On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 9:36 AM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com> 
wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 8:13 AM, Richard Shaw <hobbes1069 AT gmail DOT com> 
> wrote:
>
>>> Option 2: run BackupPC on Solaris (Nexenta). Use snapshots and zfs send to
>>> replicate the data to another server. Very simple, very easy. And we've
>>> found BackupPC performance on ZFS much increased over ext3.
>>
>> Well, that may not be necessary for too much longer. There's a few linux
>> distro's that already have the zfsonlinux release candidate available which
>> allows mounting. I've also got Review Requests at RPM Fusion waiting on a
>> reviewer. Unfortunately,  they are not allowed in Fedora proper because they
>> don't allow external kernel modules.
>
> Does anyone consider Fedora usable over the lifespan that you would
> want for backup data?

It depends. Many people do use Fedora as a server and some of the
releases have been quite stable. I use it because I only backup stuff
at home and my BackupPC server is also my desktop. I'm an engineer for
my day job :)

The good thing about RPM Fusion is that it also supports enterprise
linux simliar to the Fedora ELEP repositories. In fact my source RPM
contains logic to differentiate between EL and Fedora based systems
since the guidelines are slightly different in some areas.

Richard

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