On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 6:06 AM,  <a.dovi AT accenture DOT com> wrote:

- Is it possible that instead of sending the files to
/home/backuppc/storage, to tell to BackupPC to send the files to a remote
computer via ssh scp for example

Does Backuppc has this feature or can implement it ? This would remove the
need to script an additional cron job to export /home/backuppc/storage to a
remote server when using bpc as solution to backup the server itself

No, it won't work.  Backuppc needs to be able to make hard links
between files in the host backup directories and the pooled instance
under pool or cpool, and scp won't maintain that.  For a small archive
you may be able to ' rsync -H' the entire archive directory, but this
is likely to fail as the backups grow.   The best approach is to
simply run backuppc on a different host and let it make the backups
there itself.

Thanks for the clarification, someone suggested me another solution that is
to mount a remote volume in the system, that way I will be able to just
update the local path, sound even better than installing bpc on a remote
server because I keep the administration of backuppc

An NFS mount can work, but there are several disadvantages.   It will
be somewhat less efficient over the network than local storage and
using rsync to access remote clients.  And consider what you would
have to do to restore the system you are backing up if it is broken
and you are depending on its own instance of backuppc to do the work.
 As for administering backuppc, after the initial setup you can do
most of the management through the web interface without needing to be
root on the system.