Hi James, > If you are backing up over 1Gbit/s ethernet then you require a storage that > can write at a maximum of 100mbytes/s and either configuration should be > more than capable of handling way more than that, assuming that it never > gets ridiculously fragmented. If you use RAID5 then I recommend a hardware > RAID controller with battery backed write cache, although it's less of a > requirement for "streaming" storage than random access database storage > where small (< stripe size) writes are frequent.
Backups will be done over 1Gbit Ethernet. Hardware RAID controller used will be a Dell PERC 710p, this has battery and 1GB cache Cheers, John. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single web console. Get in-depth insight into apps, servers, databases, vmware, SAP, cloud infrastructure, etc. Download 30-day Free Trial. Pricing starts from $795 for 25 servers or applications! http://p.sf.net/sfu/zoho_dev2dev_nov _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users