Re: [BackupPC-users] Howto backup BackupPC server

2007-03-09 Thread Fabio Milano
Yes thats the rpm "smeserver-backuppc-1.0-5" (great job by the way) The servers have about 150G of uncompressed data. So the pool on the backup server should be very large. In terms of RAM, the BackupPC server has 1G and the remote-backup server has about 512mb. I am gonna run a test over the week

Re: [BackupPC-users] Howto backup BackupPC server

2007-03-09 Thread daniel berteaud
Le Thu, 8 Mar 2007 15:20:51 -0800, "Fabio Milano" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > Thanks for all the ideas and great feedback. > > VPN is a possibility. > > The script looks feasible as well. > > I found a Backuppc RPM for SME 7 that apparently has an offsite rsync > feature. > > Has anybody u

Re: [BackupPC-users] Howto backup BackupPC server

2007-03-08 Thread Fabio Milano
Thanks for all the ideas and great feedback. VPN is a possibility. The script looks feasible as well. I found a Backuppc RPM for SME 7 that apparently has an offsite rsync feature. Has anybody used this before? thanks On 3/8/07, Damien Chrisment <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Fabio Milano wrote

Re: [BackupPC-users] Howto backup BackupPC server

2007-03-08 Thread Damien Chrisment
Fabio Milano wrote: Hi, > How do I backup my BackupPC server? > > Can I use one BackupPC server to backup another BackupPC server? > > Scenario I need to solve is: > > Servers backup to BackupPC server at office, and BackupPC server needs > to be backed-up to offsite server. We worked on this

Re: [BackupPC-users] Howto backup BackupPC server - desaster recovery?

2007-03-06 Thread Martin Sundmacher
Brien Dieterle schrieb: > [...] Any other ideas, List? > Sounds like a desaster recovery of BackupPC. I would use http://www.mondorescue.org/ Regards, Martin - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join S

Re: [BackupPC-users] Howto backup BackupPC server

2007-03-06 Thread Les Mikesell
Brien Dieterle wrote: > > Looks like we're all waiting for Rsync 3.0 > to be released, which > may or may not actually solve our problems :-) > > Oh, and it sounds like we're really talking about adding redundancy, not > "backups", which might im

Re: [BackupPC-users] Howto backup BackupPC server

2007-03-06 Thread Brien Dieterle
Ludovic Gele wrote: Selon Brien Dieterle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I don't think another instance of backuppc would work "very well" for a number of reasons. However, I think you could do well with copying the raw block device over netcat or ssh. If you are using LVM for the backu

Re: [BackupPC-users] Howto backup BackupPC server

2007-03-06 Thread Ludovic Gele
Selon Brien Dieterle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I don't think another instance of backuppc would work "very well" for a > number of reasons. However, I think you could do well with copying the > raw block device over netcat or ssh. If you are using LVM for the > backuppc data you could take a sna

Re: [BackupPC-users] Howto backup BackupPC server

2007-03-05 Thread Brien Dieterle
I don't think another instance of backuppc would work "very well" for a number of reasons. However, I think you could do well with copying the raw block device over netcat or ssh. If you are using LVM for the backuppc data you could take a snapshot and not affect regular backups, otherwise yo

[BackupPC-users] Howto backup BackupPC server

2007-03-05 Thread Fabio Milano
Hi, How do I backup my BackupPC server? Can I use one BackupPC server to backup another BackupPC server? Scenario I need to solve is: Servers backup to BackupPC server at office, and BackupPC server needs to be backed-up to offsite server. thnks ---