Hi,
Keith Edmunds wrote on 06.08.2007 at 13:48:26 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Priming an
initial backup]:
> On Mon, 06 Aug 2007 07:45:03 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>
> > You should be able to get the same effect by backing it up from some
> > other machine on the local lan with the server - perhaps a laptop or
> > other temporary addition, then changing the pc directory name and the
> > name in the hosts entry to the real one.
>
> Or use $Conf{ClientNameAlias} to temporarily point at the temporary
> machine.
I believe both the client name and the directory are coded into the path
names in the pc/ directory, so if you want to keep it simple, you want to
use the same client name and backup directory as you will later on. As Keith
pointed out, the most simple approach for the client name is to use
ClientNameAlias to "temporarily" (i.e. for the first backup) point the
backup to a different host. For the directory name, things remain simple if
you're going to use rsyncd as transfer method, as you'd just define the
rsyncd module with the same name and arbitrary path on the client machines
(which would not need to be identical for the temporary host and the real
one).
Actually, you want to be using either rsync or rsyncd as transfer method,
because you can't get by without occasional full backups. With the rsync
type transfer methods, these should not transfer much more data across the
network link than incrementals - believe it or not, in some cases even
less :).
For a previous answer to much the same question, see
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=20070615011832.GL25826%40mail.parplies.de
or
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=20070510205559.78bf3fff%40ws.rg2.tiger-computing.com
(Keith wrote that he did some things differently and offered to summarize :).
More on why you need full backups:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=20070501024958.GM25826%40mail.parplies.de
Regards,
Holger
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