Okay, I revisited the top of the docs and found this:

> Therefore BackupPC's data store (__TOPDIR__) must point to a single 
> file system that supports hardlinks. You cannot split this file system 
> with multiple mount points or using symbolic links to point a 
> sub-directory to a different file system 

I'm starting to get the impression that I _can't_ set a per-pc TopDir.

Does anybody have any experience with anything like this?

Thanks.


Mark

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?
>
> Thanks.
>
>   

-- 
Mark E. Adams

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