forum/Effectively replicating backup filesgit-annexhttp://git-annex.branchable.com/forum/Effectively_replicating_backup_files/git-annexikiwiki2013-11-27T22:47:37Zcomment 1http://git-annex.branchable.com/forum/Effectively_replicating_backup_files/comment_1_b1ab0da82db076c5244b0dcc95282ddd/joeyh.name2013-11-27T22:47:37Z2013-11-07T16:42:14Z
<p>This all sounds reasonable to me.</p>
<p>gitrepo= is the location of the repository you are setting up with gcrypt, not your existing git-annex repository.</p>
<p>numcopies configures the lower bound of the number of copies, not the upper bound. There's no "small backup" type, you must mean either small archive, or incremental backup. Either type of repository is going to want to have files that have not previously been archived, or backed up.</p>
<p>You might eventually want to write your own <a href="http://git-annex.branchable.com/forum/preferred_content/">preferred content</a> expressions to handle offsite repositories. I'd recommend starting simple and building up.</p>
comment 2http://git-annex.branchable.com/forum/Effectively_replicating_backup_files/comment_2_472ab9c973b475f7f3ce7e3934f94281/Aaron2013-11-27T22:47:37Z2013-11-07T19:46:32Z
<p>Thanks Joey!</p>
<blockquote><p>gitrepo= is the location of the repository you are setting up with gcrypt, not your existing git-annex repository.</p></blockquote>
<p>Great, thanks. If I set these up outside of the WebApp, what is the best way to link them up to my main repositories?</p>
<blockquote><p>numcopies configures the lower bound of the number of copies, not the upper bound. There's no "small backup" type,
you must mean either small archive, or incremental backup. Either type of repository is going to want to have files
that have not previously been archived, or backed up.</p></blockquote>
<p>Yes, I meant incremental backup. Thanks, understood. The page on preferred content ( http://git-annex.branchable.com/preferred_content/ ) made things a bit clearer. I didn't realise that the incremental backups etc want a copy even if it isn't necessary to satisfy numcopies. Does that mean that once it is on one backup drive, it will not be sent to the other unless I increase numcopies?</p>
comment 3http://git-annex.branchable.com/forum/Effectively_replicating_backup_files/comment_3_826493bd59b81786c1f6a56f1c438004/joeyh.name2013-11-27T22:47:37Z2013-11-08T17:06:02Z
<p>The webapp can use remotes that you have configured at the command line just as well as it can use remotes you configure using the webapp.</p>
<p>Each file only gets backed up to one incremental backup repository. If you have a full backup repository it will (try to) get another copy of every single file.</p>