On 12/17/2014 06:49 PM, Damien Hull wrote: > · Can I “seed” the backup process by copying data to a drive and moving that to the bacula server? This would be done before I start the backup process on bacula.
If you have a more efficient way of doing it, like netapp snapmirror or zfs incremental send or possibly btsync, yes. Otherwise it's probably not worth the trouble. > · Is there a recommended way to backup remote servers over a VPN connection? Make sure it doesn't time out in the middle of a backup. I.e. if it's an automagic on-demand sort of thing you may need a keepalive option of some sort. -- Dimitri Maziuk Programmer/sysadmin BioMagResBank, UW-Madison -- http://www.bmrb.wisc.edu
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