Re: [BackupPC-users] Which file system for data pool?

2018-08-14 Thread Mike Hughes
It’s a cloud service so I’m less concerned with the results of the thrashing  From: Greg Harris Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2018 08:53 To: General list for user discussion, questions and support Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Which file system for data pool? You are probably already aware of

[BackupPC-users] Which file system for data pool?

2018-08-14 Thread Tapio Lehtonen
I'm building a BackupPC host, with two SSD disks and two 4 TB rotating disks connected to LSI Logic / Symbios Logic MegaRAID SAS 2108 [Liberator] (rev 05). Operating system is Debian GNU/Linux 9.5. The plan is to put OS on SSD disks with RAID1, and BackupPC data pool to rotating disk with

Re: [BackupPC-users] Which file system for data pool?

2018-08-14 Thread Johan Ehnberg
On 08/14/2018 02:44 PM, Tapio Lehtonen wrote: I'm building a BackupPC host, with two SSD disks and two 4 TB rotating disks connected to LSI Logic / Symbios Logic MegaRAID SAS 2108 [Liberator] (rev 05). Operating system is Debian GNU/Linux 9.5. The plan is to put OS on SSD disks with RAID1,

Re: [BackupPC-users] Which file system for data pool?

2018-08-14 Thread Greg Harris
You are probably already aware of this, but an SSD’s life expectancy is based on the number of writes. Therefore, utilizing an SSD as the cache drive and the OS drive might require some additional considerations over the long haul. Thanks, Greg Harris On Aug 14, 2018, at 9:44 AM, Johan

Re: [BackupPC-users] Which file system for data pool?

2018-08-14 Thread Mike Hughes
>-Original Message- >From: Johan Ehnberg >Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2018 07:29 >To: backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net >Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Which file system for data pool? > > >On 08/14/2018 02:44 PM, Tapio Lehtonen wrote: >> I'm building a BackupPC host, with two SSD disks

Re: [BackupPC-users] Which file system for data pool?

2018-08-14 Thread Johan Ehnberg
Regarding the location of the "pc" folder... I think I need to re-visit that since I created a symlink from /var/lib/BackupPC and moved the entire contents of that folder to my platters. It sounds like I need to undo that to keep the "pc" folder on the SSD. Would a better move be to create a