BackupPC-users

Re: [BackupPC-users] Multiple backuppc server

2009-07-07 11:09:22
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Multiple backuppc server
From: Filipe Brandenburger <filbranden AT gmail DOT com>
To: "General list for user discussion, questions and support" <backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 11:05:08 -0400
Hi,

On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 08:50, Andy Brown<andy AT onyx DOT net> wrote:
> Anyone see any pitfalls/problems with what I'm doing here?

Yes, IMHO you are introducing complexity where it is not needed.

What are you trying to accomplish?

Fault-tolerance? In that case you should probably have an
active/passive deployment where the backup host is only used when the
master fails.

Load-balancing for compressing which is CPU intensive? In that case
you should probably split your storage in two 1TB LUNs, export one of
them to each host and run BackupPC over a regular ext3 (or XFS)
filesystem.

OCFS or any other cluster filesystem will only introduce overhead and
management complexity, and from your description it seems you are not
sharing files between hosts anyway.

HTH,
Filipe

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