On 12/17/2014 06:49 PM, Damien Hull wrote:

> · Can I “seed” the backup process by copying data to a drive and
moving that to the bacula server? This would be done before I start the
backup process on bacula.

If you have a more efficient way of doing it, like netapp snapmirror or
zfs incremental send or possibly btsync, yes. Otherwise it's probably
not worth the trouble.

> · Is there a recommended way to backup remote servers over a VPN
connection?

Make sure it doesn't time out in the middle of a backup. I.e. if it's an
automagic on-demand sort of thing you may need a keepalive option of
some sort.

-- 
Dimitri Maziuk
Programmer/sysadmin
BioMagResBank, UW-Madison -- http://www.bmrb.wisc.edu

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