Re: [BackupPC-users] FEATURE REQUEST: $Conf{BackupFilesFilter}

2022-01-04 Thread backuppc
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

[BackupPC-users] FEATURE REQUEST: $Conf{BackupFilesFilter}

2022-01-04 Thread
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

[BackupPC-users] FEATURE REQUEST: Add ability to see all file attribs when browsing the web gui

2020-06-30 Thread
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

Re: [BackupPC-users] FEATURE REQUEST: More robust error reporting/emailing

2020-06-25 Thread Daniel Berteaud
- 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

Re: [BackupPC-users] FEATURE REQUEST: More robust error reporting/emailing

2020-06-25 Thread Mike Hughes
Daily report: https://github.com/moisseev/BackupPC_report From: backu...@kosowsky.org Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2020 8:42 AM To: General list for user discussion Subject: [BackupPC-users] FEATURE REQUEST: More robust error reporting/emailing It would be great

[BackupPC-users] FEATURE REQUEST: More robust error reporting/emailing

2020-06-25 Thread
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

Re: [BackupPC-users] FEATURE REQUEST - "lock" designated backups from being deleted...

2019-04-29 Thread backuppc
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

Re: [BackupPC-users] FEATURE REQUEST - "lock" designated backups from being deleted...

2019-04-08 Thread Matthias Meyer
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

[BackupPC-users] FEATURE REQUEST - "lock" designated backups from being deleted...

2019-04-07 Thread backuppc
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

Re: [BackupPC-users] Feature request: Restore Search across all shares/backups

2017-06-15 Thread Craig Barratt via BackupPC-users
> > [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

Re: [BackupPC-users] Feature request: Restore Search across all shares/backups

2017-06-15 Thread Bob Katz
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 >

Re: [BackupPC-users] Feature request: Restore Search across all shares/backups

2017-06-14 Thread Craig Barratt via BackupPC-users
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

Re: [BackupPC-users] Feature request: Restore Search across all shares/backups

2017-06-14 Thread Les Mikesell
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

[BackupPC-users] Feature request: Restore Search across all shares/backups

2017-06-14 Thread Bob Katz
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

Re: [BackupPC-users] Feature request: remote pools (was: Is it possible to split a large pool?)

2015-11-13 Thread Micha Kersloot
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

[BackupPC-users] Feature request: remote pools (was: Is it possible to split a large pool?)

2015-11-12 Thread higuita
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

[BackupPC-users] Feature Request

2014-08-28 Thread Andreas Schnederle-Wagner - Futureweb . at
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

Re: [BackupPC-users] Feature Request

2014-08-28 Thread backuppc
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

Re: [BackupPC-users] Feature Request

2014-08-28 Thread Les Mikesell
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

Re: [BackupPC-users] Feature Request

2014-08-28 Thread Andreas Schnederle-Wagner - Futureweb . at
2014 17:00 An: General list for user discussion, questions and support Betreff: Re: [BackupPC-users] Feature Request 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

Re: [BackupPC-users] Feature Request

2014-08-28 Thread Les Mikesell
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

Re: [BackupPC-users] Feature Request

2014-08-28 Thread backuppc
-Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: backu...@kosowsky.org [mailto:backu...@kosowsky.org] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 28. August 2014 17:00 An: General list for user discussion, questions and support Betreff: Re: [BackupPC-users] Feature Request Andreas Schnederle-Wagner - Futureweb.at wrote at about

Re: [BackupPC-users] Feature Request

2014-08-28 Thread Andreas Schnederle-Wagner - Futureweb . at
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

Re: [BackupPC-users] Feature Request

2014-08-28 Thread Les Mikesell
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

Re: [BackupPC-users] Feature Request

2014-08-28 Thread backuppc
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:

Re: [BackupPC-users] Feature Request

2014-08-28 Thread Les Mikesell
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

Re: [BackupPC-users] Feature request

2011-08-29 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
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

Re: [BackupPC-users] Feature request

2011-08-29 Thread Richard Shaw
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

Re: [BackupPC-users] Feature request

2011-08-26 Thread Brad Alexander
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,

Re: [BackupPC-users] Feature request

2011-08-25 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
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

Re: [BackupPC-users] Feature request

2011-08-25 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
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

Re: [BackupPC-users] Feature request

2011-08-25 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
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

Re: [BackupPC-users] Feature request

2011-08-25 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
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

Re: [BackupPC-users] Feature request

2011-08-25 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
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

Re: [BackupPC-users] Feature request

2011-08-25 Thread Bowie Bailey
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.

Re: [BackupPC-users] Feature request

2011-08-25 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
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

Re: [BackupPC-users] Feature request

2011-08-25 Thread Holger Parplies
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

Re: [BackupPC-users] Feature request

2011-08-25 Thread Adam Goryachev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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

[BackupPC-users] Feature request: log both starts.

