Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
> 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.

Have you ever restored one of these tapes, and if so, how long did it 
take?  As a wild guess, I'd expect a couple of days where an image copy 
would be an hour or two.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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