Re: [BackupPC-users] off-site storage

[Norman G. <no...@te...>]

I can see the advantage of kick-starting a remote server with a hard 
drive backup of your system.  This is not practical for me, and, 
fortunately, my backups are under 2 GB.  Here is my plan

1. ssh to my web-hosting company (which supports ssh)
2. Set up an sshfs with their site (which is also linux)
3. Point /var/lib/BackupPC to my local sshfs folder

Before starting, there is something I'd like to do to simplify this.  I 
have noticed that on my fedora installation, that /var/lib/BackupPC is 
the home directory of the backuppc user.  Do you see any problem if, as 
a post-installation step for BackupPC on my machine, that I tell my OS 
to use a different home directory for the backuppc user e.g. 
/home/backuppc ?

Thanks.




On 08/14/2014 09:15 PM, John Sellens wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 01:18:07PM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> | > Or, do you mean to set up a BackupPC server in the cloud?
> |
> | Yes, a complete off-site server is the straightforward approach.
>
> Hmmm - depending on OS and what the remote looks like, I wonder if ZFS
> and ZFS snapshots would be a good way to get backuppc offsite?
>
> The initial off-siting could be via local removable drive - put the
> snapshot in one big file on the removable, remove it, and carry the disk
> to the remote, and restore the snapshot onto the remote machine.
>
> Then incrementals over ssh.
>
> I should try that one of these days.
>
> Hope that's useful - cheers!
>
> John
>
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