Just a brief note (rather late) to say, many thanks to everyone for their replies to my query. It seems the general concensus regarding my query is,
-generally, should be "doable" -some folks already do something like this, more-or-less -rsync may have issues for *large* number of files clone, esp. if very! large file (or doing rawFS clone directly) -know what you are getting in to; keep realistic "long term" scaling plan in mind; be wary that moving HDDs is likely more prone to physical damage than moving tapes. I haven't deployed backupPC in this manner yet :-) but will do a pseudo-mini-test-deploy in the near future (ie, local data store on direct-attach disk ; removable/unmountable data store for "offsite" copy). Additionally, I need to verify if I might have access to a "redundant site" within the campus-which might facilitate direct server-to-server synch over the network, rather than having to fiddle about with physically moving disks. Clearly gig-ether would be nice in this case (not sure if that will happen). If I have any updates on this (potentially will be months out) I can send them back onto the list (I promise they will be brief if I do this :-) Thanks again, --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/
