Cool, thanks for the idea Craig. So that will provide a backup of the entire
cpool and associated metadata necessary to rebuild hosts in the event of a site
loss, but what would that process look like?
Say I have the entire ‘/etc/BackupPC’ folder rsynced to an offsite disk. What
would the recov
Hello,
Archive of incremental backups (only delta) has not been discussed in a long
time. One of the proposed option was to create a tarball of pc/host/BackupNum
however this requires some gymnastics to correctly interpret the paths. Has
anyone come up with an elegant solution to this problem?
Hi,
Paul Littlefield wrote on 2018-10-12 12:22:48 + [Re: [BackupPC-users] fatal
error during xfer (tar:632)]:
> On 11/10/2018 23:44, Craig Barratt wrote:
> >[...]
> >What version of tar are you using? Can you run gnu tar instead (that's the
> >default under cygwin)?
> >[...]
>
> $ apt-cach
On 11/10/2018 23:44, Craig Barratt wrote:
Paul,
BackupPC looks at the status / summary messages from tar to determine if the
transfer completed successfully. That means it depends on the type and version
of tar you are using.
It's reporting that the last output line from tar was "632 tar_pr
I am trying to get BackupPC to work on a new machine, new distro
(Fedora28) and am new to BackupPC 4 (but I am an old user with
predecessor versions of BackupPC).
The Fedora package (BackupPC 4.2.1-1.fc28) gives me (in addition to some
simple issues - inadequate file permissions, missing apach
