thomas wrote:
> Dear community,
> 
> We're backing up our pool to tape every now and again, but we would like to 
> extract this data into the pool at a later stage.. in case we need to recover.
> 
> Here's what I'd like to achieve:
> 
> 1. Back up pool to tape using tar (works)
> 2. Extract backup from tape and import it into backuppc pool after 2-3 months 
> (does not work)
> 
> Anyone?

There's not a clean way to do this.  You can use the archive host 
feature to make tar images to tape that can be restored without backuppc 
  or roll your own script for this with BackupPC_tarCreate but you lose 
pooling on these copies.

If you want to copy the state of the pool files, you'd have to restore 
into a different machine with a matching backuppc setup to access them - 
and I'd expect a restore that has to re-create the hardlinks to the pool 
to take a very long time.  I'd recommend testing this procedure before 
you need it. It may be more practical to image-copy the archive disk so 
it would be ready to use.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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