Boniforti Flavio wrote: >> How often do you want to backup the server? What about using >> rsync to backup the pool? I want to mirror my primary backup >> server to another system daily so I can switch to my backup >> server quickly. I was going to use rsync for this. > > Well, backing it up once a day would be ok for me too. You will use > rsync because it handles hardlinks, am I right? > My goal is the same as yours: switch immediately onto another server if > my BackupPC server dies. > > Can you tell us about your results when you set it up?
If you want a 'live' backup on a nearby machine you might look at drbd which is sort of like raid over the network. If you don't need auto-failover, though, you can get fairly high availability with normal RAID1 in a chassis with swappable drives. In the fairly likely event of a single disk failure, you just swap in a new drive and rebuild the mirror. In the less likely event of a motherboard component failure you yank the drives and move them to a spare chassis that you've kept for that purpose. It is still a good idea to have offsite copies of the archive in case of a building disaster or a software or operator error that destroys the running copy. Rsync may work - depending on the size of your archive and the amount of RAM you have. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Register Now for Creativity and Technology (CaT), June 3rd, NYC. CaT is a gathering of tech-side developers & brand creativity professionals. Meet the minds behind Google Creative Lab, Visual Complexity, Processing, & iPhoneDevCamp asthey present alongside digital heavyweights like Barbarian Group, R/GA, & Big Spaceship. http://www.creativitycat.com _______________________________________________ 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/
