Thanks for the suggestion, i will look into that... Have a great day!
Rob Morin Dido InterNet Inc. Montreal, Canada Http://www.dido.ca 514-990-4444 Les Mikesell wrote: > Rob Morin wrote: >> I want to use Backuppc to do standard backups from windows servers to >> a raid 10 setup on the server. However i would like to copy some of >> the data backed up to another external drive for outside the >> building safe keeping.... is this possible with backuppc? >> >> So back up everything to main backup disks, then copy some of that >> data to an external disk so that i can leave the building with it... >> >> Anyone, ....Anyone,...... *Bueller?* > > If it is a reasonably small portion that is copied out, you can use > the web interface to browse to the location in the backup, pick > restore, and have it sent to the browser as a tar file that you save > to the external drive mounted on the machine running the browser (not > necessarily the backuppc server). For something bigger you can use > the command line BackupPC_tarCreate program to generate the tar image > on the server, perhaps scripting it to compress and perhaps split the > output. If you want tar images of entire hosts, you can create an > 'archive host' which basically give you a way to make a tar image from > the latest backup of selected hosts through the web interface, sending > the output to a tape or storing in a pre-configured directory. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
