Re: [BackupPC-users] Writing archives to external drive

2013-10-17 Thread Phil Reynolds
On Wed, 16 Oct 2013 16:51:06 -0500 Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 4:23 PM, Phil Reynolds phil-backu...@tinsleyviaduct.com wrote: if things fit on a 2.5 drive it would be fairly convenient. I'm using 3.5 drives - I have three, one of which is always at

Re: [BackupPC-users] Writing archives to external drive

2013-10-17 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 11:35 AM, Phil Reynolds phil-backu...@tinsleyviaduct.com wrote: If you aren't used to backuppc, it will take much less storage than you expect due to compression and pooling. And if you are exceeding the (at least) 1.5TB you can get in the 2.5 form, the performance is

[BackupPC-users] Parameter for incremental backups on localhost using tarCreate.sh script

2013-10-17 Thread Phil Reynolds
I am having problems backing up the localhost using a tarCreate.sh script - I can do full backups, but the date and time seems impossible to present properly for incrementals. $Conf{TarIncrArgs} = '--newer=$incrDate $fileList+' as recommended by the documentation fails to escape the space between

Re: [BackupPC-users] Parameter for incremental backups on localhost using tarCreate.sh script

2013-10-17 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 1:30 PM, Phil Reynolds phil-backu...@tinsleyviaduct.com wrote: I am having problems backing up the localhost using a tarCreate.sh script - I can do full backups, but the date and time seems impossible to present properly for incrementals. $Conf{TarIncrArgs} =

Re: [BackupPC-users] Parameter for incremental backups on localhost using tarCreate.sh script

2013-10-17 Thread Phil Reynolds
On Thu, 17 Oct 2013 14:38:35 -0500 Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 1:30 PM, Phil Reynolds phil-backu...@tinsleyviaduct.com wrote: I am having problems backing up the localhost using a tarCreate.sh script - I can do full backups, but the date and time seems

Re: [BackupPC-users] Parameter for incremental backups on localhost using tarCreate.sh script

2013-10-17 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 3:27 PM, Phil Reynolds phil-backu...@tinsleyviaduct.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 1:30 PM, Phil Reynolds phil-backu...@tinsleyviaduct.com wrote: I am having problems backing up the localhost using a tarCreate.sh script - I can do full backups, but the date and