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osbackup:concepts:01_roles [2017/06/20 20:35]
Thomas Aeby [The backup repository]
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Thomas Aeby [The backup repository]
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-The actual backups are stored file-by-file in the same structure as on the backup client. The backup repository needs to have access to a sufficiently large storage volume (rule of thumb: at least twice the size of the data to be backed up) with a decent file system. Ext3/ext4, xfs, btrfs, zfs will do, file systems with limitted capabilities like NTFS, FAT, exFAT won't.+The actual backups are stored file-by-file in the same structure as on the backup client. The backup repository needs to have access to a sufficiently large storage volume (rule of thumb: at least twice the size of the data to be backed up) with a decent file system. Ext3/ext4, xfs, btrfs, zfs will do, file systems with limitted capabilities like NTFS, FAT, exFAT won't. Pluggable disks (USB, RDX, hotplug SATA, etc.) are completely ok.
  
  
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