Two questions in regard to XO and remotes

HolgiB

Hey there,

I have two questions in regard to remotes:

How does XO handle backup jobs to multiple remotes ? In example if I have attached and configured two nodes for a backup job. Are the files stores parallel to both remote locations ? Or are they stored sequentially to remote "A" and then to remote "B" ?
What it the best practice (so to speak) for migrating existing backups to a new location ?
Simply sync them over to the new remote, configure the new remote to each backup job and remove the old remote ?

Thanks in advance !

Holger

olivierlambert

Hi!

It's pushed in parallel and it will go at the speed of the slowest one since XO doesn't store anything "in the middle". So one stream going from your host to XOA, and then one stream to each remote (backup repository, or BR).
You can use mirror backup to backup your backup to another BR.

@florent will double check in case I said something wrong

HolgiB

@olivierlambert Thanks at lot for the quick reply.
In regard to my question number 2 I never took notice for the mirror backup function. That helps !

florent

@HolgiB said in Two questions in regard to XO and remotes:

Hey there,

I have two questions in regard to remotes:

How does XO handle backup jobs to multiple remotes ? In example if I have attached and configured two nodes for a backup job. Are the files stores parallel to both remote locations ? Or are they stored sequentially to remote "A" and then to remote "B" ?

What it the best practice (so to speak) for migrating existing backups to a new location ?
Simply sync them over to the new remote, configure the new remote to each backup job and remove the old remote ?

Thanks in advance !

Holger

1- they are stored in parallel, so it goes as slow as the slower remote.
2. For a migration : copy/rsync does the job, that way it won't change the uuid. If you want to have a daily replication of a remote, you can use a mirrror backup.

HolgiB

@florent Thanks. OK, so for one time remote migration I will be fine with multiple rsync runs plus switching the central remote for my backups. Nice to have both options though.