Really?  You can't specify where archives are stored?  What if your drive isn't 
big enough to handle all the server backups you need to do?  This seems like a 
gigantic limitation unless I'm missing something...

I read about how BackupPC is an enterprise-ready backup solution but I 
seriously don't see how that's possible if you can't even tell it where to 
backup a pool...

Jake Wilson

On Apr 4, 2011, at 6:06 PM, "Michael Stowe" <mstowe AT chicago.us.mensa DOT 
org> wrote:

>> 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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