On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 6:06 PM, Jon Schewe <jpschewe AT mtu DOT net> wrote:
>  On 8/6/10 12:12 PM, John Drescher wrote:
>>> I have a new bacula running and am wondering what do you recommend for an 
>>> offsite backup, adding it to the current local storage.
>>>
>>> I was told by management that they dont want to worry if their servers get 
>>> stolen.
>>>
>> I recommend a tape archive and a suitable container that you can
>> physically take the tapes offsite. However you probably are using
>> disk.
>>
>> You could put a SD on a remote site if you want. You could also rsync
>> your storage volumes nightly. Both of these are highly dependent on
>> how much bandwith you have and how much your data changes per day.
>
> If you're considering a network option like this, I would strongly
> recommend using the rsync over a remote SD. I found that bacula doesn't
> retry on network errors, so if you have a long backup running offsite
> and then your ISP drops for a minute you loose, where as you can pretty
> easily have rsync do a retry and pickup where it left off.
>

Agreed. I recommend the rsync method over a remote SD for this and
other reasons.

John

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