[email protected] wrote: > Stephen Joyce <[email protected]> wrote on 12/29/2008 01:05:44 > PM: > >> I assume you're most worried about your server going tango uniform >> (in a > >> fire, simultaneous disk failure, etc), and not "rm -rf *". Correct? >> >> Has anyone successfully used BackupPC on a DRBD (http://www.drbd.org) >> active/passive, or even active/active, cluster? If so, what can you > report? > > The biggest problem with this is that you're most likely looking for > off-site replication: a fire/tornado/theft would affect both > members of > the cluster. And doing DRDB over a slow connection (i.e. WAN) is > going to > *seriously* slow down your backups... > > That's why so *very* many of us have asked these same questions so > *many* > times. What I think many of us (read: ME!) would like is a way to > replicate a backup from one server to another without hammering the > host > that needs to be backed up twice. After all, the fact that it needs > to be > backed up means that it does real, valuable work; whereas the backup > servers spend most of their time idle, just *begging* to replicate > data > somewhere else... :) > > Tim Massey > >
I second this. I have a new system I am rolling out that needs to be "hands off" due to physical restrictions to the server. And this is my big hesitation (remote replication of my backuppc). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
