Mark Adams wrote:
> Hi there, me again.
> 
> I have several machines I would like to backup with BackupPC, but the 
> server is a humble box with several installed hard discs -- nothing fancy.
> 
> I need to backup each client machine to a different hard drive on the 
> server.  I have one client configured and it tries to backup my 16 GB of 
> data, but fails because TopDir is configured for /var/lib/bacuppc in my 
> /etc/backuppc/config.pl file and there simply isn't enough room for the 
> data there.  My reading of the docs says that I should be able to 
> configure TopDir in the client.pl file under 
> /var/lib/backuppc/pc/<client>/<client>.pl.  I have done this:
> 
> # cat /var/lib/backuppc/pc/<client>/<client>.pl
> $Conf{TopDir} = '/mnt/attic/spike_images';
> $Conf{XferMethod} = 'rsync';
> $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = ['/floppy'];
> $Conf{BackupFilesOnly} = ['/mnt/spike/images', '/mnt/spike/photos'];
> $Conf{ClientNameAlias} = '192.168.xxx.xxx';
> 
> But it doesn't seem to make any difference. How can I set a TopDir per pc?

The main advantage of backuppc is the way it pools duplicate files and 
it can only do that when everything is on the same filesystem.  The best 
approach is to mount a big drive (or raid or lvm set...) where it 
expects the data to live.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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