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Hi,

I have a requirement where I need to deploy a backuppc installation on
a site that will connect to several servers and backup their required
files.
I need to keep a daily incremental of 30 daily and 6 monthly backups.
This part is ok and I have no problem setting up (Except getting the
schedule right - I find this hard to do with backuppc)

As an offsite backup I'd like my onsite backuppc unit to inform my
offsite backuppc unit that the backup is complete and then the remote
needs to pull only the most current backup from the onsite.
So basically a 30 day/6 month onsite backup with the most current
backup stored offsite
Can this be done?

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On Fri, 2011-12-09 at 13:15 +0000, member horvath wrote:
Hi,

I have a requirement where I need to deploy a backuppc installation on
a site that will connect to several servers and backup their required
files.
I need to keep a daily incremental of 30 daily and 6 monthly backups.
This part is ok and I have no problem setting up (Except getting the
schedule right - I find this hard to do with backuppc)

As an offsite backup I'd like my onsite backuppc unit to inform my
offsite backuppc unit that the backup is complete and then the remote
needs to pull only the most current backup from the onsite.
So basically a 30 day/6 month onsite backup with the most current
backup stored offsite
Can this be done?

I'd look into the archive functionally of backuppc and push the current
backup as a tarball to the offsite host and not worry about running
remote backuppc. As you say you are only looking to hold the current
backup offsite you can simply transfer the current archive with
scp/rsync/tar over ssh to the offsite host.

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Tim Fletcher <tim < at > night-shade.org.uk>


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On Fri, 2011-12-09 at 13:15 +0000, member horvath wrote:
Hi,

I have a requirement where I need to deploy a backuppc installation on
a site that will connect to several servers and backup their required
files.
I need to keep a daily incremental of 30 daily and 6 monthly backups.
This part is ok and I have no problem setting up (Except getting the
schedule right - I find this hard to do with backuppc)

As an offsite backup I'd like my onsite backuppc unit to inform my
offsite backuppc unit that the backup is complete and then the remote
needs to pull only the most current backup from the onsite.
So basically a 30 day/6 month onsite backup with the most current
backup stored offsite
Can this be done?

I'd look into the archive functionally of backuppc and push the current
backup as a tarball to the offsite host and not worry about running
remote backuppc. As you say you are only looking to hold the current
backup offsite you can simply transfer the current archive with
scp/rsync/tar over ssh to the offsite host.

Another approach would be to set up an archive host that's mounted on a
network-mounted drive, or on a local directory that's then rsynced over the
network. See Archive functions in the BackupPC docs. Then
DumpPostUserCommand etc. might be used to notify the remote server to start
its rsync job.


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On Friday 09 December 2011 15:28:43 Andrew Schulman wrote:
On Fri, 2011-12-09 at 13:15 +0000, member horvath wrote:
Hi,

I have a requirement where I need to deploy a backuppc installation on
a site that will connect to several servers and backup their required
files.
I need to keep a daily incremental of 30 daily and 6 monthly backups.
This part is ok and I have no problem setting up (Except getting the
schedule right - I find this hard to do with backuppc)

As an offsite backup I'd like my onsite backuppc unit to inform my
offsite backuppc unit that the backup is complete and then the remote
needs to pull only the most current backup from the onsite.
So basically a 30 day/6 month onsite backup with the most current
backup stored offsite
Can this be done?

I'd look into the archive functionally of backuppc and push the current
backup as a tarball to the offsite host and not worry about running
remote backuppc. As you say you are only looking to hold the current
backup offsite you can simply transfer the current archive with
scp/rsync/tar over ssh to the offsite host.

Another approach would be to set up an archive host that's mounted on a
network-mounted drive, or on a local directory that's then rsynced over the
network. See Archive functions in the BackupPC docs. Then
DumpPostUserCommand etc. might be used to notify the remote server to start
its rsync job.

I use the pre/post-archive commands to login/logout/mount/unmount an iscsi-
device when writing archives to it. And these archives are scheduled weekly by
cron.
I also extended the script to remove all dirs/files older then 28 days from the
remote disk. But that feature isn't fully debugged and needs to proof itself
in around 1.5 days...

Have fun,

Arnold

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I've have considered the archive function however I wasn't aware that
the changes would be rsync'd.
I thought it would create a tar archive of the most recent backup then
xfer that to the archive host.
Am I wrong in thinking this?
I also need to ensure data integrity by check suming the remote copy
with the onsite.

On 9 December 2011 13:50, Tim Fletcher <tim < at > night-shade.org.uk> wrote:
On Fri, 2011-12-09 at 13:15 +0000, member horvath wrote:
Hi,

I have a requirement where I need to deploy a backuppc installation on
a site that will connect to several servers and backup their required
files.
I need to keep a daily incremental of 30 daily and 6 monthly backups.
This part is ok and I have no problem setting up (Except getting the
schedule right - I find this hard to do with backuppc)

As an offsite backup I'd like my onsite backuppc unit to inform my
offsite backuppc unit that the backup is complete and then the remote
needs to pull only the most current backup from the onsite.
So basically a 30 day/6 month onsite backup with the most current
backup stored offsite
Can this be done?

I'd look into the archive functionally of backuppc and push the current
backup as a tarball to the offsite host and not worry about running
remote backuppc. As you say you are only looking to hold the current
backup offsite you can simply transfer the current archive with
scp/rsync/tar over ssh to the offsite host.

--
Tim Fletcher <tim < at > night-shade.org.uk>


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Cloud Services Checklist: Pricing and Packaging Optimization
This white paper is intended to serve as a reference, checklist and point of
discussion for anyone considering optimizing the pricing and packaging model
of a cloud services business. Read Now!
http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51491232/
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