Re: [BackupPC-users] [BackupPC] Cpool and pc quite are big according to size of backuped data and backup config

[Hervé R. <he...@pe...>]

Les Mikesell wrote:
> Hervé Richard wrote:
>> >>>
>>> If I understand what you say, on my backup HDD I need conf, cpool, 
>>> log, pc, pool, save and trash to be there ?
>>> Is for that reason that's not working :-/
>>> I wish I could do a rotation between 2 hdd every 2 weeks....
>>> Maybe if I do the same thing on the other HDD: copy all needed 
>>> directory and mount the hdd partition under /files/
>>>
>
>>> P.S: As you guessed I supposed, I'm quite new as using backuppc :-/
>> Ok I've done some cleaning it was a little bit a mess :-/
>> BackuPC behave a little better now but I still have old backup that 
>> BackupPC_nightly doesn't want to remove :-/
>> I think I have to choice:
>> 1°) Comment the line for the host I backup files and let backuppc 
>> propose me tout delete its backup files
>> 2°) Use the BackupPC_deletebackup I saw on the wiki: 
>> http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net/How+to+delete+backups
>>
>> What do you think about?
>
> Since you have 2 disks, you could just start from scratch on one of 
> them and wait until it has a complete set before you swap again.  
> Another approach is to always run on an internal drive, but 
> periodically image-copy to a matching external disk that you rotate 
> offsite.  I do it that way myself but recently switched from firewire 
> externals to a swappable SATA enclosure.  I do the mirroring with 
> software raid, but it would work as well to unmount the partition 
> temporarily and dd it.
>
Hello Les,

By "start from scratch" you mean comment the backuped host in the 
"hosts" file, let BackupPC running and deleting all backup made?
Or what I have to delete manually?

For now backup hdd is connected as JBOD to the main RAID controller. I 
made a script which is executed via Webmin to stop/start backuppc, 
umount/mount the hdd, remove it from RAID controller/rescan the 
controller for new inserted disk.

Nice tips you told here :-)
With a swappable SATA enclosure I could dd one backup of 2 weeks on one 
hdd and the backup of the following 2 weeks on the other one and do the 
rotation... I'll think about it.


Thanks,

Cheers,

Hervé