Michael Conner wrote at about 14:46:21 -0600 on Thursday, March 10, 2011: > That is good to know. Actually things are a little better than I thought, > the spare machine is Dell Dimension 2400 with a Pentium 4, max 2 gb memory. > So I guess I could slap a new bigger drive into it and use it. My basic plan > is to get backups going to one machine and then dupe those to an NAS > elsewhere in the building. While we have a small staff, our building is > 62,000 sq ft with three floors, so I can get them physically separated even > if not really off site. For the web server, we have a two drive raid set up > with two spare drive bays. Besides backing up with BPC, I would also dupe > the drive on a schedule and take off site.
Please DON'T TOP POST - it makes following a thread incredibly difficult and is considered bad etiquette on many mailing lists, including this one. Keep in mind the point that Les made regarding backing up BackupPC archives. Due to the hard link structure, the fastest way to back up any reasonably large backup is at the partition level. This also makes it hard to enlarge your archive space should you outgrow your disk. One good solution is to use lvm since you can enlarge/expand/move partitions across multiple disks. You can also use lvm to create partition snapshots that can then be replicated as backups. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Colocation vs. Managed Hosting A question and answer guide to determining the best fit for your organization - today and in the future. http://p.sf.net/sfu/internap-sfd2d _______________________________________________ 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/