On Mon, 24 Jun 2013, Tyler J. Wagner wrote: > On 2013-06-23 14:13, Daniel Carrera wrote: > > I'd like to ask an opinion question: Do you think BackupPC is a > > sensible backup solution for personal, non-enterprise, > > only-one-computer use? > > If you plan to run it on your local work station, on your disk, for the > purposes of restoring overwritten/deleted files, then consider using a COW > filesystem like ZFS instead.
I can unrecommend ZFS in backuppc. My own backuppc/ZFS fileserver crashes about once a week (to the point where I built an automatic watchdog for it), and every single lockup reported on the zfsonlinux mailing list is due to a relatively (but not huge - 300G seems to be the typical size) large rsync. It just doesn't cope with memory pressure yet, and an rsync run seems to interact badly with cache. > BackupPC really is best with its own server. And with the amount of data > you're quoting, make sure you're using gigabit Ethernet at minimum. Nah, I was running on 100M for a long time quite successfully. The bottleneck is disk on the server anyway. -- Tim Connors ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev _______________________________________________ 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/
