Thanks for all the helpful information. I understand now with the hardlinks
that you can't span multiple file systems. Makes perfect sense.
So are you guys suggesting that I setup all my raid disks (or get rid of the
raid completely and just use the disks) as one LVM? What do I do then? Do
I setup the LVM to be at /var/lib/backuppc (or set a symlink to it) so that
backuppc and all of it's pools are on the LVM? Do I have to reinstall
backuppc to make this work or can I just move it?
Are there any pages or wikis or tutorials that discuss this type of setup?
I would imagine there would be as I'm sure I'm not the only one who has
dealt with this.
Jake Wilson
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 8:04 PM, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
<[email protected]>wrote:
> Jake Wilson wrote at about 18:30:27 -0600 on Monday, April 4, 2011:
> > Really? You can't specify where archives are stored? What if your
> drive isn't big enough to handle all the server backups you need to do?
> This seems like a gigantic limitation unless I'm missing something...
> >
> > I read about how BackupPC is an enterprise-ready backup solution but I
> seriously don't see how that's possible if you can't even tell it where to
> backup a pool...
>
> BackupPC's claim to fame is its ability to de-duplicate repeated files
> by hard-linking to a common pool. Since hard links can only occur on a
> single file system, backups are limited to a single file system.
>
> It's not that big a limitation if you use a modern filesystem (with
> exabyte or more size potentials) plus/minus LVM to allow the
> filesystem to extend across multiple physical disks.
>
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