[BackupPC-users] Offsite copy

2012-06-26 Thread Member Horvath
Hi, I currently use BackuPC in a number of ways. One of my more recent requirements is to be able to sync the most recent backup to an offsite location eg. I have a backuppc server which backs up itself and a number of clients. The most recent of each of these backups must be rsync'd offsite I

Re: [BackupPC-users] Offsite copy

2012-06-26 Thread Andrew Schulman
Hi, I currently use BackuPC in a number of ways. One of my more recent requirements is to be able to sync the most recent backup to an offsite location eg. I have a backuppc server which backs up itself and a number of clients. The most recent of each of these backups must be rsync'd

Re: [BackupPC-users] Offsite copy

2012-06-26 Thread Member Horvath
Hi, Thanks for the reply. This isn't really a solution for me. My intention is to have a working copy of the latest snapshot at any on time so that in the event of a disaster I can simply drop it in place. Therefore a one to one rsync type snapshot is what I'm after. If I could access the latest

[BackupPC-users] Offsite copy

2012-06-26 Thread shorvath
Hi, Thanks for the reply. This isn't really a solution for me. My intention is to have a working copy of the latest snapshot at any on time so that in the event of a disaster I can simply drop it in place. Therefore a one to one rsync type snapshot is what I'm after. If I could access the latest

Re: [BackupPC-users] Offsite copy

2012-06-26 Thread Philipp Raschdorff
As far as I remember you run into problems when rsync'ing a big /var/lib/backuppc directory because of limitations on rsync / memory consumption. - PR -- Von unterwegs über die Luftschnittstelle gesendetAndrew Schulman and...@alumni.utexas.net hat geschrieben: Hi, I currently use BackuPC

[BackupPC-users] Offsite copy

2012-06-26 Thread shorvath
I wouldn't want to rsync /var/lib/backuppc as this is not in a format that can be readily used. What I'm after is a ready to use snapshot, As it looks on the server I'm backing up or what it would look like if using the archive host feature but just not in tar format.

Re: [BackupPC-users] Offsite copy

2012-06-26 Thread Philipp Raschdorff
Depending on how you've setup your backup-server (physical/virtual) you could just save an image of the server. The obvious question is: against what are you protected your data? If you store an offsite backup of /var /lib /backuppc  and  your  main   datacenter dies, you need to restore not

Re: [BackupPC-users] Offsite copy

2012-06-26 Thread Timothy J Massey
shorvath backuppc-fo...@backupcentral.com wrote on 06/26/2012 01:02:00 PM: I wouldn't want to rsync /var/lib/backuppc as this is not in a format that can be readily used. What I'm after is a ready to use snapshot, As it looks on the server I'm backing up or what it would look like if

Re: [BackupPC-users] Offsite copy

2012-06-26 Thread Timothy J Massey
shorvath backuppc-fo...@backupcentral.com wrote on 06/26/2012 01:02:00 PM: I wouldn't want to rsync /var/lib/backuppc as this is not in a format that can be readily used. What I'm after is a ready to use snapshot, As it looks on the server I'm backing up or what it would look like if

Re: [BackupPC-users] Missing Scripts from www.smop.co.uk

2012-06-26 Thread Joe Ortagus
On 6/25/12 6:22 AM, F.Trojahn wrote: Hello all, recently when searching for some BackuPC script (to change the f%2Fnnn/fmmm listings to real file/path listings) I've noticed that the scripts that were found at http://www.smop.co.uk/mediawiki/index.php/BackupPC are note available any more.

[BackupPC-users] Offsite copy

2012-06-26 Thread shorvath
BackupPC is great at what it does, backing up files, which is why I use it. As my original post states, am aware that backuppc is not designed to achieve my offsite-ready-to-use-most-recent-copy which is why I tried the fuse module and was asking more for suggestions or alternatives to the

Re: [BackupPC-users] Offsite copy

2012-06-26 Thread Carl Cravens
I manage my offsite disaster-recovery backup (which is rsync'd over the net) by: + Creating a directory of links that point only to the most recent full and incremental for each host. (Incrementals always go against the last full.) + rsync each host directory individually. This breaks dedupe

[BackupPC-users] Offsite copy

2012-06-26 Thread shorvath
That sounds very interesting Carl, I'd be keen to take a look at your scripts? The reason I need a like-for-like ready-to-use copy is so that in the event of a disaster I am able to bring a disk unit to the client as a drop in and ready replacement of their (almost) most recent data while I pick

Re: [BackupPC-users] Offsite copy

2012-06-26 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 12:20 PM, Timothy J Massey tmas...@obscorp.com wrote: What I'm after is a ready  to use snapshot, As it looks on the server I'm backing up or what it would look like if using the archive host feature but just not in tar format. Why do you expect BackupPC to

Re: [BackupPC-users] Offsite copy

2012-06-26 Thread Timothy J Massey
shorvath backuppc-fo...@backupcentral.com wrote on 06/26/2012 03:10:59 PM: Yes, I could just take the backup directly from the individual servers, and by the looks of things it may be my only option. I was rather hoping for perhaps another fuse module alternative or something that would

[BackupPC-users] Offsite copy

2012-06-26 Thread shorvath
Hi Timothy, Thanks for your comments, unfortunately however I think you're missing my point. I very much like the way Backuppc handles backup, dedupe etc. and to use this on the local site to handle the backups of each individual client would be preferred, plus it gives the client an interface

Re: [BackupPC-users] Offsite copy

2012-06-26 Thread Adam Goryachev
shorvath backuppc-fo...@backupcentral.com wrote: Hi Timothy, Thanks for your comments, unfortunately however I think you're missing my point. I very much like the way Backuppc handles backup, dedupe etc. and to use this on the local site to handle the backups of each individual client would be