Re: [BackupPC-users] Possible to have 2 backup loactions?

[Les M. <les...@gm...>]

Rob Morin wrote:
> I want to use Backuppc to do standard backups from windows servers to a 
> raid 10 setup on the server. However i would like to copy some of the 
> data backed up to another  external drive for outside the building safe 
> keeping.... is this possible with backuppc?
> 
> So back up everything to main backup disks, then copy some of that data 
> to an external disk so that i can leave the building with it...
> 
> Anyone, ....Anyone,...... *Bueller?*

If it is a reasonably small portion that is copied out, you can use the 
web interface to browse to the location in the backup, pick restore, and 
have it sent to the browser as a tar file that you save to the external 
drive mounted on the machine running the browser (not necessarily the 
backuppc server).  For something bigger you can use the command line 
BackupPC_tarCreate program to generate the tar image on the server, 
perhaps scripting it to compress and perhaps split the output.  If you 
want tar images of entire hosts, you can create an 'archive host' which 
basically give you a way to make a tar image from the latest backup of 
selected hosts through the web interface, sending the output to a tape 
or storing in a pre-configured directory.

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   Les Mikesell
    le...@fu...