RE: [BackupPC-users] Backup to Tape/DVDs?

[Brian W. <brw...@ab...>]

Craig,

Did I miss something .. V2.1.x ?? .. I can only find v2.0.2 ??

Brian

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From: bac...@li...
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Barratt
Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004 12:23 AM
To: Ghate, Niranjan P
Cc: bac...@li...
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup to Tape/DVDs? 

"Ghate, Niranjan P" writes:

> I have some systems backing up all the data to a Linux server running 
> backup-pc. This is great as a backup solution, but does little for 
> catastrophic events like a Fire. I am thinking of backing up the 
> backup-pc server to DVD RW disks that I could carry home with me.
> 
> I am looking for suggestions on what I should backup and how.
> 
> For the "What" part, I am debating if I should backup the entire 
> backup pool (could get large), or just the last full backup for each pc.
> 
> For the "How" part, I was thinking of using scdbackup 
> [http://scdbackup.sourceforge.net] to burn afio archives on DVD+RW 
> media.

BackupPC 2.1.x includes an archive feature.  From the CGI interface you can
ask it to generate compressed tar archives of the most recent backup for any
or all the hosts.  Output files can be optionally split (eg: for 650MB CDs)
and optional parity files can be generated.  A backend script can be
customized to write the output files to DVD, tape or whatever.

Craig


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