On 8/19/09, David <wizzardx AT gmail DOT com> wrote:

> 2) Is there a recommended approache for "backing up" BackupPC databases?
> In case they go corrupt and so on. Or is a simple rsync safe?
...
> PS: Random question: Does backuppc have tools for making offsite,
> offline backups? Like copying a subset of the recent BackupPC backups
> over to a set of external drives (in encrypted format) and then taking
> the drives home or something like that.

Hi again David - HashBackup could be used to backup your BackupPC
server.  Basically, you'd just hook an external USB drive to your
server and take a backup.  I've tested it with directories containing
millions of files with 32000 hard links to each file on a Linux box
with only 1GB of memory, so it scales very well and doesn't have
rsync's memory problems.

The backup is AES encrypted, and with a 3-4 line config file
containing userids and passwords, you can send your encrypted backup
offsite to Amazon S3, FTP servers, or remote ssh accounts.

The beta site is:  http://sites.google.com/site/hashbackup

Jim

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