The latency that remote storage adds, particularly at a higher level like NFS
or SMB, can really hurt BackupPC's performance. Besides, it is going to hammer
the daylights out of that remote storage, leaving very little performance for
anybody else.
And while a Drobo is one of the very nicest ones, it is still very much a small
NAS box.
BackupPC really wants to be set up on a standalone PC with directly attached
disks.
Timothy J. Massey
Sent from my iPhone
On Jul 13, 2012, at 12:39 PM, "Bryan Keadle (.net)" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks for your reply. Yeah, we're using a NAS device, but not necessary
> "those small ones" - using this Drobo B800fs. So NFS would be a
> protocol-based option for the data pool? Still, iSCSI would be best if not
> DAS?
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 11:11 AM, Les Mikesell <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 10:37 AM, Bryan Keadle (.net)
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Can BackupPC's data pool (/var/lib/BackupPC) be a CIFS mount, or must it be
> > a block device? I'm thinking it requires a block device due to the
> > hardlinks/inodes BackupPC depends on, and I'm not sure that a cifs-mounted
> > folder gives you that ability.
>
> I think CIFS (as unix extensions to SMB) technically handles hardlinks
> when the source system is unix/linux and the underlying filesystem
> supports them. However I wouldn't expect this capability to be very
> well tested, because in that scenario everyone would use NFS anyway.
> And in the backuppc case it would be much more sensible to just run
> the program on the box with the drives. If you are thinking of one of
> those small NAS devices that don't support NFS, I wouldn't count on
> it.
>
> --
> Les Mikesell
> [email protected]
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Live Security Virtual Conference
> Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and
> threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions
> will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware
> threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/
> _______________________________________________
> 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/
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Live Security Virtual Conference
> Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and
> threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions
> will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware
> threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/
> _______________________________________________
> 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/
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Live Security Virtual Conference
Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and
threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions
will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware
threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/
_______________________________________________
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/
