ssh version 5.7 or greater should be handling hard links. Unfortunately, the two off-sites that I checked are using version 5.3 . There must be some turn-key system these guys all buy, and it is nowhere near the version 6.4 that is on my fedora20 pc.
On 08/16/2014 09:06 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > 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. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Slashdot TV. Video for Nerds. Stuff that matters. http://tv.slashdot.org/ _______________________________________________ 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/
