Oz Dror wrote:
> Thanks for responding:

You're welcome.

> Regarding the first issue.
> 
> I have a limited backup space in my server. On the other had I have disk 
> space in some clients that is wasted.
> Thus I was hopping to backup one client to another client's disk, rather 
> than to my main storage.

One of the fundamental principles of backuppc is that a file with a certain 
content is (in general) only stored once, regardless of how many times and 
where 
such a file occurs in the same client or others. This achieved by hardlinks. 
Hardlinks only works on the same filesystem.

So to achieve what you want I think you would have to use separate instances of 
backuppc. And I am not sure how if that is possible. But really, are disks that 
expensive? Just buy some disks instead of using some homegrown solution that 
will cost you more time to implement and maintain.


> Regarding the second issues. The client is a windows client. My 
> understanding is that when you use rsyncd in windows. you can either 
> exclude dirs or include
> dirs. not both.

Can you provide a source of that information? I find it very much unlikely that 
rsyncd on Windows should behave different than rsyncd on some Unix in this way.

(Please note that I am not using include and exclude simultaneously on neiher 
Windows nor Linux, so I am just making an educated guess. And my usual "I am 
not 
a backuppc expert" disclaimer still applies.)

BR
/Martin


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