Greyhole pool as Crashplan destination

chaosarg
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Greyhole pool as Crashplan destination

Postby chaosarg » Wed Nov 20, 2013 8:12 am

Hi I've been searching around in the forum but cannot find this specific scenario.
I want to set up amahi with greyhole as a crashplan destination only. I don't want to back up shares as there will be none on the server. I just need it for the drive pooling.
Are there any problems in doing this?

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sgtfoo
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Re: Greyhole pool as Crashplan destination

Postby sgtfoo » Wed Nov 20, 2013 10:33 am

long story short: Don't do it.

Crashplan creates too many read/write cycles for the samba/greyhole combo to be comfortable with.

Save your crashplan backups to a static volume... eg: lvm, zfs, ext4, raid, etc.

I tell you this from experience (re: broken storage pool)
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chaosarg
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Re: Greyhole pool as Crashplan destination

Postby chaosarg » Wed Nov 20, 2013 11:47 am

Thank you. I'll follow your suggestion

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Re: Greyhole pool as Crashplan destination

Postby evylrat » Wed Jan 29, 2014 2:51 pm

Would frozen directories not solve that issue? I've ran Crashplan for a while. Just haven't got round to reinstalling it since my fresh ubuntu install.

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