Re: [BackupPC-users] archive to ftp?

[Joe K. <jko...@rm...>]

On 6/10/2011 10:55 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On 6/10/2011 9:06 AM, Joe Konecny wrote:
>> I have backuppc running and tested and it works great but our company
>> requires offsite storage of backups.  Someone used to take a tape
>> home each night when we used Amanda.  I've read the docs on the archive
>> function and it says "BackupPC supports archiving to removable media.
>> For users that require offsite backups, BackupPC can create archives
>> that stream to tape devices, or create files of specified sizes to fit
>> onto cd or dvd media."  I would like to send these archives to an ftp
>> site.  Is there any docs on how to do something like this?  Also is
>> there docs on how to do a restore from an archive?
>
> First be sure you understand what the archiving feature does.  It will
> create a tar image of the latest backup of a host (with incrementals
> merged with the previous full as necessary), optionally compressed and
> split into chunks. You can restore these without needing backuppc (just
> zcat the chunks and pipe to tar), but they don't provide earlier history
> and don't have any pooling of duplicate data.  If this is really what
> you want offsite, you could have backuppc write to a directory (possibly
> nfs mounted from a different machine, but something local), then rsync
> or ftp the resulting files to the offsite location. If you want finer
> control of the archive generation, you can script your own with
> BackupPC_tarCreate piped through gzip and split.
>

What you describe would be great.   Thanks!