From: Phong V Le <ph...@wp...> - 2005-01-10 11:34:01
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Is there a feature to back up wirelessly? |
From: Craig B. <cba...@us...> - 2005-01-11 07:08:40
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Phong V Le writes: > Is there a feature to back up wirelessly? I regularly back up my laptop using rsync over 802.11a. Nothing special is needed. In fact, I never plug in my ethernet even on my dock station at home or work. Craig |
From: Lorrin N. <lhn...@ne...> - 2005-09-30 06:12:07
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Craig Barratt <cbarratt <at> users.sourceforge.net> writes: > > Phong V Le writes: > > > Is there a feature to back up wirelessly? > > I regularly back up my laptop using rsync over 802.11a. > Nothing special is needed. In fact, I never plug in my > ethernet even on my dock station at home or work. > > Craig Wireless backups are causing some headaches for me. Incrementals usually work; full backups are a problem because the connection is too slow. Is there a way to dynamically switch between wired and wireless backups? Creating two clients is not a viable solution: the wireless client will eventually get stuck on a full backup that never completes, and the wired client will generally be out of date. Right now I have to either toggle the client config file whenever it's time for a full backup or move the laptop and it's power adapter to a location closer to the base station and leave it on overnight. :-/ I think a nice new feature would be for BackupPC to allow alternate IP addresses / hostnames for a client. I believe $Conf{ClientNameAlias} only accepts a single value currently. With this feature if BackupPC sends me an email saying backups of my laptop are failing I'll know to plug in the Ethernet cord for a while to let the full back up run. Cheers- Lorrin |