On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 6:06 PM, Jon Schewe <jpsch...@mtu.net> wrote: > 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. >
Agreed. I recommend the rsync method over a remote SD for this and other reasons. John ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
