BackupPC-users

Re: [BackupPC-users] Putting the pool onto an external drive, such as a USB drive

2009-04-27 03:53:00
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Putting the pool onto an external drive, such as a USB drive
From: Adam Goryachev <mailinglists AT websitemanagers.com DOT au>
To: "General list for user discussion, questions and support" <backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 17:49:35 +1000
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Laurin d'Volts wrote:
> What I want to do is put the data pool onto a USB drive.
> 
> I would like to make sure that if the HDD were to corrupt one day, then
> I could reformat the box with Debian stable, reinstall backuppc, and
> then configure the CGI website to display the pool on the USB and what
> is archived on the USB.
> 
> How do I go about keeping the pool on a USB drive and allowing a
> seamless re-recognition of the pool?
> 
> P.S.
> 
> I'm on Debian stable now.

mount your USB drive at /var/lib/backuppc like this:
/dev/sda1 /var/lib/backuppc reiserfs noatime 0 1

Where /dev/sda1 is your USB drive's partition for backuppc to use.

PS, in my case I am using /dev/md0 which is a raid1 array of internal
drives...

Regards,
Adam

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Adam Goryachev
Website Managers
www.websitemanagers.com.au
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