On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 04:40:02PM -0400, Alexandre Joly wrote:

> > Straight to the point ... I want to copy the backups generated by 
> > BackupPC to an external/removable media but I'm not sure what is the 
> > best way to do it. 
> > 
> > My initial idea is just to copy the contents of all the BackupPC 
> > directories ( $TopDir, /etc/backuppc ...) to an external media. Is this 
> > enough ?
> > 
> > I just want to have copies of my backups outside the server/company in 
> > case of having physical problems in the machine that stores them.
> 
> I think what you are looking for is having an "archive host".
> 
> http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html#archive_functions

And/or the command BackupPC_tarCreate. I'm using it (plus some
sophisticated shell script) to create TARs from server backups. Note
that backing up the pc/name/number directories is cumbersome since you
need a Backuppc installation to actually restore something. If you
create an archive (via archivehost or via BackupPC_tarCreate), you get a
real TAR file.

HTH,

Tino.

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