[Box Backup] Latest version

[Ben Summers]

On 5 Mar 2004, at 16:22, Nick Suckling wrote:

> Hi Ben,
>
> Thanks for the info all now working fine.

Great!

I assume that others are getting on OK with it, and there's no reason 
why I shouldn't do a release next week?

>
> If there is any way I can help you with the raid tools please let me
> know.

Hopefully they'll appear in the release after next.

Ben


>
> On Fri, 2004-03-05 at 10:07, Ben Summers wrote:
>> On 5 Mar 2004, at 09:58, Nick Suckling wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Ben,
>>>
>>> The server side seemed to install fine on OpenBSD 3.4 but the client
>>> bbackupd-config throws up the following.
>>>
>>> ERROR: backup mode must be 'lazy' or 'snapshot'
>>
>> I modified the config script slightly, but didn't want to change the
>> web site as it would confuse people using the old version:
>>
>>
>> bbackupd-config has a new parameter, it's now
>>
>>      bbackupd-config config-dir backup-mode account-num 
>> server-hostname
>> working-dir \
>>         backup-dir [more backup directories]
>>
>> backup-mode is either 'lazy' or 'snapshot'. Choose 'lazy' for the
>> current behaviour. Choose snapshot if you would like to use the new
>> bbackupctl program as a cron job to say exactly when you want to take 
>> a
>> snapshot of your file system. (The first mode is good for collections
>> of documents, the second is good for backing up servers.)
>>
>>
>>   -- summary: insert "lazy" after '/etc/box'.
>>
>>>
>>> Also an unrelated question but how would you rebuild the array from
>>> hard
>>> disk failure.
>>
>> At the moment, you have to wait until I write the necessary tools.
>> Shouldn't be that long, basically all the code is there, I just need 
>> to
>> pop it into a little daemon which does the magic in the background.
>>
>> Thanks for trying it out!
>>
>> Ben
>>
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