Re: Setup for Lin rsnap serving 4 winxp boxes

Hi

David Keegel wrote:
> I tried NTFS and FAT32 as backup filesystems on Linux, and had trouble.
>   

We use cwrsync (Cygwin+Rsync) to backup Windows Servers (NTFS) to Linux.
Have a look at the rsnapshot logs though, there are some problems when
backing up opened files and files with very long names.

http://www.itefix.no/cwrsync/

> I have had no trouble with ext3 filesystems, so I use them.  I have
> a cron job to unmount/fsck/mount the filesystems once a month as a
> precaution, so the filesystems don't get to 6 months without being
> checked and cause a delay if the machine is rebooted.
>   

Use tune2fs -c and/or -i to disable forced fsck checks. Look at -m while
you're there if you have your backups on a dedicated partition ex.
/backup to regain about 5% of reserved space.

We've started using XFS on our backup servers a few weeks ago after
having issues with Ext3. Also we found quota support in XFS  to be
better suited for > 1TB file systems (we use quota to enforce per user
backup limit). quotacheck on an Ext3 partition takes forever.

Regards,

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Simon Boulet, SysAdmin [iWeb]
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