I do not recommend one solution or the other, both work. I prefer (2). 
The configuration is "easier to read" if you find the mount-point of 
file-systems directly under /. And, according to the man-pages, --bind 
is not obsolete, -o bind might be. This documentation comes with the 
kernel, I consider it "official Linux" documentation.

Thanks, I will change the group ownership of the topDir directory to 
root (and keep backuppc as owner - backuppc in fact does add 
directories, it added "pool" in addition to the already existing "cpool" 
and "pc" directories during the night after my original install).

Indeed the wiki is the second place where I look for information - looks 
like that is part of the general problem of "how to find".


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