On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 6:06 AM, <a.d...@accenture.com> wrote: > > - Is it possible that instead of sending the files to > /home/backuppc/storage, to tell to BackupPC to send the files to a remote > computer via ssh scp for example > > Does Backuppc has this feature or can implement it ? This would remove the > need to script an additional cron job to export /home/backuppc/storage to a > remote server when using bpc as solution to backup the server itself > > No, it won't work. Backuppc needs to be able to make hard links > between files in the host backup directories and the pooled instance > under pool or cpool, and scp won't maintain that. For a small archive > you may be able to ' rsync -H' the entire archive directory, but this > is likely to fail as the backups grow. The best approach is to > simply run backuppc on a different host and let it make the backups > there itself. > > Thanks for the clarification, someone suggested me another solution that is > to mount a remote volume in the system, that way I will be able to just > update the local path, sound even better than installing bpc on a remote > server because I keep the administration of backuppc >
An NFS mount can work, but there are several disadvantages. It will be somewhat less efficient over the network than local storage and using rsync to access remote clients. And consider what you would have to do to restore the system you are backing up if it is broken and you are depending on its own instance of backuppc to do the work. As for administering backuppc, after the initial setup you can do most of the management through the web interface without needing to be root on the system. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ 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/