Cool, thanks for the idea Craig. So that will provide a backup of the entire cpool and associated metadata necessary to rebuild hosts in the event of a site loss, but what would that process look like?
Say I have the entire ‘/etc/BackupPC’ folder rsynced to an offsite disk. What would the recovery process look like? From what I’m thinking I’d have to rsync the entire folder back to the destination site, do a fresh install of BackupPC and associate it with this new folder. Is that about right? Would there not be a method to extract an important bit of data from the cpool without performing an entire site restore? I’m considering the situation where I have data of separate priority. That one cpool might contain several TB of files along with a few important servers of higher priority. The only option looks like a full site restore after rsyncing everything back. Am I thinking of this correctly? From: Craig Barratt via BackupPC-users <backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2018 20:01 To: General list for user discussion, questions and support <backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Cc: Craig Barratt <cbarr...@users.sourceforge.net> Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] syncing local and cloud backups I'd recommend just using rsync if you want to make a remote copy of the cpool, pc and conf directories, to a place that BackupPC doesn't back up. Craig On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 10:22 AM Mike Hughes <m...@visionary.com<mailto:m...@visionary.com>> wrote: Hi BackupPC users, Similar questions have come up a few times but I have not found anything relating to running multiple pools. Here's our setup: - On-prem dev servers backed up locally to BackupPC (4.x) - Prod servers backed up in the cloud to a separate BackupPC (4.x) instance I'd like to provide disaster recovery options by syncing the dedup'd pools from on-prem to cloud and vice-versa but this would create an infinite loop. Is it possible to place the off-site data into a separate cpool which I could exclude from the sync? It would also be nice to be able to extract files from the synced pool individually without having to pull down the whole cpool and reproducing the entire BackupPC server. How do others manage on-prem and off-site backup synchronization? Thanks, Mike _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto: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/
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