I've just started using BackupPC on my home network (3.0.0 from Debian
unstable). The backup server is a HTPC with two drives, one dedicated to
backups.
For noise and power saving reasons, I want to spin down the backup drive
when it's not in use. I'm using hdparm -S to do this, and want to stop
BackupPC from touching the drive too often. I haven't been able to find
anything much about this from the mailing list archives or general web
searching, though.
So far I've determined that "$Conf{TrashCleanSleepSec} = '300'" isn't
going to be doing me any favours. I've bumped it up to once an hour (and
might do so to once a day; I'm only backing up three machines and the
data doesn't change at a frantic rate).
Is this safe?
If BackupPC wakes once an hour, on the occasions when it doesn't need to
do anything (i.e. all machines are backed up or can't be pinged), will
it touch /var/lib/backuppc/? If so, can I stop it?
Is anyone else doing this, and do they have any tips?
Cheers, Simon
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