Hello Tyler, > ZFS de-duplication won't be of any use to you. However, you > can always use ZFS to extend the filesystem later with more > disks. Otherwise, I'd recommend ext4.
OK, I'll stick with ext3 or ext4 (don't know if ext4 is supported in Debian Lenny). Could you simply explain to me (curiosity) why ZFS de-duplication would not have any meaning on my setup? > If you have the disks for it, consider RAID-10 (and don't > consider RAID-5). > Performance of BackupPC increased noticeably when I moved to > it (I run 4 backups simultaneously). If you're running just > one backup at time, it won't matter as much. I'm actually running 8 simultaneous backups, over DLS WAN connections, during nighttime, and no problems yet. Thanks for your suggestions, Flavio Boniforti PIRAMIDE INFORMATICA SAGL Via Ballerini 21 6600 Locarno Switzerland Phone: +41 91 751 68 81 Fax: +41 91 751 69 14 URL: http://www.piramide.ch E-mail: [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
