Re: [BackupPC-users] Information needed

2008-02-07 Thread Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)
Jonathan Dumaresq wrote: The only think I need to read about, is that LVM. Does anyone here have a godd link about this ? http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ You probably want to skip the part about compiling the software yourself and use apt or yum or whatever package manager comes

Re: [BackupPC-users] Information needed

2008-02-07 Thread Jonathan Dumaresq
Thanks for the info Jonathan -Message d'origine- De : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] De la part de Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) Envoyé : 7 février 2008 06:02 À : backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Objet : Re: [BackupPC-users] Information needed Jonathan Dumaresq wrote

Re: [BackupPC-users] Information needed

2008-02-06 Thread Jonathan Dumaresq
this ? Jonathan _ De : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] De la part de dan Envoyé : 5 février 2008 20:49 À : Jonathan Dumaresq Cc : backuppc-users Objet : Re: [BackupPC-users] Information needed that dell perc/2 is really an LSI megaraid. each of those channges

Re: [BackupPC-users] Information needed

2008-02-05 Thread Jonathan Dumaresq
is as follow 1 array of 2 hdd 1 array of 6 hdd 1 array of 10 hdd Jonathan _ De : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] De la part de dan Envoyé : 4 février 2008 22:15 À : Justin Best Cc : backuppc-users Objet : Re: [BackupPC-users] Information needed My

Re: [BackupPC-users] Information needed

2008-02-05 Thread dan
: [BackupPC-users] Information needed My suggestion is: for OS 2 disks, RAID1 which is a mirror. likely you will have no use for high performance here, all the work will be done on the other array(s) for samba. have you considered putting all 16 drives into 1 array, a RAID6+ hot spare? RAID6

Re: [BackupPC-users] Information needed

2008-02-04 Thread Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)
Jonathan Dumaresq wrote: 2 hdd for the os (Mirror RAID-0?) RAID-0 is not a mirror, RAID-1 is. Nils Breunese. - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008.

[BackupPC-users] Information needed

2008-02-04 Thread Jonathan Dumaresq
Hi all, I just put a hand on a funny server, I have a dell poweredge 6300 with an scsi extension hdd units. I have this setup with 18 hdd 2 hdd for the os (Mirror RAID-0?) 6 hdd for samba (raid-5 with 1 hot spare) 10 hdd for backuppc All hdd are 36.4 Gig On the dell, I have 4 cpu (PIII

Re: [BackupPC-users] Information needed

2008-02-04 Thread Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)
Jonathan Dill wrote: Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) wrote: Jonathan Dumaresq wrote: 2 hdd for the os (Mirror RAID-0?) RAID-0 is not a mirror, RAID-1 is. I took it to mean that he was referring to RAID 0+1 (two RAID-0 striped sets that are mirrors of each other). In any case, RAID 1+0

Re: [BackupPC-users] Information needed

2008-02-04 Thread Jonathan Dill
Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) wrote: Jonathan Dumaresq wrote: 2 hdd for the os (Mirror RAID-0?) RAID-0 is not a mirror, RAID-1 is. I took it to mean that he was referring to RAID 0+1 (two RAID-0 striped sets that are mirrors of each other). In any case, RAID 1+0 would be safer

Re: [BackupPC-users] Information needed

2008-02-04 Thread Justin Best
1- What filsystem I should use on the array for backuppc ? Don't do anything with FAT or other filesystems that don't support symlinks, BackupPC's pooling mechanism would choke on such a filesystem. Rumor has it that ReiserFS works a tad better for BackupPC than your other standard

Re: [BackupPC-users] Information needed

2008-02-04 Thread Justin Best
Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) wrote: Jonathan Dumaresq wrote: 2 hdd for the os (Mirror RAID-0?) RAID-0 is not a mirror, RAID-1 is. I took it to mean that he was referring to RAID 0+1 (two RAID-0 striped sets that are mirrors of each other). In any case, RAID 1+0 would be safer (multiple

Re: [BackupPC-users] Information needed

2008-02-04 Thread Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)
Justin Best wrote: 1- What filsystem I should use on the array for backuppc ? Don't do anything with FAT or other filesystems that don't support symlinks, BackupPC's pooling mechanism would choke on such a filesystem. BackupPC uses *hardlinks* for pooling. Nils Breunese.

Re: [BackupPC-users] Information needed

2008-02-04 Thread Justin Best
BackupPC uses *hardlinks* for pooling. DOH! You are so right. Being mainly a Windows admin, I don't think I ever was completely clear on the difference between hardlinks and symlinks until a few minutes ago, when I looked it up. For anyone else who is confused on hardlinks vs softlinks, I

Re: [BackupPC-users] Information needed

2008-02-04 Thread dan
My suggestion is: for OS 2 disks, RAID1 which is a mirror. likely you will have no use for high performance here, all the work will be done on the other array(s) for samba. have you considered putting all 16 drives into 1 array, a RAID6+ hot spare? RAID6 being a RAID with 2 redundant disks. I