On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 07:15:53PM -0400, shane mach wrote: > I'm using backup pc to backup a clients server remotely. > > For the initial backup, i want to copy the raw data onto a usb drive and take > it back to out data center and load it manually (save dragging all this over > the internet initially) > > Any ideas on the best practice to go about this?
One way would be to attach the USB drive to a host in the data center, then configure backuppc to think that the USB drive is the remote host (fiddle with host name aliases, set filesystems to backup appropriately). danno -- Dan Pritts, Sr. Systems Engineer Internet2 office: +1-734-352-4953 | mobile: +1-734-834-7224 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev _______________________________________________ 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/
