On 2/22/2011 9:17 PM, Dennis Blewett wrote: > 13,849 items, totalling 3.8 GB > > It would appear that I have a feasible number of files. I'm not sure how > many more files I will have by the end of April, though. > > I've read about that "rsync -H" would be a practical command to use on > the backuppc folder.
It seems reasonable for that scale. Alternatively, for something that size you probably have enough of a backup window overnight to let the offsite server run an independent instance of backuppc hitting the source directly. > What I'm also curious about is if I should be rsyncing any other files, > thus allowing me to restore from the offsite backup in the case I lose > everything and rebuild a backuppc configuration: I would attempt to > rsync back to my computer with the new backuppc configuration and > attempt to restore/recover said files. I don't think anyone answered this - and it is probably because it will depend on how you installed backuppc. The distribution-packaged versions probably move the config files somewhere under /etc. You should be able to use the distribution package manager tools to find where it installed things. For example, on a CentOS box with the EPEL rpm installed the command 'rpm -q --list BackupPC' shows that it has put things in /etc/BackupPC. But other packaging might be different. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Free Software Download: Index, Search & Analyze Logs and other IT data in Real-Time with Splunk. Collect, index and harness all the fast moving IT data generated by your applications, servers and devices whether physical, virtual or in the cloud. Deliver compliance at lower cost and gain new business insights. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-dev2dev _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/