also, $TopDIR is in the config.pl file and not hardcoded on debian or
ubuntu(at least in version 3)
you can certainly change $TopDIR, but you will have to you LVM and make a
raid or jbod of some sort to get one filesystem.
On Nov 27, 2007 12:43 AM, Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Holm Kapschitzki wrote:
>
> > i habe 4 older ide devices a 160 gb and i want to backup a few client
> > hosts. So i cannot use one single device for backuppc. I read the doku
> > and read something of configuring "topdir" to config the path where
> > the
> > data is backupt. On the other hand i read on debian package topdir is
> > hardcoded.
> >
> > So my question is how to define different dir (at the different config
> > files) for each host where i can backup the data?
>
> I don't think this is possible, because BackupPC uses hardlinks and
> these hardlinks need to be all on the same filesystem. You'll have to
> combine the drives into a single volume (LVM?) and then use that to
> backup to (mount the combined volume as /var/lib/backuppc).
>
> Nils Breunese.
>
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