Re: [BackupPC-users] offsite archives

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Hi Les,<br>
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Thank you for your feedback. I have a few questions that may help me
understand the reasons for your options.<br>
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I thought one option might be to use an offsite instance of backuppc to
rsync copy the file pool or a tar archive. It sounds like you're
talking about rsyncing to the original files on the various clients...
Is this the recommended technique because an rsync, like I'm
suggesting, wouldn't get any speed benefits? I'm thinking the
compression in the tar will change the file with each archive and maybe
the file pool changes a lot too (rendering speed improvements in rsync
useless).<br>
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Thanks again for the response.<br>
Ryan<br>
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  <pre wrap="">On Fri, 2006-05-19 at 17:25, Ryan Jewell wrote:
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    <pre wrap="">I've read different options and searched past posts. Could someone help
me find/determine a fitting offsite backup strategy.
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The simple way is to run a completely independent instance
of backuppc from the offsite location using a VPN if
necessary to reach all the hosts.  You might need to do the
initial full runs with the machine on site, then move it
to the offsite location - or you might be able to get the
fulls over a weekend.  If that isn't practical, look at one
of the ways to do image copies of your local archive to
an external drive that can be rotated offsite.

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