ActiveBackup Possibilities?

[steve-l]

Hi,

I have used this for a short while just to backup my HomeSeer folder each night, and it does it really well.... I was just wondering if it is suitable for/capable of backing up the data on an entire drive (not a boot drive). Talking of about 20GB+ from one drive to another - can you even have Zip files that big??? Also what about incremental backups?

Also is there any way that it can be made to only consume (for example) 50% of available CPU power? I say this as I am currently experiencing problems with my current backup software (Nero backITup) hogging the CPU and causing RFiD errors on my system

Cheers,

Steve

[themax74]

Yes, 20GB is possible,but not incremental.
I suggest you to make an uncompressed backup. In this case, the plugin only copy modified files,preserving cpu.
Note that the plugin,alwais leave enough cpu time for HS.
Bye!

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[steve-l]

Thanks for the quick reply! I'll try some uncompressed backups and see how it goes!

Cheers,

Steve

[steve-l]

Hi,

The backup seemed to work OK last night (averaged out to about 500MB per minute), but I had to check this manually - the check script only checked my first (regular homeseer) backup and not the new backup job I created?

Cheers,

Steve

[themax74]

Hi,

The backup seemed to work OK last night (averaged out to about 500MB per minute), but I had to check this manually - the check script only checked my first (regular homeseer) backup and not the new backup job I created?

Cheers,

Steve

There aren't check scripts. The plug-in itself checks the zip.
If in device you see |OK, then the zip is OK. Otherwise you will see |Error


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[steve-l]

There aren't check scripts. The plug-in itself checks the zip.
If in device you see |OK, then the zip is OK. Otherwise you will see |Error


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Sorry - poor choice of words for my description!

However, I think I can see what the porblem is now - you suggested I do an UNCOMPRESSED backup - the plugin only seems to check COMPRESSED (zipped) backups? Is there no way for it to also check the uncompressed ones - I really miss the security/re-assurance of knowing it worked OK?

Cheers,

Steve

[Tcassio]

You might want to consider the Cobian backup software. Its free and does what you want. Google Cobian and you will find out more about it.

[themax74]

Sorry - poor choice of words for my description!

However, I think I can see what the porblem is now - you suggested I do an UNCOMPRESSED backup - the plugin only seems to check COMPRESSED (zipped) backups? Is there no way for it to also check the uncompressed ones - I really miss the security/re-assurance of knowing it worked OK?

Cheers,

Steve

Added to the to-do list!



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[steve-l]

Added to the to-do list!



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Thanks!

Steve

[steve-l]

Problem backing up root of a drive?

Hi,

Last night I had ActiveBackup set to do uncompressed backup of a whole drive. Extract of backup action pasted below:

Make a backup
Source: F:\
Destination: E:\Software Drive Backups
Compression: False

However instead of putting the backup into E:\Software Drive Backups - it put everything into the root of E: and changed the names of the backed-up files & folders to include that path - example below:

F:\HomeSeer2

Was backed up to:

E:\Software Drive BackupsHomeSeer2

This has created quite a mess and I have not had it do this before - only thing I can think of is it doesn't like being told to back up the root of a drive?

Any ideas?

Cheers,

Steve

[themax74]

Try f: instead of f:\

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[steve-l]

Cheers, can't believe I didn't spot that! Working fine now.

Steve

[dnoiseux]

how to configure

Can someone help me getting this plugin to work, I see the Active Backup "Global device report" in the devices list and I have created a manual trigger event to set it to ON... What am I missing?

Thanks