David, For doing offsite backups weekly we have 2 synology drive arrays that we > rotate between 2 buildings. If i did some kinda of rsync of > /backup/astrobackup to offsite1:/backup/astrobackup would that make our > data be recoverable in case of disaster?
Yes - you should rsync that entire directory tree, including cpool. Also check if the BackupPC config is stored in /etc/BackupPC, rather than below /backup/astrobackup (it's configurable in config.pl). If so, you should copy that too. Before we would just do a rsync -aruX of each backed up host to the offsite > drive, but with the attrib and pool coming into the mix i'm not sure thats > enough without copying the entire directory That would have worked correctly with BackupPC v3, since it used hardlinks to populate each backup's contents. But in v4, as you note, there aren't hardlinks and attrib files are used to reference cpool files; all the file contents are in cpool and only the metadata is stored below each backup. Craig On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 8:22 AM David Hoskinson < david.hoskin...@astroshapes.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I asked this the other day and didn't get any responses so maybe i wasn't > clear in my question. > > We have a new 4.4 installing and all backups are now being successfully > ran. > > Our setup is that the backups are pointed at the /backup/astrobackup > directory which is 96 TBs in size > > What i have noticed and was told was that now the attrib files are the > only thing being sent to the /backup/astrobackup directories for each > backed up host? > > It seems that the bulk of the data is being sent to > /backup/astrobackup/cpool. > > For doing offsite backups weekly we have 2 synology drive arrays that we > rotate between 2 buildings. If i did some kinda of rsync of > /backup/astrobackup to offsite1:/backup/astrobackup would that make our > data be recoverable in case of disaster? > > Before we would just do a rsync -aruX of each backed up host to the > offsite drive, but with the attrib and pool coming into the mix i'm not > sure thats enough without copying the entire directory > > If i am still not being clear let me know as i am getting pressured to > close this project before audit. > > > > Thank you > > David Hoskinson > Systems Administrator > Ext 226 > . > > > _______________________________________________ > BackupPC-users mailing list > BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net > List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > Wiki: https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki > Project: https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/ >
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