From: Rob O. <ro...@bi...> - 2007-06-29 12:22:23
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I'm new to the list and to BackupPC. I'm looking for opinions on the best way to arrange my backup scheme: I have 2 offices. Each office is going to have a BackupPC server. Each office will backup their own file shares hourly, on their own BackupPC server. (It may sound like overkill, but we do want it this way). Each night, I'd like the offices to back each other up. Should I have the BackupPC server in office A do a nightly backup of all the file shares in office B? Or should office A do a nightly backup of the pool directory in office B? Or should I simply rsync the pool directory from office B to office A every night using a cron job? Thanks for the help. -Rob |
From: Carl W. S. <ch...@re...> - 2007-06-29 17:36:51
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On 06/29 08:21 , Rob Owens wrote: > Should I have the BackupPC server in office A do a nightly backup of all > the file shares in office B? Or should office A do a nightly backup of > the pool directory in office B? Or should I simply rsync the pool > directory from office B to office A every night using a cron job? Don't try to rsync the pools. The number of hardlinks (lots of files) will be murderous on the rsync memory requirements. Just do backups in parallel; with office A backing up office B's machines once per day, and vice versa. -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com |
From: Rob O. <ro...@bi...> - 2007-06-29 19:01:27
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Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > On 06/29 08:21 , Rob Owens wrote: > >> Should I have the BackupPC server in office A do a nightly backup of all >> the file shares in office B? Or should office A do a nightly backup of >> the pool directory in office B? Or should I simply rsync the pool >> directory from office B to office A every night using a cron job? >> > > Don't try to rsync the pools. The number of hardlinks (lots of files) will > be murderous on the rsync memory requirements. Just do backups in parallel; > with office A backing up office B's machines once per day, and vice versa. Thanks for the input. Is it possible for me to give assign different backup schedules for different machines? (I don't currently have BackupPC installed, and I couldn't tell by scanning through the documentation). In my case, I want local backups to happen hourly, but I want remote backups to occur only once a night. -Rob |
From: Rodrigo R. <rr...@uc...> - 2007-06-29 19:11:10
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Rob Owens <ro...@bi...> writes: Hi Rob > Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: >> On 06/29 08:21 , Rob Owens wrote: >> >>> Should I have the BackupPC server in office A do a nightly backup of all >>> the file shares in office B? Or should office A do a nightly backup of >>> the pool directory in office B? Or should I simply rsync the pool >>> directory from office B to office A every night using a cron job? >>> >> >> Don't try to rsync the pools. The number of hardlinks (lots of files) will >> be murderous on the rsync memory requirements. Just do backups in parallel; >> with office A backing up office B's machines once per day, and vice versa. > Thanks for the input. > > Is it possible for me to give assign different backup schedules for > different machines? (I don't currently have BackupPC installed, and I > couldn't tell by scanning through the documentation). In my case, I > want local backups to happen hourly, but I want remote backups to occur > only once a night. Yes, you schedule each of your hosts. You can have a default schedule, and then you can specify the different ones. Rodrigo > > -Rob > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express > Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take > control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. > http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ > _______________________________________________ > BackupPC-users mailing list > Bac...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ |