Les Mikesell wrote:
Timothy J. Massey wrote:
Again, I ask everyone: does anyone have a better solution? I have
heard only two solutions to the off-site storage issue. 1) Do an
archive to some sort of removable media. Given the storage
requirements, I don't see how it could be anything
Timothy J. Massey wrote:
Roy Keene (Contractor) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/16/2007
02:38:06 PM:
When I was using BackupPC, I used file_sync (part of BackupPCd) to
do a
byte-level mirror (rsync-like) everynight from the BackupPC machine
to the
offiste mirror.
Is this the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/16/2007
03:37:09 AM:
Timothy J. Massey wrote:
BackupPC's pool is stored on a large internal hard drive. Every
day at
a little after 7:00 A.M., the backup server starts an archive of each
host, which is stored on a second hard drive that is mounted
Timothy J. Massey wrote:
Won't the frequent reformatting et al. wear out your hard drives
pretty fast?
How is a couple of formats going to wear out a drive? I did not go
into
further detail, but now I will:
snip
There were *so* many more problems in the article you linked than the
fact
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/16/2007
12:59:50 PM:
Timothy J. Massey wrote:
Won't the frequent reformatting et al. wear out your hard drives
pretty fast?
How is a couple of formats going to wear out a drive? I did not go
into
further detail, but now I will:
snip
Timothy J. Massey wrote:
Again, I ask everyone: does anyone have a better solution? I have
heard only two solutions to the off-site storage issue. 1) Do an
archive to some sort of removable media. Given the storage
requirements, I don't see how it could be anything *other* than a hard
On 01/16 02:11 , Timothy J. Massey wrote:
Or are you all going without off-site backup? :)
the way we've been doing off-site backup is usually:
- get a second backuppc server somewhere offsite, backing up the most
critical information
OR
- use a tape backup system (which has the advantage of
Roy Keene (Contractor) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/16/2007
02:38:06 PM:
When I was using BackupPC, I used file_sync (part of BackupPCd) to
do a
byte-level mirror (rsync-like) everynight from the BackupPC machine
to the
offiste mirror.
Is this the same file_sync from OpenSync
Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/16/2007 02:28:46 PM:
If you have a suitable offsite location with enough internet
bandwidth, the
low-maintenance way is to throw a vpn between sites and let an
independent
instance of backuppc run from there, backing up the same targets.
We're
Hello!
Here are the scripts I use to manage the removable hard drive media used
to store daily archives of my backup servers via the GUI, instead of
from the command line. Briefly, the system is set up like this:
BackupPC's pool is stored on a large internal hard drive. Every day at
a
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