Hi, ----- Original Message ----- > From: "higuita" <higu...@gmx.net> > To: "Russell Poyner" <russell.poy...@wisc.edu> > Cc: backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Sent: Friday, November 13, 2015 1:03:11 AM > Subject: [BackupPC-users] Feature request: remote pools (was: Is it possible > to split a large pool?)
> One can make backups of different kind of machines or remote > branches or expand the backup pool to several machines. This also > allow one to "migrate" backups by reconfiguring a host from one pool to > another and wait some days to have new backups on the new pool and expire > old backups on the old pool. Yes, this would require a new full total > backup on the new pool, but any server migration always require a full > read© of the data, one way or another. This is more or less the way we move machines to another backup server. If a server is getting somewhat full, we buy a new server, backup some of the client servers to this new backup server and after a while remove the backups from the old server. So that is already possible with the current version of BackupPC. The only thing that seems to be solved in your proposal is that the management can be done from one server instead of managing multiple servers. I think that is not the biggest problem. Our problem is that we lose the history when moving a client backup to another backup server. The only thing we could come up with to solve this a little bit is to implement a new server long before the old one is really full and then let the backup run on this new server for a longer time to create a new history before deleting it from the old server. If it can help anyone, here is our procedure. 1. If backup server is > 70% full, request new server. 2. Backup some of the clients on new server, hold backup on the old server. 3. Let the backup on the new server run for > 3 months 4. Delete backup from old server and hope there are no restore request for data older than 3 months. It's a bit of a hassle, but BackupPC is totally worth it! Greetings, Micha Kersloot ______________________________________________ www.kovoks.nl | www.mailcasa.eu | Twitter.com/kovoks E i...@kovoks.nl T +31 (0)345 - 53 29 27 A Bellweg 36 | 4104 BJ Culemborg KvK Tiel 11033334 ______________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ 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/
