On Monday 09 March 2015 16.32:45 Ashley wrote: > Not to disagree too strongly with Marco but XFS is perfectly fine. > > All you are doing with ISCSI is presenting the disk as a block device over > the network. Imagine it like you are using a USB external drive only instead > of using a USB bus you are using an ethernet switch. > > ISCSI is perfect for attaching large block devices inside virtual machines > (or physical) and that is what I was doing for two years prior to switching > to Bareos. I am now using a 24 Slot LTO 6 auto-changer . With a 20 TB > internal spool and dump partition for my Storage Daemon Server.) > > I also have a 28TB ISCSI NAS being used as a data store to backup roughly 34 > different servers. I get between 90 and 120MBs transfer speed. > > If you are worried about performance stick it on its own interface or VLAN. > > In my opinion you only run all of the same problems that you would with a > regular external hard disk/raid unit. If it loses power or you pull out the > USB/FibreC/FW cord without un-mountng it expect the same problems you would > with USB. > > I had the exact same concerns as you when i first started using ISCSI but i > have found them all to be unfounded. It is a rock solid technology with great > performance. > >
Thanks Ashley for sharing. The best approach suggested by Marco for this kind of cheap infrastructure would be able to install bareos-sd directly on the nas If line communication drop, the backup/restore fail, not the filesystem. -- Bruno Friedmann Ioda-Net Sàrl www.ioda-net.ch openSUSE Member & Board, fsfe fellowship GPG KEY : D5C9B751C4653227 irc: tigerfoot -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "bareos-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
