Andrei Stebakov wrote:
> Hi
>
> I've installed BackupPC on my Ubuntu server, but its hard drives have
> relatively small capacity so I'd rather use my Windows machines to put the
> backups on.
> Is it possible to move the storage media from /var/lib/backuppc from local
> machine to some remote Windows machine?
The archive filesystem must support unix-style hardlinks for the pooling
feature to work. Theoretically you might be able to install windows
services-for-unix, export a directory via NFS, and mount that as your
archive filesystem but I don't think anyone has gotten satisfactory
performance that way. For a small setup you might be able to use the
free VMware server on the windows box with the backuppc server running
as a guest. Or, depending on your use for the windows boxes perhaps you
could run windows under VMware to give Linux the native speed - or
dual-boot to let backuppc run at night.
Iscsi would be the obvious solution here but I think the software is
expensive on the windows side. Buying a pair of SATA disks that you can
run in raid1 on the linux box is probably the cheapest approach with
good performance.
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