[Box Backup] Backup the backup

Ben Summers boxbackup at fluffy.co.uk
Fri Oct 20 10:25:16 BST 2006


On 20 Oct 2006, at 10:18, Simon Lundstr=F6m wrote:

> This has probably been covered before but I could not find anything =20=

> about it in the mailing archives with my search keywords.
>
> I want to backup the backups that box backup creates, what could be =20=

> the solutions? I need to have at least two offsite backups of the =20
> central backup storage.
>
> Backing up the RAID-file is one, but certainly isn't the best since =20=

> this will be hot-backup and the server cannot be stopped.
>
> Restoring the files onto the server with bbackupquery and then =20
> backing up them into another server works but is a mess since I =20
> have to have all users keys on that server which is insecure.

You should find some discussions in the archives regarding the best =20
way of using rsync to do this backup -- that's the keyword you =20
probably didn't think of using in your searches. :-)

Ben








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