Re: [BackupPC-users] off site replication of backuppc

On 01/20/2017 05:41 PM, Philip Parsons (Velindre - Medical Physics) wrote:
> Hi,
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> We have been using backuppc to backup a few of our systems.  We would
> like to have a replication server off site.  Is this possible? Can I
> just use rsync to copy the pool?
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> Thanks,
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> Phil.
>

Hi Phil,

In short, your options are to use BackupPC v3 with ZFS or btrfs (or even 
block level replication such as RDBD) and replicate the filesystem 
through snapshots, or to use BackupPC v4 with any of the above or rsync. 
This is due to rsync being slow with hardlinks, and BackupPC v4 no 
longer depending on them.

Check the list archives for more detailed answers, this question has 
been answered many times before.

A different approach is to run a separate, secondary instance of 
BackupPC with the same settings.

Best regards,
Johan Ehnberg

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