-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Les Mikesell Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 2:49 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Backup server
Between compression and pooling, I get about 10x the raw data being archived with backuppc - it beats juggling tapes and you can let the users access the backups of their own machine through a web interface. There are some down sides to plan around though: the compression takes some CPU and is slower than a stock rsync run, and the pooling is done with hardlinks which forces the archive to be on a single filesystem and makes it hard to duplicate for offsite copies. There's an RPM in epel that is easy to install on Centos.
Sound very interesting indeed!
I don't think the performance will be a problem, the server's a calculation machine that has now been scrapped running a dual-xeon@2,something GHz and some 4GB RAM IIRC. Do you think the software-raid5 array used, would be a problem in this case?
I've never had any problems with software raid5 in linux before, but you never know...