On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 03:40:46PM -0800, David Brown wrote: > I've been using backuppc for several days, and I really like the concept > behind it. The web interface is very helpful. However, I'm having a very > hard time figuring out what to store the backup filesystem on.
I can tell you that the situation is also horrible with solaris ufs. I haven't tried zfs yet but i plan to soon. I bet it will do better but it still won't be great, although zfs could at least spread the i/o across multiple disks more intelligently. Actually, I bet the zfs guys would be interested in this as a torture test for the filesystem. I will follow up once i've run my tests. I'm having severe pain backing up my backuppc disk to tape as a result of this issue. I thought using dump might help vs trying to do file-by-file backups, and it probably did, but it still took for-blanking-ever. for my situation, it might be a case where the disk space is not important and what I need to to is improve the disk i/o - Craig, how hard would it be to modify backuppc to have multiple pools for a single instance, with some hosts going to one pool and others to another? danno -- dan pritts - systems administrator - internet2 734/352-4953 office 734/834-7224 mobile ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
