Tim Bell 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: > > Specifically, > > - What are the recommended largest number of files in the catalog for > each bacula instance ?
You can find some sample numbers here: http://wiki.bacula.org/doku.php?id=database_statistics > - What database choice is the best for large numbers of files in the > catalog ? Not SQLite. Either MySQL or Postgresql can scale to very large databases, so I'd pick whichever one your site has more expertise with. > - Do multiple instances of bacula on a single server make sense to > improve scalability ? Probably not, as I suspect that either OS resources (network and volume IO, mostly) and the database performance will be your primary bottlenecks. -- Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu | For every problem, there is a solution that WPI Senior Network Engineer | is simple, elegant, and wrong. - HL Mencken GPG fingerprint = 6174 1257 129E 0D21 D8D4 E8A3 8E39 29E3 E2E8 8CEC ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
