Les Mikesell schrieb: > Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: >> >> I indeed use iSCSI. >> The storage is on the SAN, and it's accessible via iSCSI. >> BackupPC itself runs as a Xen guest. > > Is there some point to splitting the box where backuppc runs and its > storage? I'd expect it to be faster/cheaper to shove some big SATA > drives in a so-so PC box with a lot of RAM. And even better if the box > has something else to keep it busy in the day time.
Actually regular servers which can have more than 4 drives tend to be pretty expensive. Running BackupPC as a Xen guest has the advantage that you can use resources of the server better - as IO on the SAN holding backup is a bottleneck, you still have plenty of CPU on a Xen server for running guests which are not busy most of the time. An you can easily migrate the guest to another (stronger) machine, without any downtime or service interruption. -- Tomasz Chmielewski http://wpkg.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
