I am trying to figure out a set of scripts to get a reliable offsite 
backup of a client's backuppc (300GB pool). I've read a lot of the older 
posts and I'm aware of some of the issues.

At the moment we have a backuppc install running at an office. We have a 
second backuppc offsite. This works pretty well but there are a lot of 
problems backing up the various clients because they aren't always 
online late at night. So this is a wild attempt to get a fast rsync 
backup of each client offsite into a second backuppc program (so you 
have all of the great benefits of checking on progress etc). I am trying 
to avoid tars archives that take a long time to transfer. Tape backups 
haven't worked. I've read large rsyncs don't work with a lot of files.

Please give feedback if there is a better way to accomplish this, if I'm 
overlooking anything etc. Thanks.

I am thinking the offsite backuppc will run a script before the backup 
of a client.

1. It would take the latest backup for the client and expand it into a 
temp dir. This would serve as a snapshot of what the client machine 
looked like last week.
2. It will look at the backuppc's dirs at the onsite install and 
determine the latest backup in that pc's dir. It might use the second to 
the last backup to avoid issues if a backup is in progress.
3. It will rsync that dir with the files in the temp dir to create an 
updated snapshot of the machine.
4. The backup for the client would run on that temp dir. Once the backup 
is complete the temp dir would be cleared to make space for another client.

Thanks for any comments/help.

Ryan



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