On 5/14/2017 6:55 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:
> I always thought the best approach was to mount your media in the
> place where backuppc expects it_before_  installing the package so
> that ownership and selinux contexts are set correctly during the
> package install.   Does that work through symlinks?   Maybe you could
> make the symlink the other direction if you want to call it some other
> name.

What if you have TWO drives you want to mount to /var/lib/backuppc? With 
BackupPC 4, it's not unreasonable to swap your backup media every week 
to an offsite location.

Just create the skeleton directory structure in the external media and 
run restorecon once it's mounted.

Another thing one can do is move /etc/BackupPC to the external media and 
mount that directory over /etc/BackupPC so that your settings follow 
your media. This makes it easier to do bare-metal restores. Just install 
a minimal OS and BackupPC, then mount your backup drive and you've got 
all your settings ready to do the restore.


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