22 Dec
2008
22 Dec
'08
1:11 a.m.
S.Tindall wrote:
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.
Yes, now you point that out it may be unwise. I suppose I should backup onto the BackupPC (and httpd) server, "helen".
Actually, "alfred" was my old - very old, maybe 10 years old - server, which has a number of SCSI and IDE disks attached. So it has lots of spare space.
But I'll follow your implicit advice, and use /var/lib/BackupPC/ as is for backups, and maybe get a second disk on the server later.