I assume you're most worried about your server going tango uniform (in a fire, simultaneous disk failure, etc), and not "rm -rf *". Correct?
Has anyone successfully used BackupPC on a DRBD (http://www.drbd.org) active/passive, or even active/active, cluster? If so, what can you report? Cheers, Stephen On Mon, 29 Dec 2008, Les Mikesell wrote: > Times Enemy wrote: >> Greetings. >> >> What is the preferred and secure method for using BackupPC to place >> backups, or a copy of the backups, on a remote server? >> >> The goal is to have the local BackupPC ready for most recoveries, and a >> remote, off-site copy if something happens to the local set. >> > > There are several approaches. The easiest, if you have enough internet > bandwidth is to have a completely independent instance running > elsewhere, perhaps with a VPN tunnel to be able to access the targets. > Another is to rsync the archive filesystem to a remote machine > periodically. However, the number of hardlinks in the archive make this > a problem. Using rsync 3.x on machines with lots of RAM will help but > it may still take too long to be practical. > > You can also do some kind of filesystem copy to external drives that are > rotated offsite. You still have the issue with hard links so you need > an image type copy for this. I do it with a RAID1 set where a 3rd > member is periodically added, re-synced, and rotated off site. This only > requires stopping backuppc and unmounting the filesystem momentarly > while the drive is removed, but the copy keeps the machine busy enough > for about 2 hours that running backupps wouldn't be practical anyway. > You could also use LVM snapshots to get about the same effect. > > -- > Les Mikesell > [email protected] > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > 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/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ 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/
