Edward Parker <edw...@albany.me.uk> wrote on 12/27/2008 03:07:40 PM: > What I'd like to be able to do is to produce archives in such a way as > to be able to point others at a set of DVDs that they can usefully use, > even after I've fallen under a bus (say)....... > Ideal would be in an uncompressed format, even readable on a Windows PC > without any zipping. This may not be economic in terms of space/discs, > but important to me in terms of why I want to do this.
There is AFAIK no way of doing this within BackupPC. The closest you're gonna get is a tar file. For what you're looking for, I would say you're better off with a different tool. Either look into something like Delta Copy or Clonezilla Live depending on whether you want the *data* to be instantly available, or the *system* to be instantly recoverable. If a TAR file is good enough, I would recommend simply using the currently-built BackupPC GUI interface to archive to a USB drive. I use IDE drives in a removable tray to accomplish the same thing, with the archives launched by a simple cron job. I'm never expecting that a clueless (or even "power") user is going to make sense of the archives, but I *would* expect an even remotely-competent IT professional to do just fine. And in that case, all I'm after is the data. I also have a separate Clonezilla Live archive for different contingencies. Tim Massey ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
