Re: [BackupPC-users] host groups; was: feature request: description for machines, searchable

2011-03-22 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 03/22 01:31 , Les Mikesell wrote: > > How do you get a bandwidth availability metric? Short of trying to push > > data back and forth, you can't. > > Most people would enter a fixed number for what they want backuppc to > consume. Even if you can test it, you don't know if it will stay the >

Re: [BackupPC-users] host groups; was: feature request: description for machines, searchable

2011-03-22 Thread Les Mikesell
On 3/22/2011 12:24 PM, Tyler J. Wagner wrote: > On Tue, 2011-03-22 at 13:09 -0400, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: >> I think it would still be helpful to have a hook that would allow some >> type of query of bandwidth available. Perhaps most users would never >> use the hook but having the option to ca

Re: [BackupPC-users] host groups; was: feature request: description for machines, searchable

2011-03-22 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
Tyler J. Wagner wrote at about 17:24:29 + on Tuesday, March 22, 2011: > On Tue, 2011-03-22 at 13:09 -0400, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: > > I think it would still be helpful to have a hook that would allow some > > type of query of bandwidth available. Perhaps most users would never > > use t

Re: [BackupPC-users] host groups; was: feature request: description for machines, searchable

2011-03-22 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On Tue, 2011-03-22 at 13:09 -0400, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: > I think it would still be helpful to have a hook that would allow some > type of query of bandwidth available. Perhaps most users would never > use the hook but having the option to call an external routine and > return a bandwidth ava

Re: [BackupPC-users] host groups; was: feature request: description for machines, searchable

2011-03-22 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
Tyler J. Wagner wrote at about 16:26:28 + on Tuesday, March 22, 2011: > On Tue, 2011-03-22 at 10:47 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > > Agreed - I've always thought it would be nice if backuppc were aware of > > hosts grouped on a network route as well and could separately limit the > > concur

Re: [BackupPC-users] host groups; was: feature request: description for machines, searchable

2011-03-22 Thread Les Mikesell
On 3/22/2011 11:02 AM, Tod Detre wrote: >> Agreed - I've always thought it would be nice if backuppc were aware of >> hosts grouped on a network route as well and could separately limit the >> concurrency within the those groups. Maybe it could be generalized >> with a concept of how much impact

Re: [BackupPC-users] host groups; was: feature request: description for machines, searchable

2011-03-22 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On Tue, 2011-03-22 at 10:47 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > Agreed - I've always thought it would be nice if backuppc were aware of > hosts grouped on a network route as well and could separately limit the > concurrency within the those groups. Maybe it could be generalized > with a concept of ho

Re: [BackupPC-users] host groups; was: feature request: description for machines, searchable

2011-03-22 Thread Tod Detre
> Agreed - I've always thought it would be nice if backuppc were aware of > hosts grouped on a network route as well and could separately limit the > concurrency within the those groups.   Maybe it could be generalized > with a concept of how much impact a run will have on total concurrency > (to l

Re: [BackupPC-users] host groups; was: feature request: description for machines, searchable

2011-03-22 Thread Les Mikesell
On 3/22/2011 9:26 AM, Jeff Schmidt wrote: > > not to jack this thread, but the concept of 'groups' would be extremely > beneficial in virtualized environments (let's not backup /all/ of the > vm's on a single physical host at the same time). I've seen some talk of > using a semaphore > (http://www.

[BackupPC-users] host groups; was: feature request: description for machines, searchable

2011-03-22 Thread Jeff Schmidt
On Tue, 2011-03-22 at 07:31 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > On 3/22/11 7:10 AM, Scott wrote: > > If there is a different place to submit features, I apologize. > > > > It would be great if there were a field for machine description - for > > example > > for location or similar. > > > > Most of the ma

Re: [BackupPC-users] backend to nfs nas share

2011-03-22 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
Lord Sporkton wrote at about 02:56:59 -0700 on Tuesday, March 22, 2011: > I was hoping to setup a backend storage system for this to allow me to > use a much larger file system than is typically available locally. I > was looking at using an NFS share and connecting backuppc to the NFS > share.

Re: [BackupPC-users] [newb] hostname resolution

2011-03-22 Thread Neal Becker
Les Mikesell wrote: > On 3/22/11 6:35 AM, Neal Becker wrote: >> This is a linux server backing up a linux client. >> >> 2011-03-22 07:00:02 Can't find host nbecker1 via netbios >> >> Yeah, the client wasn't connected at that time. But I don't want to use >> netbios >> to resolve the name. It's a

Re: [BackupPC-users] feature request: description for machines, searchable

2011-03-22 Thread Les Mikesell
On 3/22/11 7:10 AM, Scott wrote: > If there is a different place to submit features, I apologize. > > It would be great if there were a field for machine description - for example > for location or similar. > > Most of the machines I deal with are 'tagged' with a number. We usually name > the mac

Re: [BackupPC-users] [newb] hostname resolution

2011-03-22 Thread Les Mikesell
On 3/22/11 6:35 AM, Neal Becker wrote: > This is a linux server backing up a linux client. > > 2011-03-22 07:00:02 Can't find host nbecker1 via netbios > > Yeah, the client wasn't connected at that time. But I don't want to use > netbios > to resolve the name. It's a linux client. Why isn't it

[BackupPC-users] feature request: description for machines, searchable

2011-03-22 Thread Scott
If there is a different place to submit features, I apologize. It would be great if there were a field for machine description - for example for location or similar. Most of the machines I deal with are 'tagged' with a number. We usually name the machine with this number, so in backuppc I see a

[BackupPC-users] [newb] hostname resolution

2011-03-22 Thread Neal Becker
This is a linux server backing up a linux client. 2011-03-22 07:00:02 Can't find host nbecker1 via netbios Yeah, the client wasn't connected at that time. But I don't want to use netbios to resolve the name. It's a linux client. Why isn't it using dns? -

[BackupPC-users] backend to nfs nas share

2011-03-22 Thread Lord Sporkton
I was hoping to setup a backend storage system for this to allow me to use a much larger file system than is typically available locally. I was looking at using an NFS share and connecting backuppc to the NFS share. As I understand it NFS has no real limit on the filesystem size other than that of