On 02/10 12:43 , scurry7 wrote:
> Since most on-line storage service (that I know of) do not allow me to
> configure my own server but merely transfer data to them, do you all think
> it would work to setup an additional backupPC server (with the same
> backups) and mount a remote file-system (the online storage) via sshfs or
> something to my /var/lib/backuppc directory?  So if things went down I
> could re-install then re-mount the remote filesystem?

BackupPC is *very* disk-intensive; so any sort of filesystem over a 10Mbps
link is going to suck. This will not scale very far.

Also, make sure your filesystem supports hardlinks. The BackupPC data pool
won't work without them.

-- 
Carl Soderstrom
Systems Administrator
Real-Time Enterprises
www.real-time.com

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