From: Timothy J M. <tm...@ob...> - 2011-05-17 15:51:47
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Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom <ch...@re...> wrote on 05/17/2011 11:40:14 AM: > On 05/17 11:25 , Timothy J Massey wrote: > > One option for using a NAS is to use a standard PC in front of it and > > mount the NAS via iSCSI (**NOT** NFS!!!) and use the NAS' storage that > > way. That will give you the best results: many have tried to use pools > > mounted via NFS, and few (none?) have succeeded. BackupPC is pretty hard > > on filesystems, and NFS is fragile. > > I've put the data pool on a firewire attachment to a DRobo NAS. It does > drive up load substantially as the system waits on I/O from the remote > device. Tomato, tomaahto... :) The point was basically "any block-level attachment (except maybe USB)". The problem comes from NFS' poor handling of the zillions of hard links that BackupPC wants to use. iSCSO/eSATA/Firewire are all block-level protocols. NFS/SMB are file-level protocols. It's the file-level protocols that either wont' work at all (SMB) or work very poorly (NFS). If the system is given a block device it can format with something sane (EXT2/4/XFS/JFS) then you'll be just fine, modulo the performance of the connection between the computer and the device. Timothy J. Massey Out of the Box Solutions, Inc. Creative IT Solutions Made Simple! http://www.OutOfTheBoxSolutions.com tm...@ob... 22108 Harper Ave. St. Clair Shores, MI 48080 Office: (800)750-4OBS (4627) Cell: (586)945-8796 |