> -----Original Message----- > From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On > Behalf Of Les Mikesell > Sent: den 5 november 2013 15:09 > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: Re: [CentOS] [OT] Building a new backup server > > > Can e.g. BackupPC handle several file systems to backup to? > > I.e. comp1 through 10 should backup to /bak1, comp 11 through 20 to /bak2 > > and so on. > > > > The main point of backuppc is that it hard-links all files with > identical content to save space, so it needs to put everything on one > filesystem. However, I'm getting pretty good performance running it > in virtual machines so the simple approach would be to run different > instances in different VMs - making sure they don't share physical > disks for their archive partitions, and if possible, using different > physical NICs. I'm running mine under the free version of Vmware > ESXi, (which might also solve the problem of missing drivers) but KVM > should work equally well. I'm getting there myself, it would seem. Thanks for confirming this might be the "right" way to go. -- //Sorin