Best to use LVM (over RAID if you like) for future expansion flexibility. I happen to use OpenFiler as a NAS host for the same reason - can act as an iSCSI host as well as all the mainstream filesharing protocols, relatively easy to set up compared to building your own from a generic distro.
Note it is not recommended to run BPC on the OF host itself, best to treat OF as a "black box" appliance. On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 7:52 PM, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky <[email protected]> wrote: > Lord Sporkton wrote at about 02:56:59 -0700 on Tuesday, March 22, 2011: > > I was hoping to setup a backend storage system for this to allow me to > > use a much larger file system than is typically available locally. I > > was looking at using an NFS share and connecting backuppc to the NFS > > share. As I understand it NFS has no real limit on the filesystem size > > other than that of the hosting machines filesystem limits, but does > > backuppc have any filesystem requirements or filesystem size limits? I > > noticed the inode issue mentioned in documentation, im looking into > > that one currently for NFS. > > > > I saw the limits about individual file size in the faq but im more > > concerned with the overall filesystem backuppc is running on top of. > > > > BackupPC itself has no such limits. The limits are based on the > filesystem where TopDir is located. > > Also, btw, the issue is not NFS but the filesystem that NFS is > mounting from the remote machine. So you need to look on the remote > machine filesystem partition and see how much space and inodes are > available. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Enable your software for Intel(R) Active Management Technology to meet the > growing manageability and security demands of your customers. Businesses > are taking advantage of Intel(R) vPro (TM) technology - will your software > be a part of the solution? Download the Intel(R) Manageability Checker > today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmar > _______________________________________________ > 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/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enable your software for Intel(R) Active Management Technology to meet the growing manageability and security demands of your customers. Businesses are taking advantage of Intel(R) vPro (TM) technology - will your software be a part of the solution? Download the Intel(R) Manageability Checker today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmar _______________________________________________ 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/
