Hello, 08.02.2010 21:02, Heitor Medrado de Faria wrote: > Hello everyone, > > Im writing a academical paper about Bacula and I was wondering if anyone > could provide me those informations: > > 1. Bacula Minimum Hardware Requirements.
As Dan pointed out - what the underlying OS needs. I had Bacula running on an intel Pentium with, IIRC, 233 MHz and 128 MB RAM (catalog DB was on another machine). I've got Bacula running on an AMD Athlon 500 with 512 MB RAM. I've also got several instances of Bacula running in Virtual Machines with less than 512 MB RAM. I'm pretty sure that, in theory, you could run a full Bacula on a really minimal system, say 486-class, with 32 MB RAM and no local disks at all, but I won't try this now :-) > 2. Bacula maximum througput record. A high percentage of what your hardware can deliver - I've seen reports of Bacula saturating multiple LTO-3 drives, or two LTO-4 on standard x86 hardware. If you look at what is possible with "real" server hardware, and how well Bacula can scale if everything is configured and tweaked, I don't think there is any built-in limitation to Bacula's throughput. If you provide a really big Server with many fast local disks, many fast FC connections, and a really fast SAN storage, I'll gladly help you tweaking your setup :-) Henrik gave some numbers - I believe he doesn't need any really special hardware to get those numbers. > 3. Bacula maximum stored data size backuped by the same director. Will be limited by the available storage capacity only, so, in theory, close to infinity... for practical reasons, you'll want some information in the catalog, so I just invent a number and say "up to 10 Exabyte". Anyone claiming more please show me :-) > Be my guest to provide me other useful information. ;-) If we knew what you wanted to show or prove with your paper that might even be possible. Cheers, Arno > Regards, > > Heitor Faria > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation > Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business > Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts > Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > -- Arno Lehmann IT-Service Lehmann Sandstr. 6, 49080 Osnabrück www.its-lehmann.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
