On 10/9/17 3:23 PM, Rick Sutphin wrote: > Now that onsite backups are working and I would like to implement offsite > backups as part of a 3-2-1 strategy. To that end, I am exploring different > options and was hoping other users on this list could share their experience > and make some recommendations. The options I am considering are: > > 1. USB flash drives > 2. USB external hard drives > 3. eSATA hot swappable hard drives > > I have considered syncing to an offsite server, but a) I don't have the > hardware and b) I doubt our DSL uplink/data cap is up to the task (we are > planning on upgrading to 20MB fiber sometime in the future). Also, like many > admins at a small business, I need to implement this for minimal cost. > > I am running Bareos 16.2 in a LXC container on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. Currently, > we are using file storage on a mirrored ZFS array. Full backups for my site > are around 80 GB total. > > Any guidance you can provide would be greatly appreciated. > I recently setup offsite backups using external hard drives. I'm doing regular backups to an external drive and then I'm using the virtual full backups to create offsite backups. You should see my virtual full configuration in the mail archive.
For the drives I've labeled them offsite-1 and offsite-2. Then have a shell script that runs before the offsite jobs and makes sure that one of the drives is mounted. Then after the offsite catalog the drive is unmounted and an email is set. -- Research Scientist Raytheon BBN Technologies 5775 Wayzata Blvd, Ste 630 Saint Louis Park, MN, 55416 Office: 952-545-5720 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "bareos-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
