Well, it turns out I do not have the usb option after all.
I still have problem to get the nfs optin to work at all.
When I try to install backuppc I get the following:
"Failed to create or chown /mnt/backuppc"
I have mounted the disk with:
"mount -t nfs 192.168.1.5:/backuppc /mnt/backuppc/"
When I issue "ls -l /mnt/" I get
"drwxrwxrwx 2 root users 4096 Dec 10 17:48 backuppc"
I have created a user "backuppc" belonging to the group "www" and that
user can read and write on "/mnt/backuppc".
Can anyone see what is wrong here? As you might have guessed by now
I am not exactly an expert on this so a "simple" answer would help me a lot.
Best regards,
Johan
2007/12/10, dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> 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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