Systems wrote at about 16:24:22 +0000 on Monday, March 2, 2020: > Can you rename the ID of the backup folder so that the cronjob doesn’t > delete it? > > mv /var/lib/BackupPC/pc/<backupname>/<Number> > /var/lib/BackupPC/pc/<backupname>/Keep-<Number> > That is a *very* bad idea for several reasons:
1. Pool cleanup (BackupPC_nightly) won't know about this now 'hidden' backup and will therefore delete any pool file that is not used in any non-hidden backup 2. You won't be able to browse the backup using the web interface or the FUSE filesystem. So no easy way to access or recover the backups (which is presumably the reason you are saving them in the first place) 3. Incremental and unfilled backups on which it depends may be messed up. DO NOT DO THIS > Maybe,? DEFINITELY NOT -- and in the future please do not suggest 'random' solutions if you have no clue how BackupPC treats pooling, incrementals and filled baclkups. 'Maybe' is not a good thing to rely on for precious backups... A little ignorance can go a long way in causing big problems... > > Thanks > Ibrahim > > From: Graham Seaman <gra...@theseamans.net> > Sent: 02 March 2020 15:53 > To: backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] keeping permanent backups > > > Is the idea that incompatible with the way it works? I haven't tried looking > at the code yet, maybe I should. I was hoping there was already an option to > mark one backup out as exceptional. > > Several people have suggested making a backup elsewhere, but I would like to > keep everything on the same system I'm backing up to - I guess I could add > another drive for historical backups, but its also handy to have the > backuppc frontend to use to look for files. > > Some have also suggested increasing the number of backups per host, but I > don't have the space to do that - the oldest backup I have is 2013, so that > would be quite a long history. > > Graham > On 02/03/2020 14:20, Richard Shaw wrote: > On Mon, Mar 2, 2020 at 5:08 AM Graham Seaman > <gra...@theseamans.net<mailto:gra...@theseamans.net>> wrote: > I'd like to be able to mark some older full backups as 'frozen', not to > be deleted. Is that possible? I can't find any mention of this in the docs. > > I don't think it's possible to mark one specific backup to keep, it's not > really part of the way BackupPC is designed to work. > > I would just archive the backup you want to keep to another media. > > Thanks, > Richard > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > BackupPC-users mailing list > > BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto: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/ > _______________________________________________ > 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/ _______________________________________________ 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/
