David Uhlmann wrote at about 11:55:57 +0200 on Thursday, August 11, 2011: > Dear all, > > I want to run a Backup to 2 NAS-Systems, attached via NFS. Because BackupPC > can do backups to only one folder, my idea is this: > > Create Directory /backup > > Run a Cron Job to mount the NAS via NFS, linked to the /backup-Folder. After > the Job, umount the NAS and mount the other one. > > What do you think about that solution?
That may not work properly unless your cron job also starts/stop the backuppc daemon since when backuppc starts it tries to create a hard link in TopDir. So you at least need something mounted when you start the process... Also, how will you handle BackupPC_nightly? Also, unless you also run the dumps from cron, you need to make sure that each NAS is mounted long enough for the hourly wakeup process... Also, how will you know when all your dumps are done? Sometimes they can take longer than you anticipate... especially since the dumps are driven by aging so it's possible the dumps won't even start when you expect let alone end. Your method is certainly *possible* but it breaks the normal paradigm and has at least the above issues to be concerned about. It probably would be a lot simpler to just run BackupPC on a second pc. Alternatively, I believe there was a thread a couple years ago about hacking the BackupPC code to allow a second concurrent BackupPC process. It would be a cleaner approach too. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get a FREE DOWNLOAD! and learn more about uberSVN rich system, user administration capabilities and model configuration. Take the hassle out of deploying and managing Subversion and the tools developers use with it. http://p.sf.net/sfu/wandisco-dev2dev _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
