On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 15:28 +0200, 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.

Thomas,

I think it depends on the NFS server you are using.  I have over 1500
clients backing up via 7 backuppc servers attached via nfs to a high
performance Exastore NAS device.  Works great.

ski

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