Re: [BackupPC-users] CGI scripts to manage removable hard drive media.

2007-01-18 Thread Roy Keene (Contractor)
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

Re: [BackupPC-users] CGI scripts to manage removable hard drive media.

2007-01-18 Thread Roy Keene (Contractor)
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

Re: [BackupPC-users] CGI scripts to manage removable hard drive media.

2007-01-16 Thread Timothy J. Massey
[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

Re: [BackupPC-users] CGI scripts to manage removable hard drive media.

2007-01-16 Thread Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)
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

Re: [BackupPC-users] CGI scripts to manage removable hard drive media.

2007-01-16 Thread Timothy J. Massey
[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

Re: [BackupPC-users] CGI scripts to manage removable hard drive media.

2007-01-16 Thread Les Mikesell
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

Re: [BackupPC-users] CGI scripts to manage removable hard drive media.

2007-01-16 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
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

Re: [BackupPC-users] CGI scripts to manage removable hard drive media.

2007-01-16 Thread Timothy J. Massey
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

Re: [BackupPC-users] CGI scripts to manage removable hard drive media.

2007-01-16 Thread Timothy J. Massey
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

[BackupPC-users] CGI scripts to manage removable hard drive media.

2007-01-15 Thread Timothy J. Massey
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