I'm trying to look for problems in my large backup list, like a job that
runs too long and times out, or prevents other jobs from running soon
enough. I'd then know to break that job up into smaller jobs. It would be
useful to know the runtime of currently-running backup jobs. Additionally,
if
I saw a new release in my daily yum update check on CentOS 7 and wondered
what changed. It turns out to be a change to the systemd invocations in the
RPM package scripts that start and stop the service. So nothing in the
actual BackupPC code changed. It's just packaging cleanup. No need to rush
I highly recommend installing etckeeper. It puts all of /etc under
revision control. I use CentOS which is based on yum/dnf/rpm and it will
perform an auto-commit of changed files before updating. I disable that
feature so that yum won't update until I manually commit any outstanding
configurat
Your warning is vague and completely unhelpful...
Assuming you are using a well-maintained distro and a supported
backuppc set of packages, it is extremely unlikely that running system
updates and backuppc simultaneously would cause any problems.
Since you didn't mention the distro or the maint
On Sun, Aug 1, 2021 at 9:30 AM oetschi.ex...@bluewin.ch
wrote:
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>
> So backuppc users please do not make (full-) backups and system updates
> together. You could lose some time in investigating and not be able to use
> backuppc.
>
This report might be more useful if you mentioned 'which' syste
Hello backuppc,
This is a message to warn all users:
During a full backup of all my clients the backuppc task went crazy and I could
read in the log file that backuppc wanted to start a backup every minute until
I stopped the task. After that backuppc did not start anymore. After some days
troub
Hello,
I used to include common parameters using "do" in PCs .pl files, e.g:
do "/etc/backuppc/template/default-retention.pl";
It seems to be ignored now with V4 versions, for instance I saw BackupPC
deleting all backups because it ignored the retention set in included file and
falled back to d
