On 2/16/2012 11:45 AM, Arnold Krille wrote: > On Thursday 16 February 2012 11:08:38 Bowie Bailey wrote: >> On 2/16/2012 10:50 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: >>> On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 8:45 AM, Bowie Bailey <[email protected] >>> >>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>> My backup method involves sending a mirrored drive offsite on a >>> regular >>> basis. This drive contains the OS, BackupPC program, and the pool. >>> >>> Now I need to access some information from one of the old backups. I >>> can boot it up normally, but I want to make sure that BackupPC >>> does not >>> try to run any backups or do any cleanup while I'm working with it. I >>> know there's a flag I can set to prevent backups from running, but >>> what >>> do I need to do to prevent the cleanup from removing any of the >>> existing >>> backups? >>> >>> One option would be to not even start the server - just extract what >>> you need with the BackupPC_tarCreate command line program. >> >> Hmm... not a bad idea. I would rather be able to use the GUI for >> simplicity, but the command line programs would be safer. > > Please check (and report) what the gui shows when the daemon is not running. > > Last time I tested with webgui on a different machine than the fs and daemon, > the gui did show the machines and status but not the actual files. When the > daemon can't be contacted, it could be the other way round:-)
When the daemon is not running, the gui doesn't show much of anything. You don't even get a login prompt. -- Bowie ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
