On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 1:28 PM, Les Mikesell <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 12:41 PM, Kameleon <[email protected]> wrote: >> Currently our backuppc server is a Xen pv domU running Ubuntu 10.04. >> It has served us well over the past two years. However it is time to >> move it out of the virtual environment and back onto physical >> hardware. This is only so that it can be located on the far edge of >> our campus as far away from the physical servers it backs up as >> possible while still keeping it on the fiber network. So with that we >> are looking to install a fresh OS on the new hardware. We could stay >> with Ubuntu and just load 12.04. Most of our other servers are Centos >> or Fedora. Is there one distribution that is better than the other for >> backuppc? I will be moving the /var/lib/backuppc pool (it is on it's >> own lv) to the new machine. Should I expect any problems with this? >> >> Thanks in advance for any and all input. > > If you like centos, I'd probably go with a Centos 6.2 since that > should have a very long life with update support. But, there are some > differences in the packaging and directory naming conventions between > the EPEL rpm and the debian/ubuntu .debs that you might need to > understand. I don't think that should affect the archive layout, > though. Moving large pools is always a problem if you try to do > file-level copies. Moving the disks or image copies should work, > though. > > -- > Les Mikesell > [email protected] > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > For Developers, A Lot Can Happen In A Second. > Boundary is the first to Know...and Tell You. > Monitor Your Applications in Ultra-Fine Resolution. Try it FREE! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/Boundary-d2dvs2 > _______________________________________________ > BackupPC-users mailing list > [email protected] > List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net > Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
When I set this machine up I set the pool to be on a separate logical volume just for the reason of future expansion. The move to this machine was the good old "rsync -vrlptgoDH" way and it did take for ever! That was when we only had roughly 1.5TB of pool storage, while now we have over 5TB. It is not a possibility to leave the existing pool where it is as we are pulling the drives to install in a different machine meaning re-initializing them. Since the pool is on it's own lv I plan to just export that lv to our SAN temporarily, then export it to it's final destination once the final machine is setup. Thanks for the input. Donny B. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ For Developers, A Lot Can Happen In A Second. Boundary is the first to Know...and Tell You. Monitor Your Applications in Ultra-Fine Resolution. Try it FREE! http://p.sf.net/sfu/Boundary-d2dvs2 _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
