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Hello,

I'd like to archive BackupPC backups onto DVD using a setof cron jobs.
Is there a way to check that no job are currently running? Beside the
obvious kill of BackupPCand restart of course.

Is there a document, or has anybody done something similar that would
explain me how todo that?

Thanks a lot!

-Pascal

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I'd like to archive BackupPC backups onto DVD using a setof cron jobs.
Is there a way to check that no job are currently running? Beside the
obvious kill of BackupPCand restart of course.

if you find an economical means of copying the pool, please share
it. as far as i can tell (i confess i'm new at this), the pool
is very expensive to copy, due to the number of hard links. (i'd
love for someone to correct this assertion, by the way.) at work,
we've resorted to doing a very careful block for block copy of the
pool device onto an _identical_ hard disk. i'm not happy with
this situation. at home, i archive tarballs of the shares, made
from the most recent backup, but this loses the shared
compression size advantage.

if you're going to use BackupPC_tarCreate, then you don't need to
stop the server at all -- you'll be creating a tar of an
existing, completed backup. (this assumes that you're keeping
enough backups around that there's no danger of the backup
you're tarring up being deleted out from under you. (again, someone
correct me if i misunderstand...)

paul
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Paul Fox wrote:

if you find an economical means of copying the pool, please share
it. as far as i can tell (i confess i'm new at this), the pool
is very expensive to copy, due to the number of hard links. (i'd
love for someone to correct this assertion, by the way.) at work,
we've resorted to doing a very careful block for block copy of the
pool device onto an _identical_ hard disk. i'm not happy with
this situation. at home, i archive tarballs of the shares, made
from the most recent backup, but this loses the shared
compression size advantage.

Whats about this:

We need a script that creates a list of links from the pc pool.
The script looks for the poolfile and creats a list

140/f%2fetc%2f/fpasswd -> cpool/0/1/2/012f4158dfd95011094788dd5f83e726
....

Then both pools and all files that do not exist in the file should be saved.

The restore is the vice versa


This could be extended for incremental and per pc save.

regards
Daniel


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William,

I have done this using BackupPC_tarCreate to generate tar files of my 4
systems being backed up. I then copy these to DVD. Let me know if you'd
like to see my scripts for handling these operations.

Oh yes, that would be great! I'm assuming it's using something in the web
perl file? Do you think I can easily modify your scripts to use the ZIP
format insteadof the tar? I can read ZIP files on a windows machine without
having to install anything Thanks!

-Pascal

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