Re: Backup Best Practice

On 12/27/24 15:14, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 27, 2024 at 08:03:31PM +1100, duluxoz wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> We're trying to follow backup best practice (ie the 3-2-1 Rule: 3
>> backups on 2 different media, 1 off-site). My question is: What's the
>> best way to achieve this:
>>
>> 1. Run three identical backups to each of the three destinations
>> 2. Run a single backup and use something like scp or rsync to copy the
>>    resulting backup files to the other two destinations
>> 3. Or can Amanda backup to multiple destinations at once, and if so,
>>    how is this accomplished
>>
>> Thanks in advance for the advice
>>
>> Cheers
>
> Dusting off ancient gray cells:  doesn't amanda have (or used to have)
> a "rait" capability?  Perhaps the two redundant arrays could be defined
> to be on two different network hosts solving several of the 3-2-1 rules
> during the actual backup.
>
> jl

ISTR that too Jon, But I've never tried to use it so I have no 
experience with it.

Best I can offer is to read the docs, all of them. #3 might be possible 
w/o a wrapper script in that event.

Happy, better new year to all.

Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.

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