Re: [BackupPC-users] how to backup the backuppc server (off site)

[Les M. <les...@gm...>]

Simone Marzona wrote:

> what about these approaches:
> 
> - use lvm for backuppc pool, and schedule some kind of incremental dd of
> the device by taking a snapshot of the lvm volume

That should work - or the similar concept of software raid1 where you 
periodically fail/remove/add a mirror to rotate offsite.  You need a 
disk type that can be hot-swapped (usb, firewire, some SATA, some SCSI).

> - use coda or other replicating filesystem on the backuppc pool? could
> be?

I'm not sure if these work well without high-bandwidth connections.

> - use some dedicated storage that to hardware replication (like
> datadomain)
> 
> any opinion is very appreciated..

I think the zfs filesystem with snapshot and incremental send/receive 
capability sounds promising.  I just haven't had time to test it.

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