Re: [BackupPC-users] Unattended off-site replication

2011-10-25 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
Steve M. Robbins wrote at about 22:19:44 -0500 on Monday, October 24, 2011: Hi, One thing that all these methods have in common is that they scan the entire pool filesystem. I accept that I will have to do that at least initially. However, to send daily updates, it seems unnecessary

Re: [BackupPC-users] Unattended off-site replication

2011-10-25 Thread Chris Parsons
Option 2: run BackupPC on Solaris (Nexenta). Use snapshots and zfs send to replicate the data to another server. Very simple, very easy. And we've found BackupPC performance on ZFS much increased over ext3. Win win, except for having to deal with solaris.

Re: [BackupPC-users] Unattended off-site replication

2011-10-25 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 1:27 AM, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky backu...@kosowsky.org wrote:   It strikes me that backuppc could be taught to write all this out to   one or more journal files that could be replayed on the remote system   after the new files are transferred.     Does this make sense?  

Re: [BackupPC-users] Unattended off-site replication

2011-10-25 Thread Richard Shaw
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 12:54 AM, Chris Parsons chris.pars...@petrosys.com.au wrote: Option 2: run BackupPC on Solaris (Nexenta). Use snapshots and zfs send to replicate the data to another server. Very simple, very easy. And we've found BackupPC performance on ZFS much increased over ext3.

Re: [BackupPC-users] Unattended off-site replication

2011-10-25 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 8:13 AM, Richard Shaw hobbes1...@gmail.com wrote: Option 2: run BackupPC on Solaris (Nexenta). Use snapshots and zfs send to replicate the data to another server. Very simple, very easy. And we've found BackupPC performance on ZFS much increased over ext3. Well, that

Re: [BackupPC-users] Unattended off-site replication

2011-10-25 Thread Richard Shaw
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 9:36 AM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 8:13 AM, Richard Shaw hobbes1...@gmail.com wrote: Option 2: run BackupPC on Solaris (Nexenta). Use snapshots and zfs send to replicate the data to another server. Very simple, very easy. And

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC to NFS then to tape via DPM

2011-10-25 Thread Rick Bastedo
I got back to this today. I have been finding and installing each of the dependencies and then came to: perl-XML-RSS It had a dependency of: perl-DateTime-Format-Mail I found that and tried installing it and got: Requires: perl(DateTime) = 0.1705 Installed:

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC to NFS then to tape via DPM

2011-10-25 Thread Richard Shaw
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 5:16 PM, Rick Bastedo rbast...@gmail.com wrote: I got back to this today. I have been finding and installing each of the dependencies and then came to: perl-XML-RSS It had a dependency of: perl-DateTime-Format-Mail I found that and tried installing it and got:  

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC to NFS then to tape via DPM

2011-10-25 Thread Richard Shaw
Actually I got that turned around... I don't know why it's not installing. On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 8:21 PM, Richard Shaw hobbes1...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 5:16 PM, Rick Bastedo rbast...@gmail.com wrote: I got back to this today. I have been finding and installing each of

Re: [BackupPC-users] Unattended off-site replication

2011-10-25 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 11:21:26PM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 10:19 PM, Steve M. Robbins st...@sumost.ca wrote: I know many people have discussed how to achive an offsite archive of backuppc pool.  During a discussion last February [1], Timothy Massey [2] and

Re: [BackupPC-users] Unattended off-site replication

2011-10-25 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 8:13 PM, Steve M. Robbins st...@sumost.ca wrote: Unless you have several hosts that hold duplicate data, after you get the initial fulls option #1 with rysnc transport over ssh or a vpn with compression enabled won't be moving more data than other ways you might