[BackupPC-users] Automatically spot-checking backups?

I've got a customer who'd like me to implement some kind of automatic spot-checking of their BackupPC backups. E.g., pick a random system, pick a few random files, pull them from BackupPC and compare them (e.g., md5) to the files on the system. Is there any reasonable way to do this? Is there an

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC usage as localhost

On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 2:20 AM, wrote: > - Is it possible that instead of sending the files to > /home/backuppc/storage, to tell to BackupPC to send the files to a remote > computer via ssh scp for example This is confusing. Did you set your TopDir (location of the

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC usage as localhost

On 2015-10-29 10:20, a.d...@accenture.com wrote: > - Is it possible that instead of sending the files to /home/backuppc/storage, > to tell to BackupPC to send the files to a remote computer via ssh scp for > example > > Does Backuppc has this feature or can implement it ? This would remove the

Re: [BackupPC-users] Automatically spot-checking backups?

On Thu, 29 Oct 2015 13:31:34 -0400 Dave Sill wrote: > Is there any reasonable way to do API? Is there an this for BackupPC? May be a better way to get a deep check without esoteric fiddling would be to raise $Conf{RsyncCsumCacheVerifyProb} and enable checksum caching

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC usage as localhost

On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 4:20 AM, wrote: > Hello bpc users > > We are currently using BackupPC as localhost to backup /home following the > recommendations seen here > > http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/localhost.html > > Everything works fine but we are wondering one

[BackupPC-users] BackupPC usage as localhost

Hello bpc users We are currently using BackupPC as localhost to backup /home following the recommendations seen here http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/localhost.html Everything works fine but we are wondering one thing - Is it possible that instead of sending the files to

[BackupPC-users] Fatal error (bad version): /sbin/nologin: invalid option

I also think it's coming from the remote side. Loging in with su -s /bin/bash - backuppc with the '-' as you suggested does not stop the backup from working on the command line. I also installed backuppc on another server and tried to backup another client (so, 2 different machines involved