Re: [BackupPC-users] Prepare for the worst, Howto backup the backuppc-se

add a third member drive to your software raid so you have a 3 device raid1. setup a script for when you hotplug the drive to automatically add it to the raid1 and another script to disconnect it from the raid(by serial number or UUID or something unique to each disk).

you can access the disk on any linux system with the md module loaded.

you can even do this across a WAN link to home or another office with iscsi on the remote side, then you just have that iscsi device as a member of the raid1 and make a script to detach and reattach the iscsi drive when you want a backup. additionally, you can have an email sent to you when a rebuild completes, or even a text message so you know the sync is done.

if you leave a USB device or a remote iscsi disk connected to your raid1, it will certainly slow performance down so remember to detach the backup drive

On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 4:23 PM, Kurt Tunkko <kurt.tunko AT web DOT de> wrote:

Hi,

we have two servers in two offices that are running backuppc.
Since I have setup a (Soft-)RAID1 (mirroring) the server should be fine
if one of its disk dies.

Now I would like to make sure that if in case of fire or
<INSERT-SCENERIO-HERE> I still have a backup of the server on an
external harddrive that is locked away.

Unfortunately I don't know where to start to make sure that I can do a
baremetal recovery of the backuppc server.

My Idea was todo a full diskimage of the server and then to (r)sync
daily to the external harddrive. This harddrive will then be stores
away when everybody is out of office.

What do you think may be the right approach?

Also I would like to hear if and how you made bare metal recovery's with
backuppc(s data).

- Kurt

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Re: [BackupPC-users] Prepare for the worst, Howto backup the backuppc-server