> 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
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
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
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