Ignore my comment about commuting - I think --include and --exclude
may actually commute, not true for more complicated filters though.
"" wrote at about 15:44:40 -0500 on Tuesday, January 4, 2022:
> Creating a $Conf{BackupFilesFilter} hash analogous to
> $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} and
Creating a $Conf{BackupFilesFilter} hash analogous to
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} and $Conf{BackupFilesOnly} would allow for
more general --filter= rules for the popular rsync transport method.
The general --filter= methodoolgy is very powerful and allows for much
more granular and powerful
Currently the web gui shows the type/mode/size/mod-date for backed up
files.
It would be great if there were a way to (optionally) show other
attribs stored in the relevant attrib file, including:
- GID/UID
- xattrs
- ACLs
- digest (md5sum)
- Nlinks
- inode
- compress
This would be more natural
- Le 25 Juin 20, à 15:42, backu...@kosowsky.org a écrit :
>
> Helpful configurable options would include:
> - *Days* since last successful backup - *per host* configurable - as you
> may want to be more paranoid about certain hosts versus others while
> others you may not care if it gets
Daily report:
https://github.com/moisseev/BackupPC_report
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Subject: [BackupPC-users] FEATURE REQUEST: More robust error reporting/emailing
It would be great
It would be great if there could be a way to have a host/share
configurable way to trigger emails based on certain types of errors or
changes.
The goal being to avoid the "complacency" of backups continuing to run
but not being aware of either continuing backup errors or unexpected
changes to the
Matthias Meyer wrote at about 06:41:49 +0200 on Tuesday, April 9, 2019:
> Am Sonntag 07 April 2019, 17:11:47 schrieb backu...@kosowsky.org:
> > Sometimes you want to save a special backup that for example
> > corresponds to a specific change (pre/post) on your system. The
> > trouble is that
Am Sonntag 07 April 2019, 17:11:47 schrieb backu...@kosowsky.org:
> Sometimes you want to save a special backup that for example
> corresponds to a specific change (pre/post) on your system. The
> trouble is that with exponential deleting there is no way to
> guarantee that your specific
Sometimes you want to save a special backup that for example
corresponds to a specific change (pre/post) on your system. The
trouble is that with exponential deleting there is no way to
guarantee that your specific designated backup won't be deleted
automatically later on.
In the past, I have
>
> [backuppc@localhost bin]$ ./BackupPC_zcat /Bobby/pc/*/XferLOG.*.z | egrep
> *headphone*
>
> The output of this command is instantaneous! So the search from the CLI
> is very powerful and VERY fast. The problem is that the results do not
> tell which backup has the resulting file, the backup
On Wed, 2017-06-14 at 21:27 -0700, Craig Barratt wrote:
> Les is right for 3.x.
>
> For 4.x the files are not stored in the backup tree. So you'll need
> to use BackupPC_ls -R, or you could also grep the XferLOG.nnn.z files
> (although the format and what appears or not depends on the
>
Les is right for 3.x.
For 4.x the files are not stored in the backup tree. So you'll need to use
BackupPC_ls -R, or you could also grep the XferLOG.nnn.z files (although
the format and what appears or not depends on the XferMethod).
Examples:
BackupPC_ls -R -h HOST -n NUM -s SHARE / | egrep
On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 8:59 AM, Bob Katz wrote:
> Is it possible to design a search tool that will look for the occurrence of
> a string in the file name across all shares/backups?
>
> It should come up with any versions of the file, last modified date, etc.
> and what backup
Is it possible to design a search tool that will look for the occurrence
of a string in the file name across all shares/backups?
It should come up with any versions of the file, last modified date,
etc. and what backup it is stored in. Ideally it should allow the user
to navigate to the file
Hi,
- Original Message -
> From: "higuita" <higu...@gmx.net>
> To: "Russell Poyner" <russell.poy...@wisc.edu>
> Cc: backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> Sent: Friday, November 13, 2015 1:03:11 AM
> Subject: [BackupPC-users] Feature request
Hi
On Tue, 10 Nov 2015 10:21:18 -0600, Russell Poyner
wrote:
> I have a single BackupPC 3.3 backing up 110 machines. We are in the
> process of getting a second server and I'm wondering if it's possible
> to split the pool to move machines to the new server without
Hello,
is it possible to have variable substitution at run-time for RsyncShareName?
