Robin Lee Powell wrote: > On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 03:19:32PM -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: >> Or, if you want a local copy too and don't want to burden the >> target with 2 runs, just do a straight uncompressed rsync copy >> locally, then let your remote backuppc run against that to save >> your compressed history on an encrypted filesystem. > > Can you expand on that a bit? I'm not sure I'm following you.
Instead of running backuppc locally to your source data, just have one machine that has copy of everything. This could be done with scripted rsync runs or any number of other ways. You might not want the host holding these copies to be able to initiate a connection to the real servers for an extra layer of security, so the copies might be scheduled operations on each data source. Then your remote backuppc server connects only to this server and backs up whatever you've dumped there. The local copy would not be compressed or encrypted so your remote rsync can work efficiently. You end up with yesterday's backup being available locally for quick access, the offsite history compressed for efficiency, and the remote server doesn't need direct access to the targets. The main downside it that it adds a possible point of failure and you don't get automatic notification if the first copy doesn't happen. -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/