both NTFS and CIFS/SMB support hard links. Hardlinks work across SMB on
remote NTFS volumes.
That being said, I highly suggest you look for other options. This will be
a slow, high CPU usage setup.
Dives are cheap. Expand the capacity of your backuppc server and save
yourself a lot of headaches.
I have to ask....why do so many people insist on running their backup system
on some hokey setup? Why even bother backing up the files if you are not
going to back them up correctly? It is a false sense of security because
when you really need to restore data you have a good chance of something
being wrong!
You should really have a backup server with local storage, not network
storage.
drives are soo cheap now that you can build a 1.5TB mirrored storage array
for $380!
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?SID=838944-1-0-ARTICLE-0&Item=N82E16822148337
32MB cache masks I/O, a mirror doesnt need to compute parity and the bus
speed of the system should be able to tollerate the writes to 2 drives
without a significant penalty.
On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 11:59 AM, Les Mikesell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Andrei Stebakov wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I've installed BackupPC on my Ubuntu server, but its hard drives have
> > relatively small capacity so I'd rather use my Windows machines to put
> the
> > backups on.
> > Is it possible to move the storage media from /var/lib/backuppc from
> local
> > machine to some remote Windows machine?
>
> The archive filesystem must support unix-style hardlinks for the pooling
> feature to work. Theoretically you might be able to install windows
> services-for-unix, export a directory via NFS, and mount that as your
> archive filesystem but I don't think anyone has gotten satisfactory
> performance that way. For a small setup you might be able to use the
> free VMware server on the windows box with the backuppc server running
> as a guest. Or, depending on your use for the windows boxes perhaps you
> could run windows under VMware to give Linux the native speed - or
> dual-boot to let backuppc run at night.
>
> Iscsi would be the obvious solution here but I think the software is
> expensive on the windows side. Buying a pair of SATA disks that you can
> run in raid1 on the linux box is probably the cheapest approach with
> good performance.
>
> --
> Les Mikesell
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