Wojtek Swiatek wrote: > My goal is to back up on my laptop some parts of the desktop when the > laptop is available on the network (say, /etc to be backed up in > C:\SERVER_BACKUP\etc). > In other words, the backup store for "desktop" (which also hosts > BackupPC) should be on the WinXP laptop. > > Is there a straightforward way to achieve this? I would be grateful for > any pointers.
The trouble is that the windows machine won't do hard links so you won't be able to do this the traditional backuppc way. I'd recommend that you backup the gentoo machine with itself (I'd recommend using tar with sudo permissions as the backup transfer method) and then periodically use the laptop to navigate to the BackupPC web interface and download a tar archive of a recent backup (maybe keep a couple if you have the space) and keep those files on the laptop in a spot that won't be backed up again by the gentoo box. -- Randy Barlow http://electronsweatshop.com But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. Once you were not a people, but now you are God's people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy. ~1 Peter 2:9-10 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
