On 1/12/2010 12:38 PM, Mark Maciolek wrote:
> HI,
>
> I must be missing something in how I thought the archive host worked.
>
> I created a client and made its xferMethod archive.
>
> I then selected a client to archive as a test, the archive file is being
> written to the backupPC server in /tmp
>
>
> I thought it would put this file on the archive host /tmp not the
> BackupPC server
>
> What did I miss?

The point of the archive host setup is to generate standard tar archives 
that can be saved for later restores without needing the backuppc 
program.  You can change where they land and have them compressed/split 
to fit on different media, but they don't go back to the original host.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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