Re: [BackupPC-users] Rotating multiple drives on one mount point

2022-03-26 Thread Paul Fox
kenneth wrote: > > The main problem is that "yesterday's" backup might be off-site for > someone who needs a semi-recent file restored. But I don't see much way > to solve that without keeping the previous backup media on-site. This is one of the problems solved by using a RAID pair for you

Re: [BackupPC-users] Rotating multiple drives on one mount point

2022-03-26 Thread Kenneth Porter
On 3/26/2022 6:28 AM, G.W. Haywood via BackupPC-users wrote: Without looking into it carefully I couldn't be sure that swapping the storage device from under BackupPC wouldn't actually cause more issues than the one which you're trying to address.  At the very least I think you'd want to look at

Re: [BackupPC-users] Rotating multiple drives on one mount point

2022-03-26 Thread Kenneth Porter
On 3/26/2022 6:23 AM, jbk wrote: I use a common drive label for the four disks I rotate. I recommend auto mount so that if your machine should restart for any reason the disk will remount protecting the local drive from running out of space. I manually stop and start the backuppc.service and th

Re: [BackupPC-users] Rotating multiple drives on one mount point

2022-03-26 Thread Paul Fox
Kenneth Porter wrote: > I'm adding a second external drive to my rotation so I can keep one > off-site in case of disaster. > > How do people handle this? What do your systemd mount/automount unit files > look like? Do you use a single drive label so a single systemd unit works > to mount

Re: [BackupPC-users] Rotating multiple drives on one mount point

2022-03-26 Thread jbk
On 3/26/22 08:03, Kenneth Porter wrote: I'm adding a second external drive to my rotation so I can keep one off-site in case of disaster. How do people handle this? What do your systemd mount/automount unit files look like? Do you use a single drive label so a single systemd unit works to mou

Re: [BackupPC-users] Rotating multiple drives on one mount point

2022-03-26 Thread G.W. Haywood via BackupPC-users
Hi there, On Sat, 26 Mar 2022, Kenneth Porter wrote: I'm adding a second external drive to my rotation so I can keep one off-site in case of disaster. Without looking into it carefully I couldn't be sure that swapping the storage device from under BackupPC wouldn't actually cause more issues

[BackupPC-users] Rotating multiple drives on one mount point

2022-03-26 Thread Kenneth Porter
I'm adding a second external drive to my rotation so I can keep one off-site in case of disaster. How do people handle this? What do your systemd mount/automount unit files look like? Do you use a single drive label so a single systemd unit works to mount any backup drive to the same mount poi