BackupPC-users

Re: [BackupPC-users] Change archive directory on a per-host basis?

2011-04-04 20:08:20
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Change archive directory on a per-host basis?
From: "Michael Stowe" <mstowe AT chicago.us.mensa DOT org>
To: "General list for user discussion, questions and support" <backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2011 19:06:29 -0500
> On our server, the default archive directory where backups are stored is
>
> /var/lib/backuppc/
>
> So for a server called webserver, the backup paths look like this:
>
> /var/lib/backuppc/pc/sonny/6
>
> Is it possible to change this path?  We have two separate large raid
> drives
> in our backup server.  For simplicity sake, I'll call them
> /mount/storage1and
> /mount/storage2.  We can't have one big raid drive because of our raid
> controller size limitations unfortunately.  So I have two big ones to
> dedicate to backups.
>
> Anyways, back to the question.  I can easily remount my raid drives or
> symlink my raid drives to somewhere in the /var/lib/backuppc directory if
> I
> need to, but how do I change the archive path for each client and tell it
> specifically what path to save to?
>
> Under the backuppc config, I see *$Conf{TopDir}* but that doesn't seem to
> indicate that is where the archives are stored necessarily.  And it
> doesn't
> seem to be adjustable on a per-host basis.
>
> I would imagine that I'm simply just missing something here in the config.
>  Surely BackupPC is able to control where an archive is stored and I'm
> just
> not seeing it.
>
> Jake Wilson

So...  you want to change the location where the common, pooled storage
goes, on a per-host basis?

No, you're not missing this setting.  It's not there.

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