I used a udev rule (Centos 5) to automatically mount (once) the USB 
drive, and then a script that runs via Cron to check and see if a USB 
drive is mounted.  Then it uses rsync to sync /var/lib/BackuPC to the 
USB drive, runs a sync, then umounts the backup partition (thus 
preventing the script from running until the drive is removed and 
re-plugged).  It also uses the command line mail command to email the 
person responsible for changing out the drives to know that the backup ran.

This way the client can take a USB drive off-site and into a fire-safe 
at their other locations (two locations, two servers, four USB drives to 
swap back and forth).



On 10/30/2010 6:15 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> I'm not clear what exactly is archived if one chooses that option?
>
> Basically, I would like to save on an external hard drive,
> every 3 months or so, whatever is necessary to restore the folders
> specified in my BackupPC config file
> if the BackupPC server failed completely for some reason,
> eg because of a hard disk failure.
>
>
>
>    

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