Topic: Backuppc why exclude /home/e-smith/files?

[iltasu]

Hi all,
just a question to understand which is the motivation behind not including /home/e-smith/files in the backup, if I reinclude it, could it lead to problems? You know, in that directory is saved the life of the people on this network, I mean, the really important things for a firm (emails and shared documents).
Thanks for the precisation.

Tasso

[Daniel B.]

Hi. I'm the developper of smeserver-backuppc. The default configuration file for the host 127.0.0.1 is just a example file. I choosed to exclude /home/e-smith/files by default because it can be very large and if you don't pay attention to the left space on your drive, as the backups occures automatically, you can crash your system. Of course, you can just remove this from the exclusion list and it'll be backed up, on several site I backup everything in /home/e-smith/files (you can even configure another virtual host to save this directory, this way system and data are separated).

[iltasu]

Thank you for the reply! ^_^