On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 12:01 AM, Richard Shaw wrote:
> I've only skimmed this thread so I apologize if I miss something but I
> was thinking. Might it be a better idea to make the user at least
> somewhat responsible for the backup?
On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 12:00 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:
> In th
I've only skimmed this thread so I apologize if I miss something but I
was thinking. Might it be a better idea to make the user at least
somewhat responsible for the backup?
I was thinking you could use a program like Tucan[1] to get them to
sync their portable data to a specific volume on the net
On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 11:34 AM, wrote:
>
>> Unless there are multiple versions of the same disk in circulation and you
>> want them all synchronized, this is not the same problem that unison solves.
>
> Well it is true that different (intermittently-connected) people need
> access to the files;
On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 4:51 AM, Arnold Krille wrote:
>
> - Encrypted tapes: Writing weekly full dumps to tape or disk is nice, but we
> would love to feed these through gpg at the time of writing. Has anybody done
> this? And is this better done with writing the tars to a temporary (encrypted)
>
On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 10:55 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
> Just in case that wasn't a typo, the top level is /cygdrive..
Ah, no wonder it didn't work. . .
just kidding, I think I only made that mistake here (note to self -
run back and check 8-)
> If I were doing it, I'd try to work out a scheme
Hi,
hans...@gmail.com wrote on 2011-09-09 21:14:40 +0700 [Re: [BackupPC-users]
xxShareName = /cygwin ??]:
> [...]
> The key concept I'm shooting for here is to try to get BackupPC to grab:
>
> >> whatever data is currently mounted on a given client PC, without having
> >> to know about it ahead
On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 9:14 AM, wrote:
>
>>> my main question: can rsync be made to treat the "meta-filesystem root"
>>> /cygwin as a ShareName?
>
>> Seems like something you could test easier than explaining the question
>> here... Commands like 'ls -R /cygdrive' can recurse over the lette
Hi,
Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote on 2011-09-09 11:08:01 -0400 [Re: [BackupPC-users]
Round-tripping config.pl between hand-coding and the web interface]:
> [...]
> However, what is much less welcome are people who just suggest
> ill-defined or loosely-defined ideas that may have only narrow
> relevan
Hi,
hans...@gmail.com wrote on 2011-09-09 20:09:02 +0700 [Re: [BackupPC-users]
Round-tripping config.pl between hand-coding and the web interface]:
> On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 7:30 PM, Holger Parplies wrote:
> > A comma at the end of a Perl list without following elements is a *purely
> > cosmetic*
hans...@gmail.com wrote at about 21:28:24 +0700 on Friday, September 9, 2011:
> Anyway, I'll try to keep quiet for a while, in particular not
> discussing my ideas to have bootable HDDs implementing BackupPC-based
> per-client personal "Time Machines". 8-)
>
> Can anyone suggest a more suitab
Tyler J. Wagner wrote at about 11:58:00 +0100 on Friday, September 9, 2011:
> On 2011-09-05 17:38, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
> > You probably want to read the documentation under --help (and also
> > perhaps at the head of the executable). But you probably want to use
> > the --fixlinks|-f opt
On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 9:06 PM, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
wrote:
> hans...@gmail.com wrote at about 20:09:02 +0700 on Friday, September 9, 2011:
> > I realize that, and thought my posting details on my precautionary
> > procedures would sufficiently demonstrate my awareness of the fact
> > that I'm "
On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 12:55 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
>> my main question: can rsync be made to treat the "meta-filesystem root"
>> /cygwin as a ShareName?
> Seems like something you could test easier than explaining the question
> here... Commands like 'ls -R /cygdrive' can recurse over th
hans...@gmail.com wrote at about 20:09:02 +0700 on Friday, September 9, 2011:
> I realize that, and thought my posting details on my precautionary
> procedures would sufficiently demonstrate my awareness of the fact
> that I'm "living on the edge".
>
Please take this as constructive criticism,
On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 7:30 PM, Holger Parplies wrote:
> A comma at the end of a Perl list without following elements is a *purely
> cosmetic* thing. If you want one there, fine, put it there.
If you are addressing me, I wasn't proposing that at all. I believe
Bowie was simply pointing the fact
Hi,
hans...@gmail.com wrote on 2011-09-09 12:03:38 +0700 [[BackupPC-users]
Round-tripping config.pl between hand-coding and the web interface]:
> [...]
> 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 per
On 2011-09-05 17:38, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
> You probably want to read the documentation under --help (and also
> perhaps at the head of the executable). But you probably want to use
> the --fixlinks|-f option which will create links between any pc file
> that is not linked to the pool to eith
Hi all,
we are generally content with the possibilities and features of BackupPC.
Still here are some ideas we have, which might be either of interest for some
of you too or already solved somewhere. In either case I would love to hear
your comments:
- Encrypted tapes: Writing weekly full dum
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