Re: Assistance building a backup server

2015-03-08 Thread Chris Murphy
On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 12:30 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: > On 03/05/2015 10:53 AM, Alex Regan wrote: >> Is btrfs used in production? I wasn't sure that it was fully stable yet. > > > btrfs is in production now. F21 fully supports it and (I think) it's the > default for F21. Btrfs isn't the default i

Re: Assistance building a backup server

2015-03-08 Thread Chris Murphy
On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 9:48 AM, Alex Regan wrote: > I currently have a 3TB backup system using five 1TB disks in RAID5. Restore > times in case of disk failure are already exceedingly long, Oh yeah, several things you need to check if you're using mdadm created RAID. md/stripe_cache_size in sys

Re: Assistance building a backup server

2015-03-08 Thread Chris Murphy
On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 9:48 AM, Alex Regan wrote: > Hi, > I have a fedora20 system acting as a backup server, and I've exceeded its > capacity. I'd like to build a bigger one, probably using fedora21. > > I currently have a 3TB backup system using five 1TB disks in RAID5. Restore > times in case o

Re: Assistance building a backup server

2015-03-08 Thread Robin Laing
On 2015-03-05 09:48, Alex Regan wrote: Hi, I have a fedora20 system acting as a backup server, and I've exceeded its capacity. I'd like to build a bigger one, probably using fedora21. I currently have a 3TB backup system using five 1TB disks in RAID5. Restore times in case of disk failure are al

Re: Assistance building a backup server

2015-03-05 Thread Rick Stevens
On 03/05/2015 10:53 AM, Alex Regan wrote: Hi, I currently have a 3TB backup system using five 1TB disks in RAID5. Restore times in case of disk failure are already exceedingly long, so I'd like to consider another method of providing redundancy, and would like suggestions. Five 1TB disks in a

Re: Assistance building a backup server

2015-03-05 Thread Alex Regan
Hi, I currently have a 3TB backup system using five 1TB disks in RAID5. Restore times in case of disk failure are already exceedingly long, so I'd like to consider another method of providing redundancy, and would like suggestions. Five 1TB disks in a RAID5 should give you about 4TB usable sto

Re: Assistance building a backup server

2015-03-05 Thread Rick Stevens
On 03/05/2015 08:48 AM, Alex Regan wrote: Hi, I have a fedora20 system acting as a backup server, and I've exceeded its capacity. I'd like to build a bigger one, probably using fedora21. I currently have a 3TB backup system using five 1TB disks in RAID5. Restore times in case of disk failure are

Assistance building a backup server

2015-03-05 Thread Alex Regan
Hi, I have a fedora20 system acting as a backup server, and I've exceeded its capacity. I'd like to build a bigger one, probably using fedora21. I currently have a 3TB backup system using five 1TB disks in RAID5. Restore times in case of disk failure are already exceedingly long, so I'd like