Re: [BackupPC-users] Double-checking something: cpool and links.

2011-01-04 Thread Denis Jedig
Am 04.01.2011 19:05, schrieb Robin Lee Powell: > should always return nothing, and that I can freely delete anything > it *does* find? Yes. However, running BackupPC_nightly 0 255 should - among other tasks like ageing out old backups - do the same job for you. If you have a lot of files with

Re: [BackupPC-users] NTFS symbolic links

2011-01-01 Thread Denis Jedig
Am 01.01.2011 21:59, schrieb Erik Hjertén: > Thanks Denis, but I actually mean symbolic links under NTFS > create with e.g "mklink [[/D] | [/H] | [/J]] link target" > [...] > Just excluding the links is not the best solution as I really > want to back them up, I have a few thousand of them so it's

Re: [BackupPC-users] uncompress pool

2011-01-01 Thread Denis Jedig
Cheers Jeffrey, Am 30.12.2010 20:04, schrieb Jeffrey J. Kosowsky: > Denis Jedig wrote at about 20:57:16 +0100 on Sunday, December 26, 2010: > >> I am looking for a way of converting a compressed pool (cpool) to >> an uncompressed pool (pool). > > Conceptually, I don&

Re: [BackupPC-users] NTFS symbolic links

2011-01-01 Thread Denis Jedig
Am 01.01.2011 20:46, schrieb Erik Hjertén: > I'm using BackupPC to backup a windows Vista computer. I use some > NTFS symbolic links on it What you mean is probably not symbolic links but NTFS junctions, which behave more like UNIX hard links. I believe none of the current rsyncd versions will

[BackupPC-users] uncompress pool

2010-12-26 Thread Denis Jedig
features (we have some database backups which tend to grow and produce different files with mostly the same content at each backup) of the underlying file system (zfs), which will not perform well on compressed files. Any ideas? Regards, Denis Jedig