On Wed, 5 Feb 2014 11:49:19 -0600 Les Mikesell <lesmikes...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 6:14 AM, <r...@rayholtz.com> wrote: > > Thanks guys, I'll keep checking and trying. I needed to rebuild > > this linux server anyway so I'll try again with updated software. > > But Windows isn't part of this. like I originally said, the > > mountpoint for /var/lib/backuppc is an Iomega NAS, so I'm pretty > > sure there is some flavor of Linux/BSD/something under the hood. > > If your NAS device supports NFS, that is probably the easiest route to > a working backuppc.
If your NAS doesn't provide NFS, many do provide iSCSI, which is just
like a disk but attached via network. Can be partitioned (if wanted),
formatted with the filesystem of your choice and mounted.
On a side-note: From 3+ years with backuppc on various installations
one tip: Don't use backuppc with external storage. Use it with a disk
directly in the machine where its doing its processing. Build your own
backuppc-machine, run it as a virtual machine with enough disk,
whatever. But don't make your fail-safety depend on external resources.
When you have backuppc on a machine with enough disk, its just a matter
of this machine running. When you have backuppc on one
(virtual-)machine depending on storage from a second machine (or NAS
for that matter), its a matter of two devices running and
communicating. So instead of a_1 for the availability of
backuppc-machine with range [0:1], its
a_1 * a_2 (* a_3)
where
a_1 = availability of backuppc-machine
a_2 = availability of storage-device
a_3 = availability of connecting switch/infrastructure
all with range [0:1].
Lets assume all are up to 99%, that is a_1 = a_2 = a_3 = 0.99, then the
single machine solution gives you an availability of 99%, while the
multi-device-solution gives you 0.97, that is 97% availability maximum.
And then there is the installations where the backuppc-machine is also
the router and dhcp-server. So the dhcp-server won't start because it
can't mount the backuppc-storage. And the NAS won't start because it
can't get an IP...
tl;dr:
Don't use NASes as external disk for backuppc. Only save archives
('tapes') to external iSCSI-, NFS- or CiFS-resources.
Have fun,
- Arnold
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