On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 8:58 AM, Brad Alexander <storm16 AT gmail DOT com> 
wrote:
> Is there a way to archive an older backup? I upgraded my machine for
> Christmas, and decided to nuke and pave and install Debian amd64. Prior to
> doing so, I did a full backup, and have restored piecemeal...However, I have
> been finding one-off files over the last day or so (like various corner case
> config files) that I wanted to restore, so I thought it would be a good to
> capture an archive of that final backup, just in case. That backup is about
> to go away, and i wanted to capture it in an archive. I went to the web gui,
> but it seems only to want to backup the latest backup. Is there a way to do
> this?
>

The 'archive host' concept is just a web wrapper around
BackupPC_tarCreate/compress/split.  If you run it yourself from the
command line you will have much more control over the options.

-- 
  Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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