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Craig,

I know you've seen this a few times before.. but..

My hat's off to you...

Thank you for a great product.. you have replaced an aging system for us that
only "marginally" worked with a piece of software that is very reliable.. has
very few problems.. and is HIGHLY configurable..

For others out there, our total investment in hardware was $6,600 for a Relion
430 from Penguin Computing... Dual 2.66GHz, 2GB Ram, 40GB System Drive, 1.2TB
IDE-RAID for BackupPC Data. We've taken some old (and I mean OLD) P200
machines w/ 128M RAM and 250G drives and threw them in our remote offices.

This setup has replaced our entire Backup scheme. I'm still working on dumping
to tape, but that's not really BackupPC's problem.

Thank You, Thank You, Thank You.

Tony

PS. WishList
1) Multiple Data Segments, IE: /dev/hdX, mounted at /usr/local/backuppc/data1,
/dev/hdY, mounted as /usr/local/backuppc/data2, and the ability to specify
which data storage area a machine gets written to.
2) (Non-Trivial) With all my remote offices, I'd like to be able to config my
primary server in NY to send requests (BackupPC to BackupPC probably) to enable
the primary web server to display status/logs/etc from the remotes.

--
Tony Nelson
Director of IT Operations
Starpoint Solutions LLC
115 Broadway, 2nd Fl
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1) Multiple Data Segments, IE: /dev/hdX, mounted at /usr/local/backuppc/data1,
/dev/hdY, mounted as /usr/local/backuppc/data2, and the ability to specify
which data storage area a machine gets written to.

Would there be any reason not to create /usr/local/backuppc/pc1, pc2
etc., mount your drives to each, and in each of those move the client
dirs under /usr/local/backuppc/pc, then create symbolic links to the
moved dirs in the original /usr/local/backuppc/pc dir?

so /usr/local/backuppc/pc/client1 -> /usr/local/backuppc/pc1/client1
(and /usr/local/backuppc/pc1 is the mountpoint for /dev/hdYX)

2) (Non-Trivial) With all my remote offices, I'd like to be able to config my
primary server in NY to send requests (BackupPC to BackupPC probably) to enable
the primary web server to display status/logs/etc from the remotes.

This is covered in the manual (v2.1.0), you need to edit the config.pl
file and change the $Conf{ServerPort} variable to a port number > 1024
(this port is used for communication with the BackupPC_Admin script on
the Apache server), then change the $Conf{ServerMesgSecret} variable
to a string that's not guessable. (details in the manual)

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Justin Guenther
IT Analyst
CrownAg International Inc.
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Regina, SK, Canada S4N 5P7
Tel: (306) 522-8111
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Tony Nelson writes:

I know you've seen this a few times before.. but..

My hat's off to you...

Thank you for a great product.. you have replaced an aging system for us that
only "marginally" worked with a piece of software that is very reliable.. has
very few problems.. and is HIGHLY configurable..

Thanks for the feedback!

1) Multiple Data Segments, IE: /dev/hdX, mounted at /usr/local/backuppc/data1,
/dev/hdY, mounted as /usr/local/backuppc/data2, and the ability to specify
which data storage area a machine gets written to.

I thought about this as a feature, but it would require the pool to be
duplicated too. Surely an LVM would be the best choice?

2) (Non-Trivial) With all my remote offices, I'd like to be able to config
my primary server in NY to send requests (BackupPC to BackupPC probably)
to enable the primary web server to display status/logs/etc from the
remotes.

At a minimum, can't you just point your NY browser at the remote
apache, assuming you have a secure connection?

Craig


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Justin Guenther writes:

1) Multiple Data Segments, IE: /dev/hdX, mounted at /usr/local/backuppc/data1,
/dev/hdY, mounted as /usr/local/backuppc/data2, and the ability to specify
which data storage area a machine gets written to.

Would there be any reason not to create /usr/local/backuppc/pc1, pc2
etc., mount your drives to each, and in each of those move the client
dirs under /usr/local/backuppc/pc, then create symbolic links to the
moved dirs in the original /usr/local/backuppc/pc dir?

so /usr/local/backuppc/pc/client1 -> /usr/local/backuppc/pc1/client1
(and /usr/local/backuppc/pc1 is the mountpoint for /dev/hdYX)

Unfortunately the hardlinks used in the pool don't work across
file systems. A symbolic link won't help.

The only choices with multiple physical drives are using a
raid or LVM setup, or running two instances of BackupPC.

Craig


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On 07/22 12:40 , Craig Barratt wrote:
The only choices with multiple physical drives are using a
raid or LVM setup, or running two instances of BackupPC.

I'm using LVM quite happily on my backup server; combining a mirrored pair
of 120GB drives and another pair of 160GB drives. (this just happened to be
the best arrangement I could build out of parts on hand; it's not what I'd
choose deliberately, but it isn't bad).

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Quoting Craig Barratt <cbarratt < at > users.sourceforge.net>:

Tony Nelson writes:

1) Multiple Data Segments, IE: /dev/hdX, mounted at
/usr/local/backuppc/data1,
/dev/hdY, mounted as /usr/local/backuppc/data2, and the ability to specify
which data storage area a machine gets written to.

I thought about this as a feature, but it would require the pool to be
duplicated too. Surely an LVM would be the best choice?


I honestly haven't investigate the LVM features available in Linux at this
point. I guess I'll have to go RTFM. I don't actually need this feature as my
pool is 350G/1.2T .. but who knows what future needs may be.

2) (Non-Trivial) With all my remote offices, I'd like to be able to config
my primary server in NY to send requests (BackupPC to BackupPC probably)
to enable the primary web server to display status/logs/etc from the
remotes.

At a minimum, can't you just point your NY browser at the remote
apache, assuming you have a secure connection?

That is how it works now. Ideally, to train my staff, I would prefer they all
just goto http://ny-backuppc and in the menu, be able to select remote servers
to view status of.. maybe they just redirect under the covers and I can setup
auto-magic authentication.. something to keep my folks from having to log into
9 different instances every day to verify backups ran successfully.. that's
really all I'm looking for.

Also, I guess some type of consolidated report wouldn't be bad either.. but I
haven't thought it all the way through.. of course, BackupPC doesn't *need*
these features.. which is why I put them in a "wishlist".

Tony


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Tony Nelson writes:

At a minimum, can't you just point your NY browser at the remote
apache, assuming you have a secure connection?

That is how it works now. Ideally, to train my staff, I would prefer they all
just goto http://ny-backuppc and in the menu, be able to select remote servers
to view status of.. maybe they just redirect under the covers and I can setup
auto-magic authentication.. something to keep my folks from having to log into
9 different instances every day to verify backups ran successfully.. that's
really all I'm looking for.

Also, I guess some type of consolidated report wouldn't be bad either.. but I
haven't thought it all the way through.. of course, BackupPC doesn't *need*
these features.. which is why I put them in a "wishlist".

In 2.1.0 you can add any additional links to the left nav bar with
the $Conf{CgiNavBarLinks} settings. So you could at least add links
to your other sites. The only drawback is these extra links apply to
all users, not just admins.

Craig


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