Re: [BackupPC-users] Unattended off-site replication

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

On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 1:27 AM, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
<bac...@ko...> wrote:
>
>  > It strikes me that backuppc could be taught to write all this out to
>  > one or more journal files that could be replayed on the remote system
>  > after the new files are transferred.
>  >
>  > Does this make sense?  Has anyone investigated this approach?
>
> I and others have considered such approaches before.  The problem is
> that this would require modifying the BckupPC program itself to record
> such journals. You also left out pool chain renumbering which is a
> consequence of file/pool expiry.

Another piece of this puzzle is that a network that isn't sufficient
for making remote backups probably isn't going to work for restores
either.   I've found that a UPS truck has a remarkable amount of
bandwidth when you only need it occasionally - like shipping your
initial fulls off to a location that can only manage the subsequent
rsync runs.

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  Les Mikesell
    les...@gm...