Re: [BackupPC-users] Filesystem Recommendation for 100 TB

2020-04-30 Thread G.W. Haywood via BackupPC-users
Hi there, On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 1:02 PM Andrew Maksymowsky wrote: I have no strong preference for either xfs or zfs (our team is comfortable with either) was mainly just curious to hear about what folks were using and if they've run into any major issues or found particular file-system featur

Re: [BackupPC-users] Filesystem Recommendation for 100 TB

2020-04-29 Thread Andrew Maksymowsky
list for user discussion, questions and support mailto:backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net>> Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Filesystem Recommendation for 100 TB Any reason not to use ZFS? Robert Trevellyan On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 11:59 AM Andrew Maksymowsky mailto:andrew.maksymow...@sic

Re: [BackupPC-users] Filesystem Recommendation for 100 TB

2020-04-28 Thread Robert Trevellyan
> Thanks ! > > Andrew > -- > *From:* Robert Trevellyan > *Sent:* April 28, 2020 12:31 PM > *To:* General list for user discussion, questions and support < > backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net> > *Subject:* Re: [BackupPC-users] Filesystem Rec

Re: [BackupPC-users] Filesystem Recommendation for 100 TB

2020-04-28 Thread Michael Huntley
I think zfs is perfectly acceptable as well. Cheers, Mph > On Apr 28, 2020, at 9:31 AM, Robert Trevellyan > wrote: > >  > Any reason not to use ZFS? > > Robert Trevellyan > > >> On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 11:59 AM Andrew Maksymowsky >> wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I believe the last time this w

Re: [BackupPC-users] Filesystem Recommendation for 100 TB

2020-04-28 Thread Andrew Maksymowsky
uestions and support Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Filesystem Recommendation for 100 TB Any reason not to use ZFS? Robert Trevellyan On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 11:59 AM Andrew Maksymowsky mailto:andrew.maksymow...@sickkids.ca>> wrote: Hello, I believe the last time this was asked was

Re: [BackupPC-users] Filesystem Recommendation for 100 TB

2020-04-28 Thread Brad Alexander
I use ZFS for all of my FreeBSD boxes, and it is stable and robust. I am in the process of preparing to convert my current backuppc 3.3.1 installation to a backuppc 4 in a jail on my FreeNAS with the backuppc pool living on a FreeNAS ZFS pool. On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 12:32 PM Robert Trevellyan < r

Re: [BackupPC-users] Filesystem Recommendation for 100 TB

2020-04-28 Thread Robert Trevellyan
Any reason not to use ZFS? Robert Trevellyan On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 11:59 AM Andrew Maksymowsky < andrew.maksymow...@sickkids.ca> wrote: > Hello, > > I believe the last time this was asked was a few years ago and I was > wondering if anything has changed. > We’ve been running backuppc for a fe

Re: [BackupPC-users] Filesystem Recommendation for 100 TB

2020-04-28 Thread Michael Huntley
I’m still enjoying xfs. Cheers! Mph > On Apr 28, 2020, at 8:58 AM, Andrew Maksymowsky > wrote: > > Hello, > > I believe the last time this was asked was a few years ago and I was > wondering if anything has changed. > We’ve been running backuppc for a few years and now have new server for

Re: [BackupPC-users] Filesystem Recommendation for 100 TB

2020-04-28 Thread Doug Lytle
>>> We’re wondering what the recommended filesystem for backuppc would be on an >>> array of this size ? Depends on the file sizes that you are backing up. I've read that XFS (My preferred) has issues with lots of small files. Doug ___ BackupPC-

[BackupPC-users] Filesystem Recommendation for 100 TB

2020-04-28 Thread Andrew Maksymowsky
Hello, I believe the last time this was asked was a few years ago and I was wondering if anything has changed. We’ve been running backuppc for a few years and now have new server for it with 100 TB of space in hardware raid 6 array. We’re wondering what the recommended filesystem for backuppc w