Re: [BackupPC-users] Migrate local data into BackupPC pool for remote client

> Tar complained unless I added the 'c' but it's still erroring out for me. > Were you thinking something like this? > > tar c --strip-components=4 /home/backup/my_web_server_backups/todays_backup/ > > There has got to be an easier way to import local data into a backup pool for > a specific

[BackupPC-users] Migrate local data into BackupPC pool for remote client

Johan Ehnberg wrote: To do it directly from directories, you could try changing 'zcat' to 'tar --strip-components=X' and point it at the directory. Set X to match the number of path components that should not be included for the archive to make the structure equal to that of the actual host to

Re: [BackupPC-users] Migrate local data into BackupPC pool for remote client

Hi, Glad to hear! To do it directly from directories, you could try changing 'zcat' to 'tar --strip-components=X' and point it at the directory. Set X to match the number of path components that should not be included for the archive to make the structure equal to that of the actual host to

Re: [BackupPC-users] Issues for future backuppc activities

On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 11:05 AM, Juergen Harms wrote: > On 05/17/2016 01:33 PM, Alexander Moisseev wrote: >> Did you upgrade backuppc from sources or some distribution packages? > > From the Mageia distro - there may be an explanation in that. But at > that time I had

[BackupPC-users] Migrate local data into BackupPC pool for remote client

It worked! Thanks so much for spelling it out for me! My previous backups are not tar'd so I'm having to first compress them into a tar.gz to make it work. Is it possible to import them directly from the (uncompressed) source? Could I change the entry for TarClientCmd from 'zcat' to 'cat'? If

Re: [BackupPC-users] Issues for future backuppc activities

On 18/05/2016 02:05, Juergen Harms wrote: > On 05/17/2016 01:33 PM, Alexander Moisseev wrote: >> Did you upgrade backuppc from sources or some distribution packages? > From the Mageia distro - there may be an explanation in that. But at > that time I had been maintainer for BackupPC in Mageia

Re: [BackupPC-users] Issues for future backuppc activities

On 05/17/2016 01:33 PM, Alexander Moisseev wrote: > Did you upgrade backuppc from sources or some distribution packages? From the Mageia distro - there may be an explanation in that. But at that time I had been maintainer for BackupPC in Mageia - the distro package was essentially the wrapped

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC futures

Thanks Stephen, comments below. Il 17/05/2016 16:24, Stephen Joyce ha scritto: > I'm glad to see the recent energy going into the discussion and planning > for BackupPC's future. It's great that there's an interest in making sure > the project stays alive. The interest is surely here. > It

[BackupPC-users] BackupPC futures

I'm glad to see the recent energy going into the discussion and planning for BackupPC's future. It's great that there's an interest in making sure the project stays alive. It sounds like there are lots of opinions about how to proceed long-term, including who the core players will be who have

Re: [BackupPC-users] IRC channel

Hi Juerghen, comments below. Il 17/05/2016 13:15, Juergen Harms ha scritto: > On 05/17/2016 12:41 PM, Mauro Condarelli wrote: >> Who should that be? Lars? Juergen? > Not Juergen - that is against my mid-range "retiring-from-retirement" > strategy (where BackupPC has already made me add a sawtooth

Re: [BackupPC-users] Issues for future backuppc activities

On 17.05.16 13:59, Juergen Harms wrote: > On 05/17/2016 12:03 PM, Alexander Moisseev wrote: >> I believe the current configure.pl implementation updates config.pl >> automatically. What would you suggest? > > I have doubts - but have not looked into it. But I remember that I > normally had some -

Re: [BackupPC-users] IRC channel

On 05/17/2016 12:41 PM, Mauro Condarelli wrote: > Who should that be? Lars? Juergen? Not Juergen - that is against my mid-range "retiring-from-retirement" strategy (where BackupPC has already made me add a sawtooth function). Re IRC: once it works, can you suggest a period of time where -

Re: [BackupPC-users] Issues for future backuppc activities

On 05/17/2016 12:03 PM, Alexander Moisseev wrote: > I believe the current configure.pl implementation updates config.pl > automatically. What would you suggest? I have doubts - but have not looked into it. But I remember that I normally had some - very few - lines to change (fewer as backuppc

Re: [BackupPC-users] github setup

On 05/17/2016 11:35 AM, Alexander Moisseev wrote: > https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/compare/v4.0.0 > Does it help? It does - both for digging into backuppc internals, and for watching git at work - many thanks! --

[BackupPC-users] IRC channel

I tried contacting the owner of #backuppc on freenode. It turns out he does not have a working account anymore, so the channel is officially orphaned. Normal procedure should be request transfer of ownership to a new "Founder" (they stated it should be a single person). Unless I hear some

Re: [BackupPC-users] Issues for future backuppc activities

Hi Juergen, comments below. Il 17/05/2016 11:29, Juergen Harms ha scritto: > On 05/16/2016 08:37 PM, Alexander Moisseev wrote: >> As FreeBSD sysutils/backuppc port maintainer I can say one of the first >> thing that should be done is to split up configure.pl in two parts: >> installation

Re: [BackupPC-users] Issues for future backuppc activities

On 17.05.16 12:29, Juergen Harms wrote: > I agree that this is a very important issue. Can you also take the > aspect on board to facilitate the users work when he adapts his > customization to a new release? I have always found it extremely painful > to wade through more than 2000 lines of

Re: [BackupPC-users] Issues for future backuppc activities

On 16.05.16 22:40, Mauro Condarelli wrote: > Can You create an issue on github, please? Done. > Should we ask for debian maintainer input and/or support? I believe we should invite debian backuppc package maintainer Ludovic Drolez not only to discussion on this particular issue, but to the

Re: [BackupPC-users] github setup

Mauro and Lars - can you aim at summing up what is emerging to be "software management procedures and policies" into a short summary paper? That summary will probably end up as a wiki page, but the wiki is not yet on the list of things to be immediately done. Meanwhile, there must be an