On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 07:00:09AM -0600, Kameleon wrote:

> I am sure there are others that will chime in on this but as I see it you
> have a few options.
> 
> 1. Setup LVM and use the external disk as a permanent addition to the system
> 2. Mount the external disk as the directory that will house your desktops
> backups
> 
> Honestly, I would be wary about using an external USB disk. Alot of them
> have power saving features that will power it down after a short period and
> could cause issues with your backups. I would invest in another internal
> drive or even mount via NFS or iSCSI another drive in a separate machine.

You might want to consider at least any RAID as well. Otherwise, if one
of your disk breaks, the LVM is broken and _all_ your backups are gone.

To answer the original question: It is not currently possible to have
BackupPC use different storages. The whole data has to reside on one
file system. How to create a file system spanning multiple disks/RAIDs
and how to manage that is an operating system issue.

HTH,

Tino.

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