Re: [BackupPC-users] Off-site backup options (slightly OT)

2015-07-10 Thread Marios Zindilis
Hello, About three months ago I published a script that creates an archive of hosts backed up with BackupPC and moves them to an offsite storage that is mounted on the BackupPC server. In my case that was a CIFS share from a remote Windows server. This script has been running smoothly on several

[BackupPC-users] Off-site backup options (slightly OT)

2015-07-10 Thread exarkun
I have been using my own scripts to run backuppc_tarcreate of each host and then i scp the tar to a remote host. However, I only do this once a week for each host and do not have as large a backup database as you. The other methods listed here might be more efficient for your situation.

[BackupPC-users] Off-site backup options (slightly OT)

2015-07-08 Thread Jeff Boyce
Greetings - I am running BackupPc to backup 8 desktop systems (mostly Windows) in my office to a CentOS 6 VM on my in-house server. It currently takes about 150GB of storage space. I would like to replicate (on a daily basis) the backup to an off-site system for disaster recovery

Re: [BackupPC-users] Off-site backup options (slightly OT)

2015-07-08 Thread kpolberg
On 08.07.2015 19:48, Jeff Boyce wrote: * The best methods for this boil down to two camps: 1) Run two BackupPC servers and have both back up the hosts directly No replication at all: it just works. 2) Use some sort of block-based method of replicating the

Re: [BackupPC-users] Off-site backup options (slightly OT)

2015-07-08 Thread Christian Völker
Hi, I am replicating through drbd (which is in some way a RAID1 over network). My BackupPC Storage is nearly 2TB in size and the connection is only around 50Mbit/sec. Drbd is doing block based so the initial transfer was done through a fast link and then placed on off-site. To prevent