Re: [BackupPC-users] Question on using NAS for Pool

Changing to an NFS mount point isn't any different from the docs that detail how to change the mount point in general. Create your mount point, Mount the NFS share, the change /var/lib/backuppc to a softlink to where ever your new backuppc location is. (Those the 10,000 foot view. You'll want to

Re: [BackupPC-users] Question on using NAS for Pool

On 08/05 02:05 , john boris wrote: > I searched the archives for using a Synology but haven't found the answer. > I have a Synology RS815 that I want to use as my storage unit while running > Backuppc on aanother LINUX Server. Since all of the data, logs and config > files are in /var/lib/backuppc

Re: [BackupPC-users] Question on using NAS for Pool

It's not hard. Symlink your pool (commonly /var/lib/BackupPC) to your mounted NFS path (or change the TopDir). I did it this way for a few years. That being said (and with the repeated statements of "storage is cheap"), I never exceeded 3-4 MBps on a backup run. In the end, it was better to

[BackupPC-users] Question on using NAS for Pool

I searched the archives for using a Synology but haven't found the answer. I have a Synology RS815 that I want to use as my storage unit while running Backuppc on aanother LINUX Server. Since all of the data, logs and config files are in /var/lib/backuppc on the server running backuppc how does on

Re: [BackupPC-users] Unnecessary reads with rsync?

Thanks Adam for your patience and insights! And everyone else for putting up with me! ;) also sprach Adam Goryachev [2016-08-05 01:12 +0200]: > > But instead of (what seems to be) chunk-wise checksum transmission, > > why don't we (also) store the whole-file

Re: [BackupPC-users] How do you monitor a backup process?

also sprach Adam Goryachev [2016-08-05 01:31 +0200]: > Maybe try this: > tail -f -n +0 blah.log | /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_zcat - > You need to include the beginning of the file or else it won't > detect the compression header Also, the -

Re: [BackupPC-users] Choice of compression algorithm for logs

also sprach Adam Goryachev [2016-08-05 01:08 +0200]: > > Why aren't we just using standard gzip or bzip2 or xz, for which > > decompressors exist on pretty much every Unix system? > I'm pretty sure there is a backuppc package for debian :) Oh yes, sure, but

Re: [BackupPC-users] Still unable to "resume" a partial backup

also sprach Adam Goryachev [2016-08-05 01:04 +0200]: > We do update a partial backup, as long as the new partial contains > more files than the previous partial, but it doesn't even save > a partially transferred file. I think this is fine, and a partially