On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 07:00:09AM -0600, Kameleon wrote: > I am sure there are others that will chime in on this but as I see it you > have a few options. > > 1. Setup LVM and use the external disk as a permanent addition to the system > 2. Mount the external disk as the directory that will house your desktops > backups > > Honestly, I would be wary about using an external USB disk. Alot of them > have power saving features that will power it down after a short period and > could cause issues with your backups. I would invest in another internal > drive or even mount via NFS or iSCSI another drive in a separate machine.
You might want to consider at least any RAID as well. Otherwise, if one of your disk breaks, the LVM is broken and _all_ your backups are gone. To answer the original question: It is not currently possible to have BackupPC use different storages. The whole data has to reside on one file system. How to create a file system spanning multiple disks/RAIDs and how to manage that is an operating system issue. HTH, Tino. -- "What we nourish flourishes." - "Was wir nähren erblüht." www.lichtkreis-chemnitz.de www.tisc.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/