Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC_tarExtract exited with fail status 256

2017-07-20 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2017-07-20 20:13, Tim Evans wrote: On 07/17/2017 12:21 AM, Craig Barratt wrote: When the tar backup appears to be stalled, please do the following: OK, full backup has been running since 11pm last night, and appears hung. * run ps auxww (options might vary based on which server OS

Re: [BackupPC-users] I'd like to make a suggestion to the BPC devs

2017-07-20 Thread Bzzzz
On Thu, 20 Jul 2017 17:27:30 +0200 Daniel Berteaud wrote: > Because what you want to achieve is not really backups, but some kind > of rotative snapshots. There are lots of different ways to do this > (LVM, LVM-thin, btrfs, zfs etc..), and this is very dependant on

Re: [BackupPC-users] I'd like to make a suggestion to the BPC devs

2017-07-20 Thread Daniel Berteaud
Le 20/07/2017 à 15:54, B a écrit : On Thu, 20 Jul 2017 10:26:18 +0200 Daniel Berteaud wrote: I think this is out of BackupPC's scope Please develop, don't drop me dry, why is that? Why adding a kinda-Xtiple-fugitive-daily-snapshots of only touched files is

Re: [BackupPC-users] I'd like to make a suggestion to the BPC devs

2017-07-20 Thread Bzzzz
On Thu, 20 Jul 2017 08:18:44 -0600 Ray Frush wrote: > I believe you could do something like you propose with the current > BackupPC by setting the "IncrPeriod' to 0.04 (1/24 of a day). You'd > have to make some interesting settings for "FillCycle" and > "FullKeepCnt"

Re: [BackupPC-users] I'd like to make a suggestion to the BPC devs

2017-07-20 Thread Bzzzz
On Thu, 20 Jul 2017 09:17:29 -0500 Les Mikesell wrote: > You can set the schedule to run as often as you like, but the > underlying tools are going to have to traverse the whole directory > tree to find the touched files, which you probably don't want to > happen while you

Re: [BackupPC-users] I'd like to make a suggestion to the BPC devs

2017-07-20 Thread Ray Frush
I believe you could do something like you propose with the current BackupPC by setting the "IncrPeriod' to 0.04 (1/24 of a day). You'd have to make some interesting settings for "FillCycle" and "FullKeepCnt" to make it keep a usable schedule, but you could then have 'hourly' incrementals. As

Re: [BackupPC-users] I'd like to make a suggestion to the BPC devs

2017-07-20 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 8:54 AM, B wrote: > On Thu, 20 Jul 2017 10:26:18 +0200 > Daniel Berteaud wrote: > >> I think this is out of BackupPC's scope > > Please develop, don't drop me dry, why is that? > Why adding a

Re: [BackupPC-users] I'd like to make a suggestion to the BPC devs

2017-07-20 Thread Bzzzz
On Thu, 20 Jul 2017 10:26:18 +0200 Daniel Berteaud wrote: > I think this is out of BackupPC's scope Please develop, don't drop me dry, why is that? Why adding a kinda-Xtiple-fugitive-daily-snapshots of only touched files is out of the BPC's scope ? On the other

Re: [BackupPC-users] I'd like to make a suggestion to the BPC devs

2017-07-20 Thread Daniel Berteaud
Le 20/07/2017 à 02:54, B a écrit : Hi Bacukppcers, My suggestion is to avoid using such things as FS snapshots during the day to avoid work losses. An addition to BPC could do the trick, preferably saving the result in another directory than the main one, by checking which files have been