Re: [BackupPC-users] CD-R Archive

[William M. <wi...@kn...>]

On Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 01:02:44AM -0700, cba...@us... wrote:
> The whole backup tar problem is a new bug in 2.0.0beta0 and beta1.  It
> will be fixed in the real release.
> 
> "Unknown command" is a minor bug.  The CGI script is trying to log
> what files the user restored, but it got broken with the i18n changes.
> It will be fixed in the next release.

Thanks for the info. I hope this backup tar problem only affects generating
tars of existing backups and not backing up to tar.


> I presume you are excluding the BackupPC data directory when you
> back up the server (ie: the same machine)?  Otherwise consecutive
> backups will cause directory depths to grow without bound.

Yes, I am skipping it when I use BackupPC to backup the server (where backuppc
is running).

My solution for creating an archive was to manually generate a tar file of the
entire pc/host directory and burn that to cd. That seems to have worked fine
but I have not tested it (I'm running out of diskspace and am in the process of
creating a new partition to hold my backups). I'll let you know if all works as
expected when I can do a restore.


Thanks,
William

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