On Mon, 26 Sep 2005, Trey Nolen wrote:
BackupPC supports rsync, so why don't you just backup the hosts using
rsync over the WAN? We do that regularly.
[I've CC'd the list again so that my reply goes there; should help head
off the same question from other people!]
I'm currently doing that; however, it sucks a lot more bandwidth than the
other method would, as it's downloading files that have changed on all the
boxes - IE, if I apply an update to OpenSSL on all the hosts, it will
download one copy of OpenSSL for each of the boxes.
If I backed up to a BackupPC server on-site, and then rsync'd
/var/lib/backuppc on that host over to my off-site backup host after the
nightly link process was completed, I'd only grab one copy of the changed
file.
Also, having a backup server onsite is great for speed of restores if a
user accidently deletes a file or whatnot. Don't have to go over the WAN
for that! The offsite is really only for disaster recovery..
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