On 08/20 11:02 , Mirco Piccin wrote: > i usually use an LVM volume (easy to extend) as TOPDIR. > In this case a FAST solution could be the lvm volume snapshot. > Of course, you need to save also BackupPC conf files.
I've tried this in the past. Taking a snapshot of a live backuppc instance and then backing up the snapshot (especially to tape, like I tried) turns out to be murderously slow due to all the disk updates. At least to tape (where a minimum data rate is required, or else the tape starts 'shoeshining'), it was 4x faster to shut down the backuppc instance, tar the whole TOPDIR to tape, and then restart BackupPC; than to take a snapshot and back up the snapshot. This was due to less disk contention. -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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/
