Re: [BackupPC-users] Scheduling Options, Scripts, and starting over

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

On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 5:31 PM, Brad Morgan <b-m...@co...> wrote:
>
> The question of restricting full backups to the weekends has come up a few
> times and I'm just wondering why the current blackouts can't be enhanced to
> provide two blackout schedules, one for incrementals and one for fulls.
> Would this solve the problem?

Maybe, but if your server is stable you can just force a full at
approximately the time of the week you would like it to repeat.  It
hasn't been a big problem here.

> I've also seen a couple of useful scripts (BackupPC_copyPcPool.pl,
> BackupPc_deleteFile.pl) and a jLib.pm but I haven't seen any documentation
> about how and where to install these files. Could someone point me in the
> right direction?

Those are special-case things that you normally don't need.

> One last question, I'm currently in evaluation mode to determine if this is
> the right solution for us (I also have to determine how to handle an offsite
> rotation). I've already filled up my root file system once and I may have
> under allocated a second drive (I'm running in a Hyper-V virtual machine).
> I've seen lots of documentation and discussion about how to copy the pool
> but nothing on how to just erase the pool and start over. Can someone
> describe how to "start over"?

If you've looked at the archives you've probably found that copying
the whole pool is a problem for a large system and an assortment of
so-so solutions, ranging from image-copying the volume to rotating
several external drives and just letting them catch up when you reuse
them.  If you have network bandwidth, consider just running a separate
copy offsite.   As for erasing the pool, that may depend on how you
installed or which packaged version you have, but I think the current
ones that split configs to /etc/* and the archive to /var/lib/*
locations will handle a new empty archive automatically.

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   Les Mikesell
    les...@gm...