Hi, Mark Phillips wrote on 2011-07-11 09:04:31 -0700 [[BackupPC-users] Location of TopDir]: > Can TopDir be a network drive?
no, BackupPC doesn't run on Windoze. > I have a NAS, and I would like to use rsync to store the data on the NAS > from the backuppc server. Is this possible? Not really, if your pool is or will at any point be "large" (where the exact value of "large" depends on available RAM and rsync version). Try it out to see if it works for you, but don't rely on it. It just doesn't scale well for growing pools. Ok. Now to the question you probably meant to ask. Sure, you can mount the pool FS via NFS (or anything else that will support hardlinks correctly - note that this requirement includes the file system behind the network mount; you can't export eg. a FAT file system via NFS and expect that to work, so if you're talking about a NAS, you'll have to check). You should note, though, that BackupPC does a lot of I/O on the pool, so slowing down this part (as a network mount is bound to do) will slow down overall backup performance. Furthermore, there have been reports of problems with broken NFS implementations on some NAS devices which only become apparent under heavy usage such as with BackupPC. For details on moving TopDir, see http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/backuppc/index.php?title=Change_archive_directory Regards, Holger ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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/
