anyway did you know that when you tell backuppc to restore a file into a folder it will NUKE THE CONTENT OF SAID FOLDER AND YOU WILL LOSE EVERYTHING IN THERE?

After switching over to #TrueNAS for my #BackupPC storage backend, the nightly cleanup job is quite fast:

Nightly cleanup removed 46074 files of size 89.43GiB (around 2024-06-16 00:01)

Prior to this with on-disk storage (XFS), the job did run like 1-2 hours each night, sometimes even way longer.

Great performance boost with TrueNAS, giving more time during night for the actual backups, that are now finished before I start my daily work.

Feeling accomplished.

Just moved the storage drive from my previous backuppc server to a freshly set up proxmox server. The backuppc software is now running in a VM and the physical 8TB drive is passed through to the VM.

Took a bit to get all the configuration files sorted out, but it is backing up clients now.

This video by "H2DC - How to do Computers" was helpful:

https://invidious.einfachzocken.eu/watch?v=U-UTMuhmC1U

Here's the command needed. I found the disk ID with this command:

ls -n /dev/disk/by-id/

Once I knew the correct disk ID, I passed it through to the VM using the VM-ID reference number:

/sbin/qm set [VM-ID] -virtio2 /dev/disk/by-id/[DISK-ID]

All of this is running on the Gigabyte GA-Z77X-D3H motherboard, Intel i7-2600 CPU, 16GB Corsair memory (pictured)

#proxmox #backuppc #backup #sysadmin

Tech Observation: There are a lot of useful applications written in #Perl

• #backuppc
• #foswiki
• #LedgerSMB

#BackupPC was such a reliable, versatile, and space-saving cross-platform backup solution.

Unfortunately, there is no active development and maintenance since 2020.

Is anyone of you aware of a comparable successor project?

#linux #opensource #backup #restore #perl

https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/