Best to use LVM (over RAID if you like) for future expansion flexibility.

I happen to use OpenFiler as a NAS host for the same reason - can act
as an iSCSI host as well as all the mainstream filesharing protocols,
relatively easy to set up compared to building your own from a generic
distro.

Note it is not recommended to run BPC on the OF host itself, best to
treat OF as a "black box" appliance.

On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 7:52 PM, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
<backuppc AT kosowsky DOT org> wrote:
> Lord Sporkton wrote at about 02:56:59 -0700 on Tuesday, March 22, 2011:
>  > I was hoping to setup a backend storage system for this to allow me to
>  > use a much larger file system than is typically available locally. I
>  > was looking at using an NFS share and connecting backuppc to the NFS
>  > share. As I understand it NFS has no real limit on the filesystem size
>  > other than that of the hosting machines filesystem limits, but does
>  > backuppc have any filesystem requirements or filesystem size limits? I
>  > noticed the inode issue mentioned in documentation, im looking into
>  > that one currently for NFS.
>  >
>  > I saw the limits about individual file size in the faq but im more
>  > concerned with the overall filesystem backuppc is running on top of.
>  >
>
> BackupPC itself has no such limits. The limits are based on the
> filesystem where TopDir is located.
>
> Also, btw, the issue is not NFS but the filesystem that NFS is
> mounting from the remote machine. So you need to look on the remote
> machine filesystem partition and see how much space and inodes are
> available.
>
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