Hello all, I have a BackupPC 2.1.2pl2 server (installed from the .tar.gz on the site) backing up a number of of other servers to a second drive, which has been working just fine for a while now. Now I want to also backup the backup server itself, but of course I have to exclude the backuppc data directory or I will start a recursive backup (backing up the backup data). I wanted to create a 'per-pc configuration' file for this host to exclude /mnt/backup for localhost.
http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html#configuration_file says: "The BackupPC configuration file resides in __TOPDIR__/conf/ config.pl. Optional per-PC configuration files reside in __TOPDIR__/pc/$host/config.pl. This file can be used to override settings just for a particular PC." If I just add it to the hosts file when I do when adding a 'normal' host the pc/hostname directory will be automatically created, but then it will also start the recursive backup, so I thought I'd better not do that. I think I have also read about using hostname.pl config files on the list, but see nothing about that in the docs. Should I just manually create the __TOPDIR__/pc/hostname/ directory (which does not exist yet of course), create a config.pl inside it and then add the host to the /mnt/backup/backu/conf/hosts file? Thanks in advance, Nils. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
