i tried this breifly when i started using backuppc and performance was
miserable. it might be better to create a sparse file on the NFS share and
mount that on the backuppc box with loopback, but you will still be limited
by network bandwidth. im also not 100% sure if you can do sparse files over
NFS.
if you need to have a remote storage pool, consider iSCSI. you get much
closer to wirespeed and you get block level access to the device most of the
time, unless you use some special filesystem such as ZFS.
On Dec 9, 2007 6:51 PM, John Pettitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Johan Ekh wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > I would like to use backuppc with a network disk (Qnap ts-209).
> > What is the appropriate way to do this? I've tried to use a linux
> > computer as server with the ts-209 nfs mounted but backuppc
> > will not install as it cannot "chown" the mounted disk.
> >
> > Has anyone done this (or in any better way)?
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Johan
>
> It's going to be really really slow. BackupPC really hammers directory
> access on the pool filesystem and NFS is not great at that. NFS3 over
> TCP instead of UDP might be workable but it's still going to be way
> slower than a local disk if you can get it to work at all.
>
>
> John
>
>
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