Re: [BackupPC-users] Unattended off-site replication

2011-10-25 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 8:13 PM, Steve M. Robbins wrote: >> Unless you have several hosts that hold duplicate data, after you get >> the initial fulls option #1 with rysnc transport over ssh or a vpn >> with compression enabled won't be moving more data than other ways you >> might attempt it. >

Re: [BackupPC-users] Unattended off-site replication

2011-10-25 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 11:21:26PM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 10:19 PM, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > > > > I know many people have discussed how to achive an offsite archive of > > backuppc pool.  During a discussion last February [1], Timothy Massey [2] > > and Jeffrey Koso

Re: [BackupPC-users] Unattended off-site replication

2011-10-25 Thread Richard Shaw
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 9:36 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 8:13 AM, Richard Shaw wrote: > >>> Option 2: run BackupPC on Solaris (Nexenta). Use snapshots and zfs send to >>> replicate the data to another server. Very simple, very easy. And we've >>> found BackupPC performance o

Re: [BackupPC-users] Unattended off-site replication

2011-10-25 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 8:13 AM, Richard Shaw wrote: >> Option 2: run BackupPC on Solaris (Nexenta). Use snapshots and zfs send to >> replicate the data to another server. Very simple, very easy. And we've >> found BackupPC performance on ZFS much increased over ext3. > > Well, that may not be ne

Re: [BackupPC-users] Unattended off-site replication

2011-10-25 Thread Richard Shaw
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 12:54 AM, Chris Parsons < chris.pars...@petrosys.com.au> wrote: > Option 2: run BackupPC on Solaris (Nexenta). Use snapshots and zfs send to > replicate the data to another server. Very simple, very easy. And we've > found BackupPC performance on ZFS much increased over ex

Re: [BackupPC-users] Unattended off-site replication

2011-10-25 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 1:27 AM, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: > >  > It strikes me that backuppc could be taught to write all this out to >  > one or more journal files that could be replayed on the remote system >  > after the new files are transferred. >  > >  > Does this make sense?  Has anyone i

Re: [BackupPC-users] Unattended off-site replication

2011-10-24 Thread Chris Parsons
Option 2: run BackupPC on Solaris (Nexenta). Use snapshots and zfs send to replicate the data to another server. Very simple, very easy. And we've found BackupPC performance on ZFS much increased over ext3. Win win, except for having to deal with solaris.

Re: [BackupPC-users] Unattended off-site replication

2011-10-24 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
Steve M. Robbins wrote at about 22:19:44 -0500 on Monday, October 24, 2011: > Hi, > > One thing that all these methods have in common is that they scan the > entire pool filesystem. I accept that I will have to do that at > least initially. However, to send daily updates, it seems unnecess

Re: [BackupPC-users] Unattended off-site replication

2011-10-24 Thread Les Mikesell
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 10:19 PM, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > > I know many people have discussed how to achive an offsite archive of > backuppc pool.  During a discussion last February [1], Timothy Massey [2] > and Jeffrey Kosowsky [3] summarized the options as follows: > > 1) Run two BackupPC serv

[BackupPC-users] Unattended off-site replication

2011-10-24 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Hi, I know many people have discussed how to achive an offsite archive of backuppc pool. During a discussion last February [1], Timothy Massey [2] and Jeffrey Kosowsky [3] summarized the options as follows: 1) Run two BackupPC servers and have both back up the hosts directly. No replicatio