Google the archives... backing up the pool using tar/rsync etc. has
been discussed dozens if not hundreds of times..
Jurie Botha wrote at about 13:40:28 +0200 on Tuesday, April 8, 2014:
> I was wondering how viable it would be to backup the backuppc pool
> using tar?
> example: tar --preserve-permissions --check-links -cvf
> /mnt/backups/backup2014-04-08.tar /var/lib/backuppc
> I know this would become somewhat problematic on big data pools, so I
> guess my question would be:
> Under which circumstances would this method become an issue.
> I have a small client, for whom I am using backuppc as a backup
> solution. Unfortunately, setting up an archive host is not an option -
> so I am at the moment just using rsync to copy the pool accross to an
> external USB 3.0 Disk. This works fine, the issue is deleting old
> backups. Each backup of the pool goes in its own dated folder, and
> deleting one of these takes forever. (Due to hardlinks, no doubt :p ) I
> was thinking of dumping this to a uncompressed tar file instead
> (Deleteing a single file instead of thousands of files and more
> hardlinks.), as in a DR scenario, ultimately as long as the data is
> restore able, time is not so big an issue.
> At the moment their pool is sitting at around 100GB.
> Any ideas?
> Regards,
> Jurie Botha
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