On 2023-06-28 15:49, Norman J. Goldstein wrote:
I want to have a different strategy for backing up photos than for
backing up documents that I am editing. Basically, it would be a rare
event to do a full backup of my photos. I assume that the host name,
say myPC, must correspond to myPC.pl i
Hi,
what I do is to have two different hosts in the server configuration (myPC
and myPC_photo), and both hosts have defined "ClientNameAlias" to the same
real host name address (IP or host name, but help says dhcp must be
disabled for the host). That way I can define two completely separated
backup
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> *I* don't do it, simply because there's little practical difference
> between rsync'ing directories that don't change and not rsync'ing them.
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Just to give reason *I* use it:
- retention policy for different folders is different (I keep my photos
backup much longer than my system configuratio
Thanks for the feedback and pointer to ClientNameAlias. This saves me
creating an alias at the OS level.
Here is the doc page:
https://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html#_conf_clientnamealias_
On 2023-06-29 06:05, Guillermo Rozas wrote:
Hi,
what I do is to have two different hosts in
Hi Patrick,
Two suggestions:
1. check rsync log file on your windows client, it might have more
information on authentication failure.
2. your rsync config file on the client side might have 'hosts allow'
directive limiting IPs/hosts that can initiate the connection.
regards
/aleks
> I'm using
