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Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
> What is so hard about just doing it right by setting up a dedicated
> server?
>
> And if you can't afford a server now, at least follow the absolutely
> trivial suggestion recommended by Les to start/stop BackupPC when you
Daniel Carrera wrote at about 08:44:20 +0200 on Saturday, May 23, 2009:
> Holger Parplies wrote:
> > you *could* use the DumpPostUserCmd to send a serverMesg to shutdown
> > BackupPC,
> > but I wouldn't recommend that for two reasons:
> >
> > 1.) BackupPC_link needs to run after a backup, s
Daniel Carrera wrote at about 08:25:21 +0200 on Saturday, May 23, 2009:
> Les Mikesell wrote:
> > I don't think scheduled stopping/starting would be a problem in practice
>
> I take it you also don't think that having BackupPC wake up to find no
> backup media will be a problem either. Righ
Hi,
Skip Guenter wrote on 2009-05-23 17:31:06 -0500 [[BackupPC-users] Archive/Pool
target drive]:
>
> I think a quick simple question...
... of which I simply don't understand, in what way it is related to Jeffrey's
question about exponential full backups. Please stop hijacking threads.
> Does
Network Attached Storage
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network-attached_storage
Basically any old antique PC with SAMBA installed and a decent HDD on it
will do the same. You can probably buy a used PC that'll do it for $25
and add a $50 500GB drive to it and be in business.
On Sat, 2009-05-23 a
I think a quick simple question...
Does BackupPC care about the 'atime' stamp in EXT3 files systems?
In other words can it's target partition/array be mounted 'noatime'
in /etc/fstab?
Skip
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Daniel Carrera wrote:
> Les Mikesell wrote:
>> What it needs is to be on when the other PC is available for a backup
>> and for some time at midnight when it cleans up expired items from the
>> pool. When I said you could schedule it with cron I guess I was
>> thinking you wouldn't be up all ni
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Than
Daniel Carrera wrote:
> Holger Parplies wrote:
>> 1.) That is what you are requesting BackupPC to do.
>> If you want your backups to depend on a different reference point
>> than the previous full backup, you can use IncrLevels. An incremental
>> backup *can* miss changes. That is highl
Hi there,
On Fri, 22 May 2009 Jeffrey J. Kosowsky:
> I was hoping to have full backups done every 2 weeks with 1 saved
> exponentially every 2 weeks, 4 weeks, 8 weeks, 16 weeks, 32 weeks, and
> then approximately yearly (actually every 63 weeks) for a 100 years.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year
Daniel Carrera wrote:
> Adam Goryachev wrote:
>>> Anyways, thanks for all the help.
>> I've seen on this list some people have managed to use an external HDD
>> (well, a NAS) to actually run
>> Backuppc, sounds like your environment would be well suited to this
>> solution... small requirements, an
Les Mikesell wrote:
> What it needs is to be on when the other PC is available for a backup
> and for some time at midnight when it cleans up expired items from the
> pool. When I said you could schedule it with cron I guess I was
> thinking you wouldn't be up all night removing and connecting
Daniel Carrera wrote:
> Les Mikesell wrote:
>> I don't think scheduled stopping/starting would be a problem in practice
>
> I take it you also don't think that having BackupPC wake up to find no
> backup media will be a problem either. Right?
I'm fairly sure that it will exit at startup if it c
Daniel Carrera wrote:
> Holger Parplies wrote:
>> you *could* use the DumpPostUserCmd to send a serverMesg to shutdown
>> BackupPC,
>> but I wouldn't recommend that for two reasons:
>>
>> 1.) BackupPC_link needs to run after a backup, so you'd have to delay the
>> shutdown for a short but unkn
Adam Goryachev wrote:
>> Anyways, thanks for all the help.
> I've seen on this list some people have managed to use an external HDD
> (well, a NAS) to actually run
> Backuppc, sounds like your environment would be well suited to this
> solution... small requirements, and ability to leave the nas on
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