Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC Clusters server.

2005-08-24 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 08:43, Olivier LAHAYE wrote: > Your solution is working well and it is similar to my current configuration > (all laptop are syncing their D drive to the home dir of the user that owns > the laptop on a Filer:user work saved). > The problem is that due to multiple instances o

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC Clusters server.

2005-08-24 Thread Olivier LAHAYE
Your solution is working well and it is similar to my current configuration (all laptop are syncing their D drive to the home dir of the user that owns the laptop on a Filer:user work saved). The problem is that due to multiple instances of the same file on the server, we run out of space (80 la

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC Clusters server.

2005-08-24 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 05:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Second, you didn't say that backing up the clients would annoy the users. > > Now it's an issue? > YES and this is a big YES: Why? because user never want backup (privately or > at work). and there are many reasons for that. Privately, the

Idea for failover [was: Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC Clusters server.]

2005-08-24 Thread lahaye
Les, As I read your answer, I see that the solution I proposed is far from being easily doable (eventhough it look sexy) with the current release of BackupPC. But maybe BackupPC could be enhanced to be able to have a slave. I mean: during the nightly job, new files are identified. For such fil

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC Clusters server.

2005-08-24 Thread lahaye
> First off - calm down. This is a voluntary list. Sorry, maybe you missunderstood me, I'm not upset in anyway and I'm very calm. I'm just trying to propose solutions that could help BackuPC beeing seen as a realy wonderfull solution. As for your comment, please discuss privately before shouting

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC Clusters server.

2005-08-24 Thread Damian O'Hara
Olivier, First off - calm down. This is a voluntary list. Second, you didn't say that backing up the clients would annoy the users. Now it's an issue ? Perhaps the users of those machines who have previously lost data due to a poor (or no) backup regime would be more than happy to be backed up to

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC Clusters server.

2005-08-23 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 09:15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > then each night we to an "rsync-2.6.6 -H" (on /var/lib/backuppc/pc) between > the 2 sites. First, whether this is practical or not depends on the number of files with hard links that rsync has to traverse. The technique used to find the ma

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC Clusters server.

2005-08-23 Thread lahaye
Le Mardi 23 Août 2005 16:30, Damian O'Hara a écrit : > Hi Olivier, > > I know that another Motorola site in the UK has a backup server (not > backuppc :o) on each site that backs up both site's hosts. So all six > clients are: backed up by both backuppc servers. Yes I know those sites but I think

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC Clusters server.

2005-08-23 Thread Damian O'Hara
Hi Olivier, I know that another Motorola site in the UK has a backup server (not backuppc :o) on each site that backs up both site's hosts. So all six clients are backed up by both backuppc servers. If your network is not a problem you could adopt that aproach. That way you could recover any host

[BackupPC-users] BackupPC Clusters server.

2005-08-23 Thread lahaye
Does this Disaster recovery safe cluster architecture possible with BackupPC? Let say we have 2 sites A and B Let says that we have 3 hosts per site to backup hosts 1A 2A 3A for site A and 1B 2B 3B for site B. If we declare hosts 1A 2A 3A plus hosts 1B 2B 3B as archive hosts on site A and at th