Ok, fair enough, and good to know. Thanks for that.

The suggestion below is to have a 2nd installation of BPC,
on another local machine.  How would you "point" /var/lib/BackuPC
to the cloud target location?  It is also the home folder for the
backuppc user.

Or, do you mean to set up a BackupPC server in the cloud?




On 08/14/2014 09:23 AM, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
> On 08/14 07:52 , Norman Goldstein wrote:
>> Does anyone have experience with such a setup?
>> -- Would that be an rsync protocol for BPC?  I suppose it depends on
>> the cloud service,
> Past experience has been that attempting to rsync the entire BPC data pool
> is disastrous. There's too many files which leads to rsync using so much
> memory that it crashes the machine.
>
> Some people do have schemes for replicating the pool in pieces broken down
> on a per-machine basis, but it's a bit kludgy. The recommended solution is
> still to just set up another BPC server which has duplicate backups of all
> the machines you wish to have offsite backups for.
>
> I believe BPC v4 will make replication much easier, but I know nothing about
> it.
>


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