Re: [BackupPC-users] Any procedure for using 2 external harddrives

2012-10-25 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 10/24/2012 12:41 PM, dixieadmin wrote: I am currently using BackupPC 3.2.1 on SME Server 8.0. I wanted to know if there is a correct procedure for using 2 different external harddrives as a backup source and to interchange them weekly? Your question is a bit vague. external... usb?

Re: [BackupPC-users] Any procedure for using 2 external harddrives

2012-10-25 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2012-10-25 14:10, Bowie Bailey wrote: On 10/24/2012 12:41 PM, dixieadmin wrote: I am currently using BackupPC 3.2.1 on SME Server 8.0. I wanted to know if there is a correct procedure for using 2 different external harddrives as a backup source and to interchange them weekly?

Re: [BackupPC-users] Any procedure for using 2 external harddrives

2012-10-25 Thread Timothy J Massey
Tyler J. Wagner ty...@tolaris.com wrote on 10/25/2012 09:14:47 AM: On 2012-10-25 14:10, Bowie Bailey wrote: On 10/24/2012 12:41 PM, dixieadmin wrote: I am currently using BackupPC 3.2.1 on SME Server 8.0. I wanted to know if there is a correct procedure for using 2 different external

Re: [BackupPC-users] Any procedure for using 2 external harddrives

2012-10-25 Thread Richard Zimmerman
This is the method I would recommend. I have BackupPC running on a dedicated machine using a 1 tb hard drive w/ 538gb used. I shutdown the BackupPC server, reboot using Clonezilla, image the drive, reboot @ 538gb it takes just over 4 hours to complete the process. Being this is a

Re: [BackupPC-users] Any procedure for using 2 external harddrives

2012-10-25 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 10:38 AM, Timothy J Massey tmas...@obscorp.com wrote: Also, keep in mind that the original question shows a fundamental lack of understanding in the way BackupPC works. BackupPC is *NOT* a simple replacement for a tape drive. Swapping the entire pool weekly will

Re: [BackupPC-users] Any procedure for using 2 external harddrives

2012-10-25 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 10/25/2012 12:30 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 10:38 AM, Timothy J Massey tmas...@obscorp.com wrote: 1) Constantly mirroring the pool and occasionally breaking the mirror to take it off-site. (Option 1 above). A variation of this would be to take the pool down and

Re: [BackupPC-users] Restoring Backuppc itself

2012-10-25 Thread Tomasz Klimaszewski
2012/10/16 M.Baert m.ba...@free.fr: Thank you very much Les and Tyler. I'll go that way and save my tracks. Would they be useful on the wiki ? Regards, Michelle On 10/16/2012 06:41 AM, Tyler J. Wagner wrote: On 2012-10-15 20:07, Les Mikesell wrote: The only likely problems would be if