So, it works with NFS ?
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Re: [BackupPC-users] Using a NAS
31/03/2008 16:17 Server to backups
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
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