Re: [BackupPC-users] Automated regular archive of latest full backup

2015-12-03 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 12/03 11:20 , martin f krafft wrote: > before I hack this up myself, I wanted to ask if someone already has > a solution I could possible reuse. Not exactly, but if you want to continue with this course, I do have a script which may serve as a starting point. This started life as a script to wr

Re: [BackupPC-users] Automated regular archive of latest full backup

2015-12-03 Thread Hanspeter Kunz
On Thu, 2015-12-03 at 23:15 +1300, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Hanspeter Kunz [2015-12-03 21:42 > +1300]: > > In my opinion, a clean, easy and efficient way to have a BackupPC > > mirror is to use some disk-mirroring as drbd. with this you can > > avoid > > to run backups twice on the cli

Re: [BackupPC-users] Automated regular archive of latest full backup

2015-12-03 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Hanspeter Kunz [2015-12-03 21:42 +1300]: > In my opinion, a clean, easy and efficient way to have a BackupPC > mirror is to use some disk-mirroring as drbd. with this you can avoid > to run backups twice on the clients (one for master backup, another one > for the secondary backup). of

Re: [BackupPC-users] Automated regular archive of latest full backup

2015-12-03 Thread Hanspeter Kunz
On Thu, 2015-12-03 at 15:47 +1300, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Les Mikesell [2015-12-03 13:29 > +1300]: > > I think you are missing the point of the way backuppc stores data - > > No no, I know. But e.g. on a mail server, mails get deleted and new > mails arrive, and the backup is ever-i

Re: [BackupPC-users] Automated regular archive of latest full backup

2015-12-02 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Les Mikesell [2015-12-03 13:29 +1300]: > I think you are missing the point of the way backuppc stores data - No no, I know. But e.g. on a mail server, mails get deleted and new mails arrive, and the backup is ever-increasing. Or log files… > Also, if it mattered you would not need to

Re: [BackupPC-users] Automated regular archive of latest full backup

2015-12-02 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 5:20 PM, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Les Mikesell [2015-12-03 12:08 +1300]: >> However, you might want to consider running an offsite instance of >> backuppc to back up the same targets directly, using a vpn for the >> connection if necessary. Both the storage and

Re: [BackupPC-users] Automated regular archive of latest full backup

2015-12-02 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Les Mikesell [2015-12-03 12:08 +1300]: > However, you might want to consider running an offsite instance of > backuppc to back up the same targets directly, using a vpn for the > connection if necessary. Both the storage and transfer would be > much more efficient that way. Hm, inter

Re: [BackupPC-users] Automated regular archive of latest full backup

2015-12-02 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 5:05 PM, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Timothy J Massey [2015-12-03 11:59 +1300]: >> Others use BackupPC_tarCreate by hand. > > What's the difference between that and BackupPC_archiveHost anyway? > The archive host concept basically gives you a web interface to trig

Re: [BackupPC-users] Automated regular archive of latest full backup

2015-12-02 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 4:20 PM, martin f krafft wrote: > Hello, > > before I hack this up myself, I wanted to ask if someone already has > a solution I could possible reuse. > > I am looking for a way to automate sending an archive (tarball) of > the latest backup of each of my hosts to an offsite

Re: [BackupPC-users] Automated regular archive of latest full backup

2015-12-02 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Timothy J Massey [2015-12-03 11:59 +1300]: > Others use BackupPC_tarCreate by hand. What's the difference between that and BackupPC_archiveHost anyway? -- @martinkrafft | http://madduck.net/ | http://two.sentenc.es/ "politics is the entertainment branch of industry."

Re: [BackupPC-users] Automated regular archive of latest full backup

2015-12-02 Thread Timothy J Massey
martin f krafft wrote on 12/02/2015 05:20:31 PM: > I am looking for a way to automate sending an archive (tarball) of > the latest backup of each of my hosts to an offsite machine, using > scp and GnuPG for encryption. Can this be done within BackupPC and > scheduled regularly, or is this a cronj

[BackupPC-users] Automated regular archive of latest full backup

2015-12-02 Thread martin f krafft
Hello, before I hack this up myself, I wanted to ask if someone already has a solution I could possible reuse. I am looking for a way to automate sending an archive (tarball) of the latest backup of each of my hosts to an offsite machine, using scp and GnuPG for encryption. Can this be done withi