Re: [BackupPC-users] Manually deleting a backup

2006-10-21 Thread Toby Johnson
Jono Woodhouse wrote: What is the best way to remove an old backup I don't need? >From memory: 1. Remove the machine entry from your xxx/conf/hosts file (or /etc/BackupPC/hosts file if you did a fresh install of v3.00beta) 2. You can delete the xxx/pc/machine folder - but tha

[BackupPC-users] Manually deleting a backup

2006-10-21 Thread Toby Johnson
What is the best way to remove an old backup I don't need? My backup drive is full and I need to temporarily clear up some space. If I just "rm -rf" the numeric directory containing that backup, will backuppc take care of cleaning everything else up? ---

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsync trying to backup kcore

2006-09-20 Thread Toby Johnson
daniel berteaud wrote: Le Wed, 20 Sep 2006 11:23:41 -0400, Toby Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : You should try this: $Conf{RsyncClientCmd} = '$sshPath -q -C -x -l root -i /path/to/keyfile $host $rsyncPath $argList+'; $Conf{RsyncShareName} = ['

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsync trying to backup kcore

2006-09-20 Thread Toby Johnson
daniel berteaud wrote: Le Wed, 20 Sep 2006 10:43:30 -0400, Toby Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : I am using rsync to backup a server which has a chroot-ed BIND environment. This means that it has a copy of the /proc filesystem under /var/named/chroot, which of

[BackupPC-users] rsync trying to backup kcore

2006-09-20 Thread Toby Johnson
I am using rsync to backup a server which has a chroot-ed BIND environment. This means that it has a copy of the /proc filesystem under /var/named/chroot, which of course includes all sorts of stuff I don't want to backup, including the 256TB "kcore" file. I tried to exclude these using BackupF

[BackupPC-users] multi level incrementals

2006-08-19 Thread Toby Johnson
I'm a bit confused with the description of multi-level incrementals in 3.0.0b1. Does this mean in plain English that incrementals will only backup files that have changed since the previous incremental instead of since the previous full backup? Do these incrementals still appear "filled" when b