martin f krafft <madd...@madduck.net> wrote on 12/02/2015 05:20:31 PM:
> I am looking for a way to automate sending an archive (tarball) of
> the latest backup of each of my hosts to an offsite machine, using
> scp and GnuPG for encryption. Can this be done within BackupPC and
> scheduled regularly, or is this a cronjob I'd need to hack up?
Well... BackupPC can generate tarballs. That's about it. Everything
else you've described is left as an exercise for the reader: how to
execute this via a schedule (such as cronjob as you surmised), how to
encrypt it, how to get it to the remote machine (scp, or using a
NFS/CIFS/SSHFS mount, etc.) and any other features you may like.
Personally, I simply archive them to a local machine with a removable
tray, so I don't have to worry about scp to another machine -- and I
believe in keeping archives as *simple* (and disaster-recoverable) as
possible, so no GnuPG. So I use a cronjob to generate a file and submit
that file to BackupPC using BackupPC_serverMesg. This is the same method
that is used when you run a manual archive job using the Web GUI: I just
reverse-engineered it from the source. Others use BackupPC_tarCreate by
hand. That's probably a better choice if you'll be piping the output
somewhere instead of simply writing it to the filesystem like I do.
Tim Massey
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