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> Behalf Of Jean-Michel Beuken
> Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2008 1:08 PM
> To: backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Scaling BackupPC
>
> Hello,
>
>
> > Instead of trying
I am looking to use BackupPC in an environment with several roaming
laptops and a wad of disk on a hosting site. I am not a sysadmin expert
and looking at the doc it is not readily apparent if this is something
reasonable to attempt. There are some mentions of installing things as
root (not p
Hello,
> Instead of trying to have 1 server that handles everything, just
> use multiple servers to do the work. I am interested in the concept of
> using some network/cluster filesystem to have multiple servers backup to
> a single SAN/NAS with the cluster filesystem.
I have this kind
i guess that main problem is that rsync is going to use what it needs, no
more no less. If you limit rsync's memory it wont just use less memory, it
will throw a fit. If rsync runs out of ram it will crash. Also, I think
that if you use a memory limitor like ulimit or vlimit then rsync cant use
>iSCSI isn't going to let 2 servers access the same thing at once. Does
>GFS give better performance than NFS?
While many low-end iSCSI appliances won't allow this, and the defaults on open
source targets IET is to not permit multiple servers to access the same LUN,
you can configure it other
