Re: Offsite backup
On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 13:54, Curtis Vaughan wrote:
> I was wondering what options there are for maintaining offsite backups?
>
> The most feasible way I can imagine (maybe not the most practical) is to
> basically tarball everything necessary and then secure copy it to the
> offsite server.
>
> However, whereas I use taper to backup servers, I was wondering whether
> it is possible to do the following. After backup is complete, would it
> be possible to somehow then copy all data that was just backed up onto
> tape media to an offsite server? I'm not sure how that would work at
> all, but that would be great for consistency (i.e., the backup on tape
> is the same as the backup off site).
>
> Keep in mind that I do not wish to purchase any backup software, btw.
How much are you going to back up, and how fat is the pipe you are
going to send it thru? If you want, nightly, to send a GB over a
128KB line, then maybe that's not such a good idea...
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