On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 12:41 PM, Kameleon <kameleon25 AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
> Currently our backuppc server is a Xen pv domU running Ubuntu 10.04.
> It has served us well over the past two years. However it is time to
> move it out of the virtual environment and back onto physical
> hardware. This is only so that it can be located on the far edge of
> our campus as far away from the physical servers it backs up as
> possible while still keeping it on the fiber network. So with that we
> are looking to install a fresh OS on the new hardware. We could stay
> with Ubuntu and just load 12.04. Most of our other servers are Centos
> or Fedora. Is there one distribution that is better than the other for
> backuppc? I will be moving the /var/lib/backuppc pool (it is on it's
> own lv) to the new machine. Should I expect any problems with this?
>
> Thanks in advance for any and all input.

If you like centos, I'd probably go with a Centos 6.2 since that
should have a very long life with update support.  But, there are some
differences in the packaging and directory naming conventions between
the EPEL rpm and the debian/ubuntu .debs that you might need to
understand.   I don't think that should affect the archive layout,
though.  Moving large pools is always a problem if you try to do
file-level copies. Moving the disks or image copies should work,
though.

-- 
  Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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