29 Jan
2011
29 Jan
'11
6:19 a.m.
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 1:14 PM, John R Pierce pierce@hogranch.com wrote:
no way in H*** I'd run a storage server as a VM, especially if its serving the same host as its hosted on.
*Configuration* storage, such as /etc/ files, sure. Actual backup? No virtualized host does that as well as the underlying virtualization server. There are plenty of lightweight, robust backup systems, such as rsnapshot and Amanda, which can be performanced tuned not to overwhelm the resources of the server itself and whose installation requirements are quite modest.