Re: [BackupPC-users] Advice on offsite strategy using external drives

[Admiral B. <Adm...@ha...>]

I just found this gem:
http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/backuppc.htm

The simplest way to handle off-site backup is to use BackupPC's archive host
> feature to produce tar archives, and to then copy these archives to
> removable media.
>
> BackupPC is configured to create tar archives by creating a new host with
> it's XferMethod set to archive.
> ...
> The archive host will now appear within the web-based interface along with
> all your other hosts, except that instead of allowing you to start backups
> this host's interface will allow you to create archives of your other hosts.
>
> Archives you create in this way will contain the most recent backup of a
> host, not a full set of historical backups.
> ...
> Once the archive process has completed the tar archive can then be copied
> to removal media of one of the types suggested below, and then taken off
> site.
>
> Archives can be created automatically using a cron job.
>

I plan on giving this a shot, writing these host tar files to a truecrypt
volume on a portable drive.



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On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 08:33, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom<ch...@re...>
wrote:
> On 07/22 08:17 , tog benson wrote:
>> In the past I've used external drives to keep a rotation of offsite
>> backups.  One drive would be offsite while the other was receiving dumps
>> of data.  I used an archive host to dump tar_gzip files of all my data.
>
> This is the way I do it at one location. I have a directory called
> /var/lib/backuppc/dump, and tgz archives of all the hosts get dumped there
> by virtue of a custom script. The script also handles the mounting and
> unmounting of an external drive.
>
> So someone (an unskilled office worker) swaps the drive once a week after
> they get an e-mail of a successful backup. They then take the drive with
the
> new data and remove it offsite.
>
> --
> Carl Soderstrom
> Systems Administrator
> Real-Time Enterprises
> www.real-time.com
>
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