off-site backup plan

[kitepilot at kitepilot.com]

>> and pushing all this data over my internet  
>> connection isn't feasible.
Yes, it is...
If you use http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/, you can put everything outside. 
BackupPC will use rsync (minimal traffic) and will use md5 numbers to avoid 
copying a file more than once (minimal space) 

The first shot will be painful, but after that, it is perfectly possible 
over just about any decent connection.
I can provide you resources in my little datacenter if you go that way.
Lemeno...
ET 

 

Alex Dean writes: 

> That's pretty much what this server already does.  Every night it  wakes 
> up every other machine in the house, makes a backup of each, and  then 
> puts the other machine back to sleep.  Now, I'm trying to make a  plan for 
> those backups to survive the house burning down or some other  total 
> catastrophe.  I don't want to lose 10 years of digital photos in  an 
> emergency like that, and pushing all this data over my internet  
> connection isn't feasible. 
> 
> alex 
> 
> On Oct 20, 2009, at 6:42 AM, kitepilot at kitepilot.com wrote: 
> 
>> I would install a second eth? adapter in the "real" machine and have  a 
>> cheap
>> puter with a cold-swap SATA bay connected to it.
>> Every nite I wold WOL the little sucker, run the backup over the  
>> dedicated
>> Ethernet, and shut it down.
>> Any hardware failure (other than the Ethernet) can be dealt with  with 
>> cheap
>> hardware and outside the boundaries of the server.
>> YMMV...    :)
>> ET 
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> 
>> Alex Dean writes: 
>> 
>>> I make regular backups to a software RAID1 disk array.  I'd like to
>>> periodically store some backups offsite.  Been thinking about  buying 2
>>> extra drives, and adding 1 of them as a hot spare to the RAID1.  Then
>>> remove it from the array, store it elsewhere, and add the other  disk  
>>> in
>>> its place as the hot spare.  Every week or so, I'd plan to swap the
>>> offsite disk with the current hot spare. 
>>> 
>>> It seems like this should work.  Anyone care to comment?  If I buy a
>>> hot-swap drive bay for the server, can I add/remove normal SATA  drives
>>> without restarting the OS? 
>>> 
>>> I was looking at something like this StarTech caddie, which  protects  
>>> the
>>> disk a bit more than other disk enclosures.
>>> http://www.startech.com/item/DRW110SATBK-Black-Serial-ATA-Drive-Drawer-w 
>>> it
>>> h-Shock-Absorbers-Value-Series.aspx 
>>> 
>>> thanks,
>>> alex
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