2011-08-21 Thread Robin Lee Powell
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

[BackupPC-users] feature request: description for machines, searchable

2011-03-22 Thread Scott
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

Re: [BackupPC-users] feature request: description for machines, searchable

2011-03-22 Thread Les Mikesell
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

[BackupPC-users] Feature request: finish what you're doing and then stop

2010-12-06 Thread Robin Lee Powell
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

Re: [BackupPC-users] Feature request: finish what you're doing and then stop

2010-12-06 Thread Pavel Hofma
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

Re: [BackupPC-users] Feature request: preserve (from deletion) individual backups by number

2009-08-29 Thread Jon Craig
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

Re: [BackupPC-users] Feature request: preserve (from deletion) individual backups by number

2009-08-29 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
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

[BackupPC-users] Feature request: preserve (from deletion) individual backups by number

2009-08-28 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
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

Re: [BackupPC-users] Feature request: preserve (from deletion) individual backups by number

2009-08-28 Thread Steve
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

Re: [BackupPC-users] Feature request: preserve (from deletion) individual backups by number

2009-08-28 Thread Daniel Berteaud
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

Re: [BackupPC-users] Feature request: preserve (from deletion) individual backups by number

2009-08-28 Thread sipa
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

Re: [BackupPC-users] Feature request: preserve (from deletion) individual backups by number

2009-08-28 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
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

Re: [BackupPC-users] Feature request: preserve (from deletion) individual backups by number

2009-08-28 Thread Craig Barratt
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

Re: [BackupPC-users] Feature request: preserve (from deletion) individual backups by number

2009-08-28 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
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

[BackupPC-users] Feature request for 3.2: wait for children to remove zombies

2009-04-09 Thread John Rouillard
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

Re: [BackupPC-users] Feature request for 3.2: wait for children to remove zombies

2009-04-09 Thread Craig Barratt
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 -- This SF.net email is sponsored by: High Quality Requirements in a

Re: [BackupPC-users] Feature request for 3.2: wait for children to remove zombies

2009-04-09 Thread John Rouillard
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. -- -- rouilj John

Re: [BackupPC-users] Feature Request: Link to latest Full

2008-11-07 Thread Rich Rauenzahn
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

Re: [BackupPC-users] Feature Request: Link to latest Full

2008-11-07 Thread Tino Schwarze
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

Re: [BackupPC-users] Feature Request: Link to latest Full

2008-10-28 Thread Adam Goryachev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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

Re: [BackupPC-users] Feature Request: Link to latest Full

2008-10-16 Thread Craig Barratt
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

Re: [BackupPC-users] Feature Request: Link to latest Full

2008-10-16 Thread Yazz D. Atlas
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

Re: [BackupPC-users] Feature Request - longer path name support

2008-10-15 Thread Craig Barratt
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

Re: [BackupPC-users] Feature Request: Link to latest Full

2008-10-14 Thread Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)
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

[BackupPC-users] Feature Request - longer path name support

2008-10-13 Thread Ski Kacoroski
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

[BackupPC-users] Feature Request: Link to latest Full

2008-10-13 Thread Yazz D. Atlas
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

Re: [BackupPC-users] Feature Request: Link to latest Full

2008-10-13 Thread Adam Goryachev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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

[BackupPC-users] Feature request - flush background queue

2008-01-20 Thread Corey Baldwin
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. -- Thank you, Corey Baldwin

Re: [BackupPC-users] Feature request: user-configurable directory exclusion

2007-08-21 Thread Rob Owens
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

Re: [BackupPC-users] Feature request: user-configurable directory exclusion

2007-08-18 Thread Jacob
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:

Re: [BackupPC-users] Feature request: user-configurable directory exclusion

2007-08-18 Thread Tomas Florian
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

[BackupPC-users] Feature request: user-configurable directory exclusion

2007-08-17 Thread Robin Lee Powell
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 --

Re: [BackupPC-users] Feature request: user-configurable directory exclusion

2007-08-17 Thread Jacob
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

Re: [BackupPC-users] Feature request: user-configurable directory exclusion

2007-08-17 Thread Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)
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

[BackupPC-users] feature request

2007-04-20 Thread Simone Marzona
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.

[BackupPC-users] feature request: manual purging

2007-04-06 Thread Adrian Bridgett
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

Re: [BackupPC-users] Feature request for BackupPC: Search backups

2007-03-26 Thread John Buttery
* 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

[BackupPC-users] Feature request for BackupPC: Search backups

2007-03-25 Thread Krsnendu dasa
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. - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join

[BackupPC-users] Feature request - host groups

2006-11-19 Thread Ciarlotta, Aaron
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

[BackupPC-users] Feature request, please.

2006-11-15 Thread JohnY
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