Re: [BackupPC-users] Switching from gzip to bzip2

2009-08-12 Thread Nate T
save any disk space possible since it's still not taxing the processors. Nate On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 1:07 PM, Filipe Brandenburger wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 08:36, Nate T wrote: > > Will switching from gzip to bzip2 do bad things to the existing cpool? > > I

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup local machine?

2009-08-11 Thread Nate T
One way is to override the RsyncClientPath in the local system's config to trim out the ssh component. Nate On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 4:01 PM, bubbagump wrote: > > How do I do a simple backup of the local machine? I want to bypass SSH > completely and just use rsync. Any ideas? > > +

[BackupPC-users] Switching from gzip to bzip2

2009-08-08 Thread Nate T
Will switching from gzip to bzip2 do bad things to the existing cpool? After implementing my first BackupPC system, it's evident that I have plenty of CPU to spare and the compression benefits of bzip2 would be nice, but existing backups should be retained. Also, will the BackupPC_zcat utility stil