From: Summers, J. B, I. <jsu...@ou...> - 2002-10-25 14:27:14
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This will be great project. I to am using Amanda to backup the pool to tape. I am thinking about doing the following but have not even begun or tried, since my poolsize is okay: 1 get a large disk that I can partition down to keep Amanda happy. 2 if I need to restore something that is no longer in the pool then dump the amanda backup to a reserved/empty partition. 3 symlink $TOPDIR/data to that 4 now comes the unknown part: can I now restore using backuppc? Currently pressed for time so I am not sure when it will bubble to the top. -----Original Message----- From: Eri...@in... [mailto:Eri...@in...] Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 8:44 AM To: bac...@li... Subject: [BackupPC-users] how to use backuppc Hi I'm using right now in an experimental basis and it works quite well. Now i would like to put it in production and i would like to do that in a special way. I will use it normally but i would like to combine it with our amanda configuration. Then when the backups are expired from the server disk i could find the backup in the amanda tape. But now i have the following problem. I use compression of the pool and i have no way to find on the amanda dump the file that was backup from the laptop. All the directories and files have hexadecimal name. Then it s difficult to choose on tape what u want to restore. I need to have the data "online" in order to be able to read them. I 'm not sure i can afford enough disk to get the data backup during a sufficient period of time. does anyone suceed in combining backuppc and amanda? -- Eric Doutreleau I.N.T | Tel : +33 (0) 160764687 9 rue Charles Fourier | Fax : +33 (0) 160764321 91011 Evry France | email : Eri...@in... ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: Influence the future of Java(TM) technology. Join the Java Community Process(SM) (JCP(SM)) program now. http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?sunm0004en _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list Bac...@li... https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users |
From: Guillaume F. <gf...@lo...> - 2002-10-31 00:32:04
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At 09:20 -0500 25/10/02, Summers, James B, II wrote: >This will be great project. I to am using Amanda to backup the pool to >tape. I am thinking about doing the following but have not even begun or >tried, since my poolsize is okay: > >1 get a large disk that I can partition down to keep Amanda happy. >2 if I need to restore something that is no longer in the pool then dump >the amanda backup to a reserved/empty partition. >3 symlink $TOPDIR/data to that >4 now comes the unknown part: can I now restore using backuppc? I've done that with an archived data directory. I actually did: cp -R /mnt/cdrom/ archive /etc/init.d/backuppc stop mv data data-current mv archive data /etc/init.d/backuppc start It did work fine. I went on the CGI interface and recovered my files. I did it quick enough so that BackupPC didn't had time to start scheduled backups, maibe there is (or should be) an option to temporarly halt any scheduled event, a kind of read-only mode for backuppc? Best, GFK's -- Guillaume Filion Logidac Tech., Beaumont, Qu=E9bec, Canada - http://logidac.com/ PGP Key and more: http://guillaume.filion.org/ (this will redirect) |
From: Guillaume F. <gf...@lo...> - 2002-10-31 00:40:58
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At 19:31 -0500 30/10/02, Guillaume Filion wrote: >I've done that with an archived data directory. I actually did: >cp -R /mnt/cdrom/ archive >/etc/init.d/backuppc stop >mv data data-current >mv archive data >/etc/init.d/backuppc start > >It did work fine. I went on the CGI interface and recovered my >files. I did it quick enough so that BackupPC didn't had time to >start scheduled backups, maibe there is (or should be) an option to >temporarly halt any scheduled event, a kind of read-only mode for >backuppc? I guess it should be noted that I'm using a modified-to-work-on-a-samba-share version of BackupPC. This version doesn't use the pool at all, so it doesn't use any hardlinks. YMMV. GFK's -- Guillaume Filion Logidac Tech., Beaumont, Qu=E9bec, Canada - http://logidac.com/ PGP Key and more: http://guillaume.filion.org/ (this will redirect) |