Re: [BackupPC-users] No more free inodes

2012-10-23 Thread Frédéric Massot
Le 15/10/2012 17:05, Les Mikesell a écrit : On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 9:40 AM, Frédéric Massot frede...@juliana-multimedia.com wrote: The problem is that the original file system (ext4) has no inode available and increasing the size of an ext4 file system does not increase the number of the

Re: [BackupPC-users] No more free inodes

2012-10-23 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 3:23 AM, Frédéric Massot frede...@juliana-multimedia.com wrote: Just curious: does the content you back up consist mostly of tiny files without much duplication? It seems odd to run out of inodes while still having substantial disk space. I used the command df -i

[BackupPC-users] Backup plan

2012-10-23 Thread Jimmy Thrasibule
Hello, I'm looking on how to use BackupPC in order to backup a bunch of Windows installations and some Mac too. This is not my main concern as after reading the documentation, I think that BackupPC is well suited for that. My main problem is that I also have some external servers (spread over

[BackupPC-users] Need help creating a new module or any way to incorporate

2012-10-23 Thread Tilde88
Hi all! I need to edit the source to get backuppc to do a few new things. I would like to add a button (4 really) to be able to do certain commands. For example, one of the buttons would do 'dd if=XXX of=XXX' another would do 'VBoxManage blahblah' so on and so forth. I understand that these are

[BackupPC-users] Need help creating a new module or any way to incorporate

2012-10-23 Thread Tilde88
(needless to say, im horrible in PERL) +-- |This was sent by tilde1...@gmail.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +--

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup plan

2012-10-23 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Jimmy Thrasibule thrasibule.ji...@gmail.com wrote: My main problem is that I also have some external servers (spread over the Internet) to backup. In that case using as less as bandwidth as possible can be useful. As I understood, BackupPC downloads all the

Re: [BackupPC-users] Need help creating a new module or any way to incorporate

2012-10-23 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 12:45 PM, Tilde88 backuppc-fo...@backupcentral.com wrote: (needless to say, im horrible in PERL) I can't help much with code changes, but note that you already have the option to run custom commands on the targets with the $Conf{DumpPreUserCmd} = undef;

[BackupPC-users] Need help creating a new module or any way to incorporate

2012-10-23 Thread Tilde88
yea i know abotu the post and pre commands... i actually use them to turn on the rsync daemon on windows, and snapshot... the problem is, the commands that i need cannot be run on every backup... IE, one of the commands would make a virtualizable VHD, and another will convert that VHD to VMDK

Re: [BackupPC-users] Need help creating a new module or any way to incorporate

2012-10-23 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 2:02 PM, Tilde88 backuppc-fo...@backupcentral.com wrote: yea i know abotu the post and pre commands... i actually use them to turn on the rsync daemon on windows, and snapshot... the problem is, the commands that i need cannot be run on every backup... IE, one of the

[BackupPC-users] Need help creating a new module or any way to incorporate

2012-10-23 Thread Tilde88
thank you for that :) i will research on it now +-- |This was sent by tilde1...@gmail.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +--

[BackupPC-users] Need help creating a new module or any way to incorporate

2012-10-23 Thread Tilde88
:\ turns out this wont be useful for me... i do appreciate the suggestio nthough +-- |This was sent by tilde1...@gmail.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com.

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup plan

2012-10-23 Thread Michael Stowe
My main problem is that I also have some external servers (spread over the Internet) to backup. In that case using as less as bandwidth as possible can be useful. As I understood, BackupPC downloads all the data and do deduplication on the server side. A tool doing dedpulication on the

Re: [BackupPC-users] Need help creating a new module or any way to incorporate

2012-10-23 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 2:59 PM, Tilde88 backuppc-fo...@backupcentral.com wrote: :\ turns out this wont be useful for me... i do appreciate the suggestio nthough Seemed like a nice idea to have a bootable iso with scripts to reconstruct your disk layout (raid,lvm, filesytems) with the network

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup plan

2012-10-23 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 3:09 PM, Michael Stowe mst...@chicago.us.mensa.org wrote: My main problem is that I also have some external servers (spread over the Internet) to backup. In that case using as less as bandwidth as possible can be useful. As I understood, BackupPC downloads all the data

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup plan

2012-10-23 Thread Jimmy Thrasibule
And more to the point, do they have duplicate files that change in duplicate ways so the difference would matter more than once? After you get your initial copy, rsync is only going to xfer the changes. Indeed I wasn't aware of the delta transfer feature of rsync. I was thinking that it was

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup plan

2012-10-23 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 5:32 PM, Jimmy Thrasibule thrasibule.ji...@gmail.com wrote: And more to the point, do they have duplicate files that change in duplicate ways so the difference would matter more than once? After you get your initial copy, rsync is only going to xfer the changes.

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup plan

2012-10-23 Thread Jimmy Thrasibule
OK, Thanks, I'll start to play with BackupPC. Jimmy signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download