On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 4:20 AM,  <a.dovi AT accenture DOT com> wrote:
> Hello bpc users
>
> We are currently using BackupPC as localhost to backup /home following the
> recommendations seen here
>
> http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/localhost.html
>
> Everything works fine but we are wondering one thing
>
> - Is it possible that instead of sending the files to
> /home/backuppc/storage, to tell to BackupPC to send the files to a remote
> computer via ssh scp for example
>
> Does Backuppc has this feature or can implement it ? This would remove the
> need to script an additional cron job to export /home/backuppc/storage to a
> remote server when using bpc as solution to backup the server itself

No, it won't work.  Backuppc needs to be able to make hard links
between files in the host backup directories and the pooled instance
under pool or cpool, and scp won't maintain that.  For a small archive
you may be able to ' rsync -H' the entire archive directory, but this
is likely to fail as the backups grow.   The best approach is to
simply run backuppc on a different host and let it make the backups
there itself.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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