Les, that's a pretty good idea, running two, but I cannot do that with these systems sadly. It'd be really nice to not have to take the machine down to do the backup though. So I guess that's my question, I'm looking for a way to backup the pool over Ethernet while it's running. Double twice the backups would be great but having it done once at all is tough. The machine doing it is barely able to because of the amount of rsync operations and hardlinks. My other machines are even lower power so they'd be far less effective.
While it's possible to dd an lvm snapshot, that's 1TB/day which is quite a huge amount of time and bandwidth consumed. Is there no other solution like ddsnap? I mean, since my BackupPC pool is on an lvm, doing a dd itself isn't the problem. It's that it's 1TB/day or more depending on my file system size. It'd be really nice to have a solution to sync only the changes of that day which then, I can snapshot on the other machine. In my case, that other machine is the iSCSI target. I think DRBD is my best bet now, but it's more than a handle to figure out; that's for sure. Has anyone tried DRBD before? +---------------------------------------------------------------------- |This was sent by [email protected] via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to [email protected]. +---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Forrester Wave Report - Recovery time is now measured in hours and minutes not days. Key insights are discussed in the 2010 Forrester Wave Report as part of an in-depth evaluation of disaster recovery service providers. Forrester found the best-in-class provider in terms of services and vision. Read this report now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/ibm-webcastpromo _______________________________________________ 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/
