We already backup files from servers in Altanta to servers in Dallas, and from Dallas to Altanta, as well as local compressed (gzip’ed tarballs and vzdumps). But as of today, we’re implementing yet another remote backup feature too… The compressed backups will be pulled down from the various servers and stored in New Orleans as well. We’re tweaking the process, and will have to get an idea of the time and bandwidth usage, but the backups will be at least weekly, and I suspect much more often up to possibly daily if all goes well. The initial testing is undergoing now. And it’s looking pretty good! We’ve bought a NAS unit and are storing it in the office here. We’ve tweaking the software in it to open up the version of linux it runs. That allowed us to setup rsync services… So far we’re very pleased with this little NAS unit - a D-Link DNS-321.
Update 4/28: We’re very impressed with the little NAS unit. But the bandwidth required to do these backups prohibits us from doing them too often. We’re scheduling them for Sundays during off hours. We don’t want to use up too bandwidth for backups of backups to the point we’re competing with real traffic.
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