Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up BackupPC

2016-07-17 Thread Alessandro Polverini
That was one of my goals, but I discovered that the btrfs volume was unable to handle the millions of hard links needed by backuppc... Too bad. On 17/07/2016 20:14, Falko Trojahn wrote: > Am 14.07.2016 um 14:10 schrieb Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom: >> On 07/14 12:04 , Adam Goryachev wrote: >>> You

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up BackupPC

2016-07-17 Thread Falko Trojahn
Am 14.07.2016 um 14:10 schrieb Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom: > On 07/14 12:04 , Adam Goryachev wrote: >> You could also use dd, assuming that you have some method to ensure a >> consistent state throughout the tape backup period. >> >> 1) Store the backuppc volume on LVM, take a snapshot and stream the

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up BackupPC

2016-07-14 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 07/14 12:04 , Adam Goryachev wrote: > You could also use dd, assuming that you have some method to ensure a > consistent state throughout the tape backup period. > > 1) Store the backuppc volume on LVM, take a snapshot and stream the > snapshot to tape Tried doing this years ago. In that

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up BackupPC

2016-07-13 Thread Adam Goryachev
On 13/07/16 08:23, Falko Trojahn wrote: > bpb21 wrote on 11.07.2016 at 20:28: >> I've got BackupPC running on a CentOS server (working fine with Windows 10 >> PCs, by the way!). I'd like to back up, on occasion, the data BackupPC >> stores. >> >> For other servers, network shares, and CCTV

[BackupPC-users] Backing up BackupPC

2016-07-13 Thread bpb21
Thanks for the reply - very informative! After looking it all over, I'm strongly in the keep it simple camp. Since I'm running BackupPC on a pretty low spec server, and I've got room for one more, I think option 1 you presented is my best bet: 1) Run two BackupPC servers and have both back up

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up BackupPC

2016-07-13 Thread Falko Trojahn
bpb21 wrote on 11.07.2016 at 20:28: > I've got BackupPC running on a CentOS server (working fine with Windows 10 > PCs, by the way!). I'd like to back up, on occasion, the data BackupPC > stores. > > For other servers, network shares, and CCTV footage, I use LTO-5 Ultrium > tapes and just use

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up BackupPC

2016-07-12 Thread Kris Lou
> > The problem that you have to deal with is BackupPC's reliance on hard links within the pool -- and this is supposedly dealt with in 4.x (?). To resurrect some old discussions ( https://sourceforge.net/p/backuppc/mailman/message/27105491/): > > * For most people, rsync does not work to

[BackupPC-users] Backing up BackupPC

2016-07-11 Thread bpb21
I've got BackupPC running on a CentOS server (working fine with Windows 10 PCs, by the way!). I'd like to back up, on occasion, the data BackupPC stores. For other servers, network shares, and CCTV footage, I use LTO-5 Ultrium tapes and just use tar on the CentOS server connected to the tape

[BackupPC-users] Backing up BackupPC pool For Archival

2015-01-15 Thread Moeen Chowdhary
Hi, I have been using this solution for a while (6 months) to mainly backup windows file servers and PCs via SMB. That's working more or less like it should. Now I would like to determine what's the best method of backing up the backups themselves for long-term archival. I realize that

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up BackupPC pool For Archival

2015-01-15 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 4:09 PM, Moeen Chowdhary mchowdh...@wellplan.com wrote: Now I would like to determine what’s the best method of backing up the backups themselves for long-term archival. I realize that I can just configure backuppc to keep more full backups for a longer period of time,

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing-up BackupPC ?

2010-09-14 Thread Timothy Murphy
Les Mikesell wrote: When you are using the web interface to browse the backups you have the option to select a directory or collection of files and download it as a tar archive. You can do that from the same or a different computer and download to that external drive. Thanks as ever for

[BackupPC-users] Backing-up BackupPC ?

2010-09-13 Thread Timothy Murphy
I backup (with BackupPC) onto a partition /BackupPC on machine A. I backup one directory on machine A, and another directory on machine B. I recently received a smartd warning about machine A: - Device: /dev/sdb, 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing-up BackupPC ?

2010-09-13 Thread Les Mikesell
On 9/13/2010 7:32 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: I backup (with BackupPC) onto a partition /BackupPC on machine A. I backup one directory on machine A, and another directory on machine B. I recently received a smartd warning about machine A: - Device: /dev/sdb, 1

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing-up BackupPC ?

2010-09-13 Thread Timothy Murphy
Les Mikesell wrote: I have a large (1TB) USB external drive I would like to use to backup my BackupPC data, in case drive sdb actually packs up. I've looked quickly at the BackupPC documentation, in particular the section on archiving, but I am not entirely clear of the procedure, and

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing-up BackupPC ?

2010-09-13 Thread Les Mikesell
On 9/13/10 8:05 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: Les Mikesell wrote: I have a large (1TB) USB external drive I would like to use to backup my BackupPC data, in case drive sdb actually packs up. I've looked quickly at the BackupPC documentation, in particular the section on archiving, but I am

[BackupPC-users] backing up BackupPC server

2009-11-03 Thread hga
iarteaga wrote: Hello, I am testing BackupPC in a CentOS box and it is working great ... but now I want to backup the BackupPC server itself. I am using an external drive as backup storage and I want to schedule a backup for the BackupPC system and config files. Is this possible? if

Re: [BackupPC-users] backing up BackupPC server

2009-11-03 Thread Ivan Arteaga
Mirco Piccin wrote: Hi, I want to schedule a backup for the BackupPC system and config files. Is this possible? default installation of BackupPC provides also localhost backup. Localhost backup means of course BackupPC system and config files. Or, if it is not avalilable, you can add it.

Re: [BackupPC-users] backing up BackupPC server

2009-11-03 Thread Adam Goryachev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ivan Arteaga wrote: Mirco Piccin wrote: Hi, I did configure the backup for one share I have in the server using samba as /Xfer method/ but I am getting this message when the backup starts: 2009-11-04 00:31:21 Got fatal error during xfer (tree

Re: [BackupPC-users] backing up BackupPC server

2009-11-03 Thread Les Mikesell
Ivan Arteaga wrote: Mirco Piccin wrote: Hi, I want to schedule a backup for the BackupPC system and config files. Is this possible? default installation of BackupPC provides also localhost backup. Localhost backup means of course BackupPC system and config files. Or, if it is not

[BackupPC-users] backing up BackupPC server

2009-11-02 Thread iarteaga
Hello, I am testing BackupPC in a CentOS box and it is working great, so far I am backing up three different windows workstations without problems but now I want to backup the BackupPC server itself. I am using an external drive as backup storage and I want to schedule a backup for the

[BackupPC-users] backing up BackupPC server

2009-11-02 Thread Ivan Arteaga
Hello, I am testing BackupPC in a CentOS box and it is working great, so far I am backing up three different windows workstations without problems but now I want to backup the BackupPC server itself. I am using an external drive as backup storage and I want to schedule a backup for the

Re: [BackupPC-users] backing up BackupPC server

2009-11-02 Thread Mirco Piccin
Hi, I want to schedule a backup for the BackupPC system and config files. Is this possible? default installation of BackupPC provides also localhost backup. Localhost backup means of course BackupPC system and config files. Or, if it is not avalilable, you can add it. Usually BackupPC system

Re: [BackupPC-users] backing up BackupPC server

2009-11-02 Thread Ivan Arteaga
Mirco Piccin wrote: Hi, I want to schedule a backup for the BackupPC system and config files. Is this possible? default installation of BackupPC provides also localhost backup. Localhost backup means of course BackupPC system and config files. Or, if it is not avalilable, you can add it.