On 2/22/2011 9:17 PM, Dennis Blewett wrote:
> 13,849 items, totalling 3.8 GB
>
> It would appear that I have a feasible number of files. I'm not sure how
> many more files I will have by the end of April, though.
>
> I've read about that "rsync -H" would be a practical command to use on
> the backuppc folder.

It seems reasonable for that scale.  Alternatively, for something that 
size you probably have enough of a backup window overnight to let the 
offsite server run an independent instance of backuppc hitting the 
source directly.

> What I'm also curious about is if I should be rsyncing any other files,
> thus allowing me to restore from the offsite backup in the case I lose
> everything and rebuild a backuppc configuration: I would attempt to
> rsync back to my computer with the new backuppc configuration and
> attempt to restore/recover said files.

I don't think anyone answered this - and it is probably because it will 
depend on how you installed backuppc.  The distribution-packaged 
versions probably move the config files somewhere under /etc.  You 
should be able to use the distribution package manager tools to find 
where it installed things.  For example, on a CentOS box with the EPEL 
rpm installed the command 'rpm -q --list BackupPC' shows that it has put 
things in /etc/BackupPC.  But other packaging might be different.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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