Re: [BackupPC-users] Unattended off-site replication
2011-10-25 00:22:27
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 10:19 PM, Steve M. Robbins <steve AT sumost DOT ca>
wrote:
>
> I know many people have discussed how to achive an offsite archive of
> backuppc pool. During a discussion last February [1], Timothy Massey [2]
> and Jeffrey Kosowsky [3] summarized the options as follows:
>
> 1) Run two BackupPC servers and have both back up the hosts
> directly. No replication at all: it just works.
> 2) Use some sort of block-based method of replicating the data
> 3) Scripts that understand the special structure of the pool and pc
> trees and efficiently create lists of all hard links in pc directory.
>
> I'll be replicating over a thin residential ISP connection (rules out
> option #1)
Unless you have several hosts that hold duplicate data, after you get
the initial fulls option #1 with rysnc transport over ssh or a vpn
with compression enabled won't be moving more data than other ways you
might attempt it.
--
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com
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