On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, Tino Schwarze wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 03:14:34PM +0200, Ronny Aasen wrote: > > > > > I would like to know if it's possible and how to configure BackupPC in > > > > order to use a NAS server instead of the path /datas of BackupPC (for > > > > example). > > > > > > Sure, it's possible to do an NFS mount of a remote disk, and use that for > > > your BackupPC storage. > > > In all likelihood tho, it will be terribly slow. Don't try it. BackupPC is > > > too disk-I/O intensive. > > > > > > > Are there any NFS/SAN solutions are _are_ usable with backuppc > > for example iscsi/fc/afs/codafs etc etc. > > A SAN would do since you're creating an ordinary file system on top it. > The file system needs to support real hardlinks to be usable with > BackupPC. AFS doesn't really fit since you'd need to create one large > BackupPC volume, so you're just moving the problem from local to remote > server (that is managing a very large chunk of file system).
AFS doesn't support hard links between directories, which BackupPC requires. Cheers, Stephen -- Stephen Joyce Systems Administrator P A N I C Physics & Astronomy Department Physics & Astronomy University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Network Infrastructure voice: (919) 962-7214 and Computing fax: (919) 962-0480 http://www.panic.unc.edu "Lazy Programmers know that if a thing is worth doing, it's worth doing well -- unless doing it well takes so long that isn't worth doing any more. Then you just do it 'good enough'" --- Programming Perl, p 282. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________ 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/
