On 8/13/2021 9:18 AM, G.W. Haywood via BackupPC-users wrote:
I'm a big fan of having more than one backup
Keep one copy off-site, in case of natural disaster, such as fire,
earthquake, flood, power company zaps your facility.
I'm not happy with my data in less than three places.
Hi there,
On Fri, 13 Aug 2021, Rob Morin wrote:
WHat I was thinking was simply moving/renaming the current backup
set and making the dir immutable to prevent ransomware from getting
to it.
I suspect that your idea won't work. How do you propose to make the
directory immutable? If it's by me
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> How do you archive your backups?
>
I use the Archive function from BackupPC:
https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/BackupPC.html#Archive-functions
I save the archive to an external drive, which I then move off-site.
WHat I was thinking was simply moving/renaming the current backup set and
> ma
On 8/11/2021 2:07 PM, Rob Morin wrote:
Hey everyone
I have a full week's backup of all my servers, i want to make an immutable copy of
them, so I was thinking of just "moving" the current data dir, and whatever else I
might need to another partition, and start the backup from scratch again
Hey Guillermo, thanks for the reply...
How do you archive your backups?
WHat I was thinking was simply moving/renaming the current backup set and
making the dir immutable to prevent ransomware from getting to it.
Then start from scratch again, but leave that one for 6 months then do the
same thi
Hi,
I have a full week's backup of all my servers, i want to make an immutable
> copy of them, so I was thinking of just "moving" the current data dir, and
> whatever else I might need to another partition, and start the backup from
> scratch again.
>
Why "move and start from scratch"? Why don't
Hi there,
On Thu, 12 Aug 2021, Rob Morin wrote:
I have a full week's backup of all my servers, i want to make an immutable
copy of them, so I was thinking of just "moving" the current data dir, and
whatever else I might need to another partition, and start the backup from
scratch again.
Mean w
Hey everyone
I have a full week's backup of all my servers, i want to make an immutable
copy of them, so I was thinking of just "moving" the current data dir, and
whatever else I might need to another partition, and start the backup from
scratch again.
Mean while i make the dir on that new pa
