On 2/16/2012 10:50 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 8:45 AM, Bowie Bailey <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > My backup method involves sending a mirrored drive offsite on a > regular > basis. This drive contains the OS, BackupPC program, and the pool. > > Now I need to access some information from one of the old backups. I > can boot it up normally, but I want to make sure that BackupPC > does not > try to run any backups or do any cleanup while I'm working with it. I > know there's a flag I can set to prevent backups from running, but > what > do I need to do to prevent the cleanup from removing any of the > existing > backups? > > > One option would be to not even start the server - just extract what > you need with the BackupPC_tarCreate command line program.
Hmm... not a bad idea. I would rather be able to use the GUI for simplicity, but the command line programs would be safer. -- Bowie ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
