Sean Carolan wrote: >> This is topic is discussed pretty regularly on this mailinglist. >> Please also search the archives. > > Thanks, Nils. If the sourceforge.net mailing list search engine were > not so broken, I would gladly have combed through the archives. As it > stands I was unable to successfully search even for common words like > "USB" or "external", both of which returned no results. I even tried > the "advanced search" but to no avail. > >> Because of the heavy use of hardlinks >> breaking the pool up into smaller batches is not really feasible and >> indeed rsync doesn't really handle very large numbers of files and >> hardlinks (because it needs to load the full trees in memory). I >> believe the most common solution is not to backup the backup server, >> but to use RAID (and rotate disks offsite) or use a second backup >> server (so each host is backed up separately by each backup server). > > Thanks, this is exactly what I needed to know. I'm working out a > system to simply tar up all the files once a week, as a last-resort > recovery option. > I simply run 2 backuppc servers -- one on-site and one off-site. They both back up the same bunch of host machines. Everything is automatic.
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