Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
> it seems that many
> people (myself included) initially set up their BackupPC topdir on a
> filesystem containing mixed data and without the advantage of things
> like LVM or ZFS since they don't realize in advance how hard it is to
> copy/move/resize the topdir area due to the large number of
> hard-links. It seems to me that new users should be strongly advised
> to create topdir on a separate ("dedicated") filesystem on top of LVM,
> ZFS, RAID, etc. to maximize flexibility. Alternatively, we can
> continue to address this same issue every week ;)I read the docs before setting it up and it was very obvious to me that planning was required. Then again, I've been doing this for a while. But it *was* in the documentation, if not in-your-face explicit. -- Jim Leonard (trix...@oldskool.org) http://www.oldskool.org/ Help our electronic games project: http://www.mobygames.com/ Or check out some trippy MindCandy at http://www.mindcandydvd.com/ A child borne of the home computer wars: http://trixter.wordpress.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ 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/
