replicating backup servers offsite

I know people ask about this all the time; but I don't recall anyone
actually mentioning how they went about it, and whether there were any
pitfalls along the way.

If someone wants to replicate the backed-up data to another machine offsite;
what's the best way to do this? (other than the removable-drive technique
that Les uses... something fully automated).

My theory is to just do an rsync backup from the backuppc server to another
box; but the problems I can see are:
- if done with backuppc itself, this requires an extra step in the restore
  process (restore the backup server, then do your restores from that).
- rsync can crush a box to the point it can hang, if it's trying to index &
  sync millions of files. (it did the time I tried to sync a backuppc pool
  from one drive to another).

Has anyone done this? 

-- 
Carl Soderstrom
Systems Administrator
Real-Time Enterprises
www.real-time.com


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