Re: [BackupPC-users] I'd like to make a suggestion to the BPC devsm

2017-07-30 Thread Craig Barratt via BackupPC-users
Back to the original request - you could set up a second BackupPC host (using ClientNameAlias to point to the real host) to do incrementals-only (with rsync) every hour. However, as others have noted, it's a lot less efficient to do that versus snapshots: rsync has to traverse the whole client fil

Re: [BackupPC-users] I'd like to make a suggestion to the BPC devsm

2017-07-21 Thread Bzzzz
On Fri, 21 Jul 2017 13:12:25 -0500 Les Mikesell wrote: > There is a missing piece in terms of recreating the > partitions/filesystems/raids to match the system you want to recreate, OMFG, ZE missing link ? ;-p) > unless you have already automated that with tuned kickstart files or > all of your

Re: [BackupPC-users] I'd like to make a suggestion to the BPC devsm

2017-07-21 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 12:32 PM, B wrote: > >> You might also want >> a image copy on a remote server, which is yet another different >> requirement. > > I guess you mean for total reconstruction (?) > At this time I did not found any significant gain of time between image > (which, BTW, take

Re: [BackupPC-users] I'd like to make a suggestion to the BPC devsm

2017-07-21 Thread Bzzzz
On Sat, 22 Jul 2017 02:40:57 +1000 Adam Goryachev wrote: > I think you want both snapshots on the local server, as well as BPC on > a remote server. They each serve a different need. Hmm, I'm not that sure; for the time being, snapshots will be kept and doubled w/ other BPC servers for daily "sn

Re: [BackupPC-users] I'd like to make a suggestion to the BPC devsm

2017-07-21 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 11:40 AM, Adam Goryachev wrote: > > I think you want both snapshots on the local server, as well as BPC on a > remote server. They each serve a different need. You might also want a image > copy on a remote server, which is yet another different requirement. > On the image

Re: [BackupPC-users] I'd like to make a suggestion to the BPC devsm

2017-07-21 Thread Adam Goryachev
On 22/7/17 01:38, B wrote: On Fri, 21 Jul 2017 09:27:41 -0500 Les Mikesell wrote: The quick fix here is to use a Mac with an external or network drive for time machine. If you aren't familiar with it, it does exactly Among many other, Apple products are to stay out of the company. wh

Re: [BackupPC-users] I'd like to make a suggestion to the BPC devsm

2017-07-21 Thread Bzzzz
On Fri, 21 Jul 2017 09:27:41 -0500 Les Mikesell wrote: > The quick fix here is to use a Mac with an external or network drive > for time machine. If you aren't familiar with it, it does exactly Among many other, Apple products are to stay out of the company. > what you suggested with easy acce