On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 07:11:21PM -0600, dan wrote:
> Why do you want to avoid LVM so much?  You are stuck with having just 1
> filesystem because hardlinks dont traverse filesystems so you are stuck with
> 1 large drive, a raid device or LVM.  I have been experimenting with
> redhat's GFS via centos5 and it looks promising but I have not tried it with
> backuppc.
> 
> I was thinking that it would be a very nice setup to use GFS for multiple
> backuppc servers and find a way to share the pool/cpool directories.

I suppose, this won't work since the pool files need to be hardlinked to
the backup directories, so everything needs to be in GFS.

Of course, you could have multiple servers access the same file system
by using different hosts files. Then you'd need to tweak BackupPC to run
BackupPC_nightly only on one server (or disable it and use cron and
distribute the nightly runs across servers, each doing a part of the
pool - stats won't be useful then).

Bye,

Tino.

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