I've got BackupPC running on a CentOS server (working fine with Windows 10 PCs, 
by the way!).  I'd like to back up, on occasion, the data BackupPC stores.

For other servers, network shares, and CCTV footage, I use LTO-5 Ultrium tapes 
and just use tar on the CentOS server connected to the tape drive; nothing 
proprietary going on.

But, where does BackupPC store it's data?  (I could probably figure that one 
out pretty easily.)  More of a question is, how would backing up the pooled 
data to an external source work out?  I have approx. 3.8 TB of data before 
pooling and compression, approx 1 TB of data after pooling and compression.

So, I'd need to plan on 3.8 TB of external storage were I to back up BackupPC's 
data, correct?

If I just used the regular tar commands to back up the data directory for 
BackupPC, would it be able to preserve the user permissions?  As in, could I 
still tell what came from what PC if I just copied the data directory?

(I'm probably making this more complex than it is...)

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