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

Thanks for all the helpful information. I understand now with the hardlinks that you can't span multiple file systems. Makes perfect sense.

So are you guys suggesting that I setup all my raid disks (or get rid of the raid completely and just use the disks) as one LVM? What do I do then? Do I setup the LVM to be at /var/lib/backuppc (or set a symlink to it) so that backuppc and all of it's pools are on the LVM? Do I have to reinstall backuppc to make this work or can I just move it?

Are there any pages or wikis or tutorials that discuss this type of setup? I would imagine there would be as I'm sure I'm not the only one who has dealt with this.

Jake Wilson

On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 8:04 PM, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky <backuppc AT kosowsky DOT org> wrote:

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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