On Mon, 5 Nov 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
Fisrt, when you say "BackupPC_serverMesg" it's $Conf{ServerMesgSecret}?
No. Those are completely separate concepts (see below).
My configuration of config.pl :
$Conf{MaxBackupPCNightlyJobs} = 4
$Conf{BackupPCNightlyPeriod} = 1
Normally, with this configuration, each night (at 01:00 am) all files and
links wich are uneeded are deleted, aren't they ?
Is it true ?
Yes. That is my understanding. In this example 4 of the nightly processes
will run in parallel and the entire pool will be processed each night.
I didn't understand when you said "BackupPC_nightly 0 255". Could you
please explain that with more details?
It's not a line command in a terminal (console). How and where execute
this "command" ?
BackupPC_serverMesg and BackupPC_nightly are both executables located in
the directory where the backuppc binaries are installed. This varies from
one distribution to the next.
You would run these from a terminal, but if they're not in your default
path, you'll have to cd to their directory or provide the
/full/path/to/the/executables when you run them.
Once you find the BackupPC_nightly file on your system, read the first bit
of the file ("more BackupPC_nightly"). It will explain what the numbers
following the command mean.
Thanks a lot.
Romain
Stephen Joyce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
05/11/2007 14:32
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Re: [BackupPC-users] How to delete manually a Backup with BackupPCNightly
According to others on the list previously, it's
BackupPC_serverMesg BackupPC_nightly run
which asks backuppc to perform a nightly run the next time it's safe to do
so (immediately if it can; asap if not). If you've configured backuppc to
only process a portion of the pool each night, you may need to send that
command multiple times. See $Conf{MaxBackupPCNightlyJobs} and
$Conf{BackupPCNightlyPeriod} in config.pl for an explanation.
It's not a good idea to run it directly as it shouldn't run at the same
time as backups and other periodic tasks. If you insist (ie, you KNOW
nothing else is scheduled) the unsafe command is
BackupPC_nightly 0 255
Hope this helps.
Cheers, Stephen
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On Mon, 5 Nov 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
I know that it's not possible to run BackupPC_Nightly if a backup is
running but I would like to run it manually and when I want (for example
with command line).
I would like to do that in order to delete all links and all files which
are needed => to do several tests about time / compression.
To do these tests I don't want that files are associated, I want to
compare the time with different levels of compression and for the same
files (in full backup).
If you know how to do that, thanks to tell me it.
For your information, I use BackupPC 3.0.0 on Fedora Core 6. I back up
my
windows clients with rsyncd.
Regards,
Romain
Les Mikesell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
31/10/2007 18:21
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Re: [BackupPC-users] How to delete a Backup
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
I would like to have more informations about the deleting of backups.
I want to delete completly a full backup in order to do several tests
about time of backuping by the level of compression for backups.
So the aim of my tests is to do a full backup for one directory (with
differents files inside), several times to compare the time of backups
taking account the level of compression.
I had several answers (and thank you for your help) and if I delete,
the
host via the webinterface and the tree of files and the file of
configuration of the client (per-pc) on the server
and I configure again the host (completly), it doesn't work as I want.
The files aren't saved the second time. It is associated ("fusion" in
french) with the old file even if it was deleted.
You probably aren't going to the the results you want unless you do this
test on a different machine where you can remove all pooled files
between runs. Pooled files are only removed when the last link from any
pc backup has been removed, so any files that are duplicated on other
machines will remain (and be re-linked in the next run) even when you
remove all the links from one machine.
I read that BackupPC_nightly must run to delete all links (if I
understood correctly).
It deletes pooled files with no remaining links from pc backups.
There is another means to delete the links because I don't want to wait
the next day to do the next backup.
If you can stop the backuppc service you can manually run BackuPC
nightly anytime. There is just some danger of a race condition if the
service is running and new files are being linked while it runs.
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