Several people have recently asked about whether it is possible to
have some files backed up only occasionally or to keep some files for
only a limited amount of time.
One example is perhaps you want to always have the most recent couple
of backups of your temp files so that if something crashes
I have looked for info on this but need a confirmation on some questions
I have. I was using SMB for backing up a few XP machines and switched to
Rsyncd on one of them. In looking at the backups there are some
differences.
First SMB. When I look at a SMB backup (full or incremental) I see what
Shawn Austin wrote at about 13:26:02 -0500 on Sunday, November 23, 2008:
Hello all,
Recently, when I went to restore a directory, I ran into a problem where the
files were not listed in the backup interface.
I checked the attrib file for that directory with BackupPC_attribPrint and I
Hello all,
Recently, when I went to restore a directory, I ran into a problem where the
files were not listed in the backup interface.
I checked the attrib file for that directory with BackupPC_attribPrint and I
was surprised by what I saw.
For all the files that were not showing up in the
Thanks for the prompt response.
Unfortunately, the file in question is still on the machine.
If I look in the backup history from the interface, it has some rather odd
results.
On Mon, 17 Nov 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My biggest worry regarding these outside-of-BackupPC hacks is that when I
need them, I'm going to find that they're not going to work because it was
running, say, simultaneous to an actual backup.
Don't get me wrong: I'll take the hacks. It's
On Tue, 18 Nov 2008, Adam Goryachev wrote:
Christian Völker wrote:
My way to backup the backup ;-) is LVM
The pool is on a LVM as a LV. To backup the pool while backuppc is
running I can take a snapshot of the pool's LV and I rsync this one. So
there are no filesystem issues and backuppc can
