[BackupPC-users] Windows client : Easy deployment

2010-10-04 Thread Jonathan Schaeffer
Hi all. I'm in the process of bulding a large scale backup system in my institute based on backuppc. So far, things are going according to plan. We built up a backupPC server and a mechanism for seamlessly install the client on the machines to backup with to objectives in mind : - doing as

Re: [BackupPC-users] Windows client : Easy deployment

2010-10-04 Thread Michael Stowe
Hi all. I'm in the process of bulding a large scale backup system in my institute based on backuppc. So far, things are going according to plan. We built up a backupPC server and a mechanism for seamlessly install the client on the machines to backup with to objectives in mind : - doing

[BackupPC-users] copying the pool

2010-10-04 Thread Chris Purves
I recently copied the pool to a new hard disk following the Copying the pool instructions from the main documentation. The documentation says to copy the 'cpool', 'log', and 'conf' directories using any technique and the 'pc' directory using BackupPC_tarPCCopy; however, there is no mention of

[BackupPC-users] New plugin for the backup of LVM partitions (e.g. XEN vm)

2010-10-04 Thread Alberto Eusebi
Hi, i'd like to announce the relase of a plugin for the backup of LVM partitions. I developed this scripts to handle the backup of my virtual servers. This is an extract of the documentation: While doing backups of virtual servers, there are typically two critical requirements: 1.

Re: [BackupPC-users] copying the pool

2010-10-04 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 08:56:49AM -0400, Chris Purves wrote: I recently copied the pool to a new hard disk following the Copying the pool instructions from the main documentation. The documentation says to copy the 'cpool', 'log', and 'conf' directories using any technique and the 'pc'

[BackupPC-users] What's using all this disk space?

2010-10-04 Thread Robin Lee Powell
OK, so, BackupPC says it's using 5590.63GB. This number is rapidly growing. (it's all wrong; we're actually using 5848.6GB, but that's not what this mail is about). How do I find out which backups are using a lot of disk? We'd like to see if there's a problem with our retention policy,

Re: [BackupPC-users] copying the pool

2010-10-04 Thread Chris Purves
On 04/10/2010 2:20 PM, Robin Lee Powell wrote: On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 08:56:49AM -0400, Chris Purves wrote: I recently copied the pool to a new hard disk following the Copying the pool instructions from the main documentation. The documentation says to copy the 'cpool', 'log', and 'conf'

Re: [BackupPC-users] What's using all this disk space?

2010-10-04 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 03:25:03PM -0400, Timothy J Massey wrote: Robin Lee Powell rlpow...@digitalkingdom.org wrote on 10/04/2010 03:15:29 PM: How do I find out which backups are using a lot of disk? We'd like to see if there's a problem with our retention policy, especially on

Re: [BackupPC-users] What's using all this disk space?

2010-10-04 Thread Timothy J Massey
Robin Lee Powell rlpow...@digitalkingdom.org wrote on 10/04/2010 03:15:29 PM: How do I find out which backups are using a lot of disk? We'd like to see if there's a problem with our retention policy, especially on database servers, but I've no insight at all into where all this disk is

Re: [BackupPC-users] What's using all this disk space?

2010-10-04 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 03:32:23PM -0400, Timothy J Massey wrote: Robin Lee Powell rlpow...@digitalkingdom.org wrote on 10/04/2010 03:28:23 PM: On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 03:25:03PM -0400, Timothy J Massey wrote: Robin Lee Powell rlpow...@digitalkingdom.org wrote on 10/04/2010 03:15:29

Re: [BackupPC-users] What's using all this disk space?

2010-10-04 Thread Timothy J Massey
Robin Lee Powell rlpow...@digitalkingdom.org wrote on 10/04/2010 03:45:11 PM: On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 03:32:23PM -0400, Timothy J Massey wrote: Robin Lee Powell rlpow...@digitalkingdom.org wrote on 10/04/2010 03:28:23 PM: On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 03:25:03PM -0400, Timothy J Massey

[BackupPC-users] Wiki version

2010-10-04 Thread Gerald Brandt
Hi, The BackuppC Wiki still shows 3.2.0 as a beta release. Gerald -- Virtualization is moving to the mainstream and overtaking non-virtualized environment for deploying applications. Does it make network security

Re: [BackupPC-users] New release of BackupPC_deleteBackup - who can put it into the wiki?

2010-10-04 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 01:13:57AM +0100, Matthias Meyer wrote: Hi, I have a new release of the BackupPC_deleteBackup script. Unfortunately I can't put it into the wiki (http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/backuppc/index.php?title=How_to_delete_backups). Jeffrey would do that but I didn't