Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup the backup to online provider

[Raman G. <roc...@fa...>]

On 06/25/2013 12:05 PM, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
> On 06/25 11:55 , Raman Gupta wrote:
>> For disaster recovery purposes, I have been periodically backing up my
>> BackupPC pool to external storage. I have a small pool of
>> approximately 300 GB on a Linux server, and currently use rsync to
>> copy the pool to storage and keep it updated.
> 
> That mechanism won't scale much farther. Rsync chokes on the number of files
> that BackupPC (at least the 3.x version) uses, because of the hardlinks.

Agreed, which is one of the reasons I want to replace rsync, and takes
me back to my original question:

> Does anyone have any positive or negative experiences to
> share with using CrashPlan, or any similar provider [1], for backing
> up their pool?

On 06/25/2013 12:05 PM, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
> BPC 4 may be better able to replicate its data pool remotely. it's very
> alpha at the moment tho and I don't know if anyone is yet trying to hammer
> out how to do remote replication with it and what the limiting values are.

Yes, I've been following the information about BPC 4 on the dev list.

Regards,
Raman