Re: [BackupPC-users] Recommend add to manual

2017-05-15 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Kenneth Porter wrote on 2017-05-14 18:37:53 -0700 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Recommend add to manual]: > [...] > What if you have TWO drives you want to mount to /var/lib/backuppc? With > BackupPC 4, it's not unreasonable to swap your backup media every week > to an offsite lo

Re: [BackupPC-users] Recommend add to manual

2017-05-14 Thread Bob Katz
On Sun, May 14, 2017 at 9:37 PM, Kenneth Porter wrote: > > What if you have TWO drives you want to mount to /var/lib/backuppc? With > BackupPC 4, it's not unreasonable to swap your backup media every week > to an offsite location. > Is there a way to configure alternation between the two backu

Re: [BackupPC-users] Recommend add to manual

2017-05-14 Thread Kenneth Porter
On 5/14/2017 6:55 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > I always thought the best approach was to mount your media in the > place where backuppc expects it_before_ installing the package so > that ownership and selinux contexts are set correctly during the > package install. Does that work through symlinks?

Re: [BackupPC-users] Recommend add to manual

2017-05-14 Thread Robert Katz
On Sun, May 14, 2017 11:10 am, Richard Shaw wrote: > > I think if you installed the package, mounted the volume and then ran > restorecon -r /var/lib/backuppc would have the same effect. > > Thanks, > Richard > > Not being familiar with the command restorecon and being a linux baby I just bit th

Re: [BackupPC-users] Recommend add to manual

2017-05-14 Thread Richard Shaw
On Sun, May 14, 2017 at 8:55 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Sun, May 14, 2017 at 7:26 AM, Robert Katz wrote: > > Hi guys. I was about to bind a second mount for my convenience in fstab > > for topdir. I then read man bind and learned about the danger of using > > bind because backup programs that

Re: [BackupPC-users] Recommend add to manual

2017-05-14 Thread Les Mikesell
On Sun, May 14, 2017 at 7:26 AM, Robert Katz wrote: > Hi guys. I was about to bind a second mount for my convenience in fstab > for topdir. I then read man bind and learned about the danger of using > bind because backup programs that access directories by name would > therefore backup the same ma

[BackupPC-users] Recommend add to manual

2017-05-14 Thread Robert Katz
Hi guys. I was about to bind a second mount for my convenience in fstab for topdir. I then read man bind and learned about the danger of using bind because backup programs that access directories by name would therefore backup the same material twice! Unless you put an exclude in the rsync directiv