On 05/17 11:25 , Timothy J Massey wrote:
> One option for using a NAS is to use a standard PC in front of it and 
> mount the NAS via iSCSI (**NOT** NFS!!!) and use the NAS' storage that 
> way.  That will give you the best results:  many have tried to use pools 
> mounted via NFS, and few (none?) have succeeded.  BackupPC is pretty hard 
> on filesystems, and NFS is fragile.

I've put the data pool on a firewire attachment to a DRobo NAS. It does
drive up load substantially as the system waits on I/O from the remote
device.

-- 
Carl Soderstrom
Systems Administrator
Real-Time Enterprises
www.real-time.com

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