Yazz D. Atlas wrote:

> How difficult would it be to have BackupPC create a link to the last
> Full backup. The reason this would be handy to me is I'm required to
> backup to tape to a system I don't have much control over. I just want
> to tell the backup service a simple directorie to grab. I would like  
> to
> be able to tell them to backup
>
> $Conf{TopDir}/pc/example.com/last-full
>
> Which would link to $Conf{TopDir}/pc/example.com/95 if that was the  
> last
> Full backup.
>
> I hope to never uses there backup service to do a restore but for off
> site backup compliance I need to. I'm trying to save some bandwidth by
> not backing up everything I don't need. (I have over 240 clients and
> about 7T used under $Conf{TopDir} getting that off site has been a  
> huge
> issue)
>
> I may be able to just do it with $DumpPostUserCmd but I haven't tested
> that yet. I just think it would be nicer to have it as a built in  
> option.
>
>
> /bin/ln -sf $topDir/pc/$host/$(/bin/cat $topDir/pc/$host/backups \
> | /bin/grep full | /bin/sort -n | /usr/bin/tail -1 \
> | /bin/awk '{ print $1 }') $topDir/pc/$host/last-full

If you want to send an archive of a backup to tape that you can  
restore (without BackupPC), check out 'Archive Functions' in the  
BackupPC documentation: 
http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html#archive_functions

Nils Breunese.

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