BackupPC-users

Re: [BackupPC-users] Newbie: using a storage server different from BackupPC server

2008-09-28 08:51:35
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Newbie: using a storage server different from BackupPC server
From: "Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)" <nils AT lemonbit DOT com>
To: "General list for user discussion, questions and support" <backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2008 14:48:12 +0200
Andrei Stebakov wrote:

> I've installed BackupPC on my Ubuntu server, but its hard drives  
> have relatively small capacity so I'd rather use my Windows machines  
> to put the backups on.
> Is it possible to move the storage media from /var/lib/backuppc from  
> local machine to some remote Windows machine?

You can mount any filesystem at /var/lib/backuppc, but it needs to  
support hardlinks as BackupPC uses them (a lot). Standard Windows  
filesystems are not supported AFAIK.

Nils Breunese.

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