Thank you for your answers!
Since I already have my NAS hardware I would like to use rather than buying
new things. I might try to connect my NAS to my linux server through USB, is
that a
better solution?
Maybe speed is not that important for me. I do FE-analysis but mostly I don
not
backup results databases but only input files, documents etc. Thus, I
produce
many files but they are usually quite small.
Best regards,
Johan
2007/12/10, Paul Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> 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
>
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