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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Put Bad Developers to Shame > Dominate Development with Jenkins Continuous Integration > Continuously Automate Build, Test & Deployment > Start a new project now. Try Jenkins in the cloud. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/13600_Cloudbees > _______________________________________________ > 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/
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