-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: > Ken D'Ambrosio wrote at about 09:34:42 -0400 on Wednesday, July 8, 2009: > > Hi, all. Not having used BackupPC for about five years, I was wondering, > > first and foremost, if there had come into existence a mechanism for > > backing up open PST files. Secondly, since PST files are > > disproportionately large when it comes to incrementals, is there any way > > to delete them at an accelerated rate? > > > > 1. Read the threads on using shadow mounts to backup open files like > pst's. If you want, you can use the script that I posted to the > group for automagically setting up and taking down shadow mounts > > 2. I also wrote a script, BackupPC_deleteFile for selectively deleting > one or more files from one or more backups. One could presumably > automate it to regularly delete past pst files using a simple cron > job or equivalent. Again check out the archives.
There is also a rsync binary that was posted which was able to automatically utilise shadow mounts to backup open files. I tried the above scripts, and got rather lost, rather than debug and work through it, I tried the rsync binary, which has worked perfectly since, and so I haven't touched it again.... Jeffrey, have you looked at the rsync binary which supports shadow mount backups? How does that compare to what your set of scripts do? I'd just be interested in whether your scripts offer some advantage I haven't considered... PS, recently I did a format and re-install of windows 2003 server up to the point of the first reboot (about 30-40 mins). Then I restored the entire c drive of a machine backed up using the rsync binary which supports backing up open files. Then booted the machine, which seemed to work perfectly... I'm not suggesting this is the ideal disaster recovery method, but it did work for me in this instance.... Regards, Adam - -- Adam Goryachev Website Managers www.websitemanagers.com.au -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkpVV5MACgkQGyoxogrTyiWAqACfXegGZZL+gHNmA/71/DXdtkBr vIwAni4FZAqCOKbSwg+Uh4q+mVaWZGtD =S1aF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
