Re: [BackupPC-users] disable wakeup / Read-only backuppc

[Les M. <les...@gm...>]

On 1/27/2010 5:56 PM, Adam Goryachev wrote:
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> HUGE | David Stahl wrote:
>>    I am actually doing a test lab right now. where I modified
>> /usr/local/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC
>> and am commenting out the parts out of  the "Main Loop" section related
>> to Backuppc_nightly and CmdQue and UserQue
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>> as well in the /usr/local/BackupPC/bin folder
>> I moved/renamed Backuppc_nightly and Backuppc_trashClean
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>> I will know soon enough if this worked or not. as I have left my 2  test
>> lab machine with different Conf{FullKeepCnt} and $Conf{IncrKeepCnt} counts
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> Just be very careful of what happens to your changes when you upgrade
> backuppc! Remember the path of least surprise.
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If you have a fairly recent kernel, you might have the ability to make 
read-only bind mounts in one place for backuppc's view while have a r/w 
mount elsewhere for the rsync.  I think CentOS is too old, though.

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   Les Mikesell
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