Yazz D. Atlas wrote: > How difficult would it be to have BackupPC create a link to the last > Full backup. The reason this would be handy to me is I'm required to > backup to tape to a system I don't have much control over. I just want > to tell the backup service a simple directorie to grab. I would like > to > be able to tell them to backup > > $Conf{TopDir}/pc/example.com/last-full > > Which would link to $Conf{TopDir}/pc/example.com/95 if that was the > last > Full backup. > > I hope to never uses there backup service to do a restore but for off > site backup compliance I need to. I'm trying to save some bandwidth by > not backing up everything I don't need. (I have over 240 clients and > about 7T used under $Conf{TopDir} getting that off site has been a > huge > issue) > > I may be able to just do it with $DumpPostUserCmd but I haven't tested > that yet. I just think it would be nicer to have it as a built in > option. > > > /bin/ln -sf $topDir/pc/$host/$(/bin/cat $topDir/pc/$host/backups \ > | /bin/grep full | /bin/sort -n | /usr/bin/tail -1 \ > | /bin/awk '{ print $1 }') $topDir/pc/$host/last-full
If you want to send an archive of a backup to tape that you can restore (without BackupPC), check out 'Archive Functions' in the BackupPC documentation: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html#archive_functions Nils Breunese. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/