Jim Leonard wrote at about 21:21:08 -0500 on Sunday, August 30, 2009: > dan wrote: > > > Once the metadata and config moves to a database, so many things > > become very easy. A single backuppc server could handle many more > > concurrent backups because multple data storage devices can seperate IO > > and relieve the pressure on the IO system of the OS. > > It sounds like you've never heard of volume management. You can already > split the load of a single filesystem across multiple devices, in pretty > much every single modern operating system. Filesystem gets full, you > can add more volumes and grow the filesystem. This is not difficult, > and not a problem that needs solving.
But a program should not be dependent on volume management. Volume management is a general tool that can be helpful but should not be required. In fact, personally, I have never seen a non-enterprise piece of software that so clearly required it's own dedicated filesystem along with volume management. To me it seems like a significant and ever-increasing limitation even if it isn't obviously a show-stopper. > > If this is a limitation of the OS you want to put BackupPC on, then you > need to choose a different OS. > -- > Jim Leonard (trix...@oldskool.org) http://www.oldskool.org/ > Help our electronic games project: http://www.mobygames.com/ > Or check out some trippy MindCandy at http://www.mindcandydvd.com/ > A child borne of the home computer wars: http://trixter.wordpress.com/ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day > trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus > on > what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with > Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july > _______________________________________________ > 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/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ 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/
