Using multiple clients on same repository

[Johannes Ferber]

Hi,

in my setup, Areca's backup repository is located on a NAS (accessed via SFTP) and I would like to connect more than one client/computer to the repository to do something like a poor man's synchronization. It's no problem to recover the data on all clients - with a different recovery location on each client (e.g. C:\Users\XXX on my Windows machine and /home/user/XXX on Linux). The problem is, however, that I can use only one "global" source (e.g. C:\Users\XXX) for the target definition so I can use only one client to populate the repository. When I change the source on one of the other clients and try to run a backup, all files show up as modified (there is also a warning when the source is changed with predicts exactly this behaviour).

Is there a workaround. Should I use symlinks to emulate the same path to the source directory on all clients? I hope I'm making myself clear.

Thanks,

Johannes

[Mathias Grebe]

I don't know if i got your problem right..
Maybe you could try this:
If you change source from arecas gui all files will be marked as new. But you could try to change the source in the bcfg-file directly with an texteditor. Then areca doesn't recognize the change of source...
Mathias