On Thu, 2011-03-03 at 21:35 -0500, Brad Alexander wrote:
I had noticed this a while back, because of a misconfiguration on my
part. However, that brings a thought to mind, a feature request.
I guess the best way to describe it would be a dry run restore mode.
Something where I could run a
Hello all,
I was wondering if a new type of backup could be added to the list (right now
we have tar,rsync,archive, etc). I was thinking in a LVM snapshot, but the
backup wouldn't be done on the FS level but at block level.
I'm talking about this because I've a special need for backing up a
On 3/4/11 3:56 AM, Tyler J. Wagner wrote:
On Thu, 2011-03-03 at 21:35 -0500, Brad Alexander wrote:
I had noticed this a while back, because of a misconfiguration on my
part. However, that brings a thought to mind, a feature request.
I guess the best way to describe it would be a dry run
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On 04/03/11 23:32, Pedro M. S. Oliveira wrote:
I'm not sure about doing the 16TB (performance, backup duration) so I
thinking in some kind of block device backup.
Idea:
1 - Create lvm snapshot of the block device
2 - Backup lvm snapshot (I could
Hello... Switching from Amanda. Testing my new Backuppc install.
When I ran a restore for 1 file this morning my host log shows...
2011-03-04 09:22:46 restore started below directory /usr
2011-03-04 09:22:46 restore 0 complete (1 files, 40180 bytes, 0 dirs, 2
xferErrs)
Here is the restore
Hi Adam,
Thanks for the quick response but I doubt I can split 16TB of data and then
backup in a timely manner.
But it's worth a try.
Cheers,
Pedro
On Friday 04 March 2011 13:27:13 Adam Goryachev wrote:
On 04/03/11 23:32, Pedro M. S. Oliveira wrote:
I'm not sure about doing the 16TB
Hello... Switching from Amanda. Testing my new Backuppc install.
- I should have mentioned... This is Backuppc 3.1.0 running on Ubuntu server
10.10 backing
up and restoring to a FreeBSD 5.2.1 machine.
When I ran a restore for 1 file this morning my host log shows...
2011-03-04 09:22:46
Thats a good point, Les. I also thought that with backuppc 4.0 on the way,
I'd mention maybe having some test options within backuppc itself. I was
more thinking out loud, and this thread kind of gelled the need in my mind.
--b
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 8:51 AM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com
Brad Alexander wrote at about 14:13:22 -0500 on Friday, March 4, 2011:
Thats a good point, Les. I also thought that with backuppc 4.0 on the way,
I'd mention maybe having some test options within backuppc itself. I was
more thinking out loud, and this thread kind of gelled the need in my
