Well a way to avoid any deleting of files or hackers on the external drive is to only mount the drive when the backup starts and unmount when finished or when a restore is need, this is a good practice. Now if i could only figure out how to tell BackupPC to do this? i think it would be a nice option to have....
Since using tar rather than rsync for localhost has brought the load down quite a bit, plus now after the initial first run, the incremental backups take less than 10 mins per pc! We are in a very well protected data center, so unless there is a huge disaster i would not worry about this 100 floor office building coming down... :) However you do have very valid points... Thanks for your input... Has anyone ever unmounted and remount the drives as need in conjunction with BackupPC? Rob Morin Dido InterNet Inc. Montreal, Canada Http://www.dido.ca 514-990-4444 Les Mikesell wrote: > On Fri, 2006-08-04 at 09:50 -0400, Rob Morin wrote: > >> So if localhost machine dies.... what do i do for the backup restore? >> >> Since my drive is an external USB drive, i figure i can move it to >> another server for the restore.... but i would have too install BackpPC >> on that machine too... are there any docs that tell how to make a backup >> to the backup machine? Should i just do the install the same way on >> another server as on the backup server? >> > > I run backups to a internal drive but periodically raid-mirror to > external drives that are rotated off-site. So far I have never > actually had to restore from the off-site drive but that way I > prepared for it is that I have a dual-boot laptop that normally > runs windows but can be booted to Linux where backuppc is already > installed and configured for the external drive to be connected. > > If you only have one external drive that's something of a weak > link in your scheme, though. Whatever it is that might make the > machine die (a building disaster, accidentally typing 'rm -rf /', > etc.) is likely to take the connected drive with it. You might > want to have additional drives that you rotate offsite. Also, > using USB explains some of the load you mentioned in your earlier > messages since it takes some CPU overhead to run the interface but > if the backup completes overnight it may not matter. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
