C. Ronoz wrote at about 16:31:33 +0200 on Wednesday, June 29, 2011: > What filesystem should I use? It seems ext4 and reiserfs are the only viable > options. I just hate the slowness of ext3 for rm -rf hardlink jobs, while > xfs and btrfs seem to be very unstable. > > - How stable is XFS? > - Is reiserfs (much) better at hard-link removal? > - Is reiserfs (much) less stable compared to ext4? > > BackupPC seems to recommend reiserfs although many sites say it's still an > unstable file system that does not have much lifespan left.
As far as I know BackupPC doesn't recommend *any* filesystem. Different users may favor one or another based on personal experience. If anything, lately I have heard more criticisms of Reiserfs than recommendations. > > My first back-up has been taking 12 hours for a small server and it's still > processing... there's only a few gigabytes of data on the Linux machine. > There should be more than enough power as rsnapshot back-ups always were > done in quick fashion. Even Bacula was able to do back-ups in less than 10 > minutes. 12 hours for a few gigabytes sounds like something is wrong. > > Also, I removed a few backups via the shell script from the > wiki... but I still see many references to the old test hosts? How > can I clean up the entire installation? I don't mind removing all > data, I just don't want to waste back-up space on previously > back-upped servers that have been removed. You can just delete the directory and remove the test host from your hosts file. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c2 _______________________________________________ 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/
