Re: [BackupPC-devel] Feature Request

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Craig Barratt wrote:
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  <pre wrap="">Russell writes:

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    <pre wrap="">First, let me say as a new user of BackupPC, I am quite satisfied.  It 
is an excellent backup tool!  It does almost everything I need it to.  
There are two things I would like to see added.  Both features relate to 
the Archiving feature.

The first addition I would like to see is the ability to pass the 
archive stream through GPG or some other encryption tool before the 
archive file is created.  I have been doing this as a post Archive 
script taking the file and running it through GPG but I'm running out of 
disk space.  I no longer have the ability to store both the unencrypted 
archive and the encrypted one together.
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I assume you could modify bin/BackupPC_archiveHost to add gpg
to the pipeline.  You might be able to use it in place of one
of the existing entries such as gzip, par or split.
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Yea, that was my plan to initially make it work -- I would convert the
split part to an encrypt.&nbsp; Then redo it as a new step and offer it back
to the group for inclusion.&nbsp; <br>
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    <pre wrap="">The second addition I would like is to add the ability to automatically 
archive hosts.  I'm thinking an archive attribute could be added to the 
host which schedules the archive automatically after the backup has occured.
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In CVS (which is getting closer to being a 3.1.0 release) there is a new
script bin/BackupPC_archiveStart.  It is based on a script written by
Sergey Kovzik, which in turn was based on a script written by Holger.

The usage is:

    BackupPC_archiveStart archiveHost userName hosts...

This can be run from crontab and it creates the archive request
file and tells BackupPC to run the archive.  You could also run
it with $Conf{DumpPostUserCmd} if you want to do it after every
good backup.  
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For me, I would only want to do it after every good Full backup.&nbsp;
Thanks for the info.&nbsp; I'll get a copy of CVS and do some testing...<br>
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Craig
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