Les-
Putting the Mac vs (anything else) argument aside, as it detracts from the
discussion, I would like to add that even low end NAS devices like the
QNAP offer filesystem snapshots that are, for the purposes of a home office
or small business seamless. At $WORK, I've used NetApp, EMC Isilon,
On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 8:59 AM, B wrote:
>
> @GW Haywood: this would be limited to executive people that usually know
> what they're doing and are the only ones that are working on not-to-lose
> docs ie: big spreadsheets - the idea is to entirely pull off any admin
> from the restoration pro
On Fri, 21 Jul 2017 06:29:46 -0700
Kenneth Porter wrote:
> A better solution would be a change to rsyncd to monitor its
> filesystem and remember which files were touched since the last
> backup.
Yep, this is much closer to what I imagined.
> Some filesystems have a "backdoor" like inotify that
--On Thursday, July 20, 2017 3:54 AM +0200 B wrote:
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
touched the present day and save them automatically; it may be triggered
from a crontab. And befo
Hi there,
On Thu, 20 Jul 2017, B wrote:
... clumsy users would be able to recover their work very rapidly
with at most one hour loss ...
How about that ?
You want to apply a technical answer to a non-technical question.
Bad idea.
It is vastly more expensive to employ highly trained peo
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 the
> system hosting your data,
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 out of the BPC's scope ? On the
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" to make it keep a usable sc
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 are working.
This stag
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 Le
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 kinda-Xtiple-fugitive-daily-snapshots of only touched files
> is out of the B
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 hand, I see this as the missing
co
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
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
touched the present day and save them aut
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