Hello Everyone,
We have been using BackupPC for about 2 years now and its great for
doing file level backups! However for doing a bare metal restore we
had to first restore from an offline system image of various age then
restore files from the BackupPC server.
Recently we found a free tool for linux system hot backups offered from
R1Soft. http://www.r1soft.com/tools/linux-hot-copy/
It looks like we could use this tool with BackupPC to always have an
up-to-date bare metal image to restore. The downside being losing the
ability to restore individual files from BackupPC unless we also keep a
backup of the files in addition to the image file. This doesn't seem
too bad though as disk space is pretty cheap and we don't have a ton of
servers. I'm also wondering if the storage pooling built into BackupPC
would work on the block level image files create by the Linux Hot Copy
tool to reduce the storage space needed.
So yes, the main question is has anyone used Linux Hot Copy before with
BackupPC and what were their experiences.
Thank you,
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Vince
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