On 01/02/18 15:20, Keith Lofstrom wrote: > On Thu, Feb 01, 2018 at 12:28:55PM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I have a couple of dirvish servers which are local to the machine >> they're backing up, for convenience. I'd like to replicate those backups >> offsite. Does it sound reasonable, efficient etc to simply rsync with -H >> (to preserve hardlinks) the entire vault to another machine? > > I make daily backups of all my machines to one server, > and a second weekend backup to another at a different > site. If for some reason the daily server doesn't > catch something, the other will.
Right, so your second server is contacting the clients directly. I like it in terms of robustness, but I see two downsides - first, the clients get hit more than necessary, and secondly, the remote server needs to be able to see the clients, rather than one simple port-forward to the local server (or in my case, an even more complex VPN setup - both sites are using the same private IP range, and I can't renumber either ...). Thanks, Richard _______________________________________________ Dirvish mailing list [email protected] http://www.dirvish.org/mailman/listinfo/dirvish
