Hi, * Daniel Pittman <daniel@rimspace.net> [041004 10:09]: > On 2 Oct 2004, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > > I would like my desktop (an openbrick) to backup via the net > > my laptop once it is connected: > > what is the best way to do so ? > > My recommendation would be the 'BackupPC' package, found in testing and > unstable. That will happily produce long term archival backups of the > laptop, and can dump to tape, etc, for off-line storage as well. Thanks for pointing out this package. I've just installed it and it seems quite nice. I have a question about this package, and was unable to find the answer (or even the question) in the documentation, FAQs or on google. I suffer from a small /var partition... (if only there was SPAM with a pill for that), and BackupPC wants to put all the backups in /var/lib/backuppc/pc. It seems there is no way to tell BackupPC to use a different location. The simple "fix" was to just symlink this directory to somewhere else. This seems to work ok, except that BackupPC continues to look in /var to determine how much space it has available. Does anyone have a proper solution to this problem? Thanks, Nick. -- Debian 3.1 Linux twofish 2.6.8-looxt93c4 i686 GNU/Linux
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