Re: [BackupPC-users] Exclusion not working with rsync

2011-11-17 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 12:08:23AM +0100, Holger Parplies wrote: Actually, it's $Conf {BackupFilesExclude} = { '/home' = [ '/steve/Packages' ] }; presuming you *only* want to exclude /home/steve/Packages and not [...] Thanks -- that is indeed what I wanted. -Steve

Re: [BackupPC-users] How to choose files to backup?

2011-10-30 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 12:03:52AM -0500, John Smith wrote: I have Backuppc running on Debian Lenny. I can see that backuppc is backing up /etc to /var/lib/backuppc but where in the configuration is /etc set as the directory to be backed up? The configuration is all in /etc/backuppc. You

[BackupPC-users] File Counts do not add up

2011-10-29 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Hi, I'm puzzled by the File Size/Count Reuse Summary section of the web interface. This table includes Total Number of Files, Number of Existing Files, and Number of New Files. I had expected the first to be the sum of the second two, but that's not the case. The sum of Existing and New files

Re: [BackupPC-users] Exclusion not working with rsync

2011-10-27 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 07:49:48PM -0500, Steve M. Robbins wrote: I'm backing up my local machine using rsync; see configuration below. Despite the exclusion, I still get /home/steve/Packages in my backup. I tried also '/home/steve/Packages/*' with the same result. What's the magic? Well

[BackupPC-users] Exclusion not working with rsync

2011-10-26 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Hi, I'm backing up my local machine using rsync; see configuration below. Despite the exclusion, I still get /home/steve/Packages in my backup. I tried also '/home/steve/Packages/*' with the same result. What's the magic? # # Local server backup of /etc as user backuppc # $Conf{XferMethod} =

Re: [BackupPC-users] Unattended off-site replication

2011-10-25 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 11:21:26PM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 10:19 PM, Steve M. Robbins st...@sumost.ca wrote: I know many people have discussed how to achive an offsite archive of backuppc pool.  During a discussion last February [1], Timothy Massey [2

[BackupPC-users] Unattended off-site replication

2011-10-24 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Hi, I know many people have discussed how to achive an offsite archive of backuppc pool. During a discussion last February [1], Timothy Massey [2] and Jeffrey Kosowsky [3] summarized the options as follows: 1) Run two BackupPC servers and have both back up the hosts directly. No