On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 11:40 AM, Adam Goryachev <mailingli...@websitemanagers.com.au> wrote: > > I think you want both snapshots on the local server, as well as BPC on a > remote server. They each serve a different need. You might also want a image > copy on a remote server, which is yet another different requirement. >
On the image copy front, I think for linux at least there could be an easy integration between BPC and RearR https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html/System_Administrators_Guide/ch-Relax-and-Recover_ReaR.html (also available for other distributions). ReaR isn't an actual filesystem or disk imager, but it does give the ability to recover from bare metal. Basically it builds a generic boot image containing all of the native (and current) tools on the host system to partition and create filesystems/raids, and to restore your backup onto it - and a script to recreate the system where the backup was taken on a new system starting from bare metal. Typically this would be from a tar image saved along with the bootable iso on an NFS mount, but there are many variations. I think it would be relatively easy to make it just build the bootable iso and store a copy locally to be picked up in normal BPC runs, and adjust the restore script to pull from the last BPC backup, retaining all of the BPC advantages of being able to retrieve individual files or directories and pooling everything, including the boot isos until you might need to burn a copy. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ 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/
