BackupPC-users

Re: [BackupPC-users] How to use backuppc with TWO HDD

2009-06-01 05:51:59
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] How to use backuppc with TWO HDD
From: Les Mikesell <les AT futuresource DOT com>
To: backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2009 04:48:15 -0500
Tate1 wrote:
> Thanks for reply  :D
> 
> mmm... i think i didn't explain correctly. This is my situation:

No, I think you didn't understand the response.

> Disk 1 mounted / 99% size used
> Disk 2 mounted /media/secundary_disk 0% size used
> 
> Now i have pc1 and pc2 in /var/lib/backuppc/pc/, and becouse Disk1 is near to 
> be full filled i want to move pc2 at the Disk 2 and keep saving the backups 
> there. So I execute: 
> 
> mv /var/lib/backuppc/pc/pc2  /media/secundary_disk/
> ln -sd /media/secundary_disk/pc2  /var/lib/backuppc/pc2
> 
> 
> Doing this, when backuppc starts the copy brings the error i said in my last 
> post (previous versions of BackupPC don't).

This doesn't work properly and the old version didn't test for it.  The 
pool/cpool directory and everything under pc/ must be on the same 
filesystem so that hardlinks can work.

> Can i disable the cpool?
> or can i stablish a cpool directory for each pc?

No, the main point of using backuppc is that it pools the copies of all 
identical files in a common pool.

> RAID1 it's good idea but i can't modify the hardware of the server.

A larger drive mounted at /var/lib/backuppc would work.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com


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