Re: [BackupPC-users] Thank you far an easier installation

--On Tuesday, June 02, 2020 4:21 PM -0500 Richard Shaw wrote: The decision to not update EL 7 was intentional as there were some non-backward compatible changes that necessitate manual involvement. I didn't want to auto update the 10s of thousands of systems and deal will the fall out. I do

Re: [BackupPC-users] Thank you far an easier installation

And many thanks to you! I tried CentOS 8 six-ish months too earlier. All’s well that ends well, though right? Thanks Richard! Thanks, Greg Harris On Jun 2, 2020, at 4:21 PM, Richard Shaw mailto:hobbes1...@gmail.com>> wrote: On Tue, Jun 2, 2020 at 1:14 PM Bob Wooden

Re: [BackupPC-users] Thank you far an easier installation

On Tue, Jun 2, 2020 at 1:14 PM Bob Wooden wrote: > For those of you who may not be aware of this. > > In the process of building a replacement machine (hardware update) I > have discovered that CentOS 8, the EPEL repo offers BackupPC 4.3.2. (The > CentOS 7 EPEL repo offers BackupPC 3.3.2.) > >

Re: [BackupPC-users] Regarding Transport mechanism limitations

Ok, I'll remove that. There isn't an 18GB limit. Kris was simply saying that 18GB files work fine. Craig On Tue, Jun 2, 2020 at 12:41 PM wrote: > The url in "Some Limitations" section of updated docs are pointing to old > docs > > Thanks. Is there a way to work around 18 GB limit ? > > On

Re: [BackupPC-users] How does BackupPc handle renamed files

Apologies. I had not read the entire manual. Thank you. On June 2, 2020 9:16:30 PM GMT+05:30, Michael Huntley wrote: >BackupPC creates an digest of every file. You can copy and rename >identical files and BackupPC will only ever backup a single version of >the file based on its digest. >

Re: [BackupPC-users] Regarding Transport mechanism limitations

The url in "Some Limitations" section of updated docs are pointing to old docs Thanks. Is there a way to work around 18 GB limit ? On June 3, 2020 12:13:12 AM GMT+05:30, Kris Lou via BackupPC-users wrote: >Updated Docs (4.x) are here: https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/ > >And no problems

Re: [BackupPC-users] Thank you far an easier installation

Thanks to folks who have developed packages for several linux flavors, and also for updating the wiki . It would be great to get additional volunteers to develop and maintain packages for remaining linux distros, and submitting them upstream. If you are

Re: [BackupPC-users] Regarding Transport mechanism limitations

Kris is correct - the limits in 4.x (and 3.x) are much higher than suggested by that very old FAQ, certainly for rsync. Craig On Tue, Jun 2, 2020 at 11:44 AM Kris Lou via BackupPC-users < backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > Updated Docs (4.x) are here:

Re: [BackupPC-users] Regarding Transport mechanism limitations

Updated Docs (4.x) are here: https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/ And no problems here with larger files (18GB) using rsync.exe from Cygwin. ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:

[BackupPC-users] Thank you far an easier installation

For those of you who may not be aware of this. In the process of building a replacement machine (hardware update) I have discovered that CentOS 8, the EPEL repo offers BackupPC 4.3.2. (The CentOS 7 EPEL repo offers BackupPC 3.3.2.) After years of building from source, building *.deb packages

Re: [BackupPC-users] How does BackupPc handle renamed files

BackupPC creates an digest of every file. You can copy and rename identical files and BackupPC will only ever backup a single version of the file based on its digest. Cheers, Mph > On Jun 1, 2020, at 11:30 PM, user655362...@outlook.com wrote: > > Are then renamed files transferred again ?

Re: [BackupPC-users] How does BackupPc handle renamed files

On 2/6/20 16:29, user655362...@outlook.com wrote: Are then renamed files transferred again ? Are the renamed files stored again ? (thus consuming 2x disk space) What documentation have you read so far? What did that say? What configuration do you have? What version do you have? The answer

[BackupPC-users] Regarding Transport mechanism limitations

From : http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/limitations.html "Smbclient is limited to 4GB file sizes." "Rsync running on Cygwin is limited to either 2GB or 4GB file sizes." Are these limitations still applicable ? The page was last modified on 2006-02-16 23:00 Is the rsync 4 GB limit also

[BackupPC-users] How does BackupPc handle renamed files

Are then renamed files transferred again ? Are the renamed files stored again ? (thus consuming 2x disk space)___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: