[ale] what is a good offsite back up proposal?

[Christopher Fowler]

On Fri, 2007-04-20 at 12:01 -0400, Louis Zamora wrote:
> I have to build a 2tb server using RH and I am creating full
> redundancy on the hard drives but the customer also wants offsite
> backup.

Offsite being different location?

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> Currently, the customer has no good back up option on the network.
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No decent software?

> Has anyone heard of a good back up solution lately (homegrown or
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I guess you could use rsync between the two servers.  That should backup
only what has changed.

What is being backed up?  SQL?  If so those services should be stopped
during the procedure.

Backing up piles of data over a WAN especially up to 2TB could take a
long time.  

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> I am open to building a separate server if needed.

If they want an offsite backup I would assume you would need space at a
remote location of up to 2TB at least.  I guess making another server
would be a good start.

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> Louie
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