Re: [BackupPC-users] xxShareName = /cygwin ??

2011-09-08 Thread Adam Goryachev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Just my thoughts on how to resolve this issue Create a script (cygwin/bash or windows bat or whatever suits you) which will run either each time a USB device is plugged in (I think there is a windows setting to run a program whenever a USB device

Re: [BackupPC-users] xxShareName = /cygwin ??

2011-09-08 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 11:41 PM, wrote: > Thanks to all for answering, and particularly Holger for your > thoughtful response. Before approaching the "social/concept" side, I'd > like to be clear  - from a purely technical POV - about my main > question: can rsync be made to treat the "meta-file

[BackupPC-users] Round-tripping config.pl between hand-coding and the web interface

2011-09-08 Thread hansbkk
Started a new thread, originally part of this too-long one: http://adsm.org/lists/html/BackupPC-users/2011-09/threads.html#00026 On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 3:57 AM, Bowie Bailey wrote: > Just a note that a comma at the end of the last element in an array or > hash is perfectly fine in Perl. > > This

Re: [BackupPC-users] xxShareName = /cygwin ??

2011-09-08 Thread hansbkk
Thanks to all for answering, and particularly Holger for your thoughtful response. Before approaching the "social/concept" side, I'd like to be clear - from a purely technical POV - about my main question: can rsync be made to treat the "meta-filesystem root" /cygwin as a ShareName? -

Re: [BackupPC-users] xxShareName = /cygwin ??

2011-09-08 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, hans...@gmail.com wrote on 2011-09-09 01:54:57 +0700 [[BackupPC-users] xxShareName = /cygwin ??]: > Our users have a variety of storage media from ordinary flash drives > and SD cards to eSata or firewire HDDs, and even some swappable > "internal" HD's. Much of these data is as or sometimes e

Re: [BackupPC-users] xxShareName = /cygwin ??

2011-09-08 Thread Arnold Krille
On Thursday 08 September 2011 20:54:57 hans...@gmail.com wrote: > Our users have a variety of storage media from ordinary flash drives > and SD cards to eSata or firewire HDDs, and even some swappable > "internal" HD's. Much of these data is as or sometimes even more > important than those on the f

Re: [BackupPC-users] first "full" never completes

2011-09-08 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 9/8/2011 3:01 PM, hans...@gmail.com wrote: > I managed to track down the source of my original problem, and decided > it was worth posting to the end of this ridiculous thread just in case > it's useful for future googlers. The cause was the empty value - two > quotes at the end of this: > > $Co

Re: [BackupPC-users] xxShareName = /cygwin ??

2011-09-08 Thread Tim Fletcher
On Fri, 2011-09-09 at 01:54 +0700, hans...@gmail.com wrote: > I haven't been able to get this to work so far. I've taken the > --one-filesystem out of my rsync args, tested with no excludes at all, > no dice. Have you tried using tar instead of rsync as a backup method? -- Tim Fletcher -

Re: [BackupPC-users] first "full" never completes

2011-09-08 Thread hansbkk
I managed to track down the source of my original problem, and decided it was worth posting to the end of this ridiculous thread just in case it's useful for future googlers. The cause was the empty value - two quotes at the end of this: $Conf{RsyncShareName} = [ '/cygdrive/c', '' ]; So don'

[BackupPC-users] xxShareName = /cygwin ??

2011-09-08 Thread hansbkk
Our users have a variety of storage media from ordinary flash drives and SD cards to eSata or firewire HDDs, and even some swappable "internal" HD's. Much of these data is as or sometimes even more important than those on the fixed drives. Just as the notebook users are only intermittently attache

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup Summary 'Start Date' field

2011-09-08 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Gerald Brandt wrote on 2011-09-07 11:59:50 -0500 [[BackupPC-users] Backup Summary 'Start Date' field]: > Hi, > > The start date field in a backup summary shows month/day and time. > > Is there anything I can do to have it also show the year? > [...] to which James L. Evans responded: > I h

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backups very slow after upgrade to squeeze

2011-09-08 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Les Mikesell wrote on 2011-09-07 17:46:47 -0500 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Backups very slow after upgrade to squeeze]: > On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 3:10 PM, James L. Evans wrote: > > > > xvda1   10GB    Operating system (24% used) > > xvdb1   536MB   Swap partition > > xvbc1   214GB   backup storage