On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 8:38 AM, info AT newoffice DOT it <info AT newoffice 
DOT it> wrote:
> i must to put all the backuppc backups on a tape , i think that i can
> use something like tar -cvpzf /dev/st0 /var/lib/backuppc +cronjob

It is generally not practical to copy the whole archive directory with
file-oriented methods like tar.  There is no efficient way to
reconstruct the millions of hardlinks in the filesystem and it will
take a very long time to complete.

> is there  something better? like some bacuppc feature ( so i can have a
> mail if the job fails)

One thing that would work would be to use the command line tool
Backuppc_tarCreate to generate tar images of the latest backup from
each host that you can write to tape.  You don't get the whole history
on a single tape that way, but you do gain the ability to restore
directly with tar without needing to reconstruct backuppc for the job.

Backuppc has a concept called 'archive' hosts that you can set up to
make tar images for you through the web interface but it is probably
better to just write your own script around Backuppc_tarCreate so you
can schedule it with cron.

-- 
  Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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