On Mar 11, 2015, at 6:23 AM, Richard Zimmerman <[email protected]> wrote:
> -----Original Message----- > From: Philip Prindeville [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2015 6:50 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [BackupPC-users] Config example for backing up linux host, local > disk drive > > Hi. > > I have a Linux desktop box with a WD USB 3.0 external drive which I want to > use for backups. > > I was looking through the configuration documentation and while there's a lot > of it, I thought there would be an example of something trivial but there > wasn't. > > I have the drive locally attached and mounted as /mnt/mybook and the > filesystem has the top-level directory "backups" in it. > > What config variables do I need to set in /etc/BackupPC/config.pl to make > local backups to a local directory? > > Should be trivial, right? But I couldn't find an example. > > Thanks, > > -Philip > > > I'm assuming your wanting to backup the /var/lib/BackupPC tree to an > externally mounted disk? No, I’m saying I want to back up things like /var/spool/imap and /home to a local disk which happens to be externally mounted. The only configs I could find was for setting up a Linux server to poll some desktops machines and get backups from them. I don’t need anything so complicated… -Philip > > In my case, I use rsync -aH to backup my BackupPC servers to encrypted > external drives. I'd be willing to share the bash script I use for my servers > if it help... > > Regards, > > Richard > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ _______________________________________________ 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/
