Timothy Murphy wrote:
> 1. I don't want NFS-mounted subdirectories of the nominated directory
> to be backed up.
> Would they be excluded anyway?
> If not, is there any way of excluding them?

Change the rsync or tar invocation to include the --one-file-system 
option.  This will stop at any mount point and also avoid picking up DVD 
s or USB external drives someone might have connected.  Then you have to 
add explicit runs for each mount point that you do want backed up and be 
sure you update that when your filesystem layout changes.

> 2. I've seen it suggested that one should not backup onto a partition
> on the BackupPC server;
> Is that good advice?

That's not backuppc specific, it is good advice for any backup technique 
since the most likely failure is the drive itself.

> If so, is a separate drive on the BackupPC server also inadvisable?

This still doesn't protect against all the ways you might lose data, 
for example an operator or software error that does the equivalent of 
'cd /; rm -rf *', or a site disaster.   Some people do use multiple 
external drives, rotating them offsite, or various means of copying the 
archived files to an offsite location or drives that can be rotated.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com



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