On Sun, 2008-12-21 at 22:04 +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote:
S.Tindall wrote:
- I have seen it suggested that it is not a good idea
to backup onto a partition on the same drive as the BackupPC server? Is that true? If so, is a partition on a separate drive on the same machine also bad?
... What I do is to mount a logical volume at the storage location (/var/lib/backuppc) so that it can grow or be otherwise modified as needed.
I've had bad experiences with LVM, so will avoid that if possible.
LVM is an acquired taste, but one worth developing.
I'm running BackupPC on machine 1 ("helen") and would like to back up onto machine 2 ("alfred"). As far as I can see, that means NFS-mounting alfred:/backup on helen:/var/lib/backup .
But doesn't that mean alfred's backups will be on alfred? Hard drives are cheap and BackupPC is very frugal with using disk space.
Hope it all works out.
Steve