BackupPC-users

Re: [BackupPC-users] Outsourcing backup

2010-05-04 09:18:59
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Outsourcing backup
From: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
To: innop AT voila DOT fr, "General list for user discussion, questions and support" <backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Tue, 04 May 2010 07:19:32 -0500
Inno wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Can you see a problem in this thinking :
> 
> We have two business building not connected between them.
> Servers are not the same.
> I would like outsourcing data.
> Backups are done on two Ethernet HDD.
> 
> So I imagined this:
> Company A - Full backup on Friday night. Incremental backup every day.
> Company B - Full backup on Friday night. Incremental backup every day.
> 
> On Friday. I go to the A. I unplug the HDD 1 (containing /var/lib/backuppc/).
> I go to the B. I unplug the HDD 2 (containing /var/lib/backuppc/) and I plug 
> the HDD 1.
> I go back to the A. I plug the hard disk 2.
> 
> Thus, one week HDD 1 is in company A and the following week in Company B. And 
> one week HDD 2 is in Company B and the following week in the A.
> 
> As HDD containing /var/lib/backuppc/ normally it doesn't create any problem 
> for data retention ... ? What do you think ?

If you have decent internet connectivity, why not set up a vpn between servers 
so they can both access both LANs all the time and take care of themselves?

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com



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