Rob Sheldon wrote at about 16:30:16 -0800 on Wednesday, December 29, 2010: > Hi, > > I recently ran into a neat filesystem limitation with BackupPC that > doesn't appear to be anywhere in the documentation. > > On certain filesystems, under certain conditions, BackupPC can exhaust > that filesystem's ability to create files and directories. For example, > on ext3, there is a hard limit on the number of inodes available for a > given partition <lots of detail snipped>
This is well-known and well-documented - it's in the FAQ even. http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html > Also, I have a how-to available for doing very secure backups between > servers. We use BackupPC to regularly copy everything on our web and > mail servers, and didn't want to create any additional security risks > in the process; we have BackupPC doing password-less logins and > sudo'ing its rsync task without having any additional access to the > server. Is there any interest in this? Is your method any different from the also well and frequently documented way of using sudo rsync and password-less logins? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn how Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) One Node allows customers to consolidate database storage, standardize their database environment, and, should the need arise, upgrade to a full multi-node Oracle RAC database without downtime or disruption http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
