Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Using bacula for local and cloud backup

2009-11-10 02:34:25
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Using bacula for local and cloud backup
From: Jesper Krogh <jesper AT krogh DOT cc>
To: wvoice <myoung AT wildernessvoice DOT com>
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:29:34 +0100
wvoice wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm currently using bacula-3.0.3 (and some systems have 3.1.4) to backup a
> bunch of Linux and Windows machines. These backups are local and everything
> is working fantastically with that. 
> 
> However, I'd like to be able to backup the backup data offsite. Right now,
> my storage pool is on a file volume located in /data/backup/. I'm trying to
> figure out the best way to do this. My usual mechanism is to use rsync for
> my offsite replication. But these files are quite large now. Just backing up
> the file will be very costly, unless I can mount it and get access to the
> contents. Then I can copy the diffs.

Isn't the quick'n'dirty solution not just to make the individual
volume-files smaller? Say 100MB or similar. The for
differential/incremental runs you would eventually end up only
transferring the diffs.

Jesper
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Jesper

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