Re: [BackupPC-users] Two different backups?

2025-02-10 Thread Matthias--- via BackupPC-users
You could use DumpPreShareCmd/DumpPostShareCmd to call a script on your desktop machine which mount and umount the unused partition and than backup all partitions in one host. You only need different rsyncd.conf in BSD and Devuan to have mountpoints of the BSD and Devuan partition always on the s

Re: [BackupPC-users] Two different backups?

2025-02-10 Thread Paul Fox
Oh -- I should add that I was backing up two different hostnames to the same backuppc pool. Your solution would be different, but could use the same techniques. paul I wrote: > I've done something similar in the past, on a machine that had an > encrypted home directory. It also lived on eithe

Re: [BackupPC-users] Two different backups?

2025-02-10 Thread Paul Fox
>Then the part to contend with is updating the "ping" script to return >positively only when the expected OS for the respective host names is >running. I've done something similar in the past, on a machine that had an encrypted home directory. It also lived on either wired or wirel

Re: [BackupPC-users] Two different backups?

2025-02-10 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2025-02-10 12:17, Brad Alexander wrote: Okay, I admit up front this is going to be a strange one... Is there a way to set up two separate backups on the same host that run _exclusively_ of each other? My desktop machine is dual boot, with FreeBSD and Devuan linux. It spends most of it's

[BackupPC-users] Two different backups?

2025-02-10 Thread Brad Alexander
Okay, I admit up front this is going to be a strange one... Is there a way to set up two separate backups on the same host that run *exclusively* of each other? My desktop machine is dual boot, with FreeBSD and Devuan linux. It spends most of it's time in FreeBSD, and that is being backed up, how