On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 10:19 PM, Steve M. Robbins <st...@sumost.ca> wrote: > > I know many people have discussed how to achive an offsite archive of > backuppc pool. During a discussion last February [1], Timothy Massey [2] > and Jeffrey Kosowsky [3] summarized the options as follows: > > 1) Run two BackupPC servers and have both back up the hosts > directly. No replication at all: it just works. > 2) Use some sort of block-based method of replicating the data > 3) Scripts that understand the special structure of the pool and pc > trees and efficiently create lists of all hard links in pc directory. > > I'll be replicating over a thin residential ISP connection (rules out > option #1)
Unless you have several hosts that hold duplicate data, after you get the initial fulls option #1 with rysnc transport over ssh or a vpn with compression enabled won't be moving more data than other ways you might attempt it. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The demand for IT networking professionals continues to grow, and the demand for specialized networking skills is growing even more rapidly. Take a complimentary Learning@Cisco Self-Assessment and learn about Cisco certifications, training, and career opportunities. http://p.sf.net/sfu/cisco-dev2dev _______________________________________________ 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/