Switching between primary and secondary (copied) storage

Hi,

My plan is to set up two storage locations, one local (NAS on LAN) and one offsite (via SFTP). For space reasons (still running CrashPlan to local NAS), I’d like to start backing up to the offsite storage via duplicacy first, and once that’s completely up to date and verified, I will decommission CrashPlan, and copy offsite to local storage.

So:

  1. Initialise repository, storage is offsite SFTP URL
  2. Run backups to this storage for a few days
  3. Add LAN as local storage for same repository (with -copy flag)
  4. Copy from offsite to local

Finally, and here’s the question… I’d flip the two so my backups are going to local first, then copied to offsite.

Are there any caveats with this approach, anything I need to consider?

Thanks,
-Alex

This should work as long as when you do the switch, both storages are synced.

Otherwise, say you have revision 10 on storage 1 and revision 9 on storage 2, then when you back up to storage 2, you will have two different revision 10.

Thanks, that was the plan!