From: Carl W. S. <ch...@re...> - 2009-02-10 18:02:38
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On 02/10 12:43 , scurry7 wrote: > Since most on-line storage service (that I know of) do not allow me to > configure my own server but merely transfer data to them, do you all think > it would work to setup an additional backupPC server (with the same > backups) and mount a remote file-system (the online storage) via sshfs or > something to my /var/lib/backuppc directory? So if things went down I > could re-install then re-mount the remote filesystem? BackupPC is *very* disk-intensive; so any sort of filesystem over a 10Mbps link is going to suck. This will not scale very far. Also, make sure your filesystem supports hardlinks. The BackupPC data pool won't work without them. -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com |