I recently set up my first (and only) BackupPC server. I use Mike Rubel's rsync "snapshot" mechanism (see http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/) to back up the entire server, including the BackupPC pool, to a local hard disk drive. I take a new snapshot on a daily basis. It looks to me like each daily snapshot is taking about 2 to 3% of the total pool space. This leads me to believe that most pool files are not changing, unless the underlying data changes. So, although I have never tried it, I would have thought rsync of the pool to a remote machine might be doable. It would need a fast network due to the large pool size.
Is there a problem with my approach? Thanks for the help! Dave -----Original Message----- From: Chris Robertson [mailto:crobert...@gci.net] Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 5:14 PM To: General list for user discussion, questions and support Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up a BackupPc host Peter Walter wrote: > All, > > I have implemented backuppc on a Linux server in my mixed OSX / Windows > / Linux environment for several months now, and I am very happy with the > results. For additional disaster recovery protection, I am considering > implementing an off-site backup of the backuppc server using rsync to > synchronize the backup pool to a remote server. However, I have heard > that in a previous release of backuppc, rsyncing to another server did > not work because backuppc kept changing the file and directory names in > the backup pool, leading the remote rsync server to having to > re-transfer the entire backup pool (because it thinks the renamed files > are new files). > > I have searched the wiki and the mailing list and can't find any > discussion of this topic. http://www.mail-archive.com/backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg13367.ht ml ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/