Re: [BackupPC-users] Advice on offsite strategy using external drives

2009-07-22 Thread tog benson
> So someone (an unskilled office worker) swaps the drive > once a week after > they get an e-mail of a successful backup. They then take > the drive with the > new data and remove it offsite. Part of the reason I don't want to do this is that three drives are required in order to have on offsite

Re: [BackupPC-users] Advice on offsite strategy using external drives

2009-07-22 Thread Admiral Beotch
I just found this gem: http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/backuppc.htm The simplest way to handle off-site backup is to use BackupPC's archive host > feature to produce tar archives, and to then copy these archives to > removable media. > > BackupPC is configured to create tar archives by creating a new

Re: [BackupPC-users] Advice on offsite strategy using external drives

2009-07-22 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 07/22 08:17 , tog benson wrote: > In the past I've used external drives to keep a rotation of offsite > backups. One drive would be offsite while the other was receiving dumps > of data. I used an archive host to dump tar_gzip files of all my data. This is the way I do it at one location. I h

[BackupPC-users] Advice on offsite strategy using external drives

2009-07-22 Thread tog benson
This may be a little long-winded, but I need some input. In the past I've used external drives to keep a rotation of offsite backups. One drive would be offsite while the other was receiving dumps of data. I used an archive host to dump tar_gzip files of all my data. This system worked great