On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 1:39 PM, Kameleon <kameleon25 AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 1:28 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
> wrote:
>> 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.
I think the biggest difference is Debian/Ubuntu uses /var/lib/backuppc
while Fedora/EL uses /var/lib/BackupPC.
Also the apache configs may be located differently.
Richard
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