Re: [BackupPC-users] cloning the backup pool

[Rob O. <ro...@bi...>]

Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
> On 06/29 08:21 , Rob Owens wrote:
>   
>> Should I have the BackupPC server in office A do a nightly backup of all 
>> the file shares in office B?  Or should office A do a nightly backup of 
>> the pool directory in office B?  Or should I simply rsync the pool 
>> directory from office B to office A every night using a cron job?
>>     
>
> Don't try to rsync the pools. The number of hardlinks (lots of files) will
> be murderous on the rsync memory requirements. Just do backups in parallel;
> with office A backing up office B's machines once per day, and vice versa.
Thanks for the input. 

Is it possible for me to give assign different backup schedules for 
different machines?  (I don't currently have BackupPC installed, and I 
couldn't tell by scanning through the documentation).  In my case, I 
want local backups to happen hourly, but I want remote backups to occur 
only once a night.

-Rob