Following Scenario:
- Server Directory Structure
o /ctDIR1
o /ctDIR2
o /ctDIR3
o ...
- Within /etc/hosts we have:
o *IP-1* ctdir1
o *IP-1* ctdir2
o
Andreas Schnederle-Wagner - Futureweb.at wrote at about 14:31:49 + on
Thursday, August 28, 2014:
Hello,
is it possible to have variable substitution at run-time for
“RsyncShareName“?
Following Scenario:
- Server Directory Structure
o
On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 9:59 AM, backu...@kosowsky.org wrote:
While it's not clear to me what you are actually trying to do, there
is a *lot* that you can do short of patching the Rsync.pm file.
- You can have separate config files per host
- You can put arbitrary executable Perl code
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Andreas Schnederle-Wagner - Futureweb.at wrote at about 14:31:49 + on
Thursday, August 28, 2014:
Hello,
is it possible to have variable substitution at run-time
On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 10:41 AM, Andreas Schnederle-Wagner -
Futureweb.at schnede...@futureweb.at wrote:
The Reason we did this ist o avoid custom Config Files for each Host.
We only need to create the Host with name 'ctDIR8' and everything works like
a charm ... so only thehosts file needs
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Andreas Schnederle-Wagner - Futureweb.at wrote at about
Andreas Schnederle-Wagner - Futureweb.at wrote at about 15:41:11 + on
Thursday, August 28, 2014:
The Reason we did this ist o avoid custom Config Files for each Host.
We only need to create the Host with name 'ctDIR8' and everything works
like a charm ... so only thehosts file
On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 12:18 PM, Andreas Schnederle-Wagner -
Futureweb.at schnede...@futureweb.at wrote:
Andreas Schnederle-Wagner - Futureweb.at wrote at about 15:41:11 + on
Thursday, August 28, 2014:
The Reason we did this ist o avoid custom Config Files for each Host.
We only
Les Mikesell wrote at about 13:53:04 -0500 on Thursday, August 28, 2014:
On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 12:18 PM, Andreas Schnederle-Wagner -
Futureweb.at schnede...@futureweb.at wrote:
Andreas Schnederle-Wagner - Futureweb.at wrote at about 15:41:11 + on
Thursday, August 28, 2014:
On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 3:49 PM, backu...@kosowsky.org wrote:
Aren't $client and $host set by the time you need them (as documented
to be used in $Conf(RsyncArgs}, $conf{DumpPreUserCmd}, etc.)?
You are correct that at the time the config file is sourced, the
variable $host (not
On 08/26 03:40 , Holger Parplies wrote:
Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote on 2011-08-25 13:40:47 -0500 [Re:
[BackupPC-users] Feature request]:
I might suggest 'root' instead of 'full' or '/'; because a restore starting
(I'm always confused by your usage of ; ...)
Heh. Sometimes I
Ok, jumping in here a bit late :)
Would it be easy to add a field in the GUI for this?
Something like:
Archive Name $host-$backup-date...
I'm making up the variable names but use the ones already available
and set the default to the current default. That way people could use
whatever
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 2:40 PM, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
chr...@real-time.com wrote:
The suggestion of not using a sharename for restores starting from the
root;
perhaps could be restated as something like '/' characters shall be
converted to '_' characters except for the leftmost one,
On 08/25 07:50 , Brad Alexander wrote:
Really a small thing, but when doing a restore, and you save as a .zip or
.tar, instead of defaulting to a generic and non-descriptive filename of
restore.{tar|zip}, how about something more descriptive, such as
hostname-filesystem-date.{tar|zip}?
