Ok, fair enough, and good to know. Thanks for that. The suggestion below is to have a 2nd installation of BPC, on another local machine. How would you "point" /var/lib/BackuPC to the cloud target location? It is also the home folder for the backuppc user.
Or, do you mean to set up a BackupPC server in the cloud? On 08/14/2014 09:23 AM, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > On 08/14 07:52 , Norman Goldstein wrote: >> Does anyone have experience with such a setup? >> -- Would that be an rsync protocol for BPC? I suppose it depends on >> the cloud service, > Past experience has been that attempting to rsync the entire BPC data pool > is disastrous. There's too many files which leads to rsync using so much > memory that it crashes the machine. > > Some people do have schemes for replicating the pool in pieces broken down > on a per-machine basis, but it's a bit kludgy. The recommended solution is > still to just set up another BPC server which has duplicate backups of all > the machines you wish to have offsite backups for. > > I believe BPC v4 will make replication much easier, but I know nothing about > it. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ 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/
