On 20 October 2014 14:15, Cesar Peschiera <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Lindsay > > Maybe you'd better have a PVE on a PC as Backup Server instead of a NAS. > Why i believe that it will be better? > For four reasons: > 1) You will can manually restore the backups that were completed > successfully on this same PC that also is running PVE and test it for be > sure that your files of backups are in perfect status for his restauration. > 2) You will not need to use your real servers doing such tests, and you > will avoid performance degradation. > 3) If a hardware component is decomposed, you only will need change the > part that is decomposed. > 4) If a PVE real server decomposes, and you don't have "HA" enabled, your > PC of backup will can help you starting the VMs that are necessary in this > same computer. > Thats an interesting thought Cesar, I'll look into that. Would be very useful to have a test server. OTOH, the attraction of a NAS is the built in features - web gui, sync to external disk, notification of results via email etc. With a PVE server I'd have to script and test it all myself. > > By other hand, for a company, i will be testing this scenery: > > 2 PC of Backup > ----------------- > - The two PC of Backups will have the same configuration > - Mainboard Asus "P8H77 m pro" (workstation) > - 16 GB RAM > - OS = PVE (from his ISO installer) > - NFS service for use in the Backups > - 1 NIC Intel dual port 10 Gb/s with bonding "active-backup" (for use > exclusive of the backups) connected to the LAN of the backups > - 2 NICs Intel single port with bonding "LACP" connected to the LAN > company (for his management) > Why two bonded nics for the management connection? thanks, -- Lindsay
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