On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 02:53:08PM +0200, Mesterhazy Attila wrote:

> I'm new to BackupPC but it seems to be just what I need. I only have one 
> question: if I create the backup to an external HDD and the server machine - 
> which has BackupPC installed - breaks down how can I restore the data on the 
> external HDD? As I see it is compressed and if I plug it to another machine I 
> can not restore the data from it.

You'd need to do a minimal BackupPC installation on the machine you want
to restore, then you can use BackupPC_tarCreate or BackupPC_zcat to
access the compressed files.

HTH,

Tino.

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