BackupPC is great at what it does, backing up files, which is why I use it.
As my original post states, am aware that backuppc is not designed to achieve 
my offsite-ready-to-use-most-recent-copy which is why I tried the fuse module 
and was asking more for suggestions or alternatives to the module rather than 
how backuppc can (can't) do this.
Perhaps I shouldn't have used the term snapshot either because of the obvious 
confusion with lvm snapshots and the like but was instead referring to a like 
for like copy of my live environment.  Sorry for the confusion :(

Yes, I could just take the backup directly from the individual servers, and by 
the looks of things it may be my only option.
I was rather hoping for perhaps another fuse module alternative or something 
that would still allow me to keep everything centralised.
I really don't want to have backup scripts running on every server if I can 
help it.
but....
If I must I must.
If only that fuse module would work it would solve all my problems...

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