Brian Butler wrote:
> Is it possible copy the contents of the backup directory to an external
> USB hard drive to take offsite? Of course the external USB Hard drive
> will need sufficient disk space to copy the contents over, but are there
> any other issues?
>
> I envision the process to be:
>
> 1. Connect the External USB Hard Drive to the BackupPC server
> 2. Mount the Drive, if not automatic
> 3. Stop the BackupPC daemon process on the server
> 4. From a shell command prompt, issue a copy command to duplicate the
> contents and permissions from the BackupPC Data directory to the USB drive
> 5. Once completed, unmount the external drive
> 6. Disconnect the external drive
> 7. Restart the BackupPC daemon process on the server
>
> Anything I'm missing, any gotcha's. Thoughts are appreciated.
This has been discussed often on the list so you can find some different
schemes mentioned in the list archvies. It will work if your backups
are very small, but the pooling scheme uses a large number of hard links
that are inefficient to duplicate with ordinary file-oriented copying
methods (cp, rsync, tar, etc.) and it will be too slow to be practical
for most people. If your backuppc directory is on a separate mounted
partition (which I'd recommend) and your USB drive is at least as big as
the partition, you might unmount the partition and do a raw image copy
to the USB disk to get a working copy in a few hours.
--
Les Mikesell
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