Travis
On 2/21/06, Maarten Boot (CWEU-USERS/CWNL) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The NBD server can be solaris as the NBD server is a usesr process, the NBD
client must be linux (the client has the /dev/nb0 block device).
By the way I looked at the NAS box and the review mentions clearly that it is
quite slower than direct attached storage.
Maarten
On Tuesday 21 February 2006 15:17, you wrote:
> Hi Dan,
>
> I've took a look of NBD and I guess I could map the drive (at client side)
> and create a mirror RAID 1 by using it with the drive on the server. Does
> it sounds right?
>
> I do want to try this but I am backing up a Solaris box and the file system
> is vxfs/ufs. Does it matter?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Travis
>
>
> On 2/20/06, Dan Pritts < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I presume you meant to send this reply to the list rather than
> to me individually. You might post to the list so that others
> can see your answer. I'm a relative newbie with backuppc,
> so i don't know enough to know if there's some improvement you
> might make within backuppc.
>
> Given what you're trying to do, however, I suspect not.
>
> Regarding realtime mirroring, i'd suggest looking into the linux nbd
> (network block device) or a commercial solution like veritas volume
> manager. Sounds like you're running a production system so buying a
> commercial product would probably be a reasonable solution.
>
> On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 10:42:47AM -0500, Travis Wu wrote:
> > The HD on the backuppc server.
> > On the client side everyhting is fine. 20 mins to receive the file list
> > is fine. I am ok with that.
> > but on the server side the seeking though each file on HD every other
> > hour isn't very effient.
> > ( the plan was to do incremental every other hour. )
> >
> > Thanks.
> > btw, I remember seeing some post about realtime sync/mirroring but
> > couldn't find it anymore. Can someone give me a pointer?
> >
> > On 2/20/06, Dan Pritts < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 09:14:29AM -0500, Travis Wu wrote:
> > > > I am not sure if anyone has tried using backuppc on a file system
> > > > like
> > >
> > > this.
> > >
> > > > I have 200GB of data roughly 10,000,000 files. Backup has no problem
> > >
> > > but
> > >
> > > > it's taking too long.
> > > > It takes about 20 mins to just receive the file list, after that the
> > > > HD
> > >
> > > goes
> > >
> > > > crazy for about 90 mins
> > > > regardless how many files are changed.
> > >
> > > which HD? the backup server, or the backup client?
> > >
> > > Regardless, if it's taking 20 minutes to receive the file list, that
> > > is a good indication that you're trying to back up a LOT of individual
> > > files
> > > and having it take 90 minutes isn't a surprise.
> > >
> > > danno
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