Robin Bonin wrote:
> I am planning on creating a single server with a few large hard disk
> to store company wide backups (SQL Server, Exchange, Some server
> images, 30 Clients). I would like to make some copies of the monthly
> full backup to take off site.
> 
> It seems that I can just make a copy using rsync of the volumes on the
> disk to a removable disk drive (or tape drive?). If this copy also
> contains a backup of the catalog database, it seems that should be all
> I need to restore things if the building is destroyed by some type of
> disaster.
> 
> Does this sound correct or am I missing something?

That should work pretty well overall.  In addition, even if something happens 
and you end up not having an up to date copy of the catalogue, you can 
recreate it from the volumes using the bscan utility.

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