Re: [BackupPC-users] Automated regular archive of latest full backup

2015-12-02 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Les Mikesell [2015-12-03 13:29 +1300]: > I think you are missing the point of the way backuppc stores data - No no, I know. But e.g. on a mail server, mails get deleted and new mails arrive, and the backup is ever-increasing. Or log files… > Also, if it mattered you would not need to

Re: [BackupPC-users] Automated regular archive of latest full backup

2015-12-02 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 5:20 PM, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Les Mikesell [2015-12-03 12:08 +1300]: >> However, you might want to consider running an offsite instance of >> backuppc to back up the same targets directly, using a vpn for the >> connection if necessary. Both the storage and

Re: [BackupPC-users] Automated regular archive of latest full backup

2015-12-02 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Les Mikesell [2015-12-03 12:08 +1300]: > However, you might want to consider running an offsite instance of > backuppc to back up the same targets directly, using a vpn for the > connection if necessary. Both the storage and transfer would be > much more efficient that way. Hm, inter

Re: [BackupPC-users] Automated regular archive of latest full backup

2015-12-02 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 5:05 PM, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Timothy J Massey [2015-12-03 11:59 +1300]: >> Others use BackupPC_tarCreate by hand. > > What's the difference between that and BackupPC_archiveHost anyway? > The archive host concept basically gives you a web interface to trig

Re: [BackupPC-users] Automated regular archive of latest full backup

2015-12-02 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 4:20 PM, martin f krafft wrote: > Hello, > > before I hack this up myself, I wanted to ask if someone already has > a solution I could possible reuse. > > I am looking for a way to automate sending an archive (tarball) of > the latest backup of each of my hosts to an offsite

Re: [BackupPC-users] Automated regular archive of latest full backup

2015-12-02 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Timothy J Massey [2015-12-03 11:59 +1300]: > Others use BackupPC_tarCreate by hand. What's the difference between that and BackupPC_archiveHost anyway? -- @martinkrafft | http://madduck.net/ | http://two.sentenc.es/ "politics is the entertainment branch of industry."

Re: [BackupPC-users] Automated regular archive of latest full backup

2015-12-02 Thread Timothy J Massey
martin f krafft wrote on 12/02/2015 05:20:31 PM: > I am looking for a way to automate sending an archive (tarball) of > the latest backup of each of my hosts to an offsite machine, using > scp and GnuPG for encryption. Can this be done within BackupPC and > scheduled regularly, or is this a cronj

[BackupPC-users] Automated regular archive of latest full backup

2015-12-02 Thread martin f krafft
Hello, before I hack this up myself, I wanted to ask if someone already has a solution I could possible reuse. I am looking for a way to automate sending an archive (tarball) of the latest backup of each of my hosts to an offsite machine, using scp and GnuPG for encryption. Can this be done withi

Re: [BackupPC-users] New backup

2015-12-02 Thread Brad Alexander
Hi Carl, My /usr/local/etc/sudoers.d/backuppc is identical to the one on my other freebsd box: cat /usr/local/etc/sudoers.d/backuppc Cmnd_AliasBACKUP=/usr/bin/tar, /usr/local/bin/rsync backuppc ALL=NOPASSWD:BACKUP On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 4:35 PM, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom < chr...@real-t

Re: [BackupPC-users] New backup

2015-12-02 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 12/02 04:10 , Brad Alexander wrote: > Okay, this is probably blindingly obvious, but I just changed my wife's > machine over from linux to pc-bsd. I am seeing the following when I try to > run the backup: > > backuppc@farragut:~/tmp$ /usr/bin/ssh -q -x valiant sudo /usr/bin/rsync > --server --s

[BackupPC-users] New backup

2015-12-02 Thread Brad Alexander
Okay, this is probably blindingly obvious, but I just changed my wife's machine over from linux to pc-bsd. I am seeing the following when I try to run the backup: backuppc@farragut:~/tmp$ /usr/bin/ssh -q -x valiant sudo /usr/bin/rsync --server --sender --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group -D --li

Re: [BackupPC-users] new users questions

2015-12-02 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 9:18 AM, Philip Parsons (Velindre - Medical Physics) wrote: > > I’ve got the email client working and it will email me if a backup hasn’t > been performed, but is it possible to get backuppc to email me when there > have been transfer errors? > No, individual file errors ar

[BackupPC-users] new users questions

2015-12-02 Thread Philip Parsons (Velindre - Medical Physics)
Dear list, I'm a new user of backuppc and new to this list, so apologies if these questions have been asked before! I'm using backuppc on debian to pull backups mostly from windows clients using smb. I've got the email client working and it will email me if a backup hasn't been performed, but

Re: [BackupPC-users] FullKeepCnt

2015-12-02 Thread Micha Kersloot
Hi, I guess that if the incremental depends on one full and the new full backup is made you'll end up with two full backups and 1 incremental depending on the oldest full backup. But! BackupPC is very good at deduplicating data on disk, so full backups and incremental backups do not differ in

[BackupPC-users] FullKeepCnt

2015-12-02 Thread absolutely_f...@libero.it
Hi,in order to save space, I set: $Conf{FullKeepCnt} = [ '1' ];$Conf{FullKeepCntMin} = '1'; on a specific host.Some days later, I checked and I still have 2 full backups, 1 incremental and 1 partial.Should I wait more? I attach some relevant config (global, I mean /etc/backuppc/config.pl) $Conf{M