Glassfox wrote:

> 1. Where can I define the backups destination path? I want to use an  
> external USB drive for this.

The installer asks for the TopDir location. If you installed a  
prepackaged version of BackupPC this location was decided by the  
packager. It's probably /var/lib/backuppc in that case (at least I  
hear that's what the Debian and Ubuntu packages use). You should be  
able to mount your external USB drive as /var/lib/backuppc. Better  
make sure BackupPC is not running when you do.

> 2. What is the right (host?) configuration if I just want to backup  
> just everything (a copy of all existing files on disk)? I mean, what  
> do I have to define for all this include/exclude/etc. parameters?

What kind of OS are you talking about? For a *nix machine you could  
just backup /. If you want to backup everything, you don't need any  
excludes. However, you probably don't want to backup everything, as  
backing up /proc and /sys really doesn't make sense. The comments in  
the default BackupPC config.pl also say:

----
For linux or unix machines you should add "/proc" to  
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} unless you have specified --one-file-system  
in $Conf{TarClientCmd} or --one-file-system in $Conf{RsyncArgs}.
----

Nils Breunese.

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