then you get a new backup.
Regards,
Adam
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Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up a USB-disk?
Tino Schwarze wrote at about 23:20:29 +0200 on Wednesday, June 10, 2009:
Hi Magnus,
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 09:05:26PM +, Magnus Larsson wrote:
What I would like is to have it as a separate host, and then do manual
backups when I want to. Can I do this even though the host it is
connected to already is a backuppc host? This would mean defining one
host as a subdir of another host, in the config.pl. With the same host
name and ip.
You may simple configure another host (name it, for example,
myserver-usbdisk), then set $Config{ClientNamAlias}.
To be complete you would probably need to also do the following:
1. On the original (non-alias) version of the host, exclude the mount
point for the USB disk
2. On the alias version, set the share name to start the backup at the
mount point
3. Set DumpPreUserCmd to test to make sure the usb disk is mounted and
return non-zero exit status if not. This makes sure that the
alternate host is only backed up if the disk is mounted.
Also set:
$Conf{UserCmdCheckStatus} = 1
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Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up a USB-disk?
Great, thanks!!
That part on checking whether the disk is mounted - could you give me
some more details on that? Never used such a script here.
Magnus
ons 2009-06-10 klockan 23:57 +0200 skrev Holger Parplies:
Hi,
Tino Schwarze wrote on 2009-06-10 23:20:29 +0200 [Re: [BackupPC-users]
Backing up a USB-disk?]:
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 09:05:26PM +, Magnus Larsson wrote:
What I would like is to have it as a separate host, and then do manual
backups when I want to. Can I do this even though the host it is
connected to already is a backuppc host?
Yes.
This would mean defining one host as a subdir of another host, in the
config.pl. With the same host name and ip.
No. Instead:
You may simple configure another host (name it, for example,
myserver-usbdisk), then set $Config{ClientNamAlias}.
See
http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html#item__conf_clientnamealias_
See also $Conf{BackupsDisable} on how to disable automatic backup of a
particular host:
http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html#item__conf_backupsdisable_
note that you could even set the PingCmd to a shell script that checks
whether the disk is mounted (eg. '[ -f /path/to/usbdisk/.thisistheusbdisk ]'
if you have a file '.thisistheusbdisk' in the root of your USB disk's file
system - please ask if you need more details). Then you can even keep
automatic backups running (just in case you forget manual backups and the
disk happens to be plugged in at wakeup time).
You might also want to set EMailNotifyOldBackupDays or EMailNotifyMinDays.
Regards,
Holger
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