On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 11:16 AM, Gandalf Corvotempesta
wrote:
> 2017-09-01 17:10 GMT+02:00 Ray Frush :
>> BackupPC's retention rules are not necessarily the easiest to understand.
>> Your proposed schedule would result in having only 7
2017-09-01 18:29 GMT+02:00 Les Mikesell :
> Unless you have a huge turnover in data, keeping more backups will not
> take a lot more space on the server. There is only one copy kept of
> each unique file, no matter how many backups you keep. And, since it
> is compressed
On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 11:35 AM, Gandalf Corvotempesta
wrote:
> 2017-09-01 18:29 GMT+02:00 Les Mikesell :
>> Unless you have a huge turnover in data, keeping more backups will not
>> take a lot more space on the server. There is only one
2017-09-01 18:50 GMT+02:00 Les Mikesell :
> Large, changing files can be a problem, but log files tend to be
> highly compressible.
rotated log files are already compressed by the client.
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On Fri, 1 Sep 2017 11:50:25 -0500
Les Mikesell wrote:
> Large, changing files can be a problem, but log files tend to be
> highly compressible.
Yup, I confirm, a large VM file (50G) on one laptop extends the backups
time from a few hours to 2 days when it has been used :/
Gandalf-
Sounds like you need a bigger backup server.
BackupPC keeps the tranfer logs compressed, even the most recent one.
Typical log sizes for my largest host (768GB, 6.7 Million files) which
also has a significant amount of churn. You can see that the Full, (backup
65) even compressed,
On 2017-09-01 03:10, Orazio Di nino wrote:
Hello everyone,
I would like to back up two hosts at different times.
es. host1 at 10:00 PM and host2 at 4:00 PM.
How do I configure this?
thank you
Orazio
Since BackupPC wasn't designed with the "I want to set the exact time
that each backup
2017-09-01 17:10 GMT+02:00 Ray Frush :
> BackupPC's retention rules are not necessarily the easiest to understand.
> Your proposed schedule would result in having only 7 days of backups, which
> is probably not what you want.
Yes, only 7 days of backups is what I want.
I
Longish answer below...
On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 3:22 AM, Gandalf Corvotempesta <
gandalf.corvotempe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2017-08-31 16:33 GMT+02:00 Ray Frush :
> > The values you'll want to check:
> > $Conf{IncrKeepCnt} = 26; # This is the number of total
> From: Orazio Di nino
>
> Hello everyone,
> I would like to back up two hosts at different times.
> es. host1 at 10:00 PM and host2 at 4:00 PM.
> How do I configure this?
The easiest way is to set a cron job like the one below. The '0' at the end
means to do an
2017-08-31 16:33 GMT+02:00 Ray Frush :
> The values you'll want to check:
> $Conf{IncrKeepCnt} = 26; # This is the number of total 'unfilled'
> backups kept.
>
> $Conf{FillCycle} = 7;# This is how often a filled backup is kept (1 per
> week) which strongly
Hello everyone,
I would like to back up two hosts at different times.
es. host1 at 10:00 PM and host2 at 4:00 PM.
How do I configure this?
thank you
Orazio
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