On Fri, 2005-11-11 at 04:08, Nicolai Rasmussen wrote:
> I was under the impression, that CP was sufficient to make offsite backup
> copies, of backuppc's repository (/var/lib/backuppc/).
If you have the GNU version of cp (all linux distributions should) you
can use cp -a, but it will take a very long time to duplicate all the
hardlinks.
> I want to be able to take the latest full backup for each host (we have 10
> hosts, max) onto an USB device
> and move it offsite (each week).
If you just need a full, you can either set up the 'archive host'
feature to dump to a directory on the external drive or run the
BackupPC_tarCreate program to make a tar image. I'd probably use the
command line program in a script that dumps each to a
compressed tar file. It will construct what looks like a
full tar image with the latest incrementals merged automatically.
> My xfermethod is rsync btw, should I then use rsync manually to make a copy
> of the files, or how would I go about doing that?
In theory 'rsync -aH' could copy the archive area, but it will likely be
too slow to be practical due to all the hardlinks.
--
Les Mikesell
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