Re: [BackupPC-users] Using backuppc over WAN

2008-05-12 Thread Rob Owens
05/06/2008 02:41 PM > > > To > > cc > backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject > Re: [BackupPC-users] Using backuppc over WAN > > > > > > > Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > > On 05/06 09:11 , [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [BackupPC-users] Using backuppc over WAN

2008-05-06 Thread Les Mikesell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Thanks, but what about weekly full backups? Would that swamp our remote > 512mbps connections? You may have to add a few machines at a time to get the initial copies across, but subsequent runs only copy differences. Full runs do a block checksum compare so they t

Re: [BackupPC-users] Using backuppc over WAN

2008-05-06 Thread Tino Schwarze
Hi Chris, On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 02:55:27PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thanks, but what about weekly full backups? Would that swamp our remote > 512mbps connections? No. The difference between full and incremental backup (using rsync) is just that with full backup, some (configurabel)

Re: [BackupPC-users] Using backuppc over WAN

2008-05-06 Thread Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)
Chris wrote: > Thanks, but what about weekly full backups? Would that swamp our remote > 512mbps connections? You can always limit the bandwidth used by your backups. > Our big issue here is retention - we have to keep backed up files > indefinitely, can backuppc maintain a continually growing

Re: [BackupPC-users] Using backuppc over WAN

2008-05-06 Thread Wood . Chris
install a 64-bit database server Chris Rob Owens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/06/2008 02:41 PM To cc backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject Re: [BackupPC-users] Using backuppc over WAN Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > On 05/06 09:11 , [EMAIL

Re: [BackupPC-users] Using backuppc over WAN

2008-05-06 Thread Rob Owens
Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > On 05/06 09:11 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Has anyone used backuppc to backup over a WAN? > > Yes, many times. > > Just use rsync, ditto. rsync will only transfer the changes, even on "full" backups. remember to turn on compression, and experiment with som

Re: [BackupPC-users] Using backuppc over WAN

2008-05-06 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 05/06 09:11 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Has anyone used backuppc to backup over a WAN? Yes, many times. Just use rsync, remember to turn on compression, and experiment with some ssh ciphers like arcfour or blowfish, which are a little less CPU-intensive than the default. -- Carl Soderstrom