[CentOS] Looking for experiences with filesystem choices....

2010-03-21 Thread Tom Bishop
Lots of opinions out there and I have read and read, so I have a home server that I have finally setup with a hot swap hdd cage and what I am planning on doing is copying my data drive every other day and rotating them offsite, haven't figured out how often though. So I did my first test last

Re: [CentOS] Looking for experiences with filesystem choices....

2010-03-21 Thread Timo Schoeler
On 03/21/2010 04:01 PM, Tom Bishop wrote: Lots of opinions out there and I have read and read, so I have a home server that I have finally setup with a hot swap hdd cage and what I am planning on doing is copying my data drive every other day and rotating them offsite, haven't figured out how

Re: [CentOS] Looking for experiences with filesystem choices....

2010-03-21 Thread Tom Bishop
Thanks Timo I'll go read that... On 3/21/10, Timo Schoeler timo.schoe...@riscworks.net wrote: On 03/21/2010 04:01 PM, Tom Bishop wrote: Lots of opinions out there and I have read and read, so I have a home server that I have finally setup with a hot swap hdd cage and what I am planning on

Re: [CentOS] Looking for experiences with filesystem choices....

2010-03-21 Thread Ned Slider
Tom Bishop wrote: Lots of opinions out there and I have read and read, so I have a home server that I have finally setup with a hot swap hdd cage and what I am planning on doing is copying my data drive every other day and rotating them offsite, haven't figured out how often though. So I did

Re: [CentOS] Looking for experiences with filesystem choices....

2010-03-21 Thread Les Mikesell
Ned Slider wrote: Tom Bishop wrote: Lots of opinions out there and I have read and read, so I have a home server that I have finally setup with a hot swap hdd cage and what I am planning on doing is copying my data drive every other day and rotating them offsite, haven't figured out how often

Re: [CentOS] Looking for experiences with filesystem choices....

2010-03-21 Thread JohnS
On Sun, 2010-03-21 at 14:35 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: Ned Slider wrote: Tom Bishop wrote: Lots of opinions out there and I have read and read, so I have a home server that I have finally setup with a hot swap hdd cage and what I am planning on doing is copying my data drive every

Re: [CentOS] Looking for experiences with filesystem choices....

2010-03-21 Thread Les Mikesell
JohnS wrote: BUT: Since you have one server get a good raid 1 sata card and use it like arecca. You don't have to invest a fortune in it. Finally rsynce is going to bite you in the a$$ copying live data. It may work perfect for the first few times but in the end it will get you. You

Re: [CentOS] Looking for experiences with filesystem choices....

2010-03-21 Thread Tom Bishop
So let me add some more detail, I have a hot swap disk cage that currently has my backup data on it almost all of them are in VM's. That disk is my primary data disk, all I need/want to do is to copy that data periodically to another disk that I then can rotate offsite, so I will have 2 more

Re: [CentOS] Looking for experiences with filesystem choices....

2010-03-21 Thread JohnS
On Sun, 2010-03-21 at 16:20 -0500, Tom Bishop wrote: So let me add some more detail, I have a hot swap disk cage that currently has my backup data on it almost all of them are in VM's. That disk is my primary data disk, all I need/want to do is to copy that data periodically to another disk