[BackupPC-users] offsite archives

2009-10-16 Thread Ryan Jewell
I have been spending time further automating my backuppc solution and I'm back to "automatically sending archives offsite". At the moment we will use a script to put archives into a folder and use an offsite backuppc to pull them off (which gives a great interface for viewing). For my small poo

Re: [BackupPC-users] offsite archives

2006-05-22 Thread Les Mikesell
On Mon, 2006-05-22 at 10:30, Ryan Jewell wrote: > Thank you for your feedback. I have a few questions that may help me > understand the reasons for your options. > > I thought one option might be to use an offsite instance of backuppc > to rsync copy the file pool or a tar archive. It sounds like

Re: [BackupPC-users] offsite archives

2006-05-22 Thread Ryan Jewell
Hi Les, Thank you for your feedback. I have a few questions that may help me understand the reasons for your options. I thought one option might be to use an offsite instance of backuppc to rsync copy the file pool or a tar archive. It sounds like you're talking about rsyncing to the original

Re: [BackupPC-users] offsite archives

2006-05-21 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, 2006-05-19 at 17:25, Ryan Jewell wrote: > I've read different options and searched past posts. Could someone help > me find/determine a fitting offsite backup strategy. The simple way is to run a completely independent instance of backuppc from the offsite location using a VPN if necessary

[BackupPC-users] offsite archives

2006-05-19 Thread Ryan Jewell
I've read different options and searched past posts. Could someone help me find/determine a fitting offsite backup strategy. I don't think I want to transmit the tar archive that the program generates because it seems too large. I gather I need to use rsync to transfer the data offsite but I still