I have a setup like this both at home and at work. When I was planning it I was advised not to try to back up the pool, but rather to "re-backup" all the hosts on the remote machine. That is what I did. The remote machine is configured with all the same host data that the remote machine is configured with.
I use rsync or rsyncd to minimize network bandwidth. At work I backup about about 120 GB in one direction, and 80 GB in the other direction (two offices backing each other up). This is done nightly, but most of the data is static. This is done over a T1 line. At home, I backup about 100 GB in one direction, and 40 GB in the other direction (my house and my parents' house). This is done over a cable modem. 4mbps I think. Again, most of that data is static, so it only transfers a relatively small amount of data every night. At home, I did the first backup w/ the machines on the same network. I edited my /etc/hosts file in order to trick BackupPC to look on the local network for the host machine, instead of looking to the internet for it. I use a DynDNS account, so my machines are known on the internet as somename.dyndns.org. For the first backup, I edited /etc/hosts to read something like: 192.168.1.110 somename.dyndns.org (and I removed that line once I took the "remote" machine off of the local network) -Rob Christopher Utley wrote: > I have setup a couple BackupPC systems now, and they have been working > great for me. Now I'm looking to install yet another, but with a > twist. I'd like to setup an off-site backup, which would essentially > be a carbon copy of everything BackupPC maintains locally. Is there a > straightforward way to accomplish this? > > Thanks, > Chris Utley > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
