On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 1:39 PM, Kameleon <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 1:28 PM, Les Mikesell <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 12:41 PM, Kameleon <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Currently our backuppc server is a Xen pv domU running Ubuntu 10.04. >>> It has served us well over the past two years. However it is time to >>> move it out of the virtual environment and back onto physical >>> hardware. This is only so that it can be located on the far edge of >>> our campus as far away from the physical servers it backs up as >>> possible while still keeping it on the fiber network. So with that we >>> are looking to install a fresh OS on the new hardware. We could stay >>> with Ubuntu and just load 12.04. Most of our other servers are Centos >>> or Fedora. Is there one distribution that is better than the other for >>> backuppc? I will be moving the /var/lib/backuppc pool (it is on it's >>> own lv) to the new machine. Should I expect any problems with this? >>> >>> Thanks in advance for any and all input. >> >> If you like centos, I'd probably go with a Centos 6.2 since that >> should have a very long life with update support. But, there are some >> differences in the packaging and directory naming conventions between >> the EPEL rpm and the debian/ubuntu .debs that you might need to >> understand. I don't think that should affect the archive layout, >> though. Moving large pools is always a problem if you try to do >> file-level copies. Moving the disks or image copies should work, >> though.
I think the biggest difference is Debian/Ubuntu uses /var/lib/backuppc while Fedora/EL uses /var/lib/BackupPC. Also the apache configs may be located differently. Richard ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ For Developers, A Lot Can Happen In A Second. Boundary is the first to Know...and Tell You. Monitor Your Applications in Ultra-Fine Resolution. Try it FREE! http://p.sf.net/sfu/Boundary-d2dvs2 _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
