Re: [BackupPC-users] Scheduling archiving host

2009-06-18 Thread Adam Goryachev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Boniforti Flavio wrote: >> BackupPC_tarCreate will give you a tar archive on stdout. If >> you want it compressed, you have to pipe through gzip. If >> you want that saved to a file you have to supply the shell >> redirection at the end of the piplel

Re: [BackupPC-users] Scheduling archiving host

2009-06-15 Thread Adam Goryachev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Boniforti Flavio wrote: >> BackupPC_tarCreate will give you a tar archive on stdout. If >> you want it compressed, you have to pipe through gzip. If >> you want that saved to a file you have to supply the shell >> redirection at the end of the piplel

Re: [BackupPC-users] Scheduling archiving host

2009-06-15 Thread Boniforti Flavio
> BackupPC_tarCreate will give you a tar archive on stdout. If > you want it compressed, you have to pipe through gzip. If > you want that saved to a file you have to supply the shell > redirection at the end of the pipleline and an appropriate > path/filename. But basically you can do anyt

Re: [BackupPC-users] Scheduling archiving host

2009-06-15 Thread Les Mikesell
Boniforti Flavio wrote: >>> >>> /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_tarCreate -h polti -n -1 /mnt/USB >> You need to provide the -s argument, and the last argument is >> a filter to select which files/directories you want to >> include in the output. >> The output is written to stdout, so unless y

Re: [BackupPC-users] Scheduling archiving host

2009-06-15 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Boniforti Flavio wrote on 2009-06-15 08:39:29 +0200 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Scheduling archiving host]: > [...] > OK, so "/bin/gzip .gz" *has to be* there... you're not listening. Les has told you *three times* in this thread. There's not much point in repeating wh

Re: [BackupPC-users] Scheduling archiving host

2009-06-14 Thread Boniforti Flavio
Hy Les, > These would be the locations that you told backuppc to back > up. If you go to the host's 'edit config' screen and click > the Xfer link you would see one or more share names. Or, > browsing the backups, they would the the tops of the trees in > the left navigation. (If you only hav

Re: [BackupPC-users] Scheduling archiving host

2009-06-12 Thread Chris Robertson
Boniforti Flavio wrote: >>> Is this meaning that the tarball is gzipped? In that case, what are >>> the parameter that follow the binary path? >>> >> /bin/gzip is the compression program >> .gz is the extension of the output filename (blah.gz) >> * I think means all shares... >> >> Hope tha

Re: [BackupPC-users] Scheduling archiving host

2009-06-12 Thread Les Mikesell
Boniforti Flavio wrote: >>> Is this meaning that the tarball is gzipped? In that case, what are >>> the parameter that follow the binary path? >> /bin/gzip is the compression program >> .gz is the extension of the output filename (blah.gz) >> * I think means all shares... >> >> Hope that helps a l

Re: [BackupPC-users] Scheduling archiving host

2009-06-12 Thread Boniforti Flavio
> > Is this meaning that the tarball is gzipped? In that case, what are > > the parameter that follow the binary path? > /bin/gzip is the compression program > .gz is the extension of the output filename (blah.gz) > * I think means all shares... > > Hope that helps a little, there is more inform

Re: [BackupPC-users] Scheduling archiving host

2009-06-12 Thread Les Mikesell
Boniforti Flavio wrote: > >> Just forget that the archivehost concept even exists and run >> BackupPC_tarCreate directly in your script/command line with >> the arguments and output pipeline you want. >> http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html#commandline_ >> restore_options >> You

Re: [BackupPC-users] Scheduling archiving host

2009-06-12 Thread Adam Goryachev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Boniforti Flavio wrote: > > Following part is not clear to me: > > /bin/gzip .gz 000 /mnt/USB * > > Is this meaning that the tarball is gzipped? In that case, what are the > parameter that follow the binary path? /bin/gzip is the compression progra

Re: [BackupPC-users] Scheduling archiving host

2009-06-12 Thread Boniforti Flavio
> -Original Message- > From: Les Mikesell [mailto:lesmikes...@gmail.com] > Sent: Friday, June 12, 2009 3:06 PM > To: General list for user discussion,questions and support > Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Scheduling archiving host [cut] > Just forget that the archiv

Re: [BackupPC-users] Scheduling archiving host

2009-06-12 Thread Les Mikesell
Boniforti Flavio wrote: > So here I'm back again with some sort of "idea"... > >> In the web interface is a part called "Scheduled". I would >> believe that you can configure the backup in the same way as >> for normal backups. >> But I didn't try it by myself. > > The part you're talking about

Re: [BackupPC-users] Scheduling archiving host

2009-06-12 Thread Boniforti Flavio
So here I'm back again with some sort of "idea"... > In the web interface is a part called "Scheduled". I would > believe that you can configure the backup in the same way as > for normal backups. > But I didn't try it by myself. The part you're talking about is *not* being considered and I gue

Re: [BackupPC-users] Scheduling archiving host

2009-06-08 Thread Boniforti Flavio
Hy Matthias, > Hi Flavio, > > In the web interface is a part called "Scheduled". I would > believe that you can configure the backup in the same way as > for normal backups. > But I didn't try it by myself. I saw the same part you point at, but I guess the archive host is recognized by BackupP

Re: [BackupPC-users] Scheduling archiving host

2009-06-07 Thread Matthias Meyer
Boniforti Flavio wrote: > Hello list, > > I'd like to forget about the archiving host and its function now that > I've set it up. Is there any way to schedule it to run at a given time > from the BackupPC interface? The only alternative solution I can think > of is using a cron job... What are yo

[BackupPC-users] Scheduling archiving host

2009-06-04 Thread Boniforti Flavio
Hello list, I'd like to forget about the archiving host and its function now that I've set it up. Is there any way to schedule it to run at a given time from the BackupPC interface? The only alternative solution I can think of is using a cron job... What are your suggestions? I'd like to have the