Hi, On 07.05.2012 21:52, Scott wrote: > I was reading about tar snapshots of the backuppc server / data, or > similar. Where exactly can I do this? For example, if I go to my > backuppc web admin, how can I say "create a compressed tar export of the > ALL the backup data"?
Add a new "host" and set the backup-method to "archive". Or you BackupPC_tarCreate directly to write the tars you want. You can even insert gpg and your preferred compression and indexing that way. > I am ultimately looking for off-site, but if I can get a reasonably quick > dump of all the files somehow, that would help. Dumping off all the files would mean saving the whole pool/. That will give you all files present in at least one of the backup-generations. But that doesn't tell you in which backup and generation the file was used. So you also have to dump pc/ but be sure to use a dumper that knows about hard-links. Otherwise you get all files several times. And when you have something that knows hard-links (like anything rsync-based) and use it on a reasonable sized backup system, the dump will take _very_ long. Better write "tapes" via the tarCreate or (if the backup-tape is big enough) just dump the whole fs from /var/lib/backuppc to tape. lvm and snapshots are your friend for this. Have fun, Arnold -- Dieses Email wurde elektronisch erstellt und ist ohne handschriftliche Unterschrift gültig.
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