Rob Sheldon wrote at about 16:30:16 -0800 on Wednesday, December 29, 2010:
 > Hi,
 > 
 > I recently ran into a neat filesystem limitation with BackupPC that 
 > doesn't appear to be anywhere in the documentation.
 > 
 > On certain filesystems, under certain conditions, BackupPC can exhaust 
 > that filesystem's ability to create files and directories. For example, 
 > on ext3, there is a hard limit on the number of inodes available for a 
 > given partition
 <lots of detail snipped>

This is well-known and well-documented - it's in the FAQ even.
http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html

 > Also, I have a how-to available for doing very secure backups between 
 > servers. We use BackupPC to regularly copy everything on our web and 
 > mail servers, and didn't want to create any additional security risks 
 > in the process; we have BackupPC doing password-less logins and 
 > sudo'ing its rsync task without having any additional access to the 
 > server. Is there any interest in this?

Is your method any different from the also well and frequently
documented way of using sudo rsync and password-less logins?

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