Re: [BackupPC-users] keeping permanent backups

2020-03-02 Thread backuppc
Number : 11084597 > > From: backu...@kosowsky.org > Sent: Monday, March 2, 2020 7:59:30 PM > To: General list for user discussion, questions and support > > Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] keeping permanent backups > > Systems wrote at ab

Re: [BackupPC-users] keeping permanent backups

2020-03-02 Thread backuppc
Graham Seaman wrote at about 21:19:57 + on Monday, March 2, 2020: > That's beautiful! So simple. Do you think it will get added? > > Otherwise, I'll just need to make sure I manually add it back each time > Debian uprades its BackupPC - > > easy, but also easy to accidentally miss :-(

Re: [BackupPC-users] keeping permanent backups

2020-03-02 Thread Richard Shaw
On Mon, Mar 2, 2020 at 2:12 PM wrote: > > --- BackupPC_dump.orig 2020-02-02 10:30:49.0 -0500 > +++ BackupPC_dump 2020-02-02 10:34:28.955761936 -0500 > @@ -1871,6 +1871,9 @@ > my $noDelete = $i + 1 < @$Backups ? $Backups->[$i+1]{noFill} > : 0; > $noDelet

Re: [BackupPC-users] keeping permanent backups

2020-03-02 Thread Graham Seaman
That's beautiful! So simple. Do you think it will get added? Otherwise, I'll just need to make sure I manually add it back each time Debian uprades its BackupPC - easy, but also easy to accidentally miss :-( Graham On 02/03/2020 19:52, backu...@kosowsky.org wrote: > I added some simple

Re: [BackupPC-users] keeping permanent backups

2020-03-02 Thread Systems
ent: 02 March 2020 15:53 > To: backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] keeping permanent backups > > > Is the idea that incompatible with the way it works? I haven't tried looking > at the code yet, maybe I should. I was hoping there was alr

Re: [BackupPC-users] keeping permanent backups

2020-03-02 Thread backuppc
020 15:53 > To: backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] keeping permanent backups > > > Is the idea that incompatible with the way it works? I haven't tried looking > at the code yet, maybe I should. I was hoping there was already an

Re: [BackupPC-users] keeping permanent backups

2020-03-02 Thread backuppc
Richard Shaw wrote at about 08:20:29 -0600 on Monday, March 2, 2020: > > > > On Mon, Mar 2, 2020 at 5:08 AM Graham Seaman > > wrote: > > > >> I'd like to be able to mark some older full backups as 'frozen', not to > >> be deleted. Is that possible? I can't find any mention of this in the >

Re: [BackupPC-users] keeping permanent backups

2020-03-02 Thread Guillermo Rozas
Not the solutions that you're looking for, but maybe half-way there: - for new backups, you could create a "new" host with the same connection configuration (but a different name), and then configure it to do only manual backups ($Conf{BackupsDisable} = 1) with no expiration policy set for them ($

Re: [BackupPC-users] keeping permanent backups

2020-03-02 Thread Richard Shaw
On Mon, Mar 2, 2020 at 10:26 AM Systems wrote: > Can you rename the ID of the backup folder so that the cronjob doesn’t > delete it? > > > > mv /var/lib/BackupPC/pc// > /var/lib/BackupPC/pc//Keep- > Couldn't that have unintended consequences with the reference counting? Also, deduplication as we

Re: [BackupPC-users] keeping permanent backups

2020-03-02 Thread Systems
Can you rename the ID of the backup folder so that the cronjob doesn’t delete it? mv /var/lib/BackupPC/pc// /var/lib/BackupPC/pc//Keep- Maybe,? Thanks Ibrahim From: Graham Seaman Sent: 02 March 2020 15:53 To: backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] keeping

Re: [BackupPC-users] keeping permanent backups

2020-03-02 Thread Graham Seaman
Is the idea that incompatible with the way it works? I haven't tried looking at the code yet, maybe I should. I was hoping there was already an option to mark one backup out as exceptional. Several people have suggested making a backup elsewhere, but I would like to keep everything on the  sam

Re: [BackupPC-users] keeping permanent backups

2020-03-02 Thread Systems
-users] keeping permanent backups On Mon, Mar 2, 2020 at 5:08 AM Graham Seaman mailto:gra...@theseamans.net>> wrote: I'd like to be able to mark some older full backups as 'frozen', not to be deleted. Is that possible? I can't find any mention of this in the docs. I don

Re: [BackupPC-users] keeping permanent backups

2020-03-02 Thread Richard Shaw
> > On Mon, Mar 2, 2020 at 5:08 AM Graham Seaman > wrote: > >> I'd like to be able to mark some older full backups as 'frozen', not to >> be deleted. Is that possible? I can't find any mention of this in the >> docs. > > I don't think it's possible to mark one specific backup to keep, it's not rea

Re: [BackupPC-users] keeping permanent backups

2020-03-02 Thread Robert Trevellyan
You can change the configuration per host, including how older backups are expired. Will that do what you want? Robert Trevellyan On Mon, Mar 2, 2020 at 5:08 AM Graham Seaman wrote: > I'd like to be able to mark some older full backups as 'frozen', not to > be deleted. Is that possible? I can'