[BackupPC-users] archiving to tape

2007-05-25 Thread Stephen Joyce
Has anyone implemented periodic archiving of full dumps to tape? I think the FAQ mentions that it's possible, but doesn't give any detailed recommendations. I'm looking at bacula, but before I reinvent the wheel, I thought I'd ask if anyone already has some sort of integration figured out. Anyo

[BackupPC-users] BackupPC and Vista

2007-05-25 Thread Matt Vogt
Greetings, We're having some issues with BackupPC, more specifically SMB and Vista's symbolic links (or Junctions by Vista terms) in the AppData folder. Has anyone been able to use the smb transfer method and not loop through the links when backing up a profile (c:\users\username\*)? We tri

Re: [BackupPC-users] Possible to have 2 backup loactions?

2007-05-25 Thread Les Mikesell
Rob Morin wrote: > I want to use Backuppc to do standard backups from windows servers to a > raid 10 setup on the server. However i would like to copy some of the > data backed up to another external drive for outside the building safe > keeping is this possible with backuppc? > > So back

[BackupPC-users] Possible to have 2 backup loactions?

2007-05-25 Thread Rob Morin
I want to use Backuppc to do standard backups from windows servers to a raid 10 setup on the server. However i would like to copy some of the data backed up to another external drive for outside the building safe keeping is this possible with backuppc? So back up everything to main backup

Re: [BackupPC-users] Rename backup client

2007-05-25 Thread Keith Edmunds
Answering my own posts: it appears that the original steps I took DID work, except that the directory under 'pc' had its ownership changed to root. Once I chown'd it to be owned by backuppc:backuppc, all appeared to be well. Keith --

Re: [BackupPC-users] Problems with per-PC config file

2007-05-25 Thread Dawn Susini Wallis
Dawn Susini Wallis wrote on 18.05.2007 at 11:00:46 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Problems with per-PC config file]: >>> Dawn Susini Wallis wrote: >>> When BackupPC runs a backup, it does not look at my per-PC config file. [...] My main config file is in "/store/backuppc/data/conf",

Re: [BackupPC-users] HOWTO or RPM for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4?

2007-05-25 Thread Nils Breunese (Lemonbit Internet)
James Pulver wrote: > I tried following the source directions, but many of the dependencies > are not available for RHEL4 via yum... Has anyone build an RPM for this > install? Does anyone happen to have step by step install instructions > for RHEL4? I run BackupPC 3 on CentOS 4 (practically iden

Re: [BackupPC-users] Problems with per-PC config file - Thanks

2007-05-25 Thread Dawn Susini Wallis
> > > I'm wondering what a "non-FHS version" of > > BackupPC is. > The versions before 3.0.0 didn't follow the Linux File Hierarchy Standard (FHS), which is a standard (use Google to find it!) Good call - I usually do use google! :) that specifies where files of each type should go. For ex

Re: [BackupPC-users] Rename backup client

2007-05-25 Thread Keith Edmunds
> What I've done so > far: I forgot to add that I've also added to the per-client configuration file: $Conf{ClientNameAlias} = 'a.very.long.hostname'; Thanks, Keith - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download

[BackupPC-users] Rename backup client

2007-05-25 Thread Keith Edmunds
Firstly, let me acknowledge how helpful people on this list have been to date - it is appreciated: thank you. I want to rename some of the clients that are backed up, at least as far as the name displayed in the BackupPC UI is concerned. What I've done so far: - changed a.very.long.hostname in th