Hi,

> This is probably the wrong place to ask, but people on the right lists 
> won't have experience with the kind of disk activity that backuppc 
> creates.  I have my main backuppc server set up so I can periodically 
> swap and raid-sync a new disk and keep a copy offsite.  I'd like to have 
> a VMware/virtualbox or other virtual machine image that could run on any 
> machine that would be able to access this disk via a USB adapter for 
> quick emergency restores.  Does anyone have experience with any of the 
> virtual machine's USB handling to know if this would be practical and 
> which technology would be best at it?

I don't know if it's best - but I run backuppc inside a Xen VM
productively on a device that is forwarded via nbd (network block
device). It's quasi independent from the actual underlying storage type
and can be accessed over the network, since you don't necessarily have
to plug the USB disk into the VM's host machine.

Performance is of course not really great but surprisingly good. I
evaluated (very shortly) against mounting via NFS, and NFS just sucks
with backuppc.


Thomas

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