Re: replicating backup servers offsite

I am planning to do this in the future, but not in software.  I am
looking at sanrad iSCSI switches that can replicate anything written to
one switch to the other switch.

ski

Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
> 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? 

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Chris "Ski" Kacoroski, kacoroski@xxxxxxxxxxx, 425-681-0092



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