Les,
Thank you so much for your response. That sound you heard was me smacking
myself in the forehead. I had set up archives, and was so obsessed with
that that I didn't even think that a restore to a tarball *was* effectively
an archive.
Thanks,
--b
On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 11:15 AM, Les Mikesell <lesmikes...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 8:39 AM, Brad Alexander <stor...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have a number of backups that are on my backuppc machine, and now that
> I
> > have a NAS in place, I figured I would archive off the oldest backups,
> since
> > the /var/lib/backuppc partition filled up on the backup machine.
> >
> > Is there a way to archive a specific backup so that I can back up some of
> > the older fulls? I looked in the docs, and found that there is no way to
> > specify a specific backup, even from the command line.
> >
> > Any suggestions?
>
> Note that deleting old backups is only going to release the space of
> files that were different or deleted. You can use BackupPC_tarCreate
> to make a tar image for archive storage, specifying the host and
> backup number:
>
> http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html#Command-line-restore-options
>
> Or simply select it in the web interface and download a tar copy
> through the browser, saving it on your mapped NAS - although at least
> some versions of IE may download to a temp location first instead of
> where you tell it to save the file and some versions of things may
> have size limitations.
>
> --
> Les Mikesell
> lesmikes...@gmail.com
>
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