Rob Owens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Hi Rob

> Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
>> On 06/29 08:21 , Rob Owens wrote:
>>   
>>> Should I have the BackupPC server in office A do a nightly backup of all 
>>> the file shares in office B?  Or should office A do a nightly backup of 
>>> the pool directory in office B?  Or should I simply rsync the pool 
>>> directory from office B to office A every night using a cron job?
>>>     
>>
>> Don't try to rsync the pools. The number of hardlinks (lots of files) will
>> be murderous on the rsync memory requirements. Just do backups in parallel;
>> with office A backing up office B's machines once per day, and vice versa.
> Thanks for the input. 
>
> Is it possible for me to give assign different backup schedules for 
> different machines?  (I don't currently have BackupPC installed, and I 
> couldn't tell by scanning through the documentation).  In my case, I 
> want local backups to happen hourly, but I want remote backups to occur 
> only once a night.

Yes, you schedule each of your hosts. You can have a default schedule,
and then you can specify the different ones.

Rodrigo


>
> -Rob
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