On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 6:17 AM, Tim Bell <tim.b...@cern.ch> wrote: > > What are the experiences of Bacula's scalability limits as the number of > files per server increase ? We are looking at backing up 1000+ clients > with millions of files in total. I would like to understand if this is > feasible and how many servers we would need:
Size wise: http://www.bacula.org/en/rel-manual/Catalog_Maintenance.html#SECTION0024150000000000000000 > > Specifically, > > - What are the recommended largest number of files in the catalog for > each bacula instance ? > - What database choice is the best for large numbers of files in the > catalog ? > - Do multiple instances of bacula on a single server make sense to > improve scalability ? For your scale I'll let others answer above. There was a link that showed usage for some big backups but I can't remember where it was at. Lucas ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
