[BackupPC-users] How do you "lock" BackupPC from running?

2008-11-21 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
For the part of my routines BackupPC_fixLinks and BackupPC_deleteFile that actually try to make new links (or delete old ones), I would like to make sure that nothing else is creating or deleting links to the pool to avoid collisions. Specifically, I would like to be able to do the following: 1. Q

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC Working Well - Except Archiving

2008-11-21 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote at about 13:49:38 + on Friday, November 21, 2008: > 02 I would like to conduct actions prior and post creating an archive. > Specifically mounting a Truecrypt encrypted removable disk. The following > command line works exactly as required when executed at the com

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC Working Well - Except Archiving

2008-11-21 Thread Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)
SamK wrote: > QUESTIONS: > 01 The format of the command line required by BackupPC_archiveStart > is . Is is possible to specify > multiple without explicitly listing each of them at the > command line? (perhaps a wildcard) I have tried an asterisk without > success. Asterisks are nor

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC Working Well - Except Archiving

2008-11-21 Thread samk-01
Craig Barratt wrote: > > BackupPC_archiveStart is hardcoded to have no compression and use > a .raw suffix. It's pretty easy to see where to edit it to change > that. As Nils' mentioned you can easily compress that file, or > use BackupPC_tarCreate and compress its output (after all, > BackupPC_

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backupc_nightly doesn't clean pool

2008-11-21 Thread Tino Schwarze
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 06:01:02PM -0300, Cesar Voulgaris wrote: > Actually there is no permission problems and all is in the same filesystem > /var/lib/backuppc is mounted in a disk. in fact when creating the partials > backups with suficient space, Backuppc_nightly deletes correctly the aged > b

[BackupPC-users] Bug with '-i' files at root level

2008-11-21 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
I often use the trick of putting (empty) "-i" files in my critical directories to prevent the rm * disasters. But, at least for me, BackupPC seems to be having problems when the "-i" file is at the root of a share. Specifically, I get the following error: Can't open /var/lib/BackupPC//pc/mymachin