On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 12:50 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > I use 250 gig drives with an internal/external pair configured as > software RAID1 and it takes about 2 hours to resync the mirror after > a swap if the system is fairly idle. I think you can get 500 gig > drives now and perhaps if you allow for some of the older backups > being on offline drives you could scale down to that. There are > also some places that make external cases holding multiple drives > that appear as one, but then the sync time will become impractical. > Another idea would be to add a second backuppc server. Split the load and then your idea really starts to look practical.
> You can also do LVM snapshots that you copy to another volume but > I think this is broken in Linux 2.6/LVM2. > I think that's the problem I've run into. Regards, Rich ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the JBoss Inc. Get Certified Today Register for a JBoss Training Course. Free Certification Exam for All Training Attendees Through End of 2005. For more info visit: http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7628&alloc_id=16845&op=click _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
