Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC integration with Tarsnap

2012-02-14 Thread Rob Hasselbaum
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 4:50 PM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: If I were doing it, I'd look at backuppc as the local backup copy and tarsnap or other remote system as the disaster recovery backup that you would only use if the primary system is gone. Making one depend on the

[BackupPC-users] BackupPC integration with Tarsnap

2012-02-10 Thread Rob Hasselbaum
I'm interested in customizing BackupPC's archive feature to send the data to Tarsnap instead of creating a local tarball. Has anyone tried this kind of integration? I understand that I need to change BackupPC_tarCreate, but I'm trying to figure out what the parameters that get passed to it

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC integration with Tarsnap

2012-02-10 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 9:05 AM, Rob Hasselbaum r...@hasselbaum.net wrote: I'm interested in customizing BackupPC's archive feature to send the data to Tarsnap instead of creating a local tarball. Has anyone tried this kind of integration? I understand that I need to change BackupPC_tarCreate,

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC integration with Tarsnap

2012-02-10 Thread Rob Hasselbaum
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.comwrote: I don't know anything about tarsnap but it looks like it has its own way of tracking incremental changes. Is there some reason you can't just run it independently from the original source?Someone has mentioned a

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC integration with Tarsnap

2012-02-10 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
Rob Hasselbaum wrote at about 11:37:49 -0500 on Friday, February 10, 2012: On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.comwrote: I don't know anything about tarsnap but it looks like it has its own way of tracking incremental changes. Is there some reason you can't

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC integration with Tarsnap

2012-02-10 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 10:37 AM, Rob Hasselbaum r...@hasselbaum.net wrote: One of the things I like about Tarsnap compared to other off-site backup services is that it's nicely scriptable so I can manage what gets backed up and when from one central server just like BackupPC itself. By the

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC integration with Tarsnap

2012-02-10 Thread Rob Hasselbaum
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 2:06 PM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: Can you cifs-mount them into the server handling the backups to get semi-direct access? Had not considered that. Might be a possibility. Ideally, I'd still like to leverage the BackupPC backups because I've already

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC integration with Tarsnap

2012-02-10 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 2:40 PM, Rob Hasselbaum r...@hasselbaum.net wrote: On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 2:06 PM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.comwrote: Can you cifs-mount them into the server handling the backups to get semi-direct access? Had not considered that. Might be a possibility.