Since you have that option, I would suggest you use the USB. nfs isn't
really very good with backuppc as a file pool.
the more files you have, the more the nfs is going to slow you down. USB
wont be so bad but wont compare to a sata, ide, or scsi drive in IO.
On Dec 10, 2007 8:25 AM, Johan Ekh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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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