Timothy J. Massey wrote:
>
> As a start, how about a utility that simply clones one host to another
> using only the pc/host directory tree, and assumes that none of the
> source files are in the pool, just like it would during a brand-new
> rsync backup?
That would be better than nothing, but if you have multiple full runs
that you want to keep you'll have to transfer a lot of duplicates that
could probably be avoided.
> In reality, I'm still talking about a
> custom BackupPC client, but instead of targeting the host, I'm targeting
> a much more confined target: BackupPC servers. How about BackupPC
> servers that can replicate their data to each other in remote locations?
> A local BackupPC server is set up in the default way: incrementals are
> performed daily, fulls are performed weekly. In addition, this server
> also replicates all of its backups once a week to a remote BackupPC
> server, which integrates them into its pool.
>
> There are a lot of advantages to this. It can take advantage of pooling
> *before* an item is sent.
But what is the advantage over just letting the remote server make its
run directly against the same targets?
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