> Go for RAID10. BackupPC's accesses data very randomly because of the hashing-pooling scheme. It also creates a lot of directories and small files, so get very fast drives (with low seek times, throughput shouldn't be an issue).
It sounds good. I hope that gives us the best performance. > Hm, the main reason for this might be that the OS is able to optimize disk access better with SW-RAID. With HW-RAID, the OS only sees a huge block device, it doesn't know of the individual disks nor stripe size etc. of the RAID container. That is interesting. Another Linux guru I know definitely prefers SW-RAID. It sounds like perhaps Linux does a better job with it. And, of course, we won't have to buy the controller. We'll get serial ATA no matter what. I don't see myself doing any partitioning other than the swap anyway. > I wrote myself a shell script which get's called by my Bacula job. I'll be using Lone-tar for backups. There's no question about that. It's outstanding. > BackupPC's performance is mostly affected by the number of files, not by their size! We've got lots of graphical files. We have big files. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
