Hi,
Mark Phillips wrote on 2011-07-11 09:04:31 -0700 [[BackupPC-users] Location of
TopDir]:
> Can TopDir be a network drive?
no, BackupPC doesn't run on Windoze.
> I have a NAS, and I would like to use rsync to store the data on the NAS
> from the backuppc server. Is this possible?
Not really, if your pool is or will at any point be "large" (where the exact
value of "large" depends on available RAM and rsync version). Try it out to
see if it works for you, but don't rely on it. It just doesn't scale well for
growing pools.
Ok. Now to the question you probably meant to ask.
Sure, you can mount the pool FS via NFS (or anything else that will support
hardlinks correctly - note that this requirement includes the file system
behind the network mount; you can't export eg. a FAT file system via NFS and
expect that to work, so if you're talking about a NAS, you'll have to check).
You should note, though, that BackupPC does a lot of I/O on the pool, so
slowing down this part (as a network mount is bound to do) will slow down
overall backup performance. Furthermore, there have been reports of problems
with broken NFS implementations on some NAS devices which only become apparent
under heavy usage such as with BackupPC.
For details on moving TopDir, see
http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/backuppc/index.php?title=Change_archive_directory
Regards,
Holger
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