Re: [BackupPC-users] Thrashing of backup drive.

2006-02-21 Thread Guus Houtzager
Hi, On Friday 17 February 2006 07:53, Craig Barratt wrote: > David Brown writes: > > I've been using backuppc for several days, and I really like the concept > > behind it. The web interface is very helpful. However, I'm having a > > very hard time figuring out what to store the backup filesyste

Re: [BackupPC-users] Thrashing of backup drive.

2006-02-17 Thread Dan Pritts
On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 03:40:46PM -0800, David Brown wrote: > I've been using backuppc for several days, and I really like the concept > behind it. The web interface is very helpful. However, I'm having a very > hard time figuring out what to store the backup filesystem on. I can tell you that

Re: [BackupPC-users] Thrashing of backup drive.

2006-02-17 Thread Guus Houtzager
Hi, On Friday 17 February 2006 07:53, Craig Barratt wrote: > David Brown writes: > > I've been using backuppc for several days, and I really like the concept > > behind it. The web interface is very helpful. However, I'm having a > > very hard time figuring out what to store the backup filesyste

Re: [BackupPC-users] Thrashing of backup drive.

2006-02-16 Thread David Brown
On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 10:53:46PM -0800, Craig Barratt wrote: > The biggest issue is maintaining accurate reference counts so you > know when to delete unused pool files. The hardlink structure is > using the file system to maintain reference counts. > > There has been some consideration of usi

Re: [BackupPC-users] Thrashing of backup drive.

2006-02-16 Thread Craig Barratt
David Brown writes: > I've been using backuppc for several days, and I really like the concept > behind it. The web interface is very helpful. However, I'm having a very > hard time figuring out what to store the backup filesystem on. > > I've tried both XFS and ReiserFS, and both have utterly

[BackupPC-users] Thrashing of backup drive.

2006-02-15 Thread David Brown
I've been using backuppc for several days, and I really like the concept behind it. The web interface is very helpful. However, I'm having a very hard time figuring out what to store the backup filesystem on. I've tried both XFS and ReiserFS, and both have utterly abysmal performance in the back