Re: [BackupPC-users] additional disk space

[John P. <jp...@cl...>]

kai grunau wrote:

>
> hi all ,
>
> on one of our host I want to increase the disk space for the backuppc
> tool.
>
> Is it correct that backuppc is only able to work on one disk ?
>
> Is there no way to increase disk space by using logical link
> functionality
> like this (disk1 is in use) ? :
> ----------------------------------------------------
> ln -s   /disk2/backup/hostname      /disk1/backup/pc/hostname
> ln -s   /disk1/backup/pool          /disk2/backup/pool
> -------------------------------------------------------
>
> I didn't want to use LVM and there is no possibility to increase the disk
> space by adding new or greater disks at the host.
>
Symbolic links won't cut it.  BackupPC makes hard links between the
./pc/hostname/<nn> tree and the pool (or cpool) tree and you can't do
that across a different file system.

You wouldn't save any space that way anyway since the contents of the
individual machine trees are linked to the pool and thus only appear on
disk once. 

John