ssh version 5.7 or greater should be handling hard links.
Unfortunately, the two off-sites that I checked are using version 5.3 .
There must be some turn-key system these guys all buy, and it is nowhere
near the version 6.4 that is on my fedora20 pc.



On 08/16/2014 09:06 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 6:35 PM, Norman Goldstein <normvcr AT telus DOT net> 
> wrote:
>> I can see the advantage of kick-starting a remote server with a hard
>> drive backup of your system.  This is not practical for me, and,
>> fortunately, my backups are under 2 GB.  Here is my plan
>>
>> 1. ssh to my web-hosting company (which supports ssh)
>> 2. Set up an sshfs with their site (which is also linux)
>> 3. Point /var/lib/BackupPC to my local sshfs folder
>>
>> Before starting, there is something I'd like to do to simplify this.  I
>> have noticed that on my fedora installation, that /var/lib/BackupPC is
>> the home directory of the backuppc user.  Do you see any problem if, as
>> a post-installation step for BackupPC on my machine, that I tell my OS
>> to use a different home directory for the backuppc user e.g.
>> /home/backuppc ?
>>
> I don't believe that sshfs will handle hardlinks, so that won't work
> for backuppc storage.
>


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