Re: [BackupPC-users] Problems with hardlink-based backups...
2009-08-31 13:20:18
Jim Leonard wrote at about 21:21:08 -0500 on Sunday, August 30, 2009:
> dan wrote:
>
> > Once the metadata and config moves to a database, so many things
> > become very easy. A single backuppc server could handle many more
> > concurrent backups because multple data storage devices can seperate IO
> > and relieve the pressure on the IO system of the OS.
>
> It sounds like you've never heard of volume management. You can already
> split the load of a single filesystem across multiple devices, in pretty
> much every single modern operating system. Filesystem gets full, you
> can add more volumes and grow the filesystem. This is not difficult,
> and not a problem that needs solving.
But a program should not be dependent on volume management. Volume
management is a general tool that can be helpful but should not be
required. In fact, personally, I have never seen a non-enterprise
piece of software that so clearly required it's own dedicated
filesystem along with volume management. To me it seems like a
significant and ever-increasing limitation even if it isn't obviously
a show-stopper.
>
> If this is a limitation of the OS you want to put BackupPC on, then you
> need to choose a different OS.
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