Greetings. What is the preferred and secure method for using BackupPC to place backups, or a copy of the backups, on a remote server? The goal is to have the local BackupPC ready for most recoveries,
Author: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 11:31:44 -0600
There are several approaches. The easiest, if you have enough internet bandwidth is to have a completely independent instance running elsewhere, perhaps with a VPN tunnel to be able to access the tar
Author: Stephen Joyce <stephen AT physics.unc DOT edu>
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 13:05:44 -0500 (EST)
I assume you're most worried about your server going tango uniform (in a fire, simultaneous disk failure, etc), and not "rm -rf *". Correct? Has anyone successfully used BackupPC on a DRBD (http://ww
Author: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 12:49:10 -0600
In my case, I rotate the offsite disk weekly, so worst case is to lose the current week which is OK for the content it covers. Several of the targets are actually in other offices so it is fairly unl
Stephen Joyce <stephen AT physics.unc DOT edu> wrote on 12/29/2008 01:05:44 PM: report? The biggest problem with this is that you're most likely looking for off-site replication: a fire/tornado/theft
I second this. I have a new system I am rolling out that needs to be "hands off" due to physical restrictions to the server. And this is my big hesitation (remote replication of my backuppc). -- ____