On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 15:42, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Anyhow, with such a powerful processor I would hate to think of it
> just sitting there when I'm not backing up doing nothing.
The obvious thing to do is to use Linux as your desktop
OS in the daytime when the backups are idle...
> I was considering running the box up as a Windoze box and chucking
> VMware on it (The new Free server product), giving it a few dedicated
> drive devices for the backup pool, but keeping the base os on a
> virtual disk.... This would make the OS a bit more portable and
> "Backup-able" so if I wanted to put it on a different machine I could
> just copy the vmware image across.
I'm not sure I see any advantage to having windows in the
picture, and installing Linux on a new box is fairly
trivial.
> However I am a little concerned that I will negate the entire benefit
> of the dual core processor just be putting it on a VM. I know I could
> use VMWare for linux and do it that way, but the main benefit I see in
> doing this is that I can easily backup the virtual machine and once I
> have BackupPC (And Nagios on this particular box) up and running then
> I won't have to worry about rebuilding them again (Which I have had to
> do a few times due to some hardware issues, and swapping drives around
> etc). I was just wondering what other ppl's thoughts were about doing
> this out there?
A really interesting concept would be to keep the pool on
a virtual drive. There is bound to be some overhead but
it might solve the problem of being able to copy the
archive quickly by allowing you to shut the vm down
and rsync files containing it to an offsite location.
--
Les Mikesell
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