6:20pm, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > On 01/23 11:37 , Paul Archer wrote: >> Use the big box for BackupPC, and use some hardware that you retired because >> it got "too slow" for Nagios. > > I see what you're saying. Put big disks in the older hardware. > Actually, I meant what you say below: use the big iron for you backupps, and the older machine for Nagios.
Paul > I would actually say that you're better off using the more powerful hardware > for backuppc; backuppc will use all the CPU and RAM you can get. The more > hardware you have, the faster backups will go, and the more you can do in > parallel (tho I've found that even on really fast hardware, more than 2 > backups in parallel causes too much disk contention). > > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
