Kevin DeGraaf wrote:
> Hello,
>
> We have an on-site BackupPC server (2.1.2pl1) backing up 31 hosts, with
> a total pool size of 1.8 TB.
>
> We're going to deploy an off-site backup server in a colocation
> facility. The colo has a great deal of bandwidth available, but our
> office is stuck with a T1 connection (1.5 Mbps symmetric).
>
> Possible configurations:
>
> 1. Install BackupPC on the remote server, and do a full backup in the
> office prior to deploying it to the colo. From then on, perform only
> incremental backups.
>
This is what I do, except I do perform full backups (using rsync or
rsyncd). It works well. Basically each machine on my lan gets backed
up twice -- once locally and once remotely.
> 2. Use the remote server to hold a copy of the on-site BackupPC
> server's file pool. The pool would be rsync'ed on-site initially and
> then rsync'ed remotely from then on.
>
Against all advice on this list, I did this yesterday. I rsync'd my
pool to a larger drive in the same machine. My pool size is 347G and
it's been running for the past 15 hours or so. I've transfered 334G so
far. My server has 3GB of RAM. It hasn't crashed, like many people
thought it might, and it has only used 2MB of swap.
-Rob
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