martin f krafft via BackupPC-users wrote: > Folks, > > I nearly lost my BackupPC machine the other day and it made me realise > that I have no backups of my backups. > > Hence, I would like to set up a mirroring of the BackupPC (v4) pool to a > remote store, client-side encrypted. >
I solve this differently, though it does have manual steps. The backup pool is on a mirrored raid pair. Periodically I remove half of the pair, label it and store it, and replace it with an older disk. I have 3 such "offsite" disks outside the house at any one time. The server doesn't need to be powered down for this to work -- SATA is a hot-pluggable interface. I have a script which stops backuppc, unmounts the pool, forcibly stops the raid pair, and shuts down the interface. I swap the disk (my server has a removeable drive bay), and run another script to start it all up again. It takes longer to relabel the disks than to perform the replacement. (The raid reconstruction on the fresh disk takes several hours, of course.) Oh -- and the removeable offsite disks are encrypted, so safe to store in relatively insecure places. paul =---------------------- paul fox, [email protected] (arlington, ma, where it's 76.9 degrees) _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki Project: https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/
