It was exactly this thought that led me to moving my venti store to running out of plan9port. At home, I have a Linux server that provides other services in addition to venti with an obnoxious amount of storage. I also have a CrashPlan client running on this machine. The result is an always-on backup that's completely hands free.
I've been a customer for about 10 years and have had to recover from at least one disaster in that time. I've yet to have any problems with this setup. I do not miss rotating tapes nor holding my breath any time I needed to read an optical/spinning disk backup. HTH, Steve On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 12:25 PM, James A. Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: > I see several threads about how people are cloning their Venti > servers to remote Venti servers as a means of creating a backup. > > Reading over the man pages, I assume it's also possible to do > something like use rdarena to dump an arena out, encrypt it, and > put the encrypted arena into a remote service like Amazon S3. > > On my Mac OS X machine I use something called Arq that can > store the data in Amazon Glacier, which is an ideal fit for true > "disaster scenario" backups (vs. day-to-day backups you might > need to access on some regular frequency). > > However, I see some emails warning about using rdarena/wrarena > versus simply copying a fossil, so I'm wondering if there are issues > I'm not picking up from my reading of the man pages. I can also > see there are various threads complaining about the stability of > venti+fossil, but then there are others saying it's stable and works > great. > > > Jim >
