On 7/3/11 12:31 PM, Holger Parplies wrote: > > unless I missed something, I'd say XFS is perfectly stable - more stable than > reiserfs in any case. The only thing that makes me hesitate with that > statement > is Les' remark "XFS should also be OK on 64-bit systems" - why only on 64 bit > systems? [Of course, for really large pools, a 64 bit system would be > preferable with XFS.]
It may not apply to all distributions, but at least Red Hat/CentOS use 4k stacks in the 32-bit kernel builds and XFS isn't happy with that. > Concerning bare metal recovery, how do you plan to do that? Restoring > to the target host requires an installed and running system, restoring > to a naked new disk mounted<somewhere> requires a plan how to do that > with BackupPC, as well as some preparation (partitioning, file systems) > and some modifications afterwards (boot loader, /etc/fstab, ...). > BackupPC is not designed to handle all of that alone, though it will > obviously handle a large part of the task if that is how you want to > use it. As long as you know the approximate sizes of the partitions you need, you can use a Linux livecd to boot on a new machine, make the partitions and filesystems, mount them somewhere, then ssh an appropriate BackupPC_tarCreate command to the backuppc server and pipe to a local tar to drop it in place. But, it's a lot of grunge work and may take some practice. This project: http://rear.sourceforge.net/ seems to have all the missing pieces to save a description of the disk layout and make a bootable iso that will reconstruct it, but it would take some work to integrate the parts with backuppc. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c2 _______________________________________________ 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/