Re: [BackupPC-users] Multiple backuppc server

2009-07-09 Thread Les Mikesell
Holger Parplies wrote: > > So, do you insist on making the original poster believe that running several > instances of BackupPC on the same pool is a good idea, or can we maybe find > some other topic to disagree on? I'll insist that it should be possible, with the only real conflicts being wha

Re: [BackupPC-users] Multiple backuppc server

2009-07-08 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Les Mikesell wrote on 2009-07-08 10:32:50 -0500 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Multiple backuppc server]: > [...] Les, you are missing the important part, so I'll begin with it and repeat it a few times throughout the mail: > > Tino Schwarze wrote on 2009-07-08 10:11:43 +020

Re: [BackupPC-users] Multiple backuppc server

2009-07-08 Thread Les Mikesell
Holger Parplies wrote: >>> We've started to setup a large multiple server backuppc environment [...] >>> We've got a large 2TB nas at the back of it with gig connectivity. >>> Filesystem is LVM on top of OCFS2 so we have multiple front-end servers >>> with read/write. [...] The actual top/backup l

Re: [BackupPC-users] Multiple backuppc server

2009-07-08 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Tino Schwarze wrote on 2009-07-08 10:11:43 +0200 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Multiple backuppc server]: > On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 01:50:56PM +0100, Andy Brown wrote: > > We've started to setup a large multiple server backuppc environment [...] > > We've got a large 2TB n

Re: [BackupPC-users] Multiple backuppc server

2009-07-08 Thread Tino Schwarze
On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 01:50:56PM +0100, Andy Brown wrote: > Hi All, > We've started to setup a large multiple server backuppc environment, and > wanted a few thoughts/ideas/advice. > We've got a large 2TB nas at the back of it with gig connectivity. > Filesystem is LVM on top of OCFS2 so we have

Re: [BackupPC-users] Multiple backuppc server

2009-07-07 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
Hi, On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 08:50, Andy Brown wrote: > Anyone see any pitfalls/problems with what I'm doing here? Yes, IMHO you are introducing complexity where it is not needed. What are you trying to accomplish? Fault-tolerance? In that case you should probably have an active/passive deploymen

[BackupPC-users] Multiple backuppc server

2009-07-07 Thread Andy Brown
Hi All, We've started to setup a large multiple server backuppc environment, and wanted a few thoughts/ideas/advice. We've got a large 2TB nas at the back of it with gig connectivity. Filesystem is LVM on top of OCFS2 so we have multiple front-end servers with read/write. Backuppc on each host is