I have been using BackupPC for 1 year now to back up approx 32 PC's, Servers, and Laptops. It works very well. We have chosen to keep 6 monthly backups worth of Full, the most recent 4 weeks of Full, and the most recent 4 weeks of Incremental. Over this time, I have ended up with 2 each 250 Gb, 1 each 300 Gb, and 1 each 200 Gb hard drives. I have used approx 800 Gb of these drives. They are setup in an LVM arrangement. One of the 250 Gb drives has bit the dust. I subscribe to this list, read it at least once a day and am now faced with what to do. My backuppc system is not the only source for backup, I use tape drives as the main source of backup.
I realize I can start over (all my config files are backed up). I could also put 4 more drives and some controller cards in and rebuild with a raid array over LVM (probably most sensible). The last option is offsite storage or external storage or removable storage. I do not belive I have seen an easy or low cost way using removable drives to rotate a 4 drive array in and out of the BackupPC machine. Yes, I can envision a 4 drive raid array with a 4 drive removable array and another 4 drive removable array to switch in or out once a week or so but it just doesn't seem practical. I have no idea how long it would take to rebuild the array after swapping in a week old set of drives. In my opinion, this is the only downfall of BackupPC that I have found. Are there any ideas or solutions that someone has found to guard against failed hardware. (I am in Florida, just went through a hurricane, and believe that is the reason the drive failed). Thanks in advance. Chuck ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the JBoss Inc. Get Certified Today Register for a JBoss Training Course. Free Certification Exam for All Training Attendees Through End of 2005. For more info visit: http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7628&alloc_id=16845&op=click _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
