Re: [BackupPC-users] Syncing pool to remote disk

2006-02-01 Thread Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu
On Wed, 2006-01-02 at 16:23 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > That would almost certainly work, but it isn't quite the problem > I want to solve - unless you have really high bandwidth > connections to another location. I want to keep a nearly > up-to-date copy of the backuppc archive off-site. How we

Re: [BackupPC-users] Syncing pool to remote disk

2006-02-01 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 15:17, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote: > On Wed, 2006-01-02 at 10:28 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > > What would be really nice would be if you could make an LVM snapshot > > and rsync the snapshot as a partition image to a remote file or > > partition while the source system keeps

Re: [BackupPC-users] Syncing pool to remote disk

2006-02-01 Thread Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu
On Wed, 2006-01-02 at 10:28 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > What would be really nice would be if you could make an LVM snapshot > and rsync the snapshot as a partition image to a remote file or > partition while the source system keeps working. What about a combination of BackupPC and Openfiler? Op

Re: [BackupPC-users] Syncing pool to remote disk

2006-02-01 Thread Bernardo . Rechea
Les Mikesell said: > On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 08:39, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > > On 01/31 08:34 , Dan Pritts wrote: > > > On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 08:28:17AM -0600, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > > > > only solution I can think of, would be to use a distributed replicated block > > > > device

Re: [BackupPC-users] Syncing pool to remote disk

2006-02-01 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 08:39, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > On 01/31 08:34 , Dan Pritts wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 08:28:17AM -0600, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > > > only solution I can think of, would be to use a distributed replicated > > > block > > > device (DRBD) to mirror the t

Re: [BackupPC-users] Syncing pool to remote disk

2006-02-01 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 01/31 08:34 , Dan Pritts wrote: > On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 08:28:17AM -0600, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > > only solution I can think of, would be to use a distributed replicated block > > device (DRBD) to mirror the two disks across the network. that 10Mbit/s > > bandwidth will be pretty lim

Re: [BackupPC-users] Syncing pool to remote disk

2006-01-31 Thread Dan Pritts
On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 08:28:17AM -0600, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > only solution I can think of, would be to use a distributed replicated block > device (DRBD) to mirror the two disks across the network. that 10Mbit/s > bandwidth will be pretty limiting of performance tho. (Also, I've seen

Re: [BackupPC-users] Syncing pool to remote disk

2006-01-30 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 01/28 08:26 , David Rees wrote: > Is the backup RAID array at least the same size as the original? Your > best bet is probably to use tar + gzip to send the whole raw partition > over the network to the remote machine, but for this to work, you will > need to be able to unmount the primary so th

Re: [BackupPC-users] Syncing pool to remote disk

2006-01-28 Thread David Rees
On 1/26/06, Ward... James Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have two 1.5T USB RAID arrays separated by 100 meters and a wireless 10M > connection. What is the best way to sync them? rsync consumes all > available memory and craters the system. What is the best alternative for > synching such a

[BackupPC-users] Syncing pool to remote disk

2006-01-26 Thread Ward... James Ward
Hi, I have two 1.5T USB RAID arrays separated by 100 meters and a wireless 10M connection. What is the best way to sync them? rsync consumes all available memory and craters the system. What is the best alternative for synching such a huge amount of data? Thanks in advance, James ___