On Mon, 2022-03-07 at 13:26 +, G.W. Haywood via BackupPC-users wrote:
>
> > One common legitimate use case for sparse files is virtual disk images.
>
> Ah, good point! But nobody in his right mind would use BackupPC
> to back them up directly as files, would they?
I used to do that until
In the past, rather than use the BackupPC archive function, I used rsync from
the command line to back-up my Backuppc server to a removable USB drive on a PC
on my network. Don’t know if that will work for you but, may be worth
exploring.
Paul Herron
p...@october11th.com | +1 (202)
On Mon, Mar 7, 2022 at 5:02 PM wrote:
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> I'm not sure that tarCreate or archiveHost respect ACLs.
> I know that rsync restore does work...
Right, and that's what we're using right now to backup the Hosts. But
now we need to make our offline and offsite backups. So the BackupPC
localhost is now
I'm not sure that tarCreate or archiveHost respect ACLs.
I know that rsync restore does work...
ralph strebbing wrote at about 15:53:24 -0500 on Monday, March 7, 2022:
> Hi again,
>
> So after updating to BackupPC 4.x, ACLs work for rsync (yay). Now what
> we're trying to do is get the ACLs
Hi again,
So after updating to BackupPC 4.x, ACLs work for rsync (yay). Now what
we're trying to do is get the ACLs working from the Archive host. It
is correctly exporting the tar.gz files, but when I extract them onto
my PC, the files have lost their ownership/group properties and ACLs.
I
Hi there,
On Mon, 7 Mar 2022, Dave Sherohman wrote:
Re: Real Time View of What Is Being Copied
On 3/5/22 14:36, G.W. Haywood via BackupPC-users wrote:
On Sat, 5 Mar 2022, Les Mikesell wrote:
Unix/Linux has something calle 'sparse' files ...
I can't remember the last time I saw a sparse
On 3/5/22 14:36, G.W. Haywood via BackupPC-users wrote:
On Sat, 5 Mar 2022, Les Mikesell wrote:
Unix/Linux has something calle 'sparse' files used by some types of
databases where you can seek far into a file and write without
using/allocating any space up to that point. The file as stored may
