[BackupPC-users] Compression during Xfer

2008-10-10 Thread Sebastien Sans
Hello, The compression system of the pool in BackupPc is great, it save a lot of place, but I didn't found how to compress the tranfers in order to save my bandwidth. I tryed to modify the command line in rzync and tar modes to activate compression (i added -z options to use gz compression), the

Re: [BackupPC-users] Compression during Xfer

2008-10-10 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
Sebastien Sans schrieb: Hello, The compression system of the pool in BackupPc is great, it save a lot of place, but I didn't found how to compress the tranfers in order to save my bandwidth. I tryed to modify the command line in rzync and tar modes to activate compression (i added -z

Re: [BackupPC-users] Script for managing mdadm add/removes

2008-10-10 Thread Kim Pedersen
Thanks for the udev pointers everone - had a hectic work week with an even more crazy one coming up, but I'll see if I can't sneak in some time over the week for a first jab at it. Will let post back how it goes Regards, Kim Pedersen dan wrote: yes, UDEV can do an action for a

Re: [BackupPC-users] backing up large SQL DB's

2008-10-10 Thread dan
for backing up MySQL databases, why not run a second MySQL and sync them on a schedule? Then if you have a problem you dont even need to restore, you can just switch to the other server or restart the first machine and sync the other way? If you do this you can sync, then stop the backup so you

[BackupPC-users] Almost working

2008-10-10 Thread Kenneth L. Owen
Hello all, For a number of years I have run a small home network of windows machines. I recently decided to move my computing to Linux. I now have two machines running Fedora 8. The first machine assumed the role of my windows server using samba. The second machine is to be my system