From: Gerald B. <gb...@ma...> - 2010-03-10 16:39:54
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----- "Sylvain Viart - Gmail" <syl...@gm...> wrote: > Les, > > > > But, your real problem is that even if you get the scheme mostly > > working, you will not be able to restore a primary backuppc server to a > > usable state in a reasonable amount of time. Most people aren't able to > > do this even with more efficient schemes like native rsync. And you > > won't be able to use the files directly like you might if you did > > straight rsync or an image copy. > > > Totally. > > In fact, I think another idea. > > Why not using the Precommand to > > # stop the backup violently > /etc/init.d/backuppc stop > > # extract every hosts > for host in /etc/backuppc/hosts > extract the last backup for $host | ssh to_secondary_backup > /local/image/$host > done > Isn't this essentially what archive does? > # if I could do diff rsync would be better > > nothing to really backup on this host, would be localhost (secondary > backup) may be. > /etc/init.d/backuppc start > > > Try a test restore to see if it is worth the fight. > > > in progress... > > > You have the magic wand in the form of the pre/post commands that you > > can run on a target. > > > yep, I've put some bash's runes over it! ;-) > > Is there a good section on the wiki for that? > (not for magic wand making, but for the bash script!!) > > Thanks for your suggestions. > Regards, > Sylvain. > > -- > Sylvain Viart. > Gmail. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval > Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs > proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. > See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev > _______________________________________________ > BackupPC-users mailing list > Bac...@li... > List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net > Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ > |