Michael writes: > Thinking some more on this, would it be a good feature-request for a future > release if backuppc supported the ability to have multiple data directories > defined instead of just the one large one? > > Something like: > > /data01/Backups > /data02/Backups > ... > /datann/Backups > > which would allow for people to have multiples repositories available > (partitions, nfs shares, etc). > > What do the authors think?
One approach that gets you part way there is to run multiple instances of BackupPC, each with its own hosts and stores. The drawback is that the CGI interface is not integrated, so each group of hosts would have a separate web interface. As Les points out, it would be useful to allow the CGI interface to aggregate a view of several (likely remote) BackupPC servers. I haven't thought much about how this might work, but this feature is on the longer-term todo list. I'm not sure there is much benefit in splitting the data store, since a significant part of each pool would be replicated across each store. Generally the better approach is to push this below the file system interface by using raid or lvm to expand the store as needed, again as Les notes. Craig ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
