Re: [BackupPC-users] reiserfs - was Migrating backups

[Dan P. <da...@in...>]

I'm building a large data warehouse system using ZFS for an unrelated
project; assuming we get the thing working like we want to (currently
having scsi driver issues and i'm about ready to give up and run linux)
i'll see if i can simulate a backuppc datastore and hardlinks and try
it out.

On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 11:06:50AM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> Tony Schreiner wrote:
> > I am running a fairly small BackupPC on a Solaris 10 machine ( 6  
> > clients, maybe about 200 GB total backup) . Backup directory on ZFS,  
> > but I haven't tried any tricks with ZFS yet.
> > I've had no operational problems. I am using my own version of perl  
> > rather than the system default.
> 
> I don't know enough about it to even ask the question right but I've 
> wondered if the zfs send/recv facilities can deal with backuppc's huge 
> number of hardlinks efficiently enough to make offsite copies of the 
> archive - especially with its incremental mode.
> 
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