I installed BPC a few weeks ago and have been doing testing and setup since then and have things working pretty well on several linux, windows, and mac clients (ultimately there will be about 15 clients). The server is a Dell 2400 with a 160gb ide drive, Centos 5.6, BPC 3.1 installed with yum from the testing repos. I've added a sata controller and two 2t drives as a raid 1 setup, which is what I'll use for real backups. I can't boot off the sata drives, so I boot from the ide drive and put topdir on the satas.
I've done some searching on offsite backups as I would like to maintain at least a recent copy offsite as disaster protection. DD has been too slow for these large drives (I would have to leave it going overnight with no backups running). I may go with periodic archives using the BPC archive function. However, another idea intrigued me that I saw in an earlier posting. Someone used a RAID 1 setup but only put in the second disk periodically, then removed it for offsite storage. I have three 2T drives, so was considering something similar where I would keep a normal 2-disk RAID 1 setup but periodically remove one disk and replace it with a prior offsite disk. Not being particularly experienced in all this, I was hoping someone on the list could offer advice on whether this was a good ideal or not and potential pitfalls. Thanks Mike ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ WhatsUp Gold - Download Free Network Management Software The most intuitive, comprehensive, and cost-effective network management toolset available today. Delivers lowest initial acquisition cost and overall TCO of any competing solution. http://p.sf.net/sfu/whatsupgold-sd _______________________________________________ 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/
