Re: [BackupPC-users] some questions...

[Filipe <napalmd@gmail.com>]

Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom escreveu:

On 12/19 07:17 , Filipe wrote:
  

Using Backuppc (debian) successfully  in my company for about 5 months, 
backing up 6 winXX shares using samba.
The machine is a simple Pentium 4 with a 40GB HD that is getting full.
Already ordered a 250GB ata100 hd. but I'm not sure what to do...
should I use the 250Gb for the data only, or just replace the hd's using 
ghost?!
    

move the contents of /var/lib/backuppc (or whereever your data pool is) to
the new drive, and then mount the new drive on /var/lib/backuppc. It's a
very good idea to have your data on a separate drive from the OS. At the
very least, use a separate partition on disk. 

also, I would suggest using LVM on the data partition/disk. this will allow
you to add space much more easily in the future; or move your data to
another disk.

  

thanks...
but if I have 2 drives like that, what should I do if one fails?
wasn't it better to ghost de 40gb to the 250gb and then let only de 250gb running this way I have de 40gb drive off the computer in case of some problem that may occur to the new drive...

anyway, anyone knows more about the archive funciton?

I set my winXP machine to archive.
I have the option to archive in the webconfig, but it does not work... how it work's? what parameters should I add to config.pl? it is a windows machine...