Re: [BackupPC-users] Writing archives to external drive

2013-10-16 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 4:23 PM, Phil Reynolds wrote: > > if things fit on a 2.5" drive it would be fairly convenient. > > I'm using 3.5" drives - I have three, one of which is always at least > 20 miles away - it is swapped with whichever of the other two is > offline every few weeks. I used to u

Re: [BackupPC-users] Writing archives to external drive

2013-10-16 Thread Phil Reynolds
On Wed, 16 Oct 2013 15:46:18 -0500 Les Mikesell wrote: > On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 3:18 PM, Phil Reynolds > wrote: > > An alternative, but I'm really not sure how it would work, would be > > to use external discs for the pool. > > If you mount or symlink them in the expected location (depending o

Re: [BackupPC-users] Writing archives to external drive

2013-10-16 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 3:18 PM, Phil Reynolds wrote: > On Tue, 15 Oct 2013 09:52:00 -0400 > Timothy J Massey wrote: > >> I like BackupPC very much, but its archive capabilities are >> rudimentary at best. No scheduled archives, no ability to run more >> than one archive at a time (which trips m

Re: [BackupPC-users] Writing archives to external drive

2013-10-16 Thread Phil Reynolds
On Tue, 15 Oct 2013 09:52:00 -0400 Timothy J Massey wrote: > I like BackupPC very much, but its archive capabilities are > rudimentary at best. No scheduled archives, no ability to run more > than one archive at a time (which trips me up when one archive runs > long and my next scheduled one run