Hi, On Sunday 18 March 2012 16:44:30 Justin Finkelstein wrote: > I've been reviewing a number of backup solutions to use for off-site > backup of a number of machines in our office and I've a couple of > questions regarding backuppc: > > 1. Is there a way to encrypt the data that's stored?
While we write encrypted "tapes" to kind-of-remote discs, storing the real data encrypted is probably not a good idea because of the pooling. But you can put the whole backuppc-filesystem on an encrypted disk. > 2. Is it practical to store a year's worth of data in BackupPC? i.e. > one full annual backup + daily differentials? > (i.e. how does this affect the time to restore a recent version > of a file?) Read the documentation about the number of full backups to keep. It can actually be an array where each number denotes double the interval of its previous number. So with [4, 0, 4] it means to keep 4 weekly, 0 bi-weekly and 4 almost-a-month full backups. [4, 0, 0, 4] means 4 weekly and 4 bi-monthly full backups to keep. That is when you full-interval actually is 7 days... Whether you keep full or incremental backups on disk is not important as backuppc already de-duplicates the stored files. Its only a matter of which files are transfered from the client to the server. Have fun, Arnold
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