From: Les M. <les...@gm...> - 2011-02-24 22:21:39
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On 2/22/2011 9:17 PM, Dennis Blewett wrote: > 13,849 items, totalling 3.8 GB > > It would appear that I have a feasible number of files. I'm not sure how > many more files I will have by the end of April, though. > > I've read about that "rsync -H" would be a practical command to use on > the backuppc folder. It seems reasonable for that scale. Alternatively, for something that size you probably have enough of a backup window overnight to let the offsite server run an independent instance of backuppc hitting the source directly. > What I'm also curious about is if I should be rsyncing any other files, > thus allowing me to restore from the offsite backup in the case I lose > everything and rebuild a backuppc configuration: I would attempt to > rsync back to my computer with the new backuppc configuration and > attempt to restore/recover said files. I don't think anyone answered this - and it is probably because it will depend on how you installed backuppc. The distribution-packaged versions probably move the config files somewhere under /etc. You should be able to use the distribution package manager tools to find where it installed things. For example, on a CentOS box with the EPEL rpm installed the command 'rpm -q --list BackupPC' shows that it has put things in /etc/BackupPC. But other packaging might be different. -- Les Mikesell les...@gm... |