Re: [9fans] Venti off-site backups

[Steve Simon <steve@quintile.net>]

i append my venti arenas to usb memory sticks - only two so far. i don't store music or videos on plan9 so compressed de-duplicated data doesn't take up much space.

the only time i had problems was my own fault, over cooling a disk through my own paranoia.

> On 26 Oct 2016, at 18:43, Steven Stallion <sstallion@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> It was exactly this thought that led me to moving my venti store to
> running out of plan9port. At home, I have a Linux server that provides
> other services in addition to venti with an obnoxious amount of
> storage. I also have a CrashPlan client running on this machine. The
> result is an always-on backup that's completely hands free.
> 
> I've been a customer for about 10 years and have had to recover from
> at least one disaster in that time. I've yet to have any problems with
> this setup. I do not miss rotating tapes nor holding my breath any
> time I needed to read an optical/spinning disk backup.
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Steve
> 
> On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 12:25 PM, James A. Robinson
> <jim.robinson@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I see several threads about how people are cloning their Venti
>> servers to remote Venti servers as a means of creating a backup.
>> 
>> Reading over the man pages, I assume it's also possible to do
>> something like use rdarena to dump an arena out, encrypt it, and
>> put the encrypted arena into a remote service like Amazon S3.
>> 
>> On my Mac OS X machine I use something called Arq that can
>> store the data in Amazon Glacier, which is an ideal fit for true
>> "disaster scenario" backups (vs. day-to-day backups you might
>> need to access on some regular frequency).
>> 
>> However, I see some emails warning about using rdarena/wrarena
>> versus simply copying a fossil, so I'm wondering if there are issues
>> I'm not picking up from my reading of the man pages.  I can also
>> see there are various threads complaining about the stability of
>> venti+fossil, but then there are others saying it's stable and works
>> great.
>> 
>> 
>> Jim
>>