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.