On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 11:55:41AM -0400, 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 don't know of anything that would be faster, though. -Robin -- http://singinst.org/ : Our last, best hope for a fantastic future. Lojban (http://www.lojban.org/): The language in which "this parrot is dead" is "ti poi spitaki cu morsi", but "this sentence is false" is "na nei". My personal page: http://www.digitalkingdom.org/rlp/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download new Adobe(R) Flash(R) Builder(TM) 4 The new Adobe(R) Flex(R) 4 and Flash(R) Builder(TM) 4 (formerly Flex(R) Builder(TM)) enable the development of rich applications that run across multiple browsers and platforms. Download your free trials today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/adobe-dev2dev _______________________________________________ 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/