On 7/1/2010 1:00 PM, Lord Vault wrote:
>
> I've found this:
>
>
>>
>> [...] very painful design concepts:
>> - the place where to backup seems to be tightly coupled with all kind of 
>> files related to the BackupPC engine/daemon (such as the internal database)
>> [...]
>
>
> Does that mean there's no solution to my problem? :(

Backuppc doesn't really have a database - it just depends on normal unix 
filesystem behavior.   But, if the mounted partitions behaves like a 
normal filesystem, all you should have to do is get what is already on 
your /var/lib/backuppc directory onto the filesystem that will replace 
it, then stop the backuppc service and only run it again while the 
partition is mounted.  You'll need to make sure that backuppc_nightly 
completes before you stop and unmount at least once in a while though.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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