BackupPC has been installed on QNAP devices (
http://wiki.qnap.com/wiki/How_to_install_the_BackupPC_application), but
there's a very real chance that bi-monthly firmware upgrades will break it.
That and the fact that we're waiting for QNAP to upgrade some packages to
close some security holes means that it wasn't worth it for me to sit on a
particular firmware for a long period of time.
My BackupPC server (dedicated old hardware) writes the pool to a
NFS-mounted share on the NAS. All of the things that Arnold mentioned
apply ... in all honesty, I sometimes feel that it would be better to just
take an old desktop box, dump a bunch of 3TB+ drives in, set up a software
raid and let it do it's thing.
It'd certainly be cheaper. Heck, for the price of some of these NAS's, you
can build your 2nd server to backup your primary BackupPC server.
Kris Lou
k...@themusiclink.net
On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 1:37 AM, zdravko
<backuppc-fo...@backupcentral.com>wrote:
> Any suggestions which NAS has a "real" useful Linux, so that backupPC
> could be installed? My thought was to run backuppc on NAS, so it is not
> dependent on user clients. It can even chase clients to backup them while
> being on. Another issue would be how to slow down backing up clients, so
> people can work normally on their machines during backup. NAS could backup
> itself at full speed, of course. Even using some extra, cheap NAS only for
> backup seems useful.
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