Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup to Tape

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

On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 03:14:53PM -0600, Summers, James B wrote:
> I would like to write my backuppc backups to my tape device.  I was
> wonderiing if I need to backup both cpool an pc directories or just one of
> them.

Hi Jim,

I think the general consensus is that it's best to generate a tar/zip
file using BackupPC_tarCreate/BackupPC_zipCreate. I do this in order to
create CD backups of my three systems. I use cdbackup to allow cd
spanning. I also use a script to generate the three backups.

At present, my system requires some manual intervention in order to set
the latest backup number. Craig, is there a way to tell
BackupPC_tarCreate to use the latest backup? That would be a nice
feature.

I would think that you could come up with a cron script to create the
archive files into a new directory then have Amanda backup this
directory.

Hope that helps,
William

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