Re: [BackupPC-users] Newbie: full vs incremental backup

2008-10-09 Thread Adam Goryachev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Msquared wrote: On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 08:02:56AM -0400, Andrei Stebakov wrote: Now it looks like every incremental backup is not different from a full backup as it takes almost the same space on disk as a full backup. I thought it should only

Re: [BackupPC-users] Newbie: full vs incremental backup

2008-10-09 Thread Msquared
On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 08:02:56AM -0400, Andrei Stebakov wrote: Now it looks like every incremental backup is not different from a full backup as it takes almost the same space on disk as a full backup. I thought it should only backup the delta... I think that while a delta is backed up,

Re: [BackupPC-users] suffering from the backups have stopped syndrome

2008-10-09 Thread Msquared
On Sat, Oct 04, 2008 at 12:02:29AM -0500, Terri Kelley wrote: I have had a backup running successfully running of a server for some time. It uses automysqlbackup. Looking at the directory where that is stored on the server to be backed up, that is still being executed by BackupPC. On Tue,

Re: [BackupPC-users] Newbie: using a storage server different from BackupPC server

2008-10-09 Thread Msquared
On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 09:33:42AM -0400, Andrei Stebakov wrote: Dan, but what's wrong in having BackupPC on the Web server as long as it's doing the backup to a different partition, allocated only for backup? If the web server is hacked, the backup is at risk. If the backup is on a host in

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup PC and backup progress

2008-10-09 Thread Nick Smith
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 12:54 PM, Nick Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: one thing i use that i recently figured out is the lsof command in linux, it lists all the open files that the system has open. so i run a command like lsof | grep /storage/backuppc and it will list all the files currently

[BackupPC-users] backing up large SQL DB's

2008-10-09 Thread Nick Smith
I am using the volume shadow copy to backup large (12gig+) sql db's. After the first full backup, and things are changed/added to the DB, is it going to pull down the entire DB again or will it just download the changes (if thats possible) thanks for the input.

Re: [BackupPC-users] backing up large SQL DB's

2008-10-09 Thread David Rees
On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 11:06 AM, Nick Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am using the volume shadow copy to backup large (12gig+) sql db's. After the first full backup, and things are changed/added to the DB, is it going to pull down the entire DB again or will it just download the changes (if

Re: [BackupPC-users] backing up large SQL DB's

2008-10-09 Thread Nick Smith
Do you know how it does that? I thought it just checked checksums to see if they were different? How can it just download the changes to a large DB like that if its all contained in a single file DB? thanks On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 3:38 PM, David Rees [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Oct 9, 2008

[BackupPC-users] FullKeepCnt/IncrKeepCnt on a per share/volume basis?

2008-10-09 Thread John Rouillard
Hi all: I have a couple of systems with shares (/var/bak) that generate 12GB of data/day. the usual retention schedule keeps a: daily backup for 2 weeks, weekly backups for 4 weeks, monthly backups for 5 months For this /var/bak data we really don't need 2 weeks of daily backups. One

Re: [BackupPC-users] FullKeepCnt/IncrKeepCnt on a per share/volume basis?

2008-10-09 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 10/09 08:43 , John Rouillard wrote: For this /var/bak data we really don't need 2 weeks of daily backups. One week is fine, but other data on the system does need this 2 week buffer. snip In any case using the current implementation, will this work? create a new host and use the