On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 15:28 +0200, Thomas Karcher wrote: > Hi, > > > This is probably the wrong place to ask, but people on the right lists > > won't have experience with the kind of disk activity that backuppc > > creates. I have my main backuppc server set up so I can periodically > > swap and raid-sync a new disk and keep a copy offsite. I'd like to have > > a VMware/virtualbox or other virtual machine image that could run on any > > machine that would be able to access this disk via a USB adapter for > > quick emergency restores. Does anyone have experience with any of the > > virtual machine's USB handling to know if this would be practical and > > which technology would be best at it? > > I don't know if it's best - but I run backuppc inside a Xen VM > productively on a device that is forwarded via nbd (network block > device). It's quasi independent from the actual underlying storage type > and can be accessed over the network, since you don't necessarily have > to plug the USB disk into the VM's host machine. > > Performance is of course not really great but surprisingly good. I > evaluated (very shortly) against mounting via NFS, and NFS just sucks > with backuppc.
Thomas, I think it depends on the NFS server you are using. I have over 1500 clients backing up via 7 backuppc servers attached via nfs to a high performance Exastore NAS device. Works great. ski -- "When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it connected to the entire universe" John Muir Chris "Ski" Kacoroski, kacoro...@gmail.com, 206-501-9803 or ski98033 on most IM services ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: High Quality Requirements in a Collaborative Environment. Download a free trial of Rational Requirements Composer Now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/www-ibm-com _______________________________________________ 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/
