Re: [BackupPC-users] Storage replica

2015-12-16 Thread Paolo Basenghi
I've got QNAP too. Initially tried with BPC installed directly on the NAS, but the NAS OS is too limited and the risk that BPC does not survive a firmware update is high, IMHO. But the last two QNAP firmware generations have an interesting new feature: KVM virtualization. I installed a CentOS

Re: [BackupPC-users] Storage replica

2015-12-15 Thread Christian Völker
Well, this information would have been helpful before ;) So in this case instead of trying to add DRBD to the QNAP host I would suggest you export an iSCSI target to the BackupPC host. Add iSCSI client to your BackupPC server and use the iSCSI target as underlying device for local RAID1. Thus, yo

Re: [BackupPC-users] Storage replica

2015-12-14 Thread Paolo Basenghi
Hi, rsync is a good solution if your pool is not very big. That because you have to keep hard links in the mirror location and rsync is not very efficient in hard link mirroring. I tried with rsync in the beginning but mirroring time was too long even on a 1 Gbs local link (two pools: 750 GiB

[BackupPC-users] Storage replica

2015-12-14 Thread absolutely_f...@libero.it
Hi,I would like to copy entire Backuppc pool to a secondary storage on a remote location (for disaster recovery).How can I do this?For example, is it possible to rsync data between two storage while backuppc is running?Thank you very much --