On 10/7/2010 10:55 AM, Dan Pritts wrote: > I agree with your general praise, BackupPC works very well for us in our > environment, which is maybe half your size. Due to your large size, I'll > leave you with one thought: > > One concern I've always had with backuppc is what would happen if i had a > disaster and had to restore everything from backuppc. > > It would take absolutely forever to do this, because backuppc has to seek the > disks so much (due to the effects of all those hard links). > > I haven't done enough testing of this. > > We do send copies of our backuppc drives offsite. I've always assumed that > if i had to restore, the first thing I'd do would be duplicate the drives a > couple times so I could do multiple restores in parallel.
If you are concerned about this, you might use the archive host setup or just script BackupPC_tarCreate runs to generate tar images that could be used directly for some of the most critical machines, offloading the restore work. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Beautiful is writing same markup. Internet Explorer 9 supports standards for HTML5, CSS3, SVG 1.1, ECMAScript5, and DOM L2 & L3. Spend less time writing and rewriting code and more time creating great experiences on the web. Be a part of the beta today. http://p.sf.net/sfu/beautyoftheweb _______________________________________________ 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/