On 1/27/2011 8:05 AM, Erik Shreve wrote:
> I've been reading the archives and documentation but haven't been able
> to find a clear answer...
>
> I have backuppc backing up the machine it runs on to a NAS. Thus
> everything under __TOPDIR__ is on the NAS. Meanwhile the backuppc
> binaries and configuration are on the server.
>
> If I were to loose the server, how hard would it be to restore data from
> the NAS? Obviously I'd have to rebuild a server and install BackupPC
> again. If I had BackupPC backing up its config directory, would it be
> easy to extract those files from the cpool?

Getting the files out of the pc directory in your data store is easy
since it has the same structure as the original directory (aside from
the obvious addition of the 'f' to the filenames).  Just use the
BackupPC_zcat program to uncompress the config files.

-- 
Bowie

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