Re: [BackupPC-users] Config example for backing up linux host, local disk drive

2015-03-16 Thread Les Mikesell
On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 12:06 PM, Philip Prindeville philipp_s...@redfish-solutions.com wrote: The drive is a WD 3 TB USB 3.0 drive formatted as ext4 in a single partition (sdc1) and it is mounted (via /etc/fstab) at boot time. It isn’t intended for any other purpose but backups. I’d

Re: [BackupPC-users] Config example for backing up linux host, local disk drive

2015-03-16 Thread Philip Prindeville
On Mar 15, 2015, at 3:21 PM, Holger Parplies wb...@parplies.de wrote: Hi, Philip Prindeville wrote on 2015-03-10 16:49:30 -0600 [[BackupPC-users] Config example for backing up linux host, local disk drive]: [...] I have a Linux desktop box with a WD USB 3.0 external drive which I want

Re: [BackupPC-users] Config example for backing up linux host, local disk drive

2015-03-12 Thread Philip Prindeville
] Config example for backing up linux host, local disk drive Hi. I have a Linux desktop box with a WD USB 3.0 external drive which I want to use for backups. I was looking through the configuration documentation and while there's a lot of it, I thought there would be an example of something

Re: [BackupPC-users] Config example for backing up linux host, local disk drive

2015-03-12 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 11:01 AM, Philip Prindeville philipp_s...@redfish-solutions.com wrote: No, I’m saying I want to back up things like /var/spool/imap and /home to a local disk which happens to be externally mounted. I don't consider a copy stored on the same host where a simple

Re: [BackupPC-users] Config example for backing up linux host, local disk drive

2015-03-12 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 12:30 PM, Philip Prindeville philipp_s...@redfish-solutions.com wrote: But, note that while backuppc will give you a nice method to restore older versions of a few files or directories, and it can store more copies in less space than about anything else, it won't be a

Re: [BackupPC-users] Config example for backing up linux host, local disk drive

2015-03-11 Thread Philip Prindeville
On 03/11/2015 11:05 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 11:01 AM, Philip Prindeville philipp_s...@redfish-solutions.com wrote: No, I’m saying I want to back up things like /var/spool/imap and /home to a local disk which happens to be externally mounted. I don't consider a copy

Re: [BackupPC-users] Config example for backing up linux host, local disk drive

2015-03-11 Thread Richard Zimmerman
-Original Message- From: Philip Prindeville [mailto:philipp_s...@redfish-solutions.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2015 6:50 PM To: BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [BackupPC-users] Config example for backing up linux host, local disk drive Hi. I have a Linux desktop box

Re: [BackupPC-users] Config example for backing up linux host, local disk drive

2015-03-10 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 7:59 PM, Philip Prindeville philipp_s...@redfish-solutions.com wrote: Sure, but what else needs to be set? Was hoping for some canned config examples since there are so many parameters... My usual approach is to mount the volume where the backuppc package for the

Re: [BackupPC-users] Config example for backing up linux host, local disk drive

2015-03-10 Thread Philip Prindeville
Sure, but what else needs to be set? Was hoping for some canned config examples since there are so many parameters... On 03/10/2015 05:25 PM, Kris Lou wrote: Destination path? TopDir. From the web GUI: Edit Config - Server - Install Path - TopDir From theconfig.pl http://config.pl

[BackupPC-users] Config example for backing up linux host, local disk drive

2015-03-10 Thread Philip Prindeville
Hi. I have a Linux desktop box with a WD USB 3.0 external drive which I want to use for backups. I was looking through the configuration documentation and while there’s a lot of it, I thought there would be an example of something trivial but there wasn’t. I have the drive locally attached

Re: [BackupPC-users] Config example for backing up linux host, local disk drive

2015-03-10 Thread Kris Lou
Destination path? TopDir. From the web GUI: Edit Config - Server - Install Path - TopDir From the config.pl file: $Conf{TopDir} = '/path/to/location'; Kris Lou k...@themusiclink.net On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 3:49 PM, Philip Prindeville philipp_s...@redfish-solutions.com wrote: Hi. I