Hi there,
maybe you should try this one (free for any purpose, but not
opensource) : http://www.syncexp.com/wp/
It seems to work great.
Hope this help.
-
Alexandre BLANC
Responsable SI - Ingénierie systèmes et réseaux
IT Manager - Information Systems Network Manager
Archiv'Tech
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I have been looking for some free backup software to back up my music and
photos to an external hard drive and maybe DVD's. I have tried Cobian but dont
know if I like it since it has no restore function. Have read somethings about
winbackup and was also told to try comodo backup. Any one have
Still doing some testing. Not sure of the cause but one thing I do know is that
I did a incremental and a full backup from the command line and both of these
were done in the normal time of a bit over 2 hours. Will see how it goes
When monitoring the bandwidth of data that is transferred from
drew64 wrote:
I have been looking for some free backup software to back up my
music and photos to an external hard drive and maybe DVD's. I have
tried Cobian but dont know if I like it since it has no restore
function. Have read somethings about winbackup and was also told to
try
I'm not sure what the difference is between these two options, and I
can't find it in the docs. Could someone enlighten me?
-Rob
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Hi,
Rob Owens wrote on 2008-08-04 10:45:07 -0400 [[BackupPC-users] DumpPreUserCmd
vs DumpPreShareCmd]:
I'm not sure what the difference is between these two options, and I
can't find it in the docs. Could someone enlighten me?
DumpPreUserCmd is run once before the backup.
DumpPreShareCmd is
I use Cobian on a lot of machines here. Most often, I have it back up to a
Winzip archive. In this case, my restore function is the WinZip program.
It doesn't seem to handle compression of large backups that well. For those,
I simply back up the files without compressing them. In this case, my
I had that problem once and I think it came down to a permissions issue.
I can't remember the exact fix, but you could try temporarily
changing everything to 777 permisions in order to test out my theory
(just make sure that you make note of the existing permissions, so you
can set them
Holger Parplies wrote:
Hi,
Rob Owens wrote on 2008-08-04 10:45:07 -0400 [[BackupPC-users] DumpPreUserCmd
vs DumpPreShareCmd]:
I'm not sure what the difference is between these two options, and I
can't find it in the docs. Could someone enlighten me?
DumpPreUserCmd is run once before
Hi,
drew64 wrote on 2008-08-03 20:55:13 -0400 [[BackupPC-users] free backup
software]:
I have been looking for some free backup software [...]
I have tried Cobian [...] winbackup [...] comodo backup. Any one have any
experience with these.
is that a question?
This is a technical mailing
Thanks so much for your help!
Can you
[EMAIL PROTECTED] rsync [EMAIL PROTECTED]:truc.txt tmp/
without any problem, manual interaction or extraneous output?
Yes, it works perfect. No particular output, no needed interactions.
[...]
You aren't running rsyncd, so the server is rsync
This is an edited version of a previous post
Thanks so much for your help!
Can you
backuppc at backuppc-server% rsync root at 192.168.1.2:truc.txt
tmp/
without any problem, manual interaction or extraneous output?
Yes, it works perfect. No particular output, no
Hello,
I haven't tried Cobian (but thank you for mentioning it).
To make backups on a local client without setting up a server and with
the possibility to browse the backup archives using an GUI, I used Areca
Backup:
http://areca.sourceforge.net/
It's open source, has a nice built in
naigy wrote:
Still doing some testing. Not sure of the cause but one thing I do
know is that I did a incremental and a full backup from the command
line and both of these were done in the normal time of a bit over 2
hours. Will see how it goes
that's great, so you have a backup in case you
Kurt Tunkko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
naigy wrote:
Still doing some testing. Not sure of the cause but one thing I do
know is that I did a incremental and a full backup from the command
line and both of these were done in the normal time of a bit over 2
hours. Will see how it goes
Hello,
after getting so much interesting ideas how to backup the
backuppc-server after asking this questions two weeks ago, I'm now close
to take action.
The topic was:
Prepare for the worst, Howto backup the backuppc-server
To summarize:
I want to put /var/lib/backuppc on a RAID1 and add one
The documentation for $Conf{TarClientCmd} says
...
Also, you will probably want to add ``/proc'' to
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude}.
The following variables are substituted at run-time:
...
$fileListspecific files to backup or exclude
...
I took this to mean that $fileList takes care of excluding
Hi,
Steve Blackwell wrote on 2008-08-04 18:31:38 -0400 [[BackupPC-users] Problems
excluding files.]:
[...]
I have the following in my host.pl file:
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
'system' = [
'/proc',
'/sys',
'/tmp'
],
'backup' = [
'/media'
]
};
but the
Can a dev let me know if the files in the pool are FLOCK'd before writing, i.e.
is there a chance that two servers backing up into the same top level data
directory could mangle a file in the pool in this manner?
+--
|This was
Hi,
Steve Blackwell wrote on 2008-08-04 18:31:38 -0400 [[BackupPC-users]
Problems excluding files.]:
[...]
Id there something wrong with my $Conf{BackupFilesExclude}
yes.
or do I need to add --exclude something to TarIncrArgs?
No.
You need to use the share name as hash key.
Hi,
Kurt Tunkko wrote on 2008-08-04 23:00:35 +0200 [[BackupPC-users] Just to make
sure: How to move/copy /var/lib/backuppc to another place (RAID1)]:
[...]
I found: 'change archive directory' on the backuppc wiki
http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net/change+archive+directory
Option 1
Is it possible to move all of the backups and incrementals of a particular
share (/home/user) from one data directory (pool) into another?
Let's say I've got 100 home directory shares that use up 16TB of data in one
top level directory (pool). I cannot expand this volume beyond 16TB but I can
Hi,
sabujp wrote on 2008-08-04 23:18:41 -0400 [[BackupPC-users] clustered file
system and multiple servers]:
Can a dev let me know if the files in the pool are FLOCK'd before writing,
use the force, read the source. grep -r flock backuppc-3.1.0 suggests that
flock is used, but not on pool
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