Adam Goryachev wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Toni Van Remortel wrote: >> Rob Owens wrote: >>> 1) I've successfully "pre-populated" backups in the following way. >>> >>> a) Configure backuppc to backup my host machine (myhost.com) over the >>> internet. >>> b) Take my host machine (myhost.com) and physically place it on the same >>> local network as my BackupPC server. >>> c) Determine the local IP address of the host machine (lets say it's >>> 192.168.1.100) >>> d) Edit /etc/hosts on the BackupPC machine to include the following line: >>> 192.168.1.100 myhost.com >>> >>> This "tricks" the BackupPC machine into looking on the local network for >>> myhost.com >> Well ... I do not have the option to take the physical machines to my >> network (and it are about 100 servers), but I might use this trick with >> setting up a simulation host, filling in /etc/hosts for all hosts >> temporary (pointing all to the same IP), and then run all backups. >> That will however result in ... very much lost time :-( >> >> No other options? > > Basically you need some method to get an exact copy of the remote data > on your local network.
The current backup system (working with some simple scripts) has all the data (about 480GB). This can be transferred to the new backup server without any trouble. > Your real problem is how to get the data from the remote location to the > local. Actually, thinking about it, since you will need quite a large > amount of storage space to copy 1000 servers worth of data, you might as > well just take the backuppc server to the remote location, leave it for > some time (maybe days if needed) run a full backup of each machine, then > bring it back. > > You haven't specified how far away the remote location is, so dunno if > the above really helps, but the above generic info really says it all > anyway. The situation is like this: - 60 custom built routers in 60 different locations (all within a range of 50km from us). - behind each router 1 or 2 servers (100 in total) which need to be in our backup - each server has a single 'data' share which is mounted on the router trough cifs on /mnt/samba/data So I need to backup (on each router): /etc, /home, /var/lib and /mnt/samba/data. Needless to say that is much work in both situations: or placing my backup server @ the clients, or setting up a simulation host. I wish there was a sort of BackupPC_Import tool ... -- Toni Van Remortel [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
