"[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote on 05/17/2011
10:23:53 AM:
> Now comes the choice of the NAS... What NAS device would you
> recommend with a good ratio "performance / easy to install BackupPC on
it" ?
>
> The ideal situation would be a NAS with BackupPC pre-installed - or
> a NAS with some available BackupPC packages ready to deploy.
Such a device does not exist.
> I looked at Synology / QNap / WD Sharespace but in each case the
> install of BackupPC seems tedious, and I'm not sure of the
> performances I will get on such devices...
It is tedious, and the performance will not be great. BackupPC is
somewhat CPU intensive. I run it on VIA 1.2-1.5GHz based systems, and I'm
somewhat CPU limited. (But I only use a single internal drive, so more
CPU would not help much.)
I've toyed with the idea of putting BackupPC directly on an Iomega
ix4-200d, but given the difficulties, I haven't yet tried. That, and when
you add the idea of an external hard drive (for archives, not the pool),
the pretty form-factor of the NAS just gets ruined by a hard drive
dangling off the side, so why bother?
One option for using a NAS is to use a standard PC in front of it and
mount the NAS via iSCSI (**NOT** NFS!!!) and use the NAS' storage that
way. That will give you the best results: many have tried to use pools
mounted via NFS, and few (none?) have succeeded. BackupPC is pretty hard
on filesystems, and NFS is fragile.
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