Hello, I had troubles using the rsync(d) method (crashed my server) so I used a workaround: create a sshfs mount and "locally" backup its files. To prevent empty backups, I changed the ping command to ssh u...@hostname whoami to emulate a response if successful, or return no ping if not connected. I figured that out the long way because I had a few empty backups (the mounting directory was empty).
However, using this method, I also found out that backuppc was copying EVERY files from the host, even on incremental backups, because (I assume) it needed to compare locally the files before updating the ones in the last backup. So, my 2 questions are, is there a way to script a way to compare the files before the copy, to make a way to skip files that are not needed in the tar method, and is there a way to tell backuppc to NOT start if the mounted directory is empty to prevent empty backups? I'm using backuppc 3.0.0 on ubuntu, and the hosts are using freesshd on Windows for now. Thanks, Phil +---------------------------------------------------------------------- |This was sent by krunchyf...@videotron.ca via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ 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/
