I'm trying to determine if a particular approach might work for "offsite backup copy" of BackupPC data store, more-or-less based on a matched pair of hot-swap SATA LVM disk sets.. and specifically I was wondering if anyone else does something thus?
ie: (numbers are for illustration only..) -assume BackupPC is storing data locally on a raid disk array, call it a ~500gig pool for illustrative purposes. -independant of the raid array disks for above data, we have a 4-bay sata hot-swap disk set(4x200gb = 600gb in raid 5 LVM) and also a second (spare) set of (identical) disks in trays (4x200gb = 600gb in Raid5-lvm) -once per week, data is copied from ~500gb local pool into the 4-sata disk hot-swap volume. When done, this raid array is taken offline, and the [well labelled :-)] disks are pulled and transferred to a secure offsite location. -spare set of [well labelled :-)] 4-SATA disks in trays come from offsite location, insert to backupPC server, mount the raid. We're ready to repeat process. Additionally, I suppose - based on how quick the data pool evolves, rsync could be used to update the (rotating disk pool raid5 data) which might be faster than doing (reformat and clean copy) each week. Or maybe not. Just curious if anyone does something like this; if there are obvious issues or the like. (Clearly it gets a bit cumbersome for a data pool that is too large .. lugging 20 SATA disks wouldn't be fun .. but for "reasonable" data pool size it ?seems? like it could be feasible?) Many thanks, Tim Chipman ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid3432&bid#0486&dat1642 _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
