On 07/10 08:22 , Christian Völker wrote: > So what I did was to set up a physical small sized box (old desktop > should work). No RAID involved. I installed there distributed remote > block device (drbd- use Google). Same on backuppc machine. So I have a > physical separated RAID1 available- just through network. Both drbd > devices are using LVM volumes as backing devices so I can enlarge/ > shrink at will. The external server addditionaly uses the snaprotate.pl > script to create 4 snapshots of the drbd device at weekly rate.
So you're running LVM and DRBD on the ESX guest machine? Isn't that a notable performance hit? Especially keeping 4 snapshots simultaneously? -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.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 [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
