-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Henrik Johansen wrote: > Hi list, > > I have some questions regarding disk based backups that I hope some of you > could answer for me. I am currently managing 100+ UNIX systems that are > backed > up using a variety of scripts which I really would like to replace with > something > solid, flexible, scalable and easy to manage. > > Bacula seems to be heavily centralized around tape and my head hurts a bit > from > trying to figure out how to do efficient disk based backup for 100+ clients > without > shooting myself in the foot :)
Why do you conclude it is highly centralized around tape? > All our UNIX boxes follow a 3 week rotation with 1 full backup every week and > incrementals in between but I would like to be able to change this on a per > client basis. You can. > My plan is to have a redundant pair of directors and 3 storage daemons > running > off 3 seperat Solaris ZFS backends. What will you do with the two directors? Will both be active? > What combo of pools / volumes do people recommend ? A pool per client ? A > pool per > backup type, eg. full, diff, incr ? Seperate volumes per client perhaps ? It depends upon your goals. Do you want to do concurrent backups? How much data will you be storing at a given time? - -- Dan Langille BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference : http://www.bsdcan.org/ PGCon - The PostgreSQL Conference: http://www.pgcon.org/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkn2XWAACgkQCgsXFM/7nTyV9wCfVmbxea5duShN2meIgnLC9qnb BvsAn2+vMSvPmJ5WmTAcEM5ft/o6lsgw =1bE7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Register Now & Save for Velocity, the Web Performance & Operations Conference from O'Reilly Media. Velocity features a full day of expert-led, hands-on workshops and two days of sessions from industry leaders in dedicated Performance & Operations tracks. Use code vel09scf and Save an extra 15% before 5/3. http://p.sf.net/sfu/velocityconf _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
