On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 8:08 AM, Adam Hardy
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>>
>>> So it's fine to leave backuppc's home directory as /var/lib/backuppc, and
>>> cpool,
>>> log, pc and pool all on the USB drive?
>> They won't be used if you change TopDir (in the current version) so it
>> is wasted space, but it won't hurt anything. The keys under
>> $HOME/.ssh/ are needed, though.
>
> OK, but $HOME for backuppc user still needs to be /var/lib/backuppc, right? I
> can imagine problems cropping up if I configure its home directory onto a USB
> drive won't always be there.
It should only be checked when the backuppc service is running and it
makes ssh connections. That won't be happening if you remove $TopDir.
But, I'd leave /var/lib/backuppc/.ssh in place in case the package
updates and only remove the pc/pool/cpool contents if you want to
recover the space.
--
Les Mikesell
[email protected]
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