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Re: [BackupPC-users] Best NAS device to run BackupPC ?
2011-05-17 11:30:50
"lmirguet AT microworld DOT org" <lmirguet AT microworld DOT org>
wrote on 05/17/2011 10:23:53 AM:
> Now comes the choice of the NAS... What NAS device would you
> recommend with a good ratio "performance / easy to install BackupPC
on it" ?
>
> The ideal situation would be a NAS with BackupPC pre-installed - or
> a NAS with some available BackupPC packages ready to deploy.
Such a device does not exist.
> I looked at Synology / QNap / WD Sharespace but in each case the
> install of BackupPC seems tedious, and I'm not sure of the
> performances I will get on such devices...
It is tedious, and the performance will not be great.
BackupPC is somewhat CPU intensive. I run it on VIA 1.2-1.5GHz
based systems, and I'm somewhat CPU limited. (But I only use a single
internal drive, so more CPU would not help much.)
I've toyed with the idea of putting BackupPC directly
on an Iomega ix4-200d, but given the difficulties, I haven't yet tried.
That, and when you add the idea of an external hard drive (for archives,
not the pool), the pretty form-factor of the NAS just gets ruined by a
hard drive dangling off the side, so why bother?
One option for using a NAS is to use a standard PC
in front of it and mount the NAS via iSCSI (**NOT** NFS!!!) and use the
NAS' storage that way. That will give you the best results: many
have tried to use pools mounted via NFS, and few (none?) have succeeded.
BackupPC is pretty hard on filesystems, and NFS is fragile.
Timothy J. Massey
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