BackupPC-users

Re: [BackupPC-users] Restore from orphaned topdir

2011-01-28 14:38:10
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Restore from orphaned topdir
From: "Tyler J. Wagner" <tyler AT tolaris DOT com>
To: "General list for user discussion, questions and support" <backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 19:36:08 +0000
On Fri, 2011-01-28 at 12:32 -0500, Erik Shreve wrote:
> Just getting the backuppc config files is all I would be interested in,
> which sounds doable.
> After that I'd use backuppc to restore everything else.

By far the easiest solution is to also back up /etc/backuppc to the NAS.
I backup TopDir and /etc/backuppc to my secondary server regularly, for
just this reason. In fact, all you really need is config.pl and hosts,
but it's easy to rsync it all.

Regards,
Tyler

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emancipation."
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