Thomas Karcher wrote:
> 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.

I'm looking for something that can be fired up easily on a windows/mac 
without much concern for its physical hardware, so I don't think Xen is 
a good fit.  I do have a dual-boot laptop - but it spends much of its 
time in the same building as the data being backed up and I'd like a 
plan that only needs the offsite disk and perhaps an image on a CD or 
DVD that is likely to run anywhere.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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