Hi,
I've just installed BackupPC on a SuSE 10.2 box (with some problems, but
now it works).
I have to backup some Win Laptops, but I only want to save some file types.
So i set $Conf {BackupFilesOnly} to '*.doc', but backuppc saves only
word files that are in the root of the module (setting it
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/16/2007
03:37:09 AM:
Timothy J. Massey wrote:
BackupPC's pool is stored on a large internal hard drive. Every
day at
a little after 7:00 A.M., the backup server starts an archive of each
host, which is stored on a second hard drive that is mounted
Timothy J. Massey wrote:
Won't the frequent reformatting et al. wear out your hard drives
pretty fast?
How is a couple of formats going to wear out a drive? I did not go
into
further detail, but now I will:
snip
There were *so* many more problems in the article you linked than the
fact
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/16/2007
12:59:50 PM:
Timothy J. Massey wrote:
Won't the frequent reformatting et al. wear out your hard drives
pretty fast?
How is a couple of formats going to wear out a drive? I did not go
into
further detail, but now I will:
snip
Timothy J. Massey wrote:
Again, I ask everyone: does anyone have a better solution? I have
heard only two solutions to the off-site storage issue. 1) Do an
archive to some sort of removable media. Given the storage
requirements, I don't see how it could be anything *other* than a hard
On 01/16 02:11 , Timothy J. Massey wrote:
Or are you all going without off-site backup? :)
the way we've been doing off-site backup is usually:
- get a second backuppc server somewhere offsite, backing up the most
critical information
OR
- use a tape backup system (which has the advantage of
Roy Keene (Contractor) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/16/2007
02:38:06 PM:
When I was using BackupPC, I used file_sync (part of BackupPCd) to
do a
byte-level mirror (rsync-like) everynight from the BackupPC machine
to the
offiste mirror.
Is this the same file_sync from OpenSync
Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/16/2007 02:28:46 PM:
If you have a suitable offsite location with enough internet
bandwidth, the
low-maintenance way is to throw a vpn between sites and let an
independent
instance of backuppc run from there, backing up the same targets.
We're
Aloha,
Is there any hope for adding bare-metal restore capabilities to BackupPC
for Windows clients?
Thanks,
Richard-
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Aloha,
Is there any hope for adding bare-metal restore capabilities to
BackupPC for Windows clients?
Thanks,
Richard
Bare metal restore is tricky.There are two things needed to make it
work 1) a backup of all the files on the box 2) a toolset for putting
As silly as it may sound, I have had some success using VitualPC or
VMWare or similar PC simulators rather than trying to restore a Windows
PC from scratch. The beauty of it is, you can have several sitting
around on the hard drive of the host OS, and when one crash and burns
(as Windows
John Pettitt wrote:
Both are problematic. A full backup means getting windows registry
hives which mean some sort of open file manager or snapshot driver is
needed - as far as I know there are no open source ofm products.
There is Elias' patched rsync with VSS [1], I have not used this
Use Windows Backup to save System State data. Create a job that runs
periodically and saves the data on the local machine. To restore from
bare metal:
1) Install Windows and get the system on the network.
2) Use BackupPc to restore the files to the new system.
3) Use Windows Backup to extract
Hi all,
got another one, I don't understand. I configured 4 hosts, of which 1
has a very poor network connection. I expect the first full backup to
need about two days. Now, this full is running for about 15 hours and
the cgi-interface status page shows me:
* 2 pending backup requests from
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