Re: [BackupPC-users] Advice on offsite strategy using external drives

I just found this gem:
http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/backuppc.htm

The simplest way to handle off-site backup is to use BackupPC's archive host feature to produce tar archives, and to then copy these archives to removable media.

BackupPC is configured to create tar archives by creating a new host with it's XferMethod set to archive.
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The archive host will now appear within the web-based interface along with all your other hosts, except that instead of allowing you to start backups this host's interface will allow you to create archives of your other hosts.

Archives you create in this way will contain the most recent backup of a host, not a full set of historical backups.
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Once the archive process has completed the tar archive can then be copied to removal media of one of the types suggested below, and then taken off site.

Archives can be created automatically using a cron job.

I plan on giving this a shot, writing these host tar files to a truecrypt volume on a portable drive.

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On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 08:33, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom<chrome AT real-time DOT com> wrote:
> On 07/22 08:17 , tog benson wrote:
>> In the past I've used external drives to keep a rotation of offsite
>> backups. One drive would be offsite while the other was receiving dumps
>> of data. I used an archive host to dump tar_gzip files of all my data.
>
> This is the way I do it at one location. I have a directory called
> /var/lib/backuppc/dump, and tgz archives of all the hosts get dumped there
> by virtue of a custom script. The script also handles the mounting and
> unmounting of an external drive.
>
> So someone (an unskilled office worker) swaps the drive once a week after
> they get an e-mail of a successful backup. They then take the drive with the
> new data and remove it offsite.
>
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