On 11/15/2013 04:46 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
> 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.
>
hi

i've found this script

######################################
# BackupPC Archive Script
# Brian Smith - Bonnier Corporation
######################################
#!/bin/bash

DATADIR=/var/lib/backuppc/pc
BackupPCDATADIR=/dev/st0
BackupPCBIN=/usr/share/backuppc/bin

# Uncomment to remove old backups
#echo "Removing old backups....."
#find $DATADIR/ -type f | while read foo; do
# rm -fv $foo
#done

echo "Checking dump directories....."
ls $BackupPCDATADIR | grep -v archive | while read foo; do
mkdir $DATADIR/$foo 2>/dev/null
chmod 777 $DATADIR/$foo 2>/dev/null
done

ls $BackupPCDATADIR | grep -v archive | while read host; do
echo Dumping $host `date`........
$BackupPCBIN/BackupPC_tarCreate -t -h $host -n -1 -s \* . > 
$DATADIR/$host/$host.`date +%Y%m%W`.tar
pbzip2 -p7 $DATADIR/$host/$host.`date +%Y%m%W`.tar
echo Done! `date`
done
exit 0


https://forums.zmanda.com/showthread.php?1823-Archive-to-Tape

it seems doing exactly what i need...
do you think it could be ok?

tnx
AbsyntH

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