[K12OSN] OT off site backup

[Mark Gumprecht]

Sounds good to me, I really like the pooling method and I have not had 
any problems with restoring or backing up.
Mark

Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-07-22 at 09:37, Mark Gumprecht wrote:
>   
>> I had to do some reading to to understand the reply. 
>> http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/  . I also came 
>> across rsnapshot . That looks like what I want, my only concern is when 
>> I'm away and my GUI only users need to recover files, they probable 
>> won't be able to. After googling there seems to be a gui called grsync.
>> Mark
>>     
>
> Backuppc should be as efficient as these if you configure it
> to use rsync over ssh as the transport.  Just do the first
> run over a weekend and make sure you have a plan to do a
> full restore (physically take the backup server where you
> need it, do an 'archivehost' tar dump to DVD's or a laptop,
> rebuild on swappable drives, etc.).  The current version
> of backuppc needs to do full runs frequently but full
> runs don't actually copy everything, they just turn on the
> rsync option to to block compares on all files.  This
> takes some extra time/cpu but not a lot more bandwidth.
> The next version (a beta is out) will do incremental runs
> based on the contents of the last incremental so it won't
> matter.
>
>   

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Mark Gumprecht
MSAD3
Unity, Maine 04988
gumprechtm at msad3.org

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