Thanks for the reply - very informative! After looking it all over, I'm strongly in the keep it simple camp. Since I'm running BackupPC on a pretty low spec server, and I've got room for one more, I think option 1 you presented is my best bet: 1) Run two BackupPC servers and have both back up the hosts directly.
With this method I could continue to use low spec (read: cheap) servers and alternate the backup days between the servers, giving time for more thorough virus scanning of the backed up files. Or maybe I could just spin up a virtual machine and back up the vm file like I do with the other virtual machines. Either way, good point on the hard links. Thanks for the info; that does answer my question! +---------------------------------------------------------------------- |This was sent by bp...@hotmail.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What NetFlow Analyzer can do for you? Monitors network bandwidth and traffic patterns at an interface-level. Reveals which users, apps, and protocols are consuming the most bandwidth. Provides multi-vendor support for NetFlow, J-Flow, sFlow and other flows. Make informed decisions using capacity planning reports.http://sdm.link/zohodev2dev _______________________________________________ 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/