Greetings -

     I am running BackupPc to backup 8 desktop systems (mostly Windows) 
in my office to a CentOS 6 VM on my in-house server.  It currently takes 
about 150GB of storage space.  I would like to replicate (on a daily 
basis) the backup to an off-site system for disaster recovery purposes.  
I have searched through the archives and read much discussion about 
this, which generally concludes that using rsync to replicate the backup 
is not appropriate.  Tim Massey's post of 2/22/2011 sums up the options 
pretty clearly.

* For most people, rsync does not work to replicate a backup server
effectively.  Period.  I think *no* one would suggest this as a reliable
ongoing method of replicating a BackupPC server.  Ever.

* The best methods for this boil down to two camps:
         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

* Block-based replication boils down to two methods
         1) Use md or dm to create a RAID-1 array and rotate members of
this array in and out
         2) Use LVM to create snapshots of partitions and dd the partition
to a different drive
         (I guess 3) Stop BackupPC long enough to do a dd of the partition
*without* lVM)

     My backup pool is located on a separate LVM partition and I have 
some spare disk space, so I can do LVM snapshots.  But my primary 
question is that I am looking for recommendations for a 3rd party 
off-site storage vendor that is set up to accept dd'ing a LVM snapshot 
to a partitioned space.  I am completely open to all options here, as I 
have not worked with any off-site storage vendors previously.

     Please cc me directly as I only receive the digest version of the 
mailing list, which appears to be only sent out about once a month.  Thanks.

Jeff

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Jeff Boyce
Meridian Environmental
www.meridianenv.com


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