Andrei Stebakov wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I've installed BackupPC on my Ubuntu server, but its hard drives have
> relatively small capacity so I'd rather use my Windows machines to put the
> backups on.
> Is it possible to move the storage media from /var/lib/backuppc from local
> machine to some remote Windows machine?

The archive filesystem must support unix-style hardlinks for the pooling 
feature to work.  Theoretically you might be able to install windows 
services-for-unix, export a directory via NFS, and mount that as your 
archive filesystem but I don't think anyone has gotten satisfactory 
performance that way.  For a small setup you might be able to use the 
free VMware server on the windows box with the backuppc server running 
as a guest.  Or, depending on your use for the windows boxes perhaps you 
could run windows under VMware to give Linux the native speed - or 
dual-boot to let backuppc run at night.

Iscsi would be the obvious solution here but I think the software is 
expensive on the windows side.  Buying a pair of SATA disks that you can 
run in raid1 on the linux box is probably the cheapest approach with 
good performance.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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