I just found this gem: http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/backuppc.htm
The simplest way to handle off-site backup is to use BackupPC's archive host > feature to produce tar archives, and to then copy these archives to > removable media. > > BackupPC is configured to create tar archives by creating a new host with > it's XferMethod set to archive. > ... > The archive host will now appear within the web-based interface along with > all your other hosts, except that instead of allowing you to start backups > this host's interface will allow you to create archives of your other hosts. > > Archives you create in this way will contain the most recent backup of a > host, not a full set of historical backups. > ... > Once the archive process has completed the tar archive can then be copied > to removal media of one of the types suggested below, and then taken off > site. > > Archives can be created automatically using a cron job. > I plan on giving this a shot, writing these host tar files to a truecrypt volume on a portable drive. -- https://ssd.eff.org http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8167533318153586646 http://www.vlrc.org/articles/160.html Sent from Las Vegas, NV, United States On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 08:33, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom<chr...@real-time.com> wrote: > On 07/22 08:17 , tog benson wrote: >> In the past I've used external drives to keep a rotation of offsite >> backups. One drive would be offsite while the other was receiving dumps >> of data. I used an archive host to dump tar_gzip files of all my data. > > This is the way I do it at one location. I have a directory called > /var/lib/backuppc/dump, and tgz archives of all the hosts get dumped there > by virtue of a custom script. The script also handles the mounting and > unmounting of an external drive. > > So someone (an unskilled office worker) swaps the drive once a week after > they get an e-mail of a successful backup. They then take the drive with the > new data and remove it offsite. > > -- > Carl Soderstrom > Systems Administrator > Real-Time Enterprises > www.real-time.com > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > 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/ >
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