On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 6:35 PM, Norman Goldstein <norm...@telus.net> wrote: > I can see the advantage of kick-starting a remote server with a hard > drive backup of your system. This is not practical for me, and, > fortunately, my backups are under 2 GB. Here is my plan > > 1. ssh to my web-hosting company (which supports ssh) > 2. Set up an sshfs with their site (which is also linux) > 3. Point /var/lib/BackupPC to my local sshfs folder > > Before starting, there is something I'd like to do to simplify this. I > have noticed that on my fedora installation, that /var/lib/BackupPC is > the home directory of the backuppc user. Do you see any problem if, as > a post-installation step for BackupPC on my machine, that I tell my OS > to use a different home directory for the backuppc user e.g. > /home/backuppc ? >
I don't believe that sshfs will handle hardlinks, so that won't work for backuppc storage. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ 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/