Re: [BackupPC-users] I'd like to make a suggestion to the BPC devsm

2017-07-21 Thread Bzzzz
On Fri, 21 Jul 2017 13:12:25 -0500 Les Mikesell wrote: > There is a missing piece in terms of recreating the > partitions/filesystems/raids to match the system you want to recreate, OMFG, ZE missing link ? ;-p) > unless you have already automated that with tuned kickstart files or > all of your

Re: [BackupPC-users] I'd like to make a suggestion to the BPC devsm

2017-07-21 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 12:32 PM, B wrote: > >> You might also want >> a image copy on a remote server, which is yet another different >> requirement. > > I guess you mean for total reconstruction (?) > At this time I did not found any significant gain of time between image > (which, BTW, take

Re: [BackupPC-users] I'd like to make a suggestion to the BPC devsm

2017-07-21 Thread Bzzzz
On Sat, 22 Jul 2017 02:40:57 +1000 Adam Goryachev wrote: > I think you want both snapshots on the local server, as well as BPC on > a remote server. They each serve a different need. Hmm, I'm not that sure; for the time being, snapshots will be kept and doubled w/ other BPC servers for daily "sn

Re: [BackupPC-users] I'd like to make a suggestion to the BPC devsm

2017-07-21 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 11:40 AM, Adam Goryachev wrote: > > I think you want both snapshots on the local server, as well as BPC on a > remote server. They each serve a different need. You might also want a image > copy on a remote server, which is yet another different requirement. > On the image

Re: [BackupPC-users] I'd like to make a suggestion to the BPC devsm

2017-07-21 Thread Adam Goryachev
On 22/7/17 01:38, B wrote: On Fri, 21 Jul 2017 09:27:41 -0500 Les Mikesell wrote: The quick fix here is to use a Mac with an external or network drive for time machine. If you aren't familiar with it, it does exactly Among many other, Apple products are to stay out of the company. wh

Re: [BackupPC-users] I'd like to make a suggestion to the BPC devsm

2017-07-21 Thread Bzzzz
On Fri, 21 Jul 2017 09:27:41 -0500 Les Mikesell wrote: > The quick fix here is to use a Mac with an external or network drive > for time machine. If you aren't familiar with it, it does exactly Among many other, Apple products are to stay out of the company. > what you suggested with easy acce

Re: [BackupPC-users] I'd like to make a suggestion to the BPC devs

2017-07-21 Thread Ray Frush
Les- Putting the Mac vs (anything else) argument aside, as it detracts from the discussion, I would like to add that even low end NAS devices like the QNAP offer filesystem snapshots that are, for the purposes of a home office or small business seamless. At $WORK, I've used NetApp, EMC Isilon,

Re: [BackupPC-users] I'd like to make a suggestion to the BPC devs

2017-07-21 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 8:59 AM, B wrote: > > @GW Haywood: this would be limited to executive people that usually know > what they're doing and are the only ones that are working on not-to-lose > docs ie: big spreadsheets - the idea is to entirely pull off any admin > from the restoration pro

Re: [BackupPC-users] I'd like to make a suggestion to the BPC devs

2017-07-21 Thread Bzzzz
On Fri, 21 Jul 2017 06:29:46 -0700 Kenneth Porter wrote: > A better solution would be a change to rsyncd to monitor its > filesystem and remember which files were touched since the last > backup. Yep, this is much closer to what I imagined. > Some filesystems have a "backdoor" like inotify that

Re: [BackupPC-users] I'd like to make a suggestion to the BPC devs

2017-07-21 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Thursday, July 20, 2017 3:54 AM +0200 B wrote: An addition to BPC could do the trick, preferably saving the result in another directory than the main one, by checking which files have been touched the present day and save them automatically; it may be triggered from a crontab. And befo

Re: [BackupPC-users] I'd like to make a suggestion to the BPC devs

2017-07-21 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, On Thu, 20 Jul 2017, B wrote: ... clumsy users would be able to recover their work very rapidly with at most one hour loss ... How about that ? You want to apply a technical answer to a non-technical question. Bad idea. It is vastly more expensive to employ highly trained peo