Re: optimesing NFS Server for e.g. remote Backup

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On Thursday 16 February 2006 07:45, Götz Reinicke wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have some RHEL4 servers and want to set up a central backup system
> with a "big" harddisk. I found a very nice shell-script, doing
> incremental backups using tar.
>

> Any ideas what coul be wrong? The Backups are about 10 GB +- up to 100
> GB in the future.

With that amount of data to backup don't use tar, use rsync instead. Rsync 
is much faster as it only copies the parts of files which have changed. 
An excellent backup system using rsync to try is BackupPC                
<  backuppc.sourceforge.net >. It does full and incremental backups using 
rsync.

>
> The second Question: Which NFS/mount/export optimisation settings are
> recomendet? (e.g. NFS Version, buffers...)
>
> Thanks a lot for any hints and tips!
>
> Regards
>
> Götz Reinicke

Tony

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Tony Molloy.

Dept. of Comp. Sci.
University of Limerick


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