Re: [BackupPC-users] New to town - where to begin...

2013-09-18 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 10:35 AM, wrote: > > > I may be putting more stock than I should in BackupPC adopting a "method" or > grossly misunderstanding feasibility completely, in order to avoid file > based recovery as much as possible, hence my reference to saving and > restoring an "image" of th

Re: [BackupPC-users] New to town - where to begin...

2013-09-18 Thread afpteam
- Original Message - From: "Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom" To: Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2013 9:28 AM Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] New to town - where to begin... > On 09/18 09:00 , afpt...@sbcglobal.net wrote: >> I've started out leasing a backup machine from http://backupsy.com >>

Re: [BackupPC-users] New to town - where to begin...

2013-09-18 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 09/18 09:00 , afpt...@sbcglobal.net wrote: > I've started out leasing a backup machine from http://backupsy.com finding > them so far to be well resourced, well provisioned and responsive to support > questions, having a fair amount of experience and several data center > locations establishe

Re: [BackupPC-users] Guide to set up scheduling in BackupPC

2013-09-18 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 11:58 PM, Prem wrote: > Hi Les, see below for my comments: > > > On Thursday, September 12, 2013 12:35 AM, Les Mikesell > wrote: > On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 9:39 PM, Prem wrote: >> Hi Les, >> >> I can try that but I really wonder why the scheduling is made so >> complicated

[BackupPC-users] New to town - where to begin...

2013-09-18 Thread afpteam
Hi list, I'm new here, hoping to use BackupPC to implement from scratch, here goes... I admit, I'm not really sure where to start after combing the docs some, but to learn how to first analyze my backup server drive structure for capture and store THAT off site first and test the restore. Foll

Re: [BackupPC-users] Store backups on remote server but still use BPC for mgmt

2013-09-18 Thread Prem
Hi, You could simply point a symbolic link (i.e. ln -s) from the /var/lib/backuppc to the mounted (in fstab) NAS location. This is better that changing the config.pl to point to the direct NAS location. On Wednesday, September 18, 2013 3:56 PM, Adam Goryachev wrote: On 18/09/13 17:40, Sim

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC 4.0.0alpha2 released

2013-09-18 Thread Prem
Hi, Do you mind sharing the step-by-step to compile and install this version? Regards, Prem On Wednesday, September 18, 2013 2:26 PM, Craig Barratt wrote: BackupPC community, I'm pleased to announce that BackupPC 4.0.0alpha2 has been released on SourceForge at: https://sourceforge.net/p

Re: [BackupPC-users] Store backups on remote server but still use BPC for mgmt

2013-09-18 Thread Adam Goryachev
On 18/09/13 17:40, SimonUtter wrote: > Thank for the quik reply! > Sorry if I was not clear enough, English is my second language but I'll do my > best. > I don't want any of the backup data to get forwarded through the backuppc > server. I want the backuppc server to start the backup, use the NA

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC 4.0.0alpha1 released

2013-09-18 Thread Juergen Harms
> Has anyone created a spec file to build an RPM I will have to do this on Mageia, but intend to wait until Beta is out. There are spec-files for past versions on practically all distros - being optimistic I hope that there will not be too much to be modified for 4.0.0 Juergen --

[BackupPC-users] Store backups on remote server but still use BPC for mgmt

2013-09-18 Thread SimonUtter
Thank for the quik reply! Sorry if I was not clear enough, English is my second language but I'll do my best. I don't want any of the backup data to get forwarded through the backuppc server. I want the backuppc server to start the backup, use the NAS as cpool/Archive location, but I don't want