Thanks Les, This is what I was looking for. Do you know if the daemom needs to be restarted when the config directory changes?
-----Original Message----- From: Les Mikesell [mailto:lesmikes...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 2:26 PM To: General list for user discussion,questions and support Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Keeping servers in sync Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > On 08/25 10:16 , Osburn, Michael wrote: >> I have a pair of backup servers that are backing up the same site. We >> are doing this so that in the event the backuppc server dies, we can >> easily restore it from the other one. It used to be an easy task to keep >> them in sync when we had only a few hosts (30-40) being backed up but >> now that we are moving to roll this out globally the numbers will be >> rather high and difficult to maintain. Is there a process out there that >> will allow me to set up one server as a main server and have the others >> copy the changes over? > > Short answer: > No. > > Long answer: > this has been hashed over many times on this mailing list (and yes, the > sourceforge search mechanism is useless). basically; the number of hardlinks > kills rsync because of memory consumption; the only way to do it sanely is > somewhere around the hardware or filesystem level. Basically you need to > have the hardware or the filesystem replicate your data for you. > > The best way to do this is to set up your offsite backup server to back up > your machines completely independently. This sucks a lot of bandwidth; but > on the other hand does provide a fully redundant system, so even if your > onsite backup server goes down your offsite server will keep going. > > Perhaps a future version of BackupPC will support offsite replication as > part of its mechanisms. You probably could play some tricks with replicating the configs if your concern is maintaining changes on the independent servers. They are just ordinary files. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ 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/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ 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/
