For what it's worth, I have a similar amount of data and settled on a "Maximum Volume Bytes" of 200G which has been working without any issues for a few months now.
Cheers, Ewan > -----Original Message----- > From: Mike Seda [mailto:mas...@stanford.edu] > Sent: 20 May 2011 18:49 > To: Bacula Users > Subject: [Bacula-users] Maximum Volume Bytes > > Hi All, > I'm currently setting up a disk-based storage pool in Bacula and am > wondering what I should set "Maximum Volume Bytes" to. I was thinking > of > setting it to "100G", but am just wondering if this is sane. > > FYI, the total data of our clients is 15 TB, but we are told that this > data should at least double each year. > > I noticed that there seems to be a limit on the number of disk-based > volumes in a pool due to the suffix having 4 digits, i.e. 0001. This > adds up to about 10,000 possible volumes per pool. So 10,000 volumes x > 100 GB is 1 PB. That seems like overkill. Perhaps setting "Maximum > Volume Bytes = 10G" would be more reasonable since this would add up to > 100 TB. > > I'm also storing these file volumes on ZFS (v28 w/ dedup=on), and am > wondering if smaller volumes will dedup better than larger ones. I'm > curious to see what others are doing to take advantage of dedup-enabled > ZFS storage w/ Bacula. > > Thanks, > Mike > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > ------- > What Every C/C++ and Fortran developer Should Know! > Read this article and learn how Intel has extended the reach of its > next-generation tools to help Windows* and Linux* C/C++ and Fortran > developers boost performance applications - including clusters. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmay > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- Scanned by iCritical. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ vRanger cuts backup time in half-while increasing security. With the market-leading solution for virtual backup and recovery, you get blazing-fast, flexible, and affordable data protection. Download your free trial now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/quest-d2dcopy1 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
