Re: [BackupPC-users] Best pool cloning technique

2009-11-24 Thread Les Mikesell
Bowie Bailey wrote: > Les Mikesell wrote: >> Bowie Bailey wrote: >> >>> I do the shutdown for two reasons: >>> >>> 1) My system partition lives on the raid as well as the data, so I have >>> to shut down to keep everything consistent. >>> 2) My sata controller doesn't recognize hot swaps as far

Re: [BackupPC-users] Best pool cloning technique

2009-11-24 Thread Bowie Bailey
Les Mikesell wrote: > Bowie Bailey wrote: > >> I do the shutdown for two reasons: >> >> 1) My system partition lives on the raid as well as the data, so I have >> to shut down to keep everything consistent. >> 2) My sata controller doesn't recognize hot swaps as far as I have been >> able to det

Re: [BackupPC-users] Best pool cloning technique

2009-11-23 Thread Les Mikesell
Bowie Bailey wrote: > >>> My filesystem is raid 1 (via md) with 3 disks. Two of the disks are >>> internal and one is in an sata hot-swap enclosure. Whenever I want to >>> take a backup offsite, I shut down the machine, pull the third drive, >>> replace it with a new one, and start it back up. T

Re: [BackupPC-users] Best pool cloning technique

2009-11-23 Thread Bowie Bailey
Les Mikesell wrote: > Bowie Bailey wrote: > >> My filesystem is raid 1 (via md) with 3 disks. Two of the disks are >> internal and one is in an sata hot-swap enclosure. Whenever I want to >> take a backup offsite, I shut down the machine, pull the third drive, >> replace it with a new one, and

Re: [BackupPC-users] Best pool cloning technique

2009-11-22 Thread Alexander Fortin
Thanks everybody for the answers, now I think I've got the point. And about 2009/11/20 Christian Völker : > or RAID10). Just wondering why you have a backup if s single disk fail > destroys it all... Well, the "master" external USB disk was a quick solution to patch a totally lack of client back

Re: [BackupPC-users] Best pool cloning technique

2009-11-20 Thread Les Mikesell
Bowie Bailey wrote: > Alexander Fortin wrote: >> What do you suggest as a physical storage architecture with an off-site >> weekly clone? Maybe RAID1 with 2 disks as master and a spare one, to >> synchronize now and then? Or maybe is better something like a RAID1 with >> 2 disks and then some (r

Re: [BackupPC-users] Best pool cloning technique

2009-11-20 Thread Bowie Bailey
Alexander Fortin wrote: > What do you suggest as a physical storage architecture with an off-site > weekly clone? Maybe RAID1 with 2 disks as master and a spare one, to > synchronize now and then? Or maybe is better something like a RAID1 with > 2 disks and then some (r)sync tool to get the clon

Re: [BackupPC-users] Best pool cloning technique

2009-11-20 Thread Christian Völker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRBD Oh yes, I tried this as well. Works only if your connection to the remote site is fast enough. Otherwise you'd need to purchase the drdb proxy for some hundred bucks. And additionally: drdb is not a backup, it'

Re: [BackupPC-users] Best pool cloning technique

2009-11-20 Thread Shawn Perry
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRBD 2009/11/20 Christian Völker : > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, > >> I've been actually wondering what's the best way to keep a clone of the >> pool directory, because I want to do an off-site copy now and then. > Welcome. This is one of th

Re: [BackupPC-users] Best pool cloning technique

2009-11-20 Thread Christian Völker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, > I've been actually wondering what's the best way to keep a clone of the > pool directory, because I want to do an off-site copy now and then. Welcome. This is one of the most discussed topics in this list... > What do you suggest as a physical

[BackupPC-users] Best pool cloning technique

2009-11-20 Thread Alexander Fortin
Hi everybody. I've been using BackupPC for more then 1 year here in office for my small business and this is the very first post on this ML, and that because I'm very happy with the product: so far I had no problem at all, nor today. I've been actually wondering what's the best way to keep a cl