On 05/19 05:51 , Boniforti Flavio wrote:
> I don't know about bacula, but would like myself also to get a backup of
> the BackupPC server: anybody got some suggestions and practical
> examples?

I have one system where I do backups of backuppc to tape for disaster
recover. Here's the system I use:
- Stop backuppc to quiesce the filesystem. LVM snapshots are not sufficient
  for this, because the disk load gets too high, data flow rate gets too low,
  and the tape starts to 'shoeshine'.
- Dump /var/lib/backuppc to tape with 'tar'. I have a 500GB tape drive,
  which is sufficient to store the backuppc data from that machine.
- In case you're curious, the tar command I use is:
tar -cv --totals --exclude-from=$EXCLUDEFILE -f /dev/st0 /var/lib/backuppc/
2>&1 > $LOGFILE
- Restart backuppc.

-- 
Carl Soderstrom
Systems Administrator
Real-Time Enterprises
www.real-time.com

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