On Mar 11, 2015, at 6:23 AM, Richard Zimmerman <rzimmerman AT riverbendhose DOT 
com> wrote:

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Philip Prindeville [mailto:philipp_subx AT redfish-solutions DOT com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2015 6:50 PM
> To: BackupPC-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
> Subject: [BackupPC-users] Config example for backing up linux host, local 
> disk drive
> 
> Hi.
> 
> I have a Linux desktop box with a WD USB 3.0 external drive which I want to 
> use for backups.
> 
> I was looking through the configuration documentation and while there's a lot 
> of it, I thought there would be an example of something trivial but there 
> wasn't.
> 
> I have the drive locally attached and mounted as /mnt/mybook and the 
> filesystem has the top-level directory "backups" in it.
> 
> What config variables do I need to set in /etc/BackupPC/config.pl to make 
> local backups to a local directory?
> 
> Should be trivial, right?  But I couldn't find an example.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -Philip
> 
> 
>   I'm assuming your wanting to backup the /var/lib/BackupPC tree to an 
> externally mounted disk? 


No, I’m saying I want to back up things like /var/spool/imap and /home to a 
local disk which happens to be externally mounted.

The only configs I could find was for setting up a Linux server to poll some 
desktops machines and get backups from them.  I don’t need anything so 
complicated…

-Philip


> 
>   In my case, I use rsync -aH to backup my BackupPC servers to encrypted 
> external drives. I'd be willing to share the bash script I use for my servers 
> if it help...
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Richard
> 
> 


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