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Old 12-13-2010
I agree with jgt.

Recommend: Cold build the sandbox system, install whatever software is strictly necessary, create test user accounts. Then copy selected data as required taking serious precautions against live output leaking out through printers, email or whatever. It is normal to change all personal data on test system to test values during the copy process.
Personal data includes Names, Addresses and email addresses.
Then if you have a bad test run all that happens is your test site gets more correspondence than usual.


Given identical hardware you can sometimes work with cloned systems provided that they are on a ring-fenced network in a secure building and all printed output is shredded. By definition this environment would not allow you to copy data across a network.
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

bbackupd-config

BBACKUPD-CONFIG(8)						    Box Backup							BBACKUPD-CONFIG(8)

NAME

       bbackupd-config - Box Backup client daemon configuration file generator

SYNOPSIS

       bbackupd-config config-dir backup-mode account-num server-hostname working-dir backup-dir [backup-dir ...]

DESCRIPTION

       The bbackupd-config script creates configuration files and client certificates. It takes at least six parameters:

       config-dir
	   Configuration directory. Usually /etc/box.

       backup-mode
	   Either lazy or snapshot.

       account-num
	   The client account number. This is set by the bbstored administrator.

       server-hostname
	   The hostname or IP address of the bbstored server.

       working-dir
	   A directory to keep temporary state files. This is usually something like /var/bbackupd. This can be changed in bbackupd.conf later on
	   if required.

       backup-dir
	   A space-separated list of directories to be backed up. Note that this does not traverse mount points.

FILES

       /etc/box/bbackupd.conf

       /etc/box/bbackupd/NotifySysAdmin.sh

SEE ALSO

       bbackupd.conf(5), bbackupd(8), bbackupctl(8)

AUTHORS

       Ben Summers

       Per Thomsen

       James O'Gorman

Box Backup 0.11 						    10/28/2011							BBACKUPD-CONFIG(8)