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From: Dobrica Pavlinusic <dpavlin@rot13.org>
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 14:59:45 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] document new archive host ASA extension

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+This document tries to describe ASA extensions for BackupPC 3.2.0
+
+Written by Dobrica Pavlinusic <dpavlin@rot13.org> 2011-01-27
+
+Search and archive maintain data in PostgreSQL and full-text search. Since full-text search
+is single-writer, we need to serialize somehow requests for it's update.
+
+This is implemented using archive host feature using _search_archive.pl configuration
+file in /etc/BackupPC/pc/_search_archive.pl
+
+
+You can manually trigger all pending backups using:
+
+	BackupPC_ASA_ArchiveStart _search_archive backuppc
+
+This will start archive host _search_archive which will run it's configuration:
+
+
+#
+# /etc/BackupPC/pc/_search_archive.pl
+#
+
+# Set this client's XferMethod to archive to make it an archive host:
+$Conf{XferMethod} = 'archive';
+
+# The path on the local file system where archives will be written:
+$Conf{ArchiveDest} = '/data/BackupPC/_search_archive';
+
+# the type and level of compression used on the archive:
+$Conf{ArchiveComp} = 'gzip';
+$Conf{CompressLevel} = 9;
+
+# dump only incremental changes in tars not whole content - ASA extension
+# XXX this option must be global in /etc/BackupPC/config.pl
+$Conf{TarCreateIncremental} = 1;
+
+# archive media size (in bytes) 4.2Gb for DVD
+#$Conf{ArchiveMediaSize} = 4200 * 1024 * 1024;
+$Conf{ArchiveMediaSize} = 1440 * 1024; # FIXME floppy
+
+# size of one chunk burned to archive medium
+# useful for transfer to smaller media or limited filesystems
+#$Conf{ArchiveChunkSize} = (2048 - 2) * 1024 * 1024; # 2Gb filesystem-limit
+$Conf{ArchiveChunkSize} = 100 * 1024 * 1024; # FIXME zipdrive
+
+
+# A size in megabytes to split the archive in to parts at.
+# This is useful where the file size of the archive might exceed the
+# capacity of the removable media. For example specify 700 if you are using CDs.
+#$Conf{ArchiveSplit} = 650;
+$Conf{ArchiveSplit} = 300 * 1024; # FIXME small testing chunks
+
+
+# The amount of parity data to create for the archive using the par2 utility.
+# In some cases, corrupted archives can be recovered from parity data.
+$Conf{ArchivePar} = 0;
+$Conf{ParPath} = undef;
+
+
+# use parallel gzip (speedup on multi-code machines)
+$Conf{GzipPath} = '/usr/bin/pigz';
+
+
+# The full command to run to create archives:
+$Conf{ArchiveClientCmd} = '$Installdir/bin/BackupPC_archiveHost'
+. ' $tarCreatePath $splitpath $parpath $host $backupnumber'
+. ' $compression $compext $splitsize $archiveloc $parfile *';
+
+# host provides serialization, so we can safely update fulltext index
+$Conf{ArchivePreUserCmd} = '/srv/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_ASA_SearchUpdate -h$HostList';
+
+$Conf{Md5sumPath} = '/usr/bin/md5sum';
+
+# after archives are created, pull data back in database - ASA extension
+$Conf{ArchivePostUserCmd} = '/srv/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_ASA_PostArchive_Update -h$HostList -n$BackupList';
+
+# Logging verbosity:
+$Conf{XferLogLevel} = 1;
+
+
+
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