In the past, I've done my remote mirrors of my backuppc backups one of two ways:
1. Run tarCreate or whatever, and create giant tarballs of the things I've backed up. In the past, this has been totally inappropriate for remote mirroring, because encrypting the file would kill rsync's ability to save transfer time, and these files can get pretty large. 2. Try to mirror the whole backuppc setup; I've done that in the past like so: http://digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/hobbies/backups.html and am now looking at doing it via individual files, but people tell me that doesn't scale well. This doesn't matter for me, but as it seems clear to me that it would be nice for the backuppc community to have a known way of solving this general problem, I'm trying to take that issue seriously. Here are a few other options I've thought of: 3. A modification of #1, now that rsyncrypto exists, it should be possible to efficiently rsync only the changed parts of encrypted copies of files created with tarCreate. I wouldn't trust it with zipCreate, but tarCreate should work. 4. One could sync the most recent backup for each host straight out of the pc directory, and ignore the pool directory entirely. That is, rsync a copy of *the contents of* /var/lib/backuppc/pc/[host]/[latest] for each host somewhere, along with the backups file, encrypt that with rsyncrypto or whatever, and sync that. Theoretically, for the purposes of restores, backuppc shouldn't much care that the pool is empty, it should only be looking at the pc directories; am I right about that? -Robin -- Lojban Reason #17: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo Proud Supporter of the Singularity Institute - http://singinst.org/ http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
