Re: [BackupPC-users] hard links, tar vs. rsync

2008-01-06 Thread Paul Fox
i wrote: > many thanks, craig. somehow i overlooked this response until > today, and in my earlier testing, i hadn't added '--hard-links'. > i hadn't yet had time to debug my lack hard links, so i'm glad i > found your reply. hmmm. it seems i may have created a problem for myself. i've bee

[BackupPC-users] Backup Specific Files

2008-01-06 Thread Rob Ogle
I'm running backuppc 3.0 on ubuntu. Is it possible to backup only specific files in the share? I'm sharing out a directory and all I need to backup are the *.mdb files. Thanks in advance! - This SF.net email is sp

Re: [BackupPC-users] dd/tar/dump

2008-01-06 Thread Sean Carolan
> If you are using lvm2 (which is pretty common, given the necessary > single-filesystem size for backuppc), then you should be able to take a > snapshot of the logical volume, and backup from that. We are using LVM2 for our backuppc partition. How much disk space would you estimate a snapshot

Re: [BackupPC-users] hard links, tar vs. rsync

2008-01-06 Thread Paul Fox
Craig Barratt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paul writes: > > > for a long time there was an issue with using rsync as the transport, > > since hard links would not be preserved in the backups. i believe this > > is fixed now -- can someone remind me in which release the fix appeared? > > (i'