I don't think another instance of backuppc would work "very well" for a number of reasons. However, I think you could do well with copying the raw block device over netcat or ssh. If you are using LVM for the backuppc data you could take a snapshot and not affect regular backups, otherwise you should stop backuppc and unmount the partition first (you are using a dedicated partition, right? ;-) )
Couple tips if you try this: set the readahead on the block dev fairly high before you start dd (blockdev --setra 16384 /dev/device). Then pipe it out with dd and compress it with lzop ( dd if=/dev/device bs=10M | lzop -1c |nc host port). On the receiving end you'd run something like nc -l -p port >diskdump. This is what I use for LAN, but for slow links you'd probably want more compression. For good measure you might want to zero out the extra space on the drive before you dump it (dd if=/dev/zero of=blah bs=1M ; rm blah). Of course, this would require quite a bit of disk space and would limit your backup intervals and retention policies... Any other ideas, List? brien Fabio Milano wrote: > Hi, > > How do I backup my BackupPC server? > > Can I use one BackupPC server to backup another BackupPC server? > > Scenario I need to solve is: > > Servers backup to BackupPC server at office, and BackupPC server needs > to be backed-up to offsite server. > > thnks > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > BackupPC-users mailing list > BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
