Re: [BackupPC-users] Config example for backing up linux host, local disk drive

2015-03-16 Thread Les Mikesell
On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 12:06 PM, Philip Prindeville wrote: > > > The drive is a WD 3 TB USB 3.0 drive formatted as ext4 in a single partition > (sdc1) and it is mounted (via /etc/fstab) at boot time. It isn’t intended > for any other purpose but backups. > > I’d like to do regular backups, wit

Re: [BackupPC-users] Config example for backing up linux host, local disk drive

2015-03-16 Thread Philip Prindeville
On Mar 15, 2015, at 3:21 PM, Holger Parplies wrote: > Hi, > > Philip Prindeville wrote on 2015-03-10 16:49:30 -0600 [[BackupPC-users] > Config example for backing up linux host, local disk drive]: >> [...] >> I have a Linux desktop box with a WD USB 3.0 external driv

Re: [BackupPC-users] Config example for backing up linux host, local disk drive

2015-03-15 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Philip Prindeville wrote on 2015-03-10 16:49:30 -0600 [[BackupPC-users] Config example for backing up linux host, local disk drive]: > [...] > I have a Linux desktop box with a WD USB 3.0 external drive which I want to > use for backups. this is all you give us, and you expect m

Re: [BackupPC-users] Config example for backing up linux host, local disk drive

2015-03-12 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 12:30 PM, Philip Prindeville wrote: > >> >> But, note that while backuppc will give you a nice method to restore >> older versions of a few files or directories, and it can store more >> copies in less space than about anything else, it won't be a great way >> to restore th

Re: [BackupPC-users] Config example for backing up linux host, local disk drive

2015-03-12 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 11:01 AM, Philip Prindeville wrote: > > No, I’m saying I want to back up things like /var/spool/imap and /home to a > local disk which happens to be externally mounted. > I don't consider a copy stored on the same host where a simple hardware, software or operator error c

Re: [BackupPC-users] Config example for backing up linux host, local disk drive

2015-03-12 Thread Philip Prindeville
On Mar 11, 2015, at 6:23 AM, Richard Zimmerman wrote: > -Original Message- > From: Philip Prindeville [mailto:philipp_s...@redfish-solutions.com] > Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2015 6:50 PM > To: BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [BackupPC-users] Config exam

Re: [BackupPC-users] Config example for backing up linux host, local disk drive

2015-03-11 Thread Philip Prindeville
On 03/11/2015 11:05 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 11:01 AM, Philip Prindeville > wrote: >> No, I’m saying I want to back up things like /var/spool/imap and /home to a >> local disk which happens to be externally mounted. >> > I don't consider a copy stored on the same host w

Re: [BackupPC-users] Config example for backing up linux host, local disk drive

2015-03-11 Thread Richard Zimmerman
-Original Message- From: Philip Prindeville [mailto:philipp_s...@redfish-solutions.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2015 6:50 PM To: BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [BackupPC-users] Config example for backing up linux host, local disk drive Hi. I have a Linux desktop box

Re: [BackupPC-users] Config example for backing up linux host, local disk drive

2015-03-10 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 7:59 PM, Philip Prindeville wrote: > Sure, but what else needs to be set? > > Was hoping for some canned config examples since there are so many > parameters... > My usual approach is to mount the volume where the backuppc package for the linux distribution expects it befo

Re: [BackupPC-users] Config example for backing up linux host, local disk drive

2015-03-10 Thread Philip Prindeville
Sure, but what else needs to be set? Was hoping for some canned config examples since there are so many parameters... On 03/10/2015 05:25 PM, Kris Lou wrote: Destination path? TopDir. From the web GUI: Edit Config -> Server -> Install Path -> TopDir From theconfig.pl

Re: [BackupPC-users] Config example for backing up linux host, local disk drive

2015-03-10 Thread Kris Lou
Destination path? TopDir. From the web GUI: Edit Config -> Server -> Install Path -> TopDir From the config.pl file: $Conf{TopDir} = '/path/to/location'; Kris Lou k...@themusiclink.net On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 3:49 PM, Philip Prindeville < philipp_s...@redfish-solutions.com> wrote: > Hi.

[BackupPC-users] Config example for backing up linux host, local disk drive

2015-03-10 Thread Philip Prindeville
Hi. I have a Linux desktop box with a WD USB 3.0 external drive which I want to use for backups. I was looking through the configuration documentation and while there’s a lot of it, I thought there would be an example of something trivial but there wasn’t. I have the drive locally attached an