Re: [BackupPC-users] Recommend add to manual

2017-05-15 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Kenneth Porter wrote on 2017-05-14 18:37:53 -0700 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Recommend add to manual]: > [...] > What if you have TWO drives you want to mount to /var/lib/backuppc? With > BackupPC 4, it's not unreasonable to swap your backup media every week > to an offsite lo

Re: [BackupPC-users] Recommend add to manual

2017-05-14 Thread Bob Katz
On Sun, May 14, 2017 at 9:37 PM, Kenneth Porter wrote: > > What if you have TWO drives you want to mount to /var/lib/backuppc? With > BackupPC 4, it's not unreasonable to swap your backup media every week > to an offsite location. > Is there a way to configure alternation between the two backu

Re: [BackupPC-users] Recommend add to manual

2017-05-14 Thread Kenneth Porter
On 5/14/2017 6:55 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > I always thought the best approach was to mount your media in the > place where backuppc expects it_before_ installing the package so > that ownership and selinux contexts are set correctly during the > package install. Does that work through symlinks?

Re: [BackupPC-users] Recommend add to manual

2017-05-14 Thread Robert Katz
On Sun, May 14, 2017 11:10 am, Richard Shaw wrote: > > I think if you installed the package, mounted the volume and then ran > restorecon -r /var/lib/backuppc would have the same effect. > > Thanks, > Richard > > Not being familiar with the command restorecon and being a linux baby I just bit th

Re: [BackupPC-users] Recommend add to manual

2017-05-14 Thread Richard Shaw
On Sun, May 14, 2017 at 8:55 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Sun, May 14, 2017 at 7:26 AM, Robert Katz wrote: > > Hi guys. I was about to bind a second mount for my convenience in fstab > > for topdir. I then read man bind and learned about the danger of using > > bind because backup programs that

Re: [BackupPC-users] Recommend add to manual

2017-05-14 Thread Les Mikesell
On Sun, May 14, 2017 at 7:26 AM, Robert Katz wrote: > Hi guys. I was about to bind a second mount for my convenience in fstab > for topdir. I then read man bind and learned about the danger of using > bind because backup programs that access directories by name would > therefore backup the same ma