For the what it's worth dept:
I've got an old dual core Pentium D 3.0 system, 2g ram running a 1TB
BackupPC volume (going to be upgraded to software raid-1) backing up 41
PC's.
Since I don't backup during open hours (M-F, 7am-5pm) I have the luxury of
using Clonezilla and an eSata external drive cradle to backup my BackupPC
volume. It takes roughly 4-5 hours depending on the pool size at the time.
Works well for me.
Richard
BackupPC Info: (Just reboot after a backup 30 minutes ago)
* The servers PID is 1822, on host BackupPC, version 3.2.1, started at
11/25 12:43.
* This status was generated at 11/25 14:09.
* The configuration was last loaded at 11/25 12:43.
* PCs will be next queued at 11/25 17:00.
* Other info:
* 0 pending backup requests from last scheduled wakeup,
* 0 pending user backup requests,
* 0 pending command requests,
* Pool is 514.62GB comprising 1908980 files and 4369 directories (as
of 11/24 18:37),
* Pool hashing gives 1865 repeated files with longest chain 14,
* Nightly cleanup removed 18218 files of size 20.80GB (around 11/24
18:37),
* Pool file system was recently at 63% (11/25 14:03), today's max is
65% (11/24 15:00) and yesterday's max was 66%.
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Richard Zimmerman
IT Manager
River Bend Hose Specialty, Inc.
1111 S Main Street
South Bend, IN 46601-3337
(574) 233-1133
(574) 280-7284 Fax
From: Kris Lou [mailto:k...@themusiclink.net]
Sent: Monday, November 25, 2013 12:27 PM
To: General list for user discussion, questions and support
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc on NAS
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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