I
Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote at about 07:51:10 -0500 on Thursday, August 25,
2011:
On 08/25 07:50 , Brad Alexander wrote:
Really a small thing, but when doing a restore, and you save as a .zip or
.tar, instead of defaulting to a generic and non-descriptive filename of
On 08/25 09:23 , Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
I would make it consistent with the heirarchy:
hostname-backup#-share
I'm not sure what date adds since the date is irrelevant unless you
are referring to the date of the snapshot in which case it would be an
alternative to backup#.
I would prefer
Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote at about 08:31:01 -0500 on Thursday, August 25,
2011:
On 08/25 09:23 , Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
I would make it consistent with the heirarchy:
hostname-backup#-share
I'm not sure what date adds since the date is irrelevant unless you
are referring to
On 08/25 10:45 , Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote at about 08:31:01 -0500 on Thursday, August 25,
2011:
On 08/25 09:23 , Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
I would make it consistent with the heirarchy:
hostname-backup#-share
I'm not sure what date adds since the
On 8/25/2011 2:22 PM, Brad Alexander wrote:
You could substitute Full for a root-level restore... So it could be
hostname_20110824_Full.tar or hostname_20110824_etc_home.zip (assuming
the restore is /etc and /home)...The only problem with that is the
name can get long and tedious.
On 08/25 02:22 , Brad Alexander wrote:
You could substitute Full for a root-level restore... So it could be
sounds reasonable.
I might suggest 'root' instead of 'full' or '/'; because a restore starting
at / is not necessarily a restore of everything. However, 'root' has its own
problems in that
Hi,
first of all, it seems to be *possible* to implement [without major code
changes], in case anyone except me was wondering ;-).
Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote on 2011-08-25 13:40:47 -0500 [Re:
[BackupPC-users] Feature request]:
On 08/25 02:22 , Brad Alexander wrote:
You could substitute
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On 26/08/11 11:40, Holger Parplies wrote:
For what I think you have in mind I would always use a BackupPC_tarCreate
invocation.
Of course, your preferences may vary. There might be situations where
downloading an archive type tar file via HTTP
We use dumpPreUserCmd to run database dumps, then backup the
resulting files. Some of these dumps take a *really* long time.
The annoying part is that the logs don't show the *actual* start
time of the backups (that is, the time when the dumpPreUserCmd is
started), they only show the start of
If there is a different place to submit features, I apologize.
It would be great if there were a field for machine description - for
example for location or similar.
Most of the machines I deal with are 'tagged' with a number. We usually
name the machine with this number, so in backuppc I see
On 3/22/11 7:10 AM, Scott wrote:
If there is a different place to submit features, I apologize.
It would be great if there were a field for machine description - for example
for location or similar.
Most of the machines I deal with are 'tagged' with a number. We usually name
the machine
It would be really nice to be able to tell the backuppc server to
finish all current backups without queuing any others, and then
stop/exit completely.
I know I can sort-of do this by disabling backups for each host, but
that's a really big pain, and from the reading of the queuing system
I did
Dne 6.12.2010 20:02, Robin Lee Powell napsal(a):
It would be really nice to be able to tell the backuppc server to
finish all current backups without queuing any others, and then
stop/exit completely.
I know I can sort-of do this by disabling backups for each host, but
that's a really big
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 2:39 PM, Jeffrey J.
Kosowskybacku...@kosowsky.org wrote:
Craig Barratt wrote at about 10:48:25 -0700 on Friday, August 28, 2009:
Perhaps an interesting alternative way to do this without having to go
into the config file (and in a way similar to what a previous
Jon Craig wrote at about 18:36:01 -0400 on Saturday, August 29, 2009:
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 2:39 PM, Jeffrey J.
Kosowskybacku...@kosowsky.org wrote:
Craig Barratt wrote at about 10:48:25 -0700 on Friday, August 28, 2009:
Perhaps an interesting alternative way to do this without
In general, using FullKeepCnt and IncrKeepCnt (and associated
variables) works well to prune older backups.
