Re: [BackupPC-users] "Restore" a backup to DVD ?

[Steve W. <st...@al...>]

> From: "Mekare Mekare" <mek...@ho...>
> To: <bac...@li...>
> Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 2:19 PM
> Subject: [BackupPC-users] "Restore" a backup to DVD ?
> 
> So I'd like to burn DVDs which I could send to various places to keep my
> data safe. Is there a way to "restore" a backup and save it to a DVD (or on
> a given directory which I could burn on a DVD...). In fact, I'd like to get
> "raw" backups consisting of all my files without the backuppc format. Do you
> see what I mean ? Is there a simple way to do it ? Did I miss something

I'm curious why BackupPC's archive method wouldn't work for you.  I use it
to burn DVDs of my backup sets on a periodic basis.  Couldn't you do that 
and store the DVDs offsite?  

They aren't in "BackupPC" format, they are written as compressed tar
files, which can be read on just about any out-of-the-box Unix or Windows
system without any special tools or anything specific to BackupPC.

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