Re: [BackupPC-users] Manual inserting files into a backup

[Dan P. <da...@in...>]

On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 07:15:53PM -0400, shane mach wrote:
> I'm using backup pc to backup a clients server remotely.
> 
> For the initial backup, i want to copy the raw data onto a usb drive and take it back to out data center and load it manually (save dragging all this over the internet initially)
> 
> Any ideas on the best practice to go about this?

One way would be to attach the USB drive to a host in the data center,
then configure backuppc to think that the USB drive is the remote host
(fiddle with host name aliases, set filesystems to backup appropriately).

danno
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