But sometimes there is a *specific* older backup that you want to hang
onto because it has some crucial data (or is a 'better' snapshot). It
would be great if you could tell BackupPC to
I like it...
steve
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 11:47 AM, Jeffrey J.
Kosowskybacku...@kosowsky.org wrote:
In general, using FullKeepCnt and IncrKeepCnt (and associated
variables) works well to prune older backups.
But sometimes there is a *specific* older backup that you want to hang
onto because
Le vendredi 28 août 2009 à 11:47 -0400, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky a écrit :
In general, using FullKeepCnt and IncrKeepCnt (and associated
variables) works well to prune older backups.
But sometimes there is a *specific* older backup that you want to hang
onto because it has some crucial data (or
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 11:47:41AM -0400, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
In general, using FullKeepCnt and IncrKeepCnt (and associated
variables) works well to prune older backups.
But sometimes there is a *specific* older backup that you want to hang
onto because it has some crucial data (or is
s...@users.sourceforge.net wrote at about 18:27:31 +0200 on Friday, August 28,
2009:
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 11:47:41AM -0400, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
In general, using FullKeepCnt and IncrKeepCnt (and associated
variables) works well to prune older backups.
But sometimes there
Jeffrey writes:
In general, using FullKeepCnt and IncrKeepCnt (and associated
variables) works well to prune older backups.
But sometimes there is a *specific* older backup that you want to hang
onto because it has some crucial data (or is a 'better' snapshot). It
would be great if you
Craig Barratt wrote at about 10:48:25 -0700 on Friday, August 28, 2009:
Jeffrey writes:
In general, using FullKeepCnt and IncrKeepCnt (and associated
variables) works well to prune older backups.
But sometimes there is a *specific* older backup that you want to hang
onto
Hi all:
For the upcoming 3.2 release is anything being down to reap zombie
processes?
Currently if you have multiple shares being backed up on a single
host, a share is backed up and the child process is just abandoned as
far as I can tell. This leads to a bunch of zombies being generated.
They
John,
It's still on my todo list - I didn't get around to it for 3.2.0beta0.
I'll see if I can get it in before the final 3.2.0 release.
Craig
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On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 01:57:18PM -0700, Craig Barratt wrote:
John,
It's still on my todo list - I didn't get around to it for 3.2.0beta0.
I'll see if I can get it in before the final 3.2.0 release.
Thanks.
I would really appreciate it.
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John
Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) wrote:
If you want to send an archive of a backup to tape that you can
restore (without BackupPC), check out 'Archive Functions' in the
BackupPC documentation:
http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html#archive_functions
Nils Breunese.
I've always
On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 03:16:23PM -0800, Rich Rauenzahn wrote:
If you want to send an archive of a backup to tape that you can
restore (without BackupPC), check out 'Archive Functions' in the
BackupPC documentation:
http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html#archive_functions
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Yazz D. Atlas wrote:
How difficult would it be to have BackupPC create a link to the last
Full backup. The reason this would be handy to me is I'm required to
backup to tape to a system I don't have much control over. I just want
to tell the
Yazz writes:
I may be able to just do it with $DumpPostUserCmd but I haven't tested
that yet. I just think it would be nicer to have it as a built in option.
