On 07/22 08:17 , tog benson wrote:
> In the past I've used external drives to keep a rotation of offsite
> backups.  One drive would be offsite while the other was receiving dumps
> of data.  I used an archive host to dump tar_gzip files of all my data.

This is the way I do it at one location. I have a directory called
/var/lib/backuppc/dump, and tgz archives of all the hosts get dumped there
by virtue of a custom script. The script also handles the mounting and
unmounting of an external drive.

So someone (an unskilled office worker) swaps the drive once a week after
they get an e-mail of a successful backup. They then take the drive with the
new data and remove it offsite.

-- 
Carl Soderstrom
Systems Administrator
Real-Time Enterprises
www.real-time.com

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