On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 02:53:08PM +0200, Mesterhazy Attila wrote: > I'm new to BackupPC but it seems to be just what I need. I only have one > question: if I create the backup to an external HDD and the server machine - > which has BackupPC installed - breaks down how can I restore the data on the > external HDD? As I see it is compressed and if I plug it to another machine I > can not restore the data from it.
You'd need to do a minimal BackupPC installation on the machine you want to restore, then you can use BackupPC_tarCreate or BackupPC_zcat to access the compressed files. HTH, Tino. -- "What we resist, persists." (Zen saying) www.craniosacralzentrum.de www.forteego.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
