Les Mikesell wrote at about 07:45:50 -0500 on Thursday, April 9, 2009:
Thomas Karcher wrote:
Hi Ski,
Performance is of course not really great but surprisingly good. I
evaluated (very shortly) against mounting via NFS, and NFS just sucks
with backuppc.
I think it depends on
On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote:
a VMware/virtualbox or other virtual machine image that could run on any
machine that would be able to access this disk via a USB adapter for
quick emergency restores. Does anyone have experience with any of the
virtual
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Onderwerp: Re: [BackupPC-users] vmware/virtuabox/etc.?
Rob Owens wrote:
Both
Virtualbox and the current vmware server/player claim to work with USB
2.0 but I haven't done any speed tests yet - in fact I haven't been able
to get virtualbox to see
Hi Ski,
Performance is of course not really great but surprisingly good. I
evaluated (very shortly) against mounting via NFS, and NFS just sucks
with backuppc.
I think it depends on the NFS server you are using. I have over 1500
clients backing up via 7 backuppc servers attached via nfs
Thomas Karcher wrote:
Hi Ski,
Performance is of course not really great but surprisingly good. I
evaluated (very shortly) against mounting via NFS, and NFS just sucks
with backuppc.
I think it depends on the NFS server you are using. I have over 1500
clients backing up via 7 backuppc
Koen Linders wrote:
I did a little test with my laptop.
VMware server 2.0 free download
Memory available for OS 384 MB
Debian etch
Freecom Hard Drive Pro 250 GB USB2 disk formatted ext3 bs 4096
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb1 bs=4k count=300k
307200+0 records in
307200+0 records out
stoffell wrote:
On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote:
a VMware/virtualbox or other virtual machine image that could run on any
machine that would be able to access this disk via a USB adapter for
quick emergency restores. Does anyone have experience with
On Thu, 2009-04-09 at 07:45 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
Thomas Karcher wrote:
Hi Ski,
Performance is of course not really great but surprisingly good. I
evaluated (very shortly) against mounting via NFS, and NFS just sucks
with backuppc.
I think it depends on the NFS server you are
This is probably the wrong place to ask, but people on the right lists
won't have experience with the kind of disk activity that backuppc
creates. I have my main backuppc server set up so I can periodically
swap and raid-sync a new disk and keep a copy offsite. I'd like to have
a
Hi,
This is probably the wrong place to ask, but people on the right lists
won't have experience with the kind of disk activity that backuppc
creates. I have my main backuppc server set up so I can periodically
swap and raid-sync a new disk and keep a copy offsite. I'd like to have
a
Thomas Karcher wrote:
Hi,
This is probably the wrong place to ask, but people on the right lists
won't have experience with the kind of disk activity that backuppc
creates. I have my main backuppc server set up so I can periodically
swap and raid-sync a new disk and keep a copy offsite.
Hi,
I'm looking for something that can be fired up easily on a
windows/mac
without much concern for its physical hardware, so I don't think Xen
is
a good fit. I do have a dual-boot laptop - but it spends much of its
time in the same building as the data being backed up and I'd like a
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Thomas Karcher wrote:
Hi,
I'm looking for something that can be fired up easily on a
windows/mac
without much concern for its physical hardware, so I don't think Xen
is
a good fit. I do have a dual-boot laptop - but it spends much of its
On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 12:41:34AM +1000, Adam Goryachev wrote:
Thomas Karcher wrote:
Hi,
I'm looking for something that can be fired up easily on a
windows/mac without much concern for its physical hardware
Personally, I would suspect the simplest method is a knoppix CD, boot
up,
On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 15:28 +0200, Thomas Karcher wrote:
Hi,
This is probably the wrong place to ask, but people on the right lists
won't have experience with the kind of disk activity that backuppc
creates. I have my main backuppc server set up so I can periodically
swap and
John Rouillard wrote:
I'm looking for something that can be fired up easily on a
windows/mac without much concern for its physical hardware
Personally, I would suspect the simplest method is a knoppix CD, boot
up, install backuppc, mount the usb drive, and away you go. When
finished,
Les Mikesell wrote at about 11:59:55 -0500 on Wednesday, April 8, 2009:
John Rouillard wrote:
I'm looking for something that can be fired up easily on a
windows/mac without much concern for its physical hardware
Personally, I would suspect the simplest method is a knoppix CD,
Hey Ski,
Care to elaborate a bit more on that carrot you just dangled?
I would love to see a website of actual business-case examples
utilizing BackupPC. Is there such an animal, anyone?
Thomas, are you at liberty to describe your setup in more detail?
Can you mention expected costs?
Are
On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 10:55:29AM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
Thomas Karcher wrote:
I'm looking for something that can be fired up easily on a
windows/mac
without much concern for its physical hardware, so I don't think Xen
is
a good fit. I do have a dual-boot laptop - but it
Rob Owens wrote:
Both
Virtualbox and the current vmware server/player claim to work with USB
2.0 but I haven't done any speed tests yet - in fact I haven't been able
to get virtualbox to see usb drives at all.
I think USB only works in the closed source version of VirtualBox.
Yes, I
On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 04:30:15PM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
Rob Owens wrote:
If you decide to got the live cd route, you might want to try Ubuntu.
Version 8.10 comes with a nice and easy USB stick installer. Sidux has
one, too.
I think clonezilla has a ubuntu-base version. I'll try
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