Currently my company uses a custom backup solution. While effective, we are growing out of the point where it is scalable for what we need and becoming unmanageable. It is also starting to lack features necessary.
Essentially, it backs up both linux and windows systems. It does standard dumps (A level 0, then level 1's compared against the level 0 until the level 1 reaches 50% the level0 size) for linux, and for windows we use smbclient to grab and tar up specific windows shares (usually the c$ drive.. yes.. There are many limitations of this heh.) I stumbled across bacula awhile back, and it looks great! Looks like it may do everything I need. (I need to read the documentation a bit more clearly to determine if it does the 0 and 1's as needed, but I'm sure it can.) The question I'm wondering is.. how well does it work in large scale environments? Our current system, is disk(client server) to disk (backup server) to disk (big array to back up the backup servers) and then to tape. The first level of backup servers (what the client server sends the data to) contains about 22 servers. Currently our system means managing each of those individually. You see my dilemma. Now, granted bacula could easily probably just handle them each as 20 or so different SD machines and the director could manage all 20 or so. At least that's my understanding. 22 storage devices? Well we're backing up around 800 servers at least like this. My question is... aside from anything being blatantly wrong in the above statements, can bacula reliably be used to backup 800 different systems or should I look for a different solution? Every testimonial I see mentions 30 or 50 clients max... Also, I noticed in the current "limitations" that 4 billion files is the limit per database? (this would I assume be per director then in reality if they used different databases?) I also saw that the backups are done via timestamp, and if a client moves the files without changing the timestamp then they do not get backed up in the "new" location ... I see a project is in the works to fix this. Might there be a status of this? Thanks in advance for your responses and aid, Terry ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
