I'm just getting started setting up bppc and I want to experiment with putting the data store on a zfs filesystem. (A solaris host running Openindiana with zfs file systems)
I'm installing bppc on Debian (wheezy) and thought I'd mount just the storage pool on an nfs share that resides on the solaris host. Maybe that isn't the best way... I wondered if there is anyone here doing something similar (using zfs for the storage pool). On debian many of the things that would be done by user during an install from sources are done for you. I ended up with the main files at /var/lib/backuppc. which contains a whole pile of some kind of data files. I see them in places like cpool/0/0/0. pwd /var/lib/backuppc ls cpool log pc pool trash ls cpool/0/0/0 00082b8bf118ab8238eab15debddfdd7 000f017d12997dfc67d8e55eab8 file cpool/0/0/0/* cpool/0/0/0/00082b8bf118ab8238eab15debddfdd7: data cpool/0/0/0/000f017d12997dfc67d8e55eab8af059: data I haven't finished the docs yet, maybe it tell what this stuff is... but for purposes of this post I wondered if it would be wisest to let the directories and files under /var/lib/backuppc also reside on the nfs shared zfs filesystem. Which directory really holds the backups... `pc' or `pool'. Another thing to consider when thinking of using a zfs host is whether to let zfs do the compression. One can set compression on in zfs, but I suspect it would not be as heavy a compression as backuppc might do. However, on zfs, it is done transparently and is not really a big resource user. Any thoughts on this subject would be very welcome. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87hb2281y3....@newsguy.com
