Re: [BackupPC-users] General Praise.

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

On 10/7/2010 10:55 AM, Dan Pritts wrote:
> I agree with your general praise, BackupPC works very well for us in our environment, which is maybe half your size.  Due to your large size, I'll leave you with one thought:
>
> One concern I've always had with backuppc is what would happen if i had a disaster and had to restore everything from backuppc.
>
> It would take absolutely forever to do this, because backuppc has to seek the disks so much (due to the effects of all those hard links).
>
> I haven't done enough testing of this.
>
> We do send copies of our backuppc drives offsite.  I've always assumed that if i had to restore, the first thing I'd do would be duplicate the drives a couple times so I could do multiple restores in parallel.

If you are concerned about this, you might use the archive host setup or 
just script BackupPC_tarCreate runs to generate tar images that could be 
used directly for some of the most critical machines, offloading the 
restore work.

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   Les Mikesell
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