Jamie-
Another source of advice is the listserv archives. Assuming you're
running BackupPC 4. If not, you'll want to upgrade!
Our organization wants to keep at least one month of daily backups
Here's a snippet of a post I did on this subject the last time someone
asked about schedules.
The v
On Wed, 15 Nov 2017 23:29:58 -
Jamie Burchell wrote:
> Because you'll seldom find any good advice that advocates doing
> anything as root.
You misread it.
Doing stuffs as root when it can be done by a regular user, or a sudo
user _can_ be a risk (although I don't know any real admin that ha
Because you'll seldom find any good advice that advocates doing anything
as root.
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On Wed, 15 Nov 2017 22:48:01 -
Jamie Burchell wrote:
> I followed the instructions to make a restricted backuppc user on
> client machines with limited sudo permission thus:
> backuppc ALL=NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/rsync --server --sender *
Why on earth did you use that instead of let it to root !?
Hi!
I followed the instructions to make a restricted backuppc user on client
machines with limited sudo permission thus:
backuppc ALL=NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/rsync --server --sender *
This works fine for backing up, but I just discovered I can no longer
restore directly, as I’m getting the foll
On Wed, 15 Nov 2017 22:52:26 -
Jamie Burchell wrote:
> I've gone with the schedule that looks correct for now and will see
> what happens!
Terrible things, you'll lose confidence in closed source softwares
(hence, in m$ "products"), your HD will fill with many little gremlins,
and finally y
Thanks for the info. I can assure you I've read the docs, many times :) I'm
clearly just a bit of a slow learner...
I've gone with the schedule that looks correct for now and will see what
happens!
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On Wed, 15 Nov 2017 21:59:28 -
Jamie Burchell wrote:
> Hi!
Ho¡
> Hoping someone can give me that “ah ha!” moment that I’m so desperately
> craving after pouring over the documentation, mailing lists and various
> forum posts.
Jiff chops a “ah ha!” moment from the (near) field,
cooks it and
Hi!
Hoping someone can give me that “ah ha!” moment that I’m so desperately
craving after pouring over the documentation, mailing lists and various
forum posts.
I want to move from BackupPC’s default schedule to keeping ~1 month’s worth
of backups, but I cannot fathom if I should:
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