Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC_dump syntax
That's beyond me (code it and submit a patch). Is there not a repository or a way to submit these to those whom where code it and submit a patch doesn't frighten? :-) On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 12:53 PM, backu...@kosowsky.org wrote: Bryan Keadle (.net) wrote at about 10:50:46 -0500 on Monday, July 9, 2012: Thanks. How might one suggest such an enhancement request - a trial run feature that would show *WHAT* would get backed up, but not actually backup? Code it and submit a patch... -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC_dump syntax
I don't think you will find many people here willing to code and submit a patch to satisfy your personal feature requests unless they happen to need it for themselves. The leader/maintainer of BackupPC is reportedly focusing all his efforts on a complete rewrite. The rest of us are here as users and volunteers. Given that you have been asking a lot of the group, it's not unreasonable to ask/expect you to contribute back especially when this is your own feature requests. The code is open and very readable. Perhaps offer to pay someone to code it for you and contribute the code back if you lack the ability to do it yourself. Bryan Keadle (.net) wrote at about 14:27:21 -0500 on Friday, July 13, 2012: That's beyond me (code it and submit a patch). Is there not a repository or a way to submit these to those whom where code it and submit a patch doesn't frighten? :-) On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 12:53 PM, backu...@kosowsky.org wrote: Bryan Keadle (.net) wrote at about 10:50:46 -0500 on Monday, July 9, 2012: Thanks. How might one suggest such an enhancement request - a trial run feature that would show *WHAT* would get backed up, but not actually backup? Code it and submit a patch... -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC_dump syntax
I hear you - I'm not expecting people to serve my personal interests. But this has been such an active and helpful group, I just thought the suggestion had merit beyond my personal interest and that someone more familiar with coding would take interest. I can't wait to be able to contribute back to this group - but I'm just now getting my feet wet and learning how all this works. As my experience and confidence grows, I certainly hope to be able to give back and pay it forward. I fear, however, based on your tone that I may have worn out my welcome, and if so, my apologies. I'm just trying to make good use of available resources as I orient myself to this great piece of software. On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 2:46 PM, backu...@kosowsky.org wrote: I don't think you will find many people here willing to code and submit a patch to satisfy your personal feature requests unless they happen to need it for themselves. The leader/maintainer of BackupPC is reportedly focusing all his efforts on a complete rewrite. The rest of us are here as users and volunteers. Given that you have been asking a lot of the group, it's not unreasonable to ask/expect you to contribute back especially when this is your own feature requests. The code is open and very readable. Perhaps offer to pay someone to code it for you and contribute the code back if you lack the ability to do it yourself. Bryan Keadle (.net) wrote at about 14:27:21 -0500 on Friday, July 13, 2012: That's beyond me (code it and submit a patch). Is there not a repository or a way to submit these to those whom where code it and submit a patch doesn't frighten? :-) On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 12:53 PM, backu...@kosowsky.org wrote: Bryan Keadle (.net) wrote at about 10:50:46 -0500 on Monday, July 9, 2012: Thanks. How might one suggest such an enhancement request - a trial run feature that would show *WHAT* would get backed up, but not actually backup? Code it and submit a patch... -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC_dump syntax
On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 10:50 AM, Bryan Keadle (.net) bkea...@keadle.net wrote: How might one suggest such an enhancement request - a trial run feature that would show *WHAT* would get backed up, but not actually backup? I'm not really sure the concept makes sense across the different transports. Rsync has a --dry-run option that can be used along with --verbose to see filenames with changes, but tar/smbtar are either going to give you the content or not depending on the options you give them. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC_dump syntax
On Sun, Jul 08, 2012 at 09:48:07AM -0500, Bryan Keadle (.net) wrote: The BackupPC_dump syntax shows to be: usage: /usr/share/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_dump [-d] [-e] [-f] [-i] [-F] [-I] [-v] But I could not find where these options are defined. Read the top of the file for the details on what the flags do. Also, does this command actually *DO* the backup, or is it just producing a list of files to be backed up? It actually does the dump. I'm still trying to get the BackupFilesExclude to work as expected and currently the way I've been testing is to initiate a backup of the client to see the results. However, if I can just produce a list of files that would be backed up to see the results of the BackupFilesExclude, that would be more efficient. Running BackupPC_dump with the -v option I think prints each file on stdout or stderr so you can interrupt it as soon as it starts backing up something you don't want. Not quite as good as just getting a listing but it may reduce your cycle time a little. -- -- rouilj John Rouillard System Administrator Renesys Corporation 603-244-9084 (cell) 603-643-9300 x 111 -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
