Re: [BackupPC-users] Feature Request

2014-08-28 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 3:49 PM, wrote: > > > > > Aren't $client and $host set by the time you need them (as documented > > to be used in $Conf(RsyncArgs}, $conf{DumpPreUserCmd}, etc.)? > > > You are correct that at the time the config file is sourced, the > variable $host (not $HOST) has not

Re: [BackupPC-users] Queue Order / Queue Pools

2014-08-28 Thread Adam Goryachev
On 29/08/14 01:36, Carl Cravens wrote: > I can't complete all the backups in a day with a maxbackups of 1. It's > unreasonable to micromanage the blackout periods for 70+ hosts to keep > certain ones from overlapping. > > I've coped with the problem, but it's something that an > only-one-host-a

Re: [BackupPC-users] Feature Request

2014-08-28 Thread backuppc
Les Mikesell wrote at about 13:53:04 -0500 on Thursday, August 28, 2014: > On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 12:18 PM, Andreas Schnederle-Wagner - > Futureweb.at wrote: > > > >> Andreas Schnederle-Wagner - Futureweb.at wrote at about 15:41:11 + on > >> Thursday, August 28, 2014: > >> > The Reaso

Re: [BackupPC-users] Feature Request

2014-08-28 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 12:18 PM, Andreas Schnederle-Wagner - Futureweb.at wrote: > >> Andreas Schnederle-Wagner - Futureweb.at wrote at about 15:41:11 + on >> Thursday, August 28, 2014: >> > The Reason we did this ist o avoid custom Config Files for each Host. >> > We only need to create t

Re: [BackupPC-users] Feature Request

2014-08-28 Thread Andreas Schnederle-Wagner - Futureweb . at
> Andreas Schnederle-Wagner - Futureweb.at wrote at about 15:41:11 + on > Thursday, August 28, 2014: > > The Reason we did this ist o avoid custom Config Files for each Host. > > We only need to create the Host with name 'ctDIR8' and everything works > like a charm ... so only the"hosts" f

Re: [BackupPC-users] Queue Order / Queue Pools

2014-08-28 Thread John Rouillard
On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 10:36:50AM -0500, Carl Cravens wrote: > I can't complete all the backups in a day with a maxbackups of 1. > It's unreasonable to micromanage the blackout periods for 70+ hosts to > keep certain ones from overlapping. > > I've coped with the problem, but it's something that

Re: [BackupPC-users] Feature Request

2014-08-28 Thread backuppc
Andreas Schnederle-Wagner - Futureweb.at wrote at about 15:41:11 + on Thursday, August 28, 2014: > The Reason we did this ist o avoid custom Config Files for each Host. > We only need to create the Host with name 'ctDIR8' and everything works like > a charm ... so only the"hosts" file need

Re: [BackupPC-users] Feature Request

2014-08-28 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 10:41 AM, Andreas Schnederle-Wagner - Futureweb.at wrote: > The Reason we did this ist o avoid custom Config Files for each Host. > We only need to create the Host with name 'ctDIR8' and everything works like > a charm ... so only the"hosts" file needs tob e changed when a

Re: [BackupPC-users] Queue Order / Queue Pools

2014-08-28 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 10:36 AM, Carl Cravens wrote: > I can't complete all the backups in a day with a maxbackups of 1. It's > unreasonable to micromanage the blackout periods for 70+ hosts to keep > certain ones from overlapping. > > I've coped with the problem, but it's something that an >

Re: [BackupPC-users] Feature Request

2014-08-28 Thread Andreas Schnederle-Wagner - Futureweb . at
The Reason we did this ist o avoid custom Config Files for each Host. We only need to create the Host with name 'ctDIR8' and everything works like a charm ... so only the"hosts" file needs tob e changed when adding/removing Hosts ... Andreas Schnederle-Wagner Futureweb OG Innsbrucker Str. 4 638

Re: [BackupPC-users] Queue Order / Queue Pools

2014-08-28 Thread Carl Cravens
I can't complete all the backups in a day with a maxbackups of 1. It's unreasonable to micromanage the blackout periods for 70+ hosts to keep certain ones from overlapping. I've coped with the problem, but it's something that an only-one-host-at-a-time-from-this-group feature would make a lot

Re: [BackupPC-users] Feature Request

2014-08-28 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 9:59 AM, wrote: >> > While it's not clear to me what you are actually trying to do, there > is a *lot* that you can do short of patching the Rsync.pm file. > > - You can have separate config files per host > - You can put arbitrary executable Perl code within any host conf

Re: [BackupPC-users] Feature Request

2014-08-28 Thread backuppc
Andreas Schnederle-Wagner - Futureweb.at wrote at about 14:31:49 + on Thursday, August 28, 2014: >Hello, > > >is it possible to have variable substitution at run-time for >“RsyncShareName“? > > >Following Scenario: > >- Server Directory Structure >

Re: [BackupPC-users] Queue Order / Queue Pools

2014-08-28 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 8:11 AM, Carl Cravens wrote: > This is a feature I've wanted as well. I have virtual machines running on > multiple hypervisors, and I'd prefer to only run one backup per hypervisor at > a time. If I could do that, I could get away with backups during the day... > but

[BackupPC-users] Feature Request

2014-08-28 Thread Andreas Schnederle-Wagner - Futureweb . at
Hello, is it possible to have variable substitution at run-time for "RsyncShareName"? Following Scenario: - Server Directory Structure o /ctDIR1 o /ctDIR2 o /ctDIR3 o ... - Within /etc/hosts we have: o *IP-1* ctdir1 o *IP-1* ctdir2 o *IP-

Re: [BackupPC-users] Queue Order / Queue Pools

2014-08-28 Thread Carl Cravens
This is a feature I've wanted as well. I have virtual machines running on multiple hypervisors, and I'd prefer to only run one backup per hypervisor at a time. If I could do that, I could get away with backups during the day... but if I back up the main file server and the groupware server at

Re: [BackupPC-users] Queue Order / Queue Pools

2014-08-28 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 7:01 AM, Andreas Schnederle-Wagner - Futureweb.at wrote: > > Is it possible that backuppc allows you to put your hosts into groups (aka > queues) so that you could limit the number of backup jobs running from any > specific queue/host group? > No you can't do that by group

[BackupPC-users] Queue Order / Queue Pools

2014-08-28 Thread Andreas Schnederle-Wagner - Futureweb . at
Hello, we backup several Servers with BackupPC - on every server we got several Directories - everyone as an own Host ... (dir1, dir2, dir3, ... and mapped those names to the IP in /etc/hosts) Is it possible that backuppc allows you to put your hosts into groups (aka queues) so that you could l

Re: [BackupPC-users] Best backup system for Windows clients

2014-08-28 Thread Sorin Srbu
> -Original Message- > From: Robert Wooden [mailto:rbrte...@comcast.net] > Sent: den 27 augusti 2014 13:19 > To: General list for user discussion, questions and support > Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Best backup system for Windows clients > > To Doug Lytle and Sorin Srbu, > > Thanks for yo