Re: [BackupPC-users] Handling machines too large to back themselves up

2021-04-09 Thread Dave Sherohman
Do you know offhand of any online documentation on using pre/postcmd in this way?  Using that and ClientNameAlias could be a solution, although it always makes me uneasy to use any backup target other than the root of a filesystem, due to the possibility of things falling through the cracks if

Re: [BackupPC-users] Handling machines too large to back themselves up

2021-04-09 Thread Dave Sherohman
On 4/8/21 8:46 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: On Thu, Apr 8, 2021 at 8:25 AM Dave Sherohman wrote: rsync error: error allocating core memory buffers (code 22) at util2.c(118) [sender=3.2.0dev] This is more about the number of files than the size of the drive. Do you happen to know if there are direc

Re: [BackupPC-users] Handling machines too large to back themselves up

2021-04-09 Thread Bowie Bailey via BackupPC-users
I don't know where the online documentation is offhand, although if you are configuring BackupPC from the web interface, most of the setting names are clickable links into the documentation.  You can click on "DumpPreUserCmd" to see a general description of the setting along with some variables

Re: [BackupPC-users] Migrate to new server

2021-04-09 Thread Alan Taylor
Johan, Thanks very much, I’ll look harder for previous posts. BRgds/Alan > On 5 Apr 2021, at 11:07, Alan Taylor wrote: > > Hello, > > I am running BackupPc 4.3 on a debian server, actual physical data store size > about 360Gb. > > I would like to build a new server. > Preference is to copy