Re: [Bacula-users] Replicate bacula volumes some place else.

I'm by no means an authority on the subject, but what you're doing is, in my understanding about as good as any solution.

It's possible you could solve instead with some sort of replicated filesystem. Netapp do something like this (although that would be an expensive solution), as indeed do other storage vendors of various types. You can do something similar with glusterfs or a bunch of other options of a similar ilk. Honestly, rsync is probably better because it's far clearer what's going on without too much complexity.

I guess you could refine a tiny bit by doing some sort of 'RunAfter' script to copy the files as soon as the backup completes, but again, it's not doing much you can't do with a cron job. We've elected for the cron solution (we wait for the file(s) to reach a certain age before we do anything), whereupon we encrypt and send to the cloud. The underlying transport may be different, but the end result is much the same.

...Ralph

On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 1:15 PM, Michael Munger <michael AT highpoweredhelp DOT com> wrote:

I have Bacula backing up all the machines on the network to computer 1 at site 1.

I would like to replicate the backup volumes to computer 2 at site2 (so the data is off-site in case of fire).

There is a cable internet connection and VPN available between site 1 and site 2 with decent speeds (sustained 500KBps on average. Example from rsync log: 2016/08/14 06:57:34 [16471] sent 43.54M bytes received 18.88G bytes 586.76K bytes/sec)

The current strategy is to have all the volumes only a 5 GB in size and using rsync.

Is there a better way?

Michael Munger, dCAP, MCPS, MCNPS, MBSS
High Powered Help, Inc.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft Certified Small Business Specialist
Digium Certified Asterisk Professional
michael AT highpoweredhelp DOT com

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