Re: [BackupPC-users] Archive of backups.

[Paul F. <pg...@fo...>]

 > I'd like to archive BackupPC backups onto DVD using a setof cron jobs.
 > Is there a way to check that no job are currently running? Beside the 
 > obvious kill of BackupPCand restart of course.

if you find an economical means of copying the pool, please share
it.  as far as i can tell (i confess i'm new at this), the pool
is very expensive to copy, due to the number of hard links.  (i'd
love for someone to correct this assertion, by the way.) at work,
we've resorted to doing a very careful block for block copy of the
pool device onto an _identical_ hard disk.  i'm not happy with
this situation.  at home, i archive tarballs of the shares, made
from the most recent backup, but this loses the shared
compression size advantage.

if you're going to use BackupPC_tarCreate, then you don't need to
stop the server at all -- you'll be creating a tar of an
existing, completed backup.  (this assumes that you're keeping
enough backups around that there's no danger of the backup
you're tarring up being deleted out from under you.  (again, someone
correct me if i misunderstand...)

paul
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 paul fox, pg...@fo... (arlington, ma, where it's 30.2 degrees)