RE: [BackupPC-users] Off-line archives - how to restore?

2005-11-26 Thread Les Mikesell
> From: Magnus Larsson > For clarity: > So using off-line archive means that the restor functions in BackupPC > are not of any use to me? I restore managing the backups as any tar archive? Yes, for example you can restore them offsite without needing to have backuppc installed. -- Les Mikesel

Re: [BackupPC-users] Off-line archives - how to restore?

2005-11-26 Thread Magnus Larsson
Thanks for your reply!! For clarity: So using off-line archive means that the restor functions in BackupPC are not of any use to me? I restore managing the backups as any tar archive? Magnus On Saturday 26 November 2005 01.57, Les Mikesell wrote: > >From: Magnus Larsson > > > > So: each week I

RE: [BackupPC-users] Off-line archives - how to restore?

2005-11-25 Thread Les Mikesell
>From: Magnus Larsson > So: each week I archive the backup on DVD:s. But how to restore > these backups? The restore function seems only to know about the > single backup kept on the disk. Archive backups are tar images, optionally compressed and split into chunks. Feed them to tar -x to extract