Re: [BackupPC-users] Lost config.pl file during full backup

2021-08-01 Thread Kenneth Porter
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

Re: [BackupPC-users] Lost config.pl file during full backup

2021-08-01 Thread backuppc
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

Re: [BackupPC-users] Lost config.pl file during full backup

2021-08-01 Thread Les Mikesell
On Sun, Aug 1, 2021 at 9:30 AM oetschi.ex...@bluewin.ch wrote: > > > 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

[BackupPC-users] Lost config.pl file during full backup

2021-08-01 Thread oetschi.ex...@bluewin.ch
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