Hi, Am 2013-04-04 14:33, schrieb Nicolas Cauchie: > I want to backup what backuppc backups to put it on a tape, to be > safe in case of climatic disaster or anything else. > I want to backup backups on a tape, using a LTO tape drive, and a > program who runs on Windows.
Ouch, that last half-sentence hurts... > When I run "du - sh" to know the size of my backuppc backups > directory, on linux, it returns me "217G". When I do the same thing on > Windows (right click on the folder-> properties), it sizes me this > folder more than 500G... I think it's because of the symbolic links... Yep, windows afair isn't really great with the links. BTW: these links are hard-links, that is two file-entries pointing to the same contents, not one file-entry pointing to another file-entry as it is with symbolic links. > So, the question is : What must I backup to be sure to be able to > restore the backuppc server ? Either you write the whole partition to tape, or: We have a cron-job that daily in the morning tells backuppc using the tapearchiver-method to write tars of certain hosts into a directory where amanda can find them. And the post-script of the tapearchiver then runs amdump to actually write the tars to tape and then deletes the tars. This way only one backup-mechanism is collecting the stuff but we have the security of off-site storage. On a side-note: the tar-files that backuppc writes are sent through gpg for encryption with a public-key to be decrypted with the private-key. Where the keys are changed once the private key has to be copied one of the machines for restoring from tape. So even if you get access to one of our tapes, you don't see anything except the names of the archives... Have fun, Arnold ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Minimize network downtime and maximize team effectiveness. Reduce network management and security costs.Learn how to hire the most talented Cisco Certified professionals. Visit the Employer Resources Portal http://www.cisco.com/web/learning/employer_resources/index.html _______________________________________________ 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/
