> On Fri, 2011-12-09 at 13:15 +0000, member horvath wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I have a requirement where I need to deploy a backuppc installation on
> > a site that will connect to several servers and backup their required
> > files.
> > I need to keep a daily incremental of 30 daily and 6 monthly backups.
> > This part is ok and I have no problem setting up (Except getting the
> > schedule right - I find this hard to do with backuppc)
> > 
> > As an offsite backup I'd like my onsite backuppc unit to inform my
> > offsite backuppc unit that the backup is complete and then the remote
> > needs to pull only the most current backup from the onsite.
> > So basically a 30 day/6 month onsite backup with the most current
> > backup stored offsite
> > Can this be done?
> 
> I'd look into the archive functionally of backuppc and push the current
> backup as a tarball to the offsite host and not worry about running
> remote backuppc. As you say you are only looking to hold the current
> backup offsite you can simply transfer the current archive with
> scp/rsync/tar over ssh to the offsite host.

Another approach would be to set up an archive host that's mounted on a
network-mounted drive, or on a local directory that's then rsynced over the
network.  See Archive functions in the BackupPC docs.  Then
DumpPostUserCommand etc. might be used to notify the remote server to start
its rsync job.


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