Tomasz Chmielewski schrieb: > Normally, when we use BackupPC's "Archive" functionality, it creates one > tar (gz|bz2) archive per host. > > This way, if the hosts are similar, we loose all hardlinks that BackupPC > used internally to save us precious space. > > > This is a bit painful if we intend to write that data to tapes later - > instead of 100 GB data (hardlinks used), you have 200 GB data (because > hardlinks are lost)... > > > Is there a way to use the "Archive" functionality so that it creates a > one big tar/gz/bz2 package (probably, in a "native BackupPC format", and > thus, keeping hardlinks) for all the hosts we want?
Hmm, I guess I could easily do such an archive like that with tar - tar preserves hardlinks. So, tar the latest full backup for all hosts with a single tar command: pc/host_1/<latest_full> pc/host_2/<latest_full> ... pc/host_N/<latest_full> This way, I don't loose hardlinks, and I don't have to decompress/compress each BackupPC archive to create a new tar archive. The question is, can I later on restore such a backup reliably? -- Tomasz Chmielewski http://wpkg.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
