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Stephen Edgar
@ntwb
p.s. I'm doing this on a Pi 3, I'd like to also install Backup on a few Pi Zero's if this works out ok, resources are much scarcer on the Pi Zero :thinking
Stephen Edgar
@ntwb
It looks like it finished installing without error, thanks @stuartellis :+1:
Randѕon
@rands0n
hi guys, i use this gem a lot, thanks for the work. But today i needed to restore a backup onto my machine dev, and I don't know how to backup into my machine :worried:, searched on the website and on the web a lot and dind't found anything, could someone help me on this?
Stuart Ellis
@stuartellis
@rands0n - Backup just uses the standard ZIP and TAR formats, so the backups can be opened with any archive opener tools. There isn’t actually a special restore process.
Stuart Ellis
@stuartellis
@ntwb - There isn’t any documentation on resource use, but Backup mostly just calls standard command-line utilities, so the resource use will mostly be determined by the size of the sources. Note that Backup has to create local copies of the backup archive even if you have configured it to store the backups remotely, so you have to think about disk space and disk I/O. If you are using the local storage on a Pi, rather than an attached USB drive, then TBH Backup and similar approaches are probably not the best solution.
In those cases, I would suggest making it as easy as possible to restore the devices, and thinking about whether the network is reliable enough to write log data etc. directly to remote systems, rather than holding them on local storage.
Stuart Ellis
@stuartellis
(I meant “reinstall the devices”, not “restore”).
Stephen Edgar
@ntwb
Thanks Stuart :+1: , helpful and will help as I start designing my backup strategy for the 10 or so systems I want to use Backup with, appreciated
Kevin Fries
@kevin-fries
Is there any way to get backup to provide details on why it is failing my config file check? all I get is that it does not appear to be a Backp v4.x file
Tom de Bruijn
@tombruijn
@kevin-fries does your config file contain the following comment? # Backup v4.x Configuration
Kevin Fries
@kevin-fries
It didn't but it does now, that worked! Thank You
Matheus Mendes
@bigodines_twitter
Is there a way to hide a mongodb instance during backup and unhide it afterwords?
Matheus Mendes
@bigodines_twitter
i guess a better question would be: how do I native mongo commands before and after the backup?
Stuart Ellis
@stuartellis
@bigodines_twitter - You might find before/after hooks useful: http://backup.github.io/backup/v4/before-after-hooks/
Randѕon
@rands0n
@stuartellis thanks =)
Luca Zecca
@lzecca78
Hi guys, i am introducing backup as mysql backup daily method for single db. I have setup bzip compressor and local srora
Local storage, everything is awsome, but
I would like to have for the latsst
I would like to have for the latest backup a symlink to latest
So in automated way i can easily access to it
And i would like to avoid tar step because the sql dump is already in bzip2 format and tar it is useless
Is there any way to do those things?
Stuart Ellis
@stuartellis
@lzecca78 - For the symlink, you could try using an “after” hook (see link above). The output is not adjustable - the tar is harmless, but I understand that it feels a bit pointless in this case.
Luca Zecca
@lzecca78
@stuartellis i tried yesterday but is not like Capistrano, i cannot put logic between steps
Stuart Ellis
@stuartellis
I’m afraid that I don’t understand.
Perhaps post a model on a Github gist or similar
Luca Zecca
@lzecca78
do you know Capistrano before and after hooks @stuartellis ?
you can trigger behaviors reffering to other task names
this give you a lot of power and granularity
Stuart Ellis
@stuartellis
Sure, but Capistrano is a more generic task runner
Luca Zecca
@lzecca78
yes yes, what i was trying to say is that the after/before hook of backup is something that let you do something like the rspec before/after
you cannot say before :archive do <code> end
that should be great
Stuart Ellis
@stuartellis
To be honest, that won’t happen unless you fork Backup: there is not much development these days.
If you have a simple and specific set of needs, then there’s nothing wrong with just writing a shell script
Luca Zecca
@lzecca78
i understand, thank you a lot @stuartellis
Stuart Ellis
@stuartellis
No problem. I’m a system administrator, and your case, I would probably write a script or use Rake
Stuart Ellis
@stuartellis

“This project is not under active development, although we will continue to provide support for current users, and at least one more maintenance release: version 5.0. The version 5.0 release will include support for Ruby 2.4, and various other fixes. Future releases of Backup will only include bug fixes.

If you use this project and would like to develop it further, please introduce yourself on the maintainers wanted ticket."

I have posted this notice on the project README and documentation ^^^
I will be working on a test plan, and then working through the open tickets to update them appropriately
Various issues will be resolved by Backup 5.0, but feature requests won’t.
Stuart Ellis
@stuartellis
Once the Backup 5.0 code passes whatever set of tests I think is essential, I will see about moving it to Release Candidate status.
My expectation is that there will be 0 open tickets for Backup 5.0. Mostly by politely closing feature request tickets and pull requests.
I expect that some people will be disappointed, but I am a strong believer in the Debian principle that nobody can demand free labour from someone else.
If you would like to develop a feature for your own fork, or submit a bug fix, I am happy to help as best I can.
Stuart Ellis
@stuartellis
Or if you would like to step up as a maintainer, please do!
br00tal
@br00tal
Hey everyone. I'm using the Slack notifier, and was wondering fi there's a way to omit the log output when a backup completes with a warning. Some of those logs can be quite large, and it creates for pretty large Slack posts in my case.
And thanks for the sweet backup software. Very good stuff.
Stuart Ellis
@stuartellis
@br00tal - on the Slack notifier, set “send_log_on”, as [:failure] - it defaults to: [:warning, :failure]
br00tal
@br00tal
stuartellis: ok, thanks. I'll give that a go!