Christian Völker wrote at about 22:13:24 +0100 on Tuesday, January 13, 2009: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Yohoo! > > I'm having an issue with my BackupPC. > > One of the machines to be backed up is a remote box. Unfortunately the > BackupPC box only has very limited external download bandwith (384kb/s). > > Usually (and thanks to rsync!) this isn't an issue. > > But now there is a 4GB file on the remote box- and the broadband > connection is dropped every 24h hours (f!ck Telekom), so any running > backup process will fail. > > This means unless there is really no traffic on the connection a backup > will never succeed- am I right? Looks like, because I'm watchingthis now > for a couple of days. > > Whatever, because I have this file locally as well (same file, md5sum > and times are the same!) can I "insert" tthis file somehow into my > backupPC under /var/lib so it recognizes it as "already there"and does > not try to backup all the time? > > Thanks for further ideas. > The following "kludge" should work.
1. Create a new temporary backuppc host that points to your local machine. Set up the corresponding 'share' so it only backs up the 4GB file you have locally. This will give you a valid (c)pool backup of that file. 2. Then run backuppc on your remote machine and it will create a hard-link to the now already existing pool file. 3. Delete the temporary host config and the corresponding tree under TopDir. Alternatively, you could cobble together a routine for directly injecting a file into the pool or cpool (by calculating the md5sum name and compressing as appropriate). Be sure to either add an extra temporary link to it or keep BackupPC_nightly from running until you do a real backup of the remote machine or otherwise the pool entry will be dropped. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
