-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On
Behalf
Of Les Mikesell Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 3:14 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Backup server
If you have any opportunity to change things, I'd get some larger drives
and use
raid1 or 0+1. If you want offsite copies, a workable approach in the 2TB
scale
is to make a 3-member raid1 where you periodically swap the 3rd drive (in
an
internal or external swappable sata enclosure). If you don't need that, a
4
drive 0+1 raid of 1.5 TB drives would give you 3TB and better performance.
What
you have will work - but it will limit performance.
Nice idea, but no budget. Sorry. Maybe next year. This year is for getting this thing started at all, and get the backups going. Therefore I opted for most possible space with some redundancy. Not the best solution, but workable.
As it is now, the 2TB shebang is mounted as /backup. Does that count as a single filesystem?
Yes, but if you use the epel rpm, either mount it at /var/lib/BackupPC or
put a
symlink there before the install. If you install from the sourceforge
source
there is an install script that modifies the location so you can put things where you want, but the rpm packages have already done that. The next
version
will make this easier to change but the current one needs to stay in the location set when the package was built.
It'll probably be epel. Symlink's probably the easiest way to do it. Thanks for the hint.