On 11/15/2013 04:46 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 8:38 AM, [email protected] <[email protected]> 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ DreamFactory - Open Source REST & JSON Services for HTML5 & Native Apps OAuth, Users, Roles, SQL, NoSQL, BLOB Storage and External API Access Free app hosting. Or install the open source package on any LAMP server. Sign up and see examples for AngularJS, jQuery, Sencha Touch and Native! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=63469471&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
