All good :) Systems wrote at about 21:12:34 +0000 on Monday, March 2, 2020: > Yeah you’re right - my bad :) > > Muhammad Ibrahim > Managing Director > https://broadband9.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/bb9final.jpg > North West Managed Business IT Services > > Anti-Virus | Backups | VOIP | Broadband | Support > Web: Broadband9.com > Email: ibra...@broadband9.com > TEL: 03330 50 99 60 > LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/broadband9/ > > CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: > The contents of this email message and any attachments are intended solely > for the addressee(s) and may contain confidential and/or privileged > information and may be legally protected from disclosure. If you are not the > intended recipient of this message or their agent, or if this message has > been addressed to you in error, please immediately alert the sender by reply > email and then delete this message and any attachments. If you are not the > intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any use, dissemination, > copying, or storage of this message or its attachments is strictly > prohibited. Company Number : 11084597 > ________________________________ > From: backu...@kosowsky.org <backu...@kosowsky.org> > Sent: Monday, March 2, 2020 7:59:30 PM > To: General list for user discussion, questions and support > <backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net> > Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] keeping permanent backups > > 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/ > _______________________________________________ > 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/
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