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 *other* than a hard
>> drive. If you were going to spend four figures to buy a big enough tape
>> library, wouldn't you use it for backup directly? Or 2) create some
>> sort of RAID-1 configuration and break it regularly to swap out a drive
>> and store it off-site. Someone even recommended a 3-drive RAID-1, so
>> the data stays redundant, but you can still break the array. It doesn't
>> change the workload on the array, however...
>>
>
> 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. You
> might need to make the initial copy on the local LAN or perhaps add each
> new target on a Friday and let it run through the weekend to get started.
>
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.
My BackupPC array was 1TB.
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