Re: [BackupPC-users] Is backuppc with rsyncrypto instead rsync possible

2009-04-29 Thread Chris Robertson
Matthias Meyer wrote: > Chris Robertson wrote: > > >> Matthias Meyer wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I think about an encrypted backup and find rsyncrypto. >>> Is there a BackupPC_dump support for rsyncrypto? >>> Or any other way to use rsyncrypto with backuppc? >>> >>> >> From the loo

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc

2009-04-29 Thread Matthias Meyer
soume86 wrote: > > Hello, > > I think that I am not good explained. > I want to save a machine Linux. > When I click to save the machine, > I have the following error: > The saving failed (fileListReceive failed). > > And that I would want knowledge that it is necessary > to install samba ( smb

Re: [BackupPC-users] Is backuppc with rsyncrypto instead rsync possible

2009-04-29 Thread Matthias Meyer
Chris Robertson wrote: > Matthias Meyer wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I think about an encrypted backup and find rsyncrypto. >> Is there a BackupPC_dump support for rsyncrypto? >> Or any other way to use rsyncrypto with backuppc? >> > > From the looks of it, you would just run the rsyncrypto on the cli

Re: [BackupPC-users] Defining data retention periods

2009-04-29 Thread Chris Robertson
Holger Parplies wrote: > Hi, > > Boniforti Flavio wrote on 2009-04-29 14:22:36 +0200 [Re: [BackupPC-users] > Defining data retention periods]: > OK, now the main question of my post: data retention. [...] >> In my actual setup when the oldest FULL gets deleted (because i

Re: [BackupPC-users] Is backuppc with rsyncrypto instead rsync possible

2009-04-29 Thread Chris Robertson
Matthias Meyer wrote: > Hi, > > I think about an encrypted backup and find rsyncrypto. > Is there a BackupPC_dump support for rsyncrypto? > Or any other way to use rsyncrypto with backuppc? > From the looks of it, you would just run the rsyncrypto on the client as a pre-backup command, and th

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc 3.1.0-4/debian: rrd graph missing

2009-04-29 Thread Jonas Meurer
On 29/04/2009 Ludovic Drolez wrote: > On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 11:22:05PM -0400, Kenneth L. Owen wrote: > > > rrdtool (1.3.1-4) is installed and the rrd-file at > > > /var/lib/backuppc/log/pool.rrd seems to be updated regularly as well. > > > > > > I even checked the command to create the graph ima

Re: [BackupPC-users] Defining data retention periods

2009-04-29 Thread Boniforti Flavio
Hy Carl, > actually, I believe that the fulls are expired when BOTH: > - all incrementals depending on them expire > - the retention period for fulls expires you say you *believe* that BackupPC is working like above, which would be very intelligent and would make sense. Still, is there anybody wh

Re: [BackupPC-users] Defining data retention periods

2009-04-29 Thread Boniforti Flavio
> close, but not quite. In order for the incremental to be done > against the last incremental, you need to set > > $Conf{IncrLevels} = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]; > > (provided you have 6 days of incrementals between fulls) OK, so *this* would make them become "differential" rather than pure "increme

Re: [BackupPC-users] Defining data retention periods

2009-04-29 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Boniforti Flavio wrote on 2009-04-29 14:22:36 +0200 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Defining data retention periods]: > > > OK, now the main question of my post: data retention. > > > [...] > > In my actual setup when the oldest FULL gets deleted (because it is now > older than 4 weeks), do I loose al

Re: [BackupPC-users] Defining data retention periods

2009-04-29 Thread Les Mikesell
Boniforti Flavio wrote: > I'm coming back on following part: > >>> OK, now the main question of my post: data retention. >>> I want to have one full month of daily retrievable backups: >> would this >>> be achieved by setting ³FullKeepCnt² to 4 and ³IncrKeepCnt² to 24? >> If your months have 28

Re: [BackupPC-users] Defining data retention periods

2009-04-29 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 04/29 02:22 , Boniforti Flavio wrote: > In my actual setup when the oldest FULL gets deleted (because it is now > older than 4 weeks), do I loose also all the subsequent INCREMENTALS that > were done? actually, I believe that the fulls are expired when BOTH: - all incrementals depending on the

Re: [BackupPC-users] Defining data retention periods

2009-04-29 Thread Boniforti Flavio
I'm coming back on following part: > > OK, now the main question of my post: data retention. > > I want to have one full month of daily retrievable backups: > would this > > be achieved by setting ³FullKeepCnt² to 4 and ³IncrKeepCnt² to 24? > > If your months have 28 days, yes. In my personal e

Re: [BackupPC-users] Defining data retention periods

2009-04-29 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 04/28 11:03 , Boniforti Flavio wrote: > Am > I right if I understand that leaving INCR Backups with IncrLevel=1, means in > fact that every incremental backup is done in relation to the most recent > FULL backup? Thus, if I¹d change the level from 1 to 6 (for example) I > simply would be turning

Re: [BackupPC-users] Is backuppc with rsyncrypto instead rsync possible

2009-04-29 Thread Pedro M. S. Oliveira
When you use rcync method you are using encryption as it relies on the ssh protocol for the transfer. If you want to encrypt your backup data you may encrypt the partition where the data will be store or if you don't want to re-partition your HD you may create a crytofs on a file (just be sure t

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc 3.1.0-4/debian: rrd graph missing

2009-04-29 Thread Ludovic Drolez
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 11:22:05PM -0400, Kenneth L. Owen wrote: > > rrdtool (1.3.1-4) is installed and the rrd-file at > > /var/lib/backuppc/log/pool.rrd seems to be updated regularly as well. > > > > I even checked the command to create the graph image, which is used at > > /usr/share/backuppc/l

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc 3.1.0-4/debian: rrd graph missing

2009-04-29 Thread Ludovic Drolez
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 06:09:11AM +0200, Jonas Meurer wrote: > I just discovered, that www-data, the user that runs apache2, doesn't > have read permissions to /var/lib/backuppc/log/pool.rrd at all, and I > guess that this is required at least. I changed the permissions, but > that didn't help eit

[BackupPC-users] backuppc

2009-04-29 Thread soume86
Hello, I think that I am not good explained. I want to save a machine Linux. When I click to save the machine, I have the following error: The saving failed (fileListReceive failed). And that I would want knowledge that it is necessary to install samba ( smb ) or what it is necessary to use rs

Re: [BackupPC-users] Defining data retention periods

2009-04-29 Thread Boniforti Flavio
> > Thus, if I¹d change the level from 1 to 6 (for example) I > simply would > > be turning the ³pure incremental² backups into > ³differential² backups? > > I mean, in this latter case, incr backups would be done in > relation to > > the most recent BACKUP (full or incremental wouldn¹t play

Re: [BackupPC-users] How BackupPC finds host when using SSH tunnel?

2009-04-29 Thread Boniforti Flavio
Hallo Holger, Thanks for taking time to discuss such "stupid questions" ;-) with me... > that is the only logical thing to do. You're saying the > client machine to be backed up is actually named "localhost" If you mean "client machine name" = "ClientNameAlias", then yes. > (which coincidenta