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Glassfox wrote:
> Well,backuppc is installed and running. But two things I didn't
> found:
>
> 1. Where can I define the backups destination path? I want to use an
> external USB drive for this.
You don't, you mount your external drive at the locatio
John Rouillard wrote at about 17:48:02 + on Thursday, December 11, 2008:
> On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 12:14:48AM -0800, Craig Barratt wrote:
> > James writes:
> >
> > > I have the following config line:
> > >
> > > $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = ['/proc', '/mnt', '/sys', '/home/
> > > users'
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Rodrigo Real wrote:
> Hello Adam
>
> Adam Goryachev wrote:
>> Step 1) Use LVM's snapshot feature to take a snapshot of your root and
>> backuppc partitions.
>> Step 2) dd the snapshot to the two partitions on your USB HDD
>>
>> You won't be able to boo
Jean-Michel Beuken wrote:
> Matthias,
>
> thanks for the quick answer...
>
>> I run pre-xfer successfully under Win XP but has no luck with Vista.
>> Did you use XP or Vista?
>>
>
> XP SP3
>
>> Maybee "#! /bin/sh" is necessary in the first line of your
>> "/bin/pre-exec.sh".
>
> administra
Glassfox wrote:
> 1. Where can I define the backups destination path? I want to use an
> external USB drive for this.
The installer asks for the TopDir location. If you installed a
prepackaged version of BackupPC this location was decided by the
packager. It's probably /var/lib/backuppc in
Matthias,
thanks for the quick answer...
> I run pre-xfer successfully under Win XP but has no luck with Vista.
> Did you use XP or Vista?
>
XP SP3
> Maybee "#! /bin/sh" is necessary in the first line of your
> "/bin/pre-exec.sh".
administrat...@tikal2 /etc
$ cat /bin/pre-exec.sh
#! /bin/s
Well,backuppc is installed and running. But two things I didn't found:
1. Where can I define the backups destination path? I want to use an external
USB drive for this.
2. What is the right (host?) configuration if I just want to backup just
everything (a copy of all existing files on disk)? I
Hello,
I just installed BackupPC 3.1.0 on a debian lenny system (the official
debian package).
Backups of my /home - Directory are made with rsync. The first full
backup (22GB) took about 3 Hours.
But the next day, when the incremental backup started, it took the same
time, and the incremental back
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 12:14:48AM -0800, Craig Barratt wrote:
> James writes:
>
> > I have the following config line:
> >
> > $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = ['/proc', '/mnt', '/sys', '/home/
> > users', ... , '+ /vz/dump', '/vz/*'];
> >
> > But there is no /vz/dump in the backups. What am I doin
Hello Adam
Adam Goryachev wrote:
>
> Step 1) Use LVM's snapshot feature to take a snapshot of your root and
> backuppc partitions.
> Step 2) dd the snapshot to the two partitions on your USB HDD
>
> You won't be able to boot from the USB directly, because as you said,
> you would need to instal
> BTW, I think LVM will ensure your FS is in a good state when you do the
> snapshot... if not, then you may like to try and ensure you do a sync,
> and try to ensure no backups/etc are in progress (ie, the system is as
> idle as possible).
Snapshotting a live file system will probably trigger an
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Rodrigo Real wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've been quiet for some months, but I've been trying to read the
> messages in the way I can.
>
> Now I am running to the list to ask a question that has been discussed
> here some time before (maybe many times), b
Hello,
I've been quiet for some months, but I've been trying to read the
messages in the way I can.
Now I am running to the list to ask a question that has been discussed
here some time before (maybe many times), but I could not find a
solution that fits exactly on my needs, maybe I wasn't abl
Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) wrote:
> dan wrote:
> I believe a lot of databases these days don't need to be shut down to
> create a dump. And we still don't know what the situation is (what
> kind of database, how much data). Using a separate server for
> replication may very well be overkill.
James writes:
> I have the following config line:
>
> $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = ['/proc', '/mnt', '/sys', '/home/
> users', ... , '+ /vz/dump', '/vz/*'];
>
> But there is no /vz/dump in the backups. What am I doing wrong?
You can't use the rsync syntax (+/-) in $Conf{BackupFilesExclude}.
Yo
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