Yesterday, dan wrote: > 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. >
Or for a simpler solution, look at NBD (network block device) or AoE (ATA over Ethernet) from Coraid. Both do (most of) what iSCSI does, but with lower overhead and admin costs. Paul ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
