[ale] BackupPC

[Steve Tynor]

I've been using BackupPC for about 3 years now -- Pretty easy to 
configure and works great (my only "complaint" is that there's no (or at 
least not yet?) off the shelf support for backing up "open and locked" 
files on Windows (e.g. Outlook's .pst files). But for basic Windows and 
Linux client networked backups, it's the bee's knees.

My ArchiveDest is set to the default '/tmp' -- this is where the various 
"archive" functions extract data from the pool and cpool database and 
create standard format archivable copies (e.g. tarballs or directory 
tree copies that can be burned to CD or written to tape) -- and these 
functions are only available if you configure a archiveHost (see 
http://<your-backup-hostname>/cgi-bin/BackupPC_Admin?action=view&type=docs#archive_functions) 
-- they're not enabled by default.  Normal disk-to-disk backups (whether 
by rsync or tar or however you have configured the client backups) go 
into the pool/cpool directories in a compressed, pooled - backuppc 
specific format.

Does that help?
Steve

On 7/6/2007 4:16 AM, Joe Bayes wrote:
> Has anyone here used BackupPC?
> 
> I'm trying to run BackupPC on a Fedora 7 system. I think I've got
> everything set up okay: files are getting transferred and stored on
> the server as they should be. 
> 
> My problem is that the files are being written to
> /var/lib/BackupPC/cpool. I have set 
> 
> $Conf{ArchiveDest} = '/home/BackupPC/';
> 
> in the config.pl file, which (as I understand it) should tell BackupPC
> to put the archive under /home/BackupPC.
> 
> I've tried it without the trailing slash, I've reloaded the daemon,
> and I've about run out of ideas. 
> 
> Anybody know what might be going on here?
> 
> Joe
> 
> 
> 
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