On 08/04 09:29 , Juergen Harms wrote:
>  > I just make an rsync copy of my data to an external USB-attached drive
>  > every now and then, and rotate a few drives in and out of my safe. A
>  > lot more simplistic than backuppc, and not automated, but it is simple
>  > to operate and secure.
> 
> That is good advice, thank you. Do you rsync the entire backup directory 
> tree?

sorry, I wasn't clear there.
I mean that for archival storage, I don't use backuppc. :)
That said, you can set up backuppc archiving, and dump tarballs of the hosts
you want.

Don't try to rsync your backuppc tree; the hardlinks will fill up so much
memory it'll kill your machine, if your pool is larger than a certain size.
If you mean to do that, use tar or dd. (dd is by far the fastest, tho
perhaps the least convenient). 

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

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