Re: [BackupPC-users] Re: replicating backup servers offsite

[Rich D. <rdu...@th...>]

On Thu, 2005-03-17 at 18:11 -0600, Jason Baker wrote: 
>  Does anyone swap hard drives to store data offsite?  

I have my backuppc drive on LVM.  I make a snapshot, which is nearly
instantaneous, then dd_rescue the entire snapshot partition to a
removable drive.  Advantage is that BackupPC can continue running,
although I make sure to run the snapshot when no backups are in
progress.  Server copies 80Gb in about 90 minutes.

The only problem so far is that my old RH9 server doesn't like to hot
mount USB or firewire drives.  A newer kernel version would probably be
just fine, but I've been to lazy to upgrade it.


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Regards,
Rich

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