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 Les Mikesell
On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 6:35 PM, Norman Goldstein 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 company (which

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 l

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. > > Hm

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

Re: [BackupPC-users] off-site storage

2014-08-14 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 12:58 PM, Norman Goldstein 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 the home fo

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 se

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 whi

Re: [BackupPC-users] off-site storage

2014-08-14 Thread Norman Goldstein
data folder, as currently, on my NAS. Thanks. On 08/14/2014 02:44 AM, Sorin Srbu wrote: -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

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 w

[BackupPC-users] off-site storage

2014-08-13 Thread Norman Goldstein
I use BackupPC to back up to an nfs-mounted NAS. This works great. I like the interface and control that we have for configuration, status and "walk-abouts". However, I am somewhat delinquent in taking a hard copy DVD off-site on a regular basis. I've been looking around for off-site cloud-type s