Hello Tyler,

> ZFS de-duplication won't be of any use to you. However, you 
> can always use ZFS to extend the filesystem later with more 
> disks. Otherwise, I'd recommend ext4.

OK, I'll stick with ext3 or ext4 (don't know if ext4 is supported in
Debian Lenny).
Could you simply explain to me (curiosity) why ZFS de-duplication would
not have any meaning on my setup?

> If you have the disks for it, consider RAID-10 (and don't 
> consider RAID-5). 
> Performance of BackupPC increased noticeably when I moved to 
> it (I run 4 backups simultaneously). If you're running just 
> one backup at time, it won't matter as much.

I'm actually running 8 simultaneous backups, over DLS WAN connections,
during nighttime, and no problems yet.

Thanks for your suggestions,
Flavio Boniforti

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Switzerland
Phone: +41 91 751 68 81
Fax: +41 91 751 69 14
URL: http://www.piramide.ch
E-mail: flavio AT piramide DOT ch 

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