Rotating off-site external drive possibility

I was wondering what the possibility of having two monthly rotated external hard drives or RD1000 drives to backup the most recent backups of each client PC would be? The location we want to put the Urbackup server has very low bandwidth, and would be impossible to do an Internet backup. We would be using Ubuntu Server 14.04 in this situation. Any ideas?

Simple solution e.g.:

  • Put backup storage on LVM volume
  • Create LVM snapshot
  • Create backup storage clone using partclone to external drive

If you only want to backup the most recent (file) backup:

  • Backup the /backupstorage/clients folder using tar with --dereference option
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