Re: [BackupPC-users] off-site storage

2014-09-04 Thread Norman Goldstein
ssh version 5.7 or greater should be handling hard links. Unfortunately, the two off-sites that I checked are using version 5.3 . There must be some turn-key system these guys all buy, and it is nowhere near the version 6.4 that is on my fedora20 pc. On 08/16/2014 09:06 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:

Re: [BackupPC-users] off-site storage

2014-08-16 Thread Norman Goldstein
I can see the advantage of kick-starting a remote server with a hard drive backup of your system. This is not practical for me, and, fortunately, my backups are under 2 GB. Here is my plan 1. ssh to my web-hosting company (which supports ssh) 2. Set up an sshfs with their site (which is also

Re: [BackupPC-users] off-site storage

2014-08-16 Thread Les Mikesell
On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 6:35 PM, Norman Goldstein norm...@telus.net wrote: I can see the advantage of kick-starting a remote server with a hard drive backup of your system. This is not practical for me, and, fortunately, my backups are under 2 GB. Here is my plan 1. ssh to my web-hosting

Re: [BackupPC-users] off-site storage

2014-08-15 Thread Norman Goldstein
Thanks very much for the ideas and experience. On 08/14/2014 09:15 PM, John Sellens wrote: On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 01:18:07PM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: | Or, do you mean to set up a BackupPC server in the cloud? | | Yes, a complete off-site server is the straightforward approach. Hmmm -

Re: [BackupPC-users] off-site storage

2014-08-14 Thread Sorin Srbu
-Original Message- From: Norman Goldstein [mailto:norm...@telus.net] Sent: den 14 augusti 2014 02:32 To: backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [BackupPC-users] off-site storage I use BackupPC to back up to an nfs-mounted NAS. This works great. I like the interface and

Re: [BackupPC-users] off-site storage

2014-08-14 Thread Norman Goldstein
That would be fine. Does anyone have experience with such a setup? -- Would that be an rsync protocol for BPC? I suppose it depends on the cloud service, -- Any feedback on which companies out there offer such dependable service? -- I'd also want to maintain a local copy of the BPC data

Re: [BackupPC-users] off-site storage

2014-08-14 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 08/14 07:52 , Norman Goldstein wrote: Does anyone have experience with such a setup? -- Would that be an rsync protocol for BPC? I suppose it depends on the cloud service, Past experience has been that attempting to rsync the entire BPC data pool is disastrous. There's too many files which

Re: [BackupPC-users] off-site storage

2014-08-14 Thread Norman Goldstein
Ok, fair enough, and good to know. Thanks for that. The suggestion below is to have a 2nd installation of BPC, on another local machine. How would you point /var/lib/BackuPC to the cloud target location? It is also the home folder for the backuppc user. Or, do you mean to set up a BackupPC

Re: [BackupPC-users] off-site storage

2014-08-14 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 12:58 PM, Norman Goldstein norm...@telus.net wrote: Ok, fair enough, and good to know. Thanks for that. The suggestion below is to have a 2nd installation of BPC, on another local machine. How would you point /var/lib/BackuPC to the cloud target location? It is also

Re: [BackupPC-users] off-site storage

2014-08-14 Thread John Sellens
On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 01:18:07PM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: | Or, do you mean to set up a BackupPC server in the cloud? | | Yes, a complete off-site server is the straightforward approach. Hmmm - depending on OS and what the remote looks like, I wonder if ZFS and ZFS snapshots would be a good