Is it good practice to run an rsync script to take a backup of any new warm buckets created to a new partition?

[kkossery]

I need to start backing up my Splunk and was looking at backing up any new Warm buckets. I'm planning to do this by running an rsync script to take a backup of any new warm bucket created to a new partition.
Is this a good practice?
I'm interested in knowing what other users are doing to backup their Splunk/indexes on Amazon EC2.

Thanks

[kkossery]

I've installed s3sync on the Splunk box which would sync buckets (hot/warm/cold) to the S3 storage.

[Arkon]

watchout for your S3 policy in case it automatically removes files after some time

[Yasaswy]

hi kkossery, In general I would believe this to be "not" a good practice. Mostly because it does not scale well and very config and env dependent. I would go with clustering to solve any of the availability requirements.

[kkossery]

Thanks! I will wait on what others have to say on this.