I was planning to make my backend storage box with zfs which as i
understand it support easy expansion to multiple new disks. Then run
either iSCSI or NFS between the backend storage box and the front end
BPC box

On 23 March 2011 21:34,  <hansbkk AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
> 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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