On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 6:35 PM, Norman Goldstein <normvcr AT telus DOT net> 
wrote:
> I can see the advantage of kick-starting a remote server with a hard
> drive backup of your system.  This is not practical for me, and,
> fortunately, my backups are under 2 GB.  Here is my plan
>
> 1. ssh to my web-hosting company (which supports ssh)
> 2. Set up an sshfs with their site (which is also linux)
> 3. Point /var/lib/BackupPC to my local sshfs folder
>
> Before starting, there is something I'd like to do to simplify this.  I
> have noticed that on my fedora installation, that /var/lib/BackupPC is
> the home directory of the backuppc user.  Do you see any problem if, as
> a post-installation step for BackupPC on my machine, that I tell my OS
> to use a different home directory for the backuppc user e.g.
> /home/backuppc ?
>

I don't believe that sshfs will handle hardlinks, so that won't work
for backuppc storage.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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