For most people, a VM is going to make for a much less reliable solution. They
will be way too tempted to put the VM on the same storage as their production
hardware.
For someone who understands the dangers, and has a disaster recovery
replication set up for their VM's already, backup PC
On 12-07-21 02:42 PM, Timothy J Massey wrote:
For most people, a VM is going to make for a much less reliable
solution. They will be way too tempted to put the VM on the same
storage as their production hardware.
For someone who understands the dangers, and has a disaster recovery
Sorry for the late reply.
anything/everything in a VM is an attraction. :-)
I had hoped for a pre-configured VM appliance so I could easily evaluate
it. I did not have such an easy implementation experience (as evidenced by
apparent exhaustion of this listserv during the process). Being able
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 5:01 PM, Bryan Keadle (.net) bkea...@keadle.net wrote:
Sorry for the late reply.
anything/everything in a VM is an attraction. :-)
Sure, where you don't mind the loss in performance.
I had hoped for a pre-configured VM appliance so I could easily evaluate it.
But if
Can BackupPC's data pool (/var/lib/BackupPC) be a CIFS mount, or must it be
a block device? I'm thinking it requires a block device due to the
hardlinks/inodes BackupPC depends on, and I'm not sure that a cifs-mounted
folder gives you that ability.
On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 10:37 AM, Bryan Keadle (.net)
bkea...@keadle.net wrote:
Can BackupPC's data pool (/var/lib/BackupPC) be a CIFS mount, or must it be
a block device? I'm thinking it requires a block device due to the
hardlinks/inodes BackupPC depends on, and I'm not sure that a
Thanks for your reply. Yeah, we're using a NAS device, but not necessary
those small ones - using this Drobo
B800fshttp://www.drobo.com/products/business/b800fs/index.php.
So NFS would be a protocol-based option for the data pool? Still, iSCSI
would be best if not DAS?
On Fri, Jul 13, 2012
I think I had a buddy try AoE and found it problematic - not yet ready for
prime time?
On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 11:47 AM, Mike ispbuil...@gmail.com wrote:
On 12-07-13 01:38 PM, Bryan Keadle (.net) wrote:
Thanks for your reply. Yeah, we're using a NAS device, but not necessary
those small
On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 11:38 AM, Bryan Keadle (.net)
bkea...@keadle.net wrote:
Thanks for your reply. Yeah, we're using a NAS device, but not necessary
those small ones - using this Drobo B800fs. So NFS would be a
protocol-based option for the data pool? Still, iSCSI would be best if not
On 12-07-13 01:38 PM, Bryan Keadle (.net) wrote:
Thanks for your reply. Yeah, we're using a NAS device, but not
necessary those small ones - using this Drobo B800fs
http://www.drobo.com/products/business/b800fs/index.php. So NFS
would be a protocol-based option for the data pool? Still,
On 12-07-13 01:50 PM, Bryan Keadle (.net) wrote:
I think I had a buddy try AoE and found it problematic - not yet ready
for prime time?
I've used it for a variety of things from software RAID to network
booting - no problems here?
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The latency that remote storage adds, particularly at a higher level like NFS
or SMB, can really hurt BackupPC's performance. Besides, it is going to hammer
the daylights out of that remote storage, leaving very little performance for
anybody else.
And while a Drobo is one of the very nicest
What problem are you guys trying to solve by separating the backup PC
processing from the storage? Given back up PCs extremely high storage
requirements, and the demands it places upon that storage, I can't imagine that
you're going to try to share that storage with anybody else. Besides, if
Yes, NFS or iSCSI will work, but it is really a lot cheaper to just
throw some big drives in a linux box.
+1 to that.
And in all the questions you've
asked I don't remember any yet about getting offsite copies of the
archive, which is usually the one hard thing with backuppc that you
On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 12:51 PM, Mike ispbuil...@gmail.com wrote:
On 12-07-13 01:50 PM, Bryan Keadle (.net) wrote:
I think I had a buddy try AoE and found it problematic - not yet ready
for prime time?
I've used it for a variety of things from software RAID to network
booting - no
On 07/13 12:59 , Timothy J Massey wrote:
And while a Drobo is one of the very nicest ones, it is still very much a
small NAS box.
BackupPC really wants to be set up on a standalone PC with directly attached
disks.
I've used BackupPC on a Drobo device. Performance sucked compared to local
Wow - great posts here - thank you; good information.
I just recently been introduced to BackupPC and I've been pursuing this as
a VM appliance to backup non-critical targets. Thus, as a VM, I would use
remote storage (iSCSI) to provide capacity instead of local virtual disk.
High-value data is
On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 3:07 PM, Bryan Keadle (.net) bkea...@keadle.net wrote:
I just recently been introduced to BackupPC and I've been pursuing this as a
VM appliance to backup non-critical targets. Thus, as a VM, I would use
remote storage (iSCSI) to provide capacity instead of local
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