i installed an exact copy of my backup server at another store 30 miles
away. i have backuppc installed but not running on the offsite machine and
i have cron rsync with some fancy options each day. if my main backuppc
machine goes down, i can ssh to the remote machine and start backuppc there
and am able to login to the web interface and see all my backups. i do not
have it configured to do backups in case the main machine fails as i have
firewalls in place that block smb/nmb traffic. i dont have my backups setup
by ip, just by hostname and use the stock nmblookup to get ips.
this system works very well.
On Dec 3, 2007 7:34 AM, alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 09:23:15AM -0500, Arch Willingham wrote:
> > I have been using Backup PC for several month now and love it. I use it
> as a back up to our Backup Exec. It is one heck of a lot easier to restore
> something with Backup PC than it is the Windows product.
> >
> > Anyway, my question is that even though we are supposed to tote tapes
> off site, there are times I am sure it does not happen. Has anyone ever used
> Backup PC to backup a site from off site? With cable access being fairly
> fast and disk space being cheap, I thought it would be a good use of
> bandwidth to backup at night from my house. Would it make sense backup the
> internal backup PC with the offsite backup PC? Are thee any tricks to be
> aware of? Is it better to come in via a VPN connection or open the router
> and allow that ssh thing?
>
> I've been playing around with the same idea, but I think it's not going
> to work out if you don't have a very fast internet connection or don't
> have that much data.
>
> Other than that, it appears you can't only sync the changes home,
> because of the way BackupPC stores the backup you need to make an archive
> from your backups, which is potentially a lot of data.
>
> --
> @lex
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