On 11/24 04:35 , Michel wrote:
> I would like to backup BackupPC on an external Hard drive. (No money to
> have a second BackupPC server ;-) )
> My goal is that if the backup PC server crashes, I will be able to
> configure a new server with what I've backuped .
>
> What should I backup to do this?
if you installed BackupPC from a package (and you should *always* install
software from a package in a production environment, for a lot of reasons,
repeatability being one of them), the config files should follow the
Filesystem Heirarchy Standard and be under /etc.
Just back up all of /etc/ on localhost; it shoudln't be that much stuff.
When you back up localhost, you should turn off compression for it, with an
entry in /etc/backuppc/localhost.pl like this:
# turning off compression on these files, so they can be recovered without
# backuppc. wouldn't make sense to need your backup server,
# in order to recover your backup server, now would it?
$Conf{CompressLevel} = 0;
--
Carl Soderstrom
Systems Administrator
Real-Time Enterprises
www.real-time.com
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT
Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your
opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash
http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV
_______________________________________________
BackupPC-users mailing list
BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users
http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
