Re: [BackupPC-users] Start backup with no ping response

2006-01-09 Thread Craig Barratt
Alex Schaft writes: > Is it possible to configure a host so that backuppc starts the backup, > without trying to ping the host first? Yes: $Conf{PingCmd} = '/bin/true'; Craig --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you gre

[BackupPC-users] Start backup with no ping response

2006-01-09 Thread Alex Schaft
Hi, Is it possible to configure a host so that backuppc starts the backup, without trying to ping the host first? Alex --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new

Re: [BackupPC-users] incremental backup over a WAN

2006-01-09 Thread Lars Tobias Børsting
"MOORE,JUSTIN THOMAS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Then what I was hoping to do was to schedule backups once a week or so > on client machines to do incremental backups over the internet. My > problem is that neither I, nor my clients have the bandwidth to send a > complete copy of their files ov

[BackupPC-users] incremental backup over a WAN

2006-01-09 Thread MOORE,JUSTIN THOMAS
Hey guys, I was hoping to use this software to assist with backing up client winxx boxes. My plan was to take my linux laptop down to the client site and rsync their files to an external hard drive, then put these files on my backup server. Then what I was hoping to do was to schedule backups o

Re: [BackupPC-users] Can Backuppc backup to more then one drive at a time?

2006-01-09 Thread Les Mikesell
On Mon, 2006-01-09 at 11:01, Rich Duzenbury wrote: > > RAID1's are happy as long as you have at least one working > > device. > > Les, are you saying that a raid1 array can maintain more than one copy > of itself? > > As in: > > internal drive A mirrored to internal drive b > internal drive A

Re: [BackupPC-users] Can Backuppc backup to more then one drive at a time?

2006-01-09 Thread Rich Duzenbury
On Mon, 2006-01-09 at 10:16 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > RAID1's are happy as long as you have at least one working > device. Les, are you saying that a raid1 array can maintain more than one copy of itself? As in: internal drive A mirrored to internal drive b internal drive A mirrored to ext

Re: [BackupPC-users] Can Backuppc backup to more then one drive at a time?

2006-01-09 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 12:51, Charles Johnson wrote: > I have a debian sarge box running backuppc with the pool on a sata raid-1. I > also have an ide drive of equal size connected to an internal mobile rack. > > It would be great if I could have backuppc do live backups to both the sata > raid-

Re: [BackupPC-users] Can Backuppc backup to more then one drive at a time?

2006-01-09 Thread Lars Tobias Børsting
Rich Duzenbury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Charles Johnson wrote: > >> It would be great if I could have backuppc do live backups to both >> the sata raid-1 and the mobile ide drive so I can then swap out the >> ide drive for off-site storage. Does this feature exist? Can it be >> added to the t