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Re: [Xen-users] NFS vs SMb vs iSCSI for remote backup mounts

Rudi Ahlers wrote:

Fair enough, but iSCSI is commonly used on NAS devices, and then export whatever filesystem is being used to the host. Which is why I am considering it.

In which case it's not a case of iSCSI vs <something>, it's NAS+iSCSI vs <something>.

There is a mixture of Windows & Linux data, but would NFS give me better performance for the Linux hosts?

Personally, I would choose NFS over SMB for storing Linux files - for the simple reason that the file system semantics are directly compatible with the files being stored. I've no idea how it compares with SMB though - and in any case again it's not a case of NFS vs SMB, it's <implementation of NFS> vs <implementation of NFS>. It's entirely possible that vendor A's box does SMB better while vendor B's box does NFS better.

I'd still choose Rsync if available for a Linux client.


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