On 09/13 02:12 , Marcel Meckel wrote: > Debian Wheezy will be running from SD card inside the server,
My company tried using CF cards as OS storage devices for a while. Our experience is that (anecdotally) they aren't any more reliable than spinny disk. They still fail sometimes. I don't know if SD cards will be any different, or if you might have a different way of mounting them which will be better. > 2. I always use LVM but it might not be useful in this case. > Would you recommend using LVM when the whole 12 TiB is used as > one big filesystem only? It might be useful if i have to add > another shelf of 25 disks to the system in the future to be > able to resize the DATADIR FS spanning then 2 enclosures. I wouldn't bother. I've done it both ways (with, and without the LVM). If you *know* that you'll be adding more disks in the future, it's a good idea. My experience is that planned expansions usually don't happen. ;) Also, if you're going to add more disks for more capacity, you're much better off adding a whole new machine. A second machine will increase your overall backup throughput as well as increasing your disk space. you won't get the benefit of pooling; but you will get more hosts backed up in a shorter amount of time. -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ How ServiceNow helps IT people transform IT departments: 1. Consolidate legacy IT systems to a single system of record for IT 2. Standardize and globalize service processes across IT 3. Implement zero-touch automation to replace manual, redundant tasks http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=51271111&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ 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/
