Re: [BackupPC-users] Keep backup data when source host/directory changes

2013-03-07 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 10:31 AM, Mark Campbell wrote: > So in other words, you still need a daemon; whether it's rsync directly, or a > cygwin/native ssh daemon running on the client machine that then execute > rsync. Yes, the choice is mostly whether you want generic remote execution capabilit

Re: [BackupPC-users] Keep backup data when source host/directory changes

2013-03-07 Thread John Rouillard
On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 10:10:27AM -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 9:00 AM, John Rouillard > wrote: > > I use cygwin for the sshd/rsync binaries now but I did get it working > > with all native windows versions of tools at one point. > Really? Is there a non-cygwin based rsync

Re: [BackupPC-users] Keep backup data when source host/directory changes

2013-03-07 Thread Mark Campbell
backu...@renesys.com] Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2013 10:01 AM To: General list for user discussion, questions and support Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Keep backup data when source host/directory changes On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 07:40:15AM -0700, Mark Campbell wrote: > >-Original Me

Re: [BackupPC-users] Keep backup data when source host/directory changes

2013-03-07 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 9:00 AM, John Rouillard wrote: > > I use cygwin for the sshd/rsync binaries now but I did get it working > with all native windows versions of tools at one point. Really? Is there a non-cygwin based rsync?We have some windows boxes where the admin has installed freessh

Re: [BackupPC-users] Keep backup data when source host/directory changes

2013-03-07 Thread John Rouillard
On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 07:40:15AM -0700, Mark Campbell wrote: > >-Original Message- > >From: Holger Parplies [mailto:[elided]] > >Mark Campbell wrote on 2013-03-06 07:48:44 -0700 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Keep > >backup data when source host/directory changes]: &

Re: [BackupPC-users] Keep backup data when source host/directory changes

2013-03-07 Thread Mark Campbell
>-Original Message- >From: Holger Parplies [mailto:wb...@parplies.de] >Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2013 9:29 AM >To: General list for user discussion, questions and support >Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Keep backup data when source host/directory >changes > >Hi, &

Re: [BackupPC-users] Keep backup data when source host/directory changes

2013-03-07 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Mark Campbell wrote on 2013-03-06 07:48:44 -0700 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Keep backup data when source host/directory changes]: > I've not personally tried this, so someone else who has can comment on > whether this would work or not, but it seems to me that if you were to > renam

Re: [BackupPC-users] Keep backup data when source host/directory changes

2013-03-06 Thread Trey Dockendorf
so didn't mention what type of host it was, but in the case > > of rsync, this would work for a windows host as well. > > > > Thanks, > > > > --Mark > > > > > > -Original Message----- > > From: Maarten [mailto:m...@milieudefensie.nl] > > Sent

Re: [BackupPC-users] Keep backup data when source host/directory changes

2013-03-06 Thread Arnold Krille
On Wed, 6 Mar 2013 10:10:17 -0600 Les Mikesell wrote: > On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 9:56 AM, Maarten wrote: > >>> > >> Yes - the pool/cpool directory is full of extra hardlinks where the > >> hash of the content is the name to quickly match up new items > >> (plus a little extra work to deal with coll

Re: [BackupPC-users] Keep backup data when source host/directory changes

2013-03-06 Thread Michael Stowe
nal Message- > From: Maarten [mailto:m...@milieudefensie.nl] > Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2013 8:49 AM > To: backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [BackupPC-users] Keep backup data when source host/directory > changes > > Hi, > > I have a problem for which

Re: [BackupPC-users] Keep backup data when source host/directory changes

2013-03-06 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 9:56 AM, Maarten wrote: >>> >> Yes - the pool/cpool directory is full of extra hardlinks where the >> hash of the content is the name to quickly match up new items (plus a >> little extra work to deal with collisions). Rsync just follows the >> existing pc directory tree th

Re: [BackupPC-users] Keep backup data when source host/directory changes

2013-03-06 Thread Maarten
On 03/06/2013 04:46 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 9:28 AM, Maarten wrote: > >> Thanks for the quick response. I assumed that BackupPC was just creating >> hardlinks in the pool for files on the same location. If what you say is >> correct, does that mean it calculates checksums

Re: [BackupPC-users] Keep backup data when source host/directory changes

2013-03-06 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 9:28 AM, Maarten wrote: > >>> So my question is: can anybody think of an elegant way to re-use the >>> > currently backed up data so that I can keep the current backups and not >>> > start from scratch? The not-so-elegant solution that comes to mind is to >>> > rename the ol

Re: [BackupPC-users] Keep backup data when source host/directory changes

2013-03-06 Thread Maarten
Hi, On 03/06/2013 03:46 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: >> So my question is: can anybody think of an elegant way to re-use the >> > currently backed up data so that I can keep the current backups and not >> > start from scratch? The not-so-elegant solution that comes to mind is to >> > rename the old ho

Re: [BackupPC-users] Keep backup data when source host/directory changes

2013-03-06 Thread Mark Campbell
t it was, but in the case of rsync, this would work for a windows host as well. Thanks, --Mark -Original Message- From: Maarten [mailto:m...@milieudefensie.nl] Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2013 8:49 AM To: backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [BackupPC-users] Keep backup d

Re: [BackupPC-users] Keep backup data when source host/directory changes

2013-03-06 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 7:48 AM, Maarten wrote: > I have a problem for which I'm not sure a proper solution exists, but > let me try anyway. > > In my current setup, I have a BackupPC server with about 4.0TB of > storage of which 2.7TB is in use. One host is responsible for most of > the backup da

[BackupPC-users] Keep backup data when source host/directory changes

2013-03-06 Thread Maarten
Hi, I have a problem for which I'm not sure a proper solution exists, but let me try anyway. In my current setup, I have a BackupPC server with about 4.0TB of storage of which 2.7TB is in use. One host is responsible for most of the backup data (~ 1.5TB), and yesterday I migrated this host to a d