/bin/ln -sf $topDir/pc/$host/$(/bin/cat $topDir/pc/$host/backups \
| /bin/grep full | /bin/sort -n | /usr/bin/tail -1 \
| /bin/awk
My solution for the moment is to do the following:
--- DumpPostUserCmd ---
/usr/local/bin/link-full-backup.sh $host
--- end ---
--- file named link-full-backup.sh ---
#!/bin/bash
HOST=${1}
TOPDIR=/array/backuppc-01/pc
if [ -d ${TOPDIR}/${HOST} ] ; then
cd ${TOPDIR}/${HOST}
ln -sfT $(cat
Ski writes:
Running Backuppc 2.1.2 on a debian linux server and backing up a linux
machine, I ran into a problem backing up a file where the entire path
length was 318 characters. Once I shrunk the path length it worked
perfectly. Has this been fixed in version 3.1? If not, could you add
Yazz D. Atlas wrote:
How difficult would it be to have BackupPC create a link to the last
Full backup. The reason this would be handy to me is I'm required to
backup to tape to a system I don't have much control over. I just want
to tell the backup service a simple directorie to grab. I would
Hi,
Running Backuppc 2.1.2 on a debian linux server and backing up a linux
machine, I ran into a problem backing up a file where the entire path
length was 318 characters. Once I shrunk the path length it worked
perfectly. Has this been fixed in version 3.1? If not, could you add
this to
How difficult would it be to have BackupPC create a link to the last
Full backup. The reason this would be handy to me is I'm required to
backup to tape to a system I don't have much control over. I just want
to tell the backup service a simple directorie to grab. I would like to
be able to tell
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Yazz D. Atlas wrote:
How difficult would it be to have BackupPC create a link to the last
Full backup. The reason this would be handy to me is I'm required to
backup to tape to a system I don't have much control over. I just want
to tell the
I'd love to be able to flush the background queue without restarting
BackupPC. When I need to restore files, I usually need to do it NOW and
when a full load of backups are running, the server is usually running
pretty hard.
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For my backups of /home I always exclude '/*/tmp/' and tell my users
that anything they don't want backed up should go in /home/username/tmp
Rsync will exclude /home/username/tmp and any files or directories
contained in /home/username/tmp
-Rob
Robin Lee Powell wrote:
A feature I'd really
On Sat, 18 Aug 2007 04:38:42 +0200
Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jacob wrote:
On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 11:12:55 -0700
Robin Lee Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A feature I'd really like, and would be willing to give gifts in
return for, would be something like this:
Sending the files or directories individually would be a great feature
in itself. I have had so many problems with rsync and tar running out
of resources because of the cumulative share size being too large.
Sending the sub-directories individually would solve that headache ... +
having the
A feature I'd really like, and would be willing to give gifts in
return for, would be something like this:
User touches a file named .donotbackup in a directory. Backuppc
notices this and does not backup that directory. The sysadmin
doesn't have to alter the system include list.
-Robin
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On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 11:12:55 -0700
Robin Lee Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A feature I'd really like, and would be willing to give gifts in
return for, would be something like this:
User touches a file named .donotbackup in a directory. Backuppc
notices this and does not backup that
Jacob wrote:
On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 11:12:55 -0700
Robin Lee Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A feature I'd really like, and would be willing to give gifts in
return for, would be something like this:
User touches a file named .donotbackup in a directory. Backuppc
notices this and does not
Hi all
I got a feature request that I would submit.
I think that could be interesting the possibility to spool remotely some
backup of some host.
I'm thinking of something as a property of a backup to be sent through
ssh (scp or rsync) to another instance backuppc somewhere in a remote
place.
Hi guys and I'll start with a big thank you for BackupPC - it's really
nice to see such an easy to admin backup program :-)
One thing I'd love is a way to purge old directories _now_. I have
some cron scripts to remove some files before others (some files I want
for a long time, but others I
* On Sunday 25 March 2007 15:18, Krsnendu dasa [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
It is hard to find files in the backups by browsing. If there were a
search feature that allowed you to search one or more computers
backups that would be great.
I know this isn't a real solution per se, but if you're in a
It is hard to find files in the backups by browsing. If there were a
search feature that allowed you to search one or more computers
backups that would be great.
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I've found BackupPC so useful, that I already have over 30 hosts (Linux,
AIX, F5's, Windows) configured. Unfortunately, the Host Summary page
has become quite large.
It would be a really nice feature to have a config option that allows
you to group hosts together. For the different groups, it
I'm using BackupPC at multiple locations to backup mostly windows xp workstations. Works great!A couple of things would make it work better:1. Put the
$Conf{ServerHost} name in the title bar and/or page headings and/or Server navigation panel of every cgi page.2. Add a Logout option to the Server
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