----- "Les Mikesell" <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
> Gerald Brandt wrote:
> > Hi Chris,
> >
> > The storage will be iSCSI (over gigabit), and offsite backups will be
> > done via an archive done once a week.  Does that sound sane?
>
> What kind of archive are you planning? As is frequently discussed here
> it is difficult to copy a large backuppc system in any way other than
> making an image copy of the raw filesystem because of the time it takes
> to duplicate the large number of hardlinks.
>

Hi,

Basically, I plan to have a cycle of 3 offsite backup disks, and I'll use the backuppc archive command to archive the latest version.  I'll then copy that archive to the remote disks.

If I have a failure on the BackupPC disks, I'll lose some historical data, but I'll have the three most recent backups offsite.

Gerald

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