[Box Backup] Stupid geo-redundancy tricks

Chris Wilson boxbackup@fluffy.co.uk
Fri, 7 Sep 2007 09:38:29 +0100 (BST)


Hi Martin,

On Fri, 7 Sep 2007, Martin Ebourne wrote:

> On Linux I just run two instances of bbackupd on the same machine using 
> different config files. One of them backs up onsite and another backs up 
> a subset of the same directories offsite (and less frequently). This 
> works well and provides complete redundancy. Is it not possible to do 
> this on Windows?

You can run them but not control them, because the name of the named pipe 
is hard coded. Not difficult to fix.

Cheers, Chris.
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