Jake Wilson wrote at about 18:30:27 -0600 on Monday, April 4, 2011:
 > 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...

BackupPC's claim to fame is its ability to de-duplicate repeated files
by hard-linking to a common pool. Since hard links can only occur on a
single file system, backups are limited to a single file system.

It's not that big a limitation if you use a modern filesystem (with
exabyte or more size potentials) plus/minus LVM to allow the
filesystem to extend across multiple physical disks.

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