Re: preferred hardware platform

2006-09-10 Thread Raja Subramanian
On 9/9/06, Martin Schrvder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not if you use rsnapshot. Memory use in rsync scales linearly with the number of files being synced. Hence, any backup app that's calls rsync on large trees will hit this limitation and die a horrible death. I hit this limit on a 300GB fs

Re: preferred hardware platform

2006-09-10 Thread Will Maier
On Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 11:39:57AM +0530, Raja Subramanian wrote: rdiff-backup however, does not suffer from this problem. And it's a bit more space efficient than rsnapshot as well. Give it a shot and I doubt you'll be disappointed. I've had an experimental port of rdiff-backup 1.0.4 and

Re: preferred hardware platform

2006-09-10 Thread Arnaud Bergeron
On 9/10/06, Will Maier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 11:39:57AM +0530, Raja Subramanian wrote: rdiff-backup however, does not suffer from this problem. And it's a bit more space efficient than rsnapshot as well. Give it a shot and I doubt you'll be disappointed. I've had

Re: preferred hardware platform

2006-09-09 Thread Shane J Pearson
Hi Joachim, On 09/09/2006, at 10:02 AM, Joachim Schipper wrote: And seriously, how does one manage to fill a TB of data? video, lossless-compressed music, backups from a bunch of machines, none of our business really (-: I'll grant you the latter, but still... well, let's just say that

Re: preferred hardware platform

2006-09-09 Thread Eric Furman
On Sat, 9 Sep 2006 15:58:54 +1000, Shane J Pearson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hi Joachim, On 09/09/2006, at 10:02 AM, Joachim Schipper wrote: And seriously, how does one manage to fill a TB of data? video, lossless-compressed music, backups from a bunch of machines, none of our business

Re: preferred hardware platform

2006-09-09 Thread Martin Schröder
2006/9/9, Benjamin Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED]: mix). In a development environment in which one might have multiple working copies of a large repository (such as OpenBSD's src), all those backups add up, and fast. Not if you use rsnapshot. Best Martin

Re: preferred hardware platform

2006-09-09 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Sat, Sep 09, 2006 at 05:33:56PM +0200, Martin Schr?der wrote: 2006/9/9, Benjamin Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED]: mix). In a development environment in which one might have multiple working copies of a large repository (such as OpenBSD's src), all those backups add up, and fast. Not if you use

Re: preferred hardware platform

2006-09-08 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 04:00:20PM +0200, Francois Slabbert wrote: Hi misc, I'm looking to build soho development and storage server, what would be the most stable current hardware configuration. I was thinking of along the lines of: * Intel 945G motherboard * Celeron CPU * 512MB of

Re: preferred hardware platform

2006-09-08 Thread Stuart Henderson
I was thinking of along the lines of: * Intel 945G motherboard * LSI Megaraid SATA-6 Try and get a BBU for that MegaRAID card... MegaRAID SATA 150-6 will be happier on a PCI-X motherboard (this is _not_ the same thing as PCI-Express). (MegaRAID SATA 300-8x requires PCI-X). I've just

Re: preferred hardware platform

2006-09-08 Thread Steve Shockley
Joachim Schipper wrote: Try mine: refurbished Dell Optiplex GX1, 400 MHz Pentium II, 128 MB memory, and two matching pairs of harddisks (6.1 and 4 GB) with a combination of RAIDframe, altroot, and regular backups guaranteeing data consistency. Runs mail, DNS, web, and a couple of other services,

Re: preferred hardware platform

2006-09-08 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 08:26:24PM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote: I was thinking of along the lines of: * Intel 945G motherboard * LSI Megaraid SATA-6 * 512MB of RAM * 1+ TB of disk ...and be sure to split the disk into smaller partitions unless you want to buy more RAM, fsck

Re: preferred hardware platform

2006-09-08 Thread pedro la peu
And seriously, how does one manage to fill a TB of data? /rant DVB.

Re: preferred hardware platform

2006-09-08 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2006/09/08 20:26, I wrote: I've just noticed there is a new 4-lane PCI-Express SATA card listed on LSI's website: http://www.lsilogic.com/products/megaraid_sata/megaraid_sata_300_8elp.html ...though the 8308ELP which is definitely listed in mfi(4) and supports both SAS and SATA-II drives

Re: preferred hardware platform

2006-09-08 Thread Benjamin Collins
On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 08:49:06PM +0200, Joachim Schipper wrote: And seriously, how does one manage to fill a TB of data? Quite easily, if you do daily, weekly, and monthly backups. My group at work doesn't do daily, but we do something like MWF, weekly, monthly, with tapes done weekly and