I've been using BackupPC for many years now, and am now for the first time going to be using the Archive features. For me the archives will not be for off-site or remote storage, but a sort of "out-of-band" copy of the backups. The idea being that if BackupPC is down, and all that is available is the NFS share, I can simply cp or rsync files manually from the archive to a host. I'd like the archive to not be a tar or any compressed format, but simply an exact 'mirror' of the system's backup. So if hostA's defined share is '/' I'd like to have something like '/var/lib/BackupPC/pc/archived_hosts/hostA-2012-08-25/<root file system>', where <root file system>, is an exact mirror of of the share '/'.
I'm not entirely familiar with all the utility scripts packaged with BackupPC, so this may be something already possible with BackupPC, but before I went and wrote a custom script to handle this I was hoping the community had advice or code I could make use of. Thanks - Trey ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ 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/