Re: [BackupPC-users] Mark backup for premenent retention
On 11/28/2017 11:03 AM, Alexander Kobel wrote:
On 11/28/2017 05:46 PM, Nick Bright wrote:
On 11/28/2017 10:38 AM, Nick Bright wrote:
Is there a way to mark a backup point (in this case, it's an
incremental) so that the backup (and all backups it depends on) are
preeminently retained?
e.g. for a server that's failed or been decommissioned?
I may have already done so by disabling backups with
$Conf{BackupsDisable} = 0;
"Disable all full and incremental backups. These settings are useful
for a client that is no longer being backed up (eg: a retired
machine), but you wish to keep the last backups available for
browsing or restoring to other machines."
Sounds like that does what I'm looking for, and I just skimmed over
the part about "keep the last backups available". I'm interpreting
this as it'll retain all existing backups. Could anybody confirm?
Confirmed, except that 0 means "not disabled".
AFAIU, the host still participates in cleanup according to the usual
settings (FullKeepCnt, FullKeepCntMin, IncrKeepCnt, IncrKeepCntMin),
but since you certainly didn't set all of those to 0, you will be golden.
Cheers,
Alex
Ah yes, I copy/pasted from the documentation. I did in fact set the host
for "$Conf{BackupsDisable} = 2;" per the documentation to "suspend all
backups".
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Re: [BackupPC-users] Mark backup for premenent retention
> -Original Message-
> From: Nick Bright [mailto:nick.bri...@valnet.net]
> Sent: den 28 november 2017 17:47
> To: backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Mark backup for premenent retention
>
> On 11/28/2017 10:38 AM, Nick Bright wrote:
> > Is there a way to mark a backup point (in this case, it's an
> > incremental) so that the backup (and all backups it depends on) are
> > preeminently retained?
> >
> > e.g. for a server that's failed or been decommissioned?
> >
> I may have already done so by disabling backups with
> $Conf{BackupsDisable} = 0;
>
> "Disable all full and incremental backups. These settings are useful for
> a client that is no longer being backed up (eg: a retired machine), but
> you wish to keep the last backups available for browsing or restoring to
> other machines."
>
> Sounds like that does what I'm looking for, and I just skimmed over the
> part about "keep the last backups available". I'm interpreting this as
> it'll retain all existing backups. Could anybody confirm?
That's what I do with decommissioned machines.
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Re: [BackupPC-users] Mark backup for premenent retention
On 11/28/2017 05:46 PM, Nick Bright wrote:
On 11/28/2017 10:38 AM, Nick Bright wrote:
Is there a way to mark a backup point (in this case, it's an
incremental) so that the backup (and all backups it depends on) are
preeminently retained?
e.g. for a server that's failed or been decommissioned?
I may have already done so by disabling backups with
$Conf{BackupsDisable} = 0;
"Disable all full and incremental backups. These settings are useful for
a client that is no longer being backed up (eg: a retired machine), but
you wish to keep the last backups available for browsing or restoring to
other machines."
Sounds like that does what I'm looking for, and I just skimmed over the
part about "keep the last backups available". I'm interpreting this as
it'll retain all existing backups. Could anybody confirm?
Confirmed, except that 0 means "not disabled".
AFAIU, the host still participates in cleanup according to the usual
settings (FullKeepCnt, FullKeepCntMin, IncrKeepCnt, IncrKeepCntMin), but
since you certainly didn't set all of those to 0, you will be golden.
Cheers,
Alex
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Re: [BackupPC-users] Mark backup for premenent retention
On 11/28/2017 10:38 AM, Nick Bright wrote:
Is there a way to mark a backup point (in this case, it's an
incremental) so that the backup (and all backups it depends on) are
preeminently retained?
e.g. for a server that's failed or been decommissioned?
I may have already done so by disabling backups with
$Conf{BackupsDisable} = 0;
"Disable all full and incremental backups. These settings are useful for
a client that is no longer being backed up (eg: a retired machine), but
you wish to keep the last backups available for browsing or restoring to
other machines."
Sounds like that does what I'm looking for, and I just skimmed over the
part about "keep the last backups available". I'm interpreting this as
it'll retain all existing backups. Could anybody confirm?
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