Thanks for that but as per Backuppc' instructions this would increase
drastically the storage space up to when the full circle is achieved and the
non-compressed files are deleted from the pool.
That is why the program recommends disabling the backup, change the
compression value to >0, run the script that should move the files to the
compressed pool and only then restart the backup process.
This is what I'd like to do
Guy
2007/3/6, Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Guy Malacrida wrote:
> I installed Backuppc & it works well... I did spend some days
> figuring things out though and I am far from mastering it.
>
> I am backing-up two WinXP shares from two PCs on my home network
> (wife and girl) on my Ubuntu box using SMB
>
> As I progress in my understanding of the program, I realize that I
> have not enabled the compression. Backuppc has a (script?) command
> line BackupPC_compPool that is supposed to be run, as user backuppc
> to fix this properly.
> Thus my questions:
> - how to run this command line (found under /usr/share/backuppc/bin/
> BackupPC_compPool?
> and
> - would you know how to switch to user backuppc for just this one
> operation (I have no user Backuppc in the list of user going to
> Ubuntu administration)?
>
> Sorry I am quite new to this and thanks for any help
Don't try to run BackupPC_compPool yourself. Just set $Conf
{ArchiveComp} and $Conf{CompressLevel} to the desired values and your
files will be compressed by BackupPC.
Nils Breunese.
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