Re: [9fans] Venti off-site backups

2016-10-26 Thread David du Colombier
> I see several threads about how people are cloning their Venti > servers to remote Venti servers as a means of creating a backup. Personally, I use three different ways of replicating the content of my Venti file servers. 1. The first method is to use venti/mirrorarenas to replicate the content

Re: [9fans] Venti off-site backups

2016-10-26 Thread Steve Simon
i append my venti arenas to usb memory sticks - only two so far. i don't store music or videos on plan9 so compressed de-duplicated data doesn't take up much space. the only time i had problems was my own fault, over cooling a disk through my own paranoia. > On 26 Oct 2016, at 18:43, Steven St

Re: [9fans] Venti off-site backups

2016-10-26 Thread Steven Stallion
It was exactly this thought that led me to moving my venti store to running out of plan9port. At home, I have a Linux server that provides other services in addition to venti with an obnoxious amount of storage. I also have a CrashPlan client running on this machine. The result is an always-on back

[9fans] Venti off-site backups

2016-10-26 Thread James A. Robinson
I see several threads about how people are cloning their Venti servers to remote Venti servers as a means of creating a backup. Reading over the man pages, I assume it's also possible to do something like use rdarena to dump an arena out, encrypt it, and put the encrypted arena into a remote servi