On 2/16/2012 10:50 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 8:45 AM, Bowie Bailey <Bowie_Bailey AT buc DOT com
> <mailto:Bowie_Bailey AT buc DOT com>> wrote:
>
>     My backup method involves sending a mirrored drive offsite on a
>     regular
>     basis.  This drive contains the OS, BackupPC program, and the pool.
>
>     Now I need to access some information from one of the old backups.  I
>     can boot it up normally, but I want to make sure that BackupPC
>     does not
>     try to run any backups or do any cleanup while I'm working with it.  I
>     know there's a flag I can set to prevent backups from running, but
>     what
>     do I need to do to prevent the cleanup from removing any of the
>     existing
>     backups?
>
>
> One option would be to not even start the server - just extract what
> you need with the BackupPC_tarCreate command line program.

Hmm...  not a bad idea.  I would rather be able to use the GUI for
simplicity, but the command line programs would be safer.

-- 
Bowie

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