On 8/6/10 12:12 PM, John Drescher wrote: >> I have a new bacula running and am wondering what do you recommend for an >> offsite backup, adding it to the current local storage. >> >> I was told by management that they dont want to worry if their servers get >> stolen. >> > I recommend a tape archive and a suitable container that you can > physically take the tapes offsite. However you probably are using > disk. > > You could put a SD on a remote site if you want. You could also rsync > your storage volumes nightly. Both of these are highly dependent on > how much bandwith you have and how much your data changes per day.
If you're considering a network option like this, I would strongly recommend using the rsync over a remote SD. I found that bacula doesn't retry on network errors, so if you have a long backup running offsite and then your ISP drops for a minute you loose, where as you can pretty easily have rsync do a retry and pickup where it left off. -- Jon Schewe | http://mtu.net/~jpschewe If you see an attachment named signature.asc, this is my digital signature. See http://www.gnupg.org for more information. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
