<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 20 October 2014 14:15, Cesar Peschiera <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brain@click.com.py" target="_blank">brain@click.com.py</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi Lindsay<br>
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Maybe you'd better have a PVE on a PC as Backup Server instead of a NAS.<br>
Why i believe that it will be better?<br>
For four reasons:<br>
1) You will can manually restore the backups that were completed successfully on this same PC that also is running PVE and test it for be sure that your files of backups are in perfect status for his restauration.<br>
2) You will not need to use your real servers doing such tests, and you will avoid performance degradation.<br>
3) If a hardware component is decomposed, you only will need change the part that is decomposed.<br>
4) If a PVE real server decomposes, and you don't have "HA" enabled, your PC of backup will can help you starting the VMs that are necessary in this same computer.<br></blockquote><div><br><br></div><div>Thats an interesting thought Cesar, I'll look into that. Would be very useful to have a test server.<br><br></div><div>OTOH, the attraction of a NAS is the built in features - web gui, sync to external disk, notification of results via email etc. With a PVE server I'd have to script and test it all myself.<br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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By other hand, for a company, i will be testing this scenery:<br>
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2 PC of Backup<br>
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- The two PC of Backups will have the same configuration<br>
- Mainboard Asus "P8H77 m pro" (workstation)<br>
- 16 GB RAM<br>
- OS = PVE (from his ISO installer)<br>
- NFS service for use in the Backups<br>
- 1 NIC Intel dual port 10 Gb/s with bonding "active-backup" (for use<br>
exclusive of the backups) connected to the LAN of the backups<br>
- 2 NICs Intel single port with bonding "LACP" connected to the LAN company (for his management)<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Why two bonded nics for the management connection?<br></div><br></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">thanks,<br clear="all"></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br>-- <br>Lindsay
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