> 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.

Wow, thanks.
I do not have tape drives available, but would it also work if I'd be
doing this same procedure onto an external USB HDD?

Thanks,
F.

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