Hi
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On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 3:19 PM, Leen Besselink<leen AT consolejunky DOT net>
wrote:
> Pieter Wuille wrote:
>> On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 11:05:23AM +0200, Tino Schwarze wrote:
>>> Hi Mark,
>>>
>
> Hi Mark, Tino & Pieter,
>
>>> On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 08:28:32AM -0700, Mark Phillips wrote:
>>>> I am looking for inexpensive off-site storage that is compatible with
>>>> backuppc.
>>> In my opinion, off-site storage and backup don't go together. After all,
>>> your backups contain all of your important (and possibly secret) data. I
>>> wouldn't want to store these on some online-service.
>>
>> Therefore you should always have offsite backups encrypted using a key that
>> is not stored on the offsite backup. Ideally, the offsite server (assuming
>> you don't control the physical access to it), shouldn't even ever see the
>> unencrypted data.
>>
>
> My personal opinion is, backup is for restoring files and has history, but
> offsite storage is for when the building burns down. Some people would
> probably
> call that disaster recovery.
>
>> You can do this at either filesystem-level or blockdevice-level. The first
>> one
>> is (in the case of backuppc, because of massive hardlinking and millions of
>> small files), very cpu and ram intensive, and more difficult to encrypt.
>> Using a blockdevice-approach is a lot less stressing for you system, but
>> probably a serious waste of bandwidth unless you have a way to send
>> incrementals updates.
>>
>
> I agree on the encryption part and I always though
> http://duplicity.nongnu.org/
> looks pretty cool.
>
> My guess is it doesn't do hardlinks, I haven't checked, but maybe you don't
> really need history (what the hardlinks are for) when disaster strikes ?
>
> That's obviously up to you.
>
>>>> Is anyone using backuppc to backup files to Amazon S3? I have googled for
>>>> some articles on this topic, and all I have found are old ones. It seems
>>>> 1. S3 does not "allow" hard links and use of rsync. There is a s3sync
>>>> option, but I haven't looked a it.
>>>> 2. Using an EC2 front end running backuppc might work, and then storing to
>>>> s3. Haven't found any backuppc articles about this.
>>> I'm not familiar with S3 or EC2. Currently, BackupPC requires direct
>>> access to a posix file system with hardlink support. And it does quite
>>> stress the file system!
>>
>> Neither am i familiar with S3 or EC2, and have no idea what kind of ways
>> there are for synchronisation, but maybe you can synchronize the backup
>> volume (blockdevice level) or backup filesystem with something on S3/EC2.
>> I would advise against using backuppc to do offsite-backups of a backuppc
>> pool. It will require many resources and increases the difficulty for
>> doing a restore.
>>
>
> I think duplicity does do so, but again I haven't checked.
>
> But anyway, the most important thing you should do with any tooling like
> this, is a restore test. And have a working plan.
>
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