On 7/28/2016 7:22 AM, Josh Fisher wrote: > On 7/27/2016 6:15 PM, Ken Mandelberg wrote: >> What is the current thinking of the most effective way to use Bacula >> doing storage to Google Drive? >> >> We have a fast network connection, with multi-terabyte Linux systems to >> regularly backup. I don't think any of the Linux fuse filesystems for >> Google Drive are really robust enough to depend on. > How fast? A 100 Mbps connection equates to 6.25 MB/s or so. With > compression, let's say an average of 10 MB/s. For 1 TB = 10^6 MB, it > would take at least 10^5 seconds or just over 27 hours. A full backup of > a multi-terabyte system would take days.
Sorry, that should be 100 Mbps = 12.5 MB/s, but it still takes days for a multi-terabyte backup. > > Bacula expects its TCP connections to stay up for the entire job. It > will fail jobs, rather than attempt re-connects. Bacula is targeting > local network backups, rather than Internet backups, since the Internet > is generally not fast enough. One network hiccup can fail the job on day > 3. There may be a way to resume jobs, but I am not sure it is possible > to resume failed jobs. > > Also, there is a maximum runtime for a single job that must be dealt > with. It may require a patch and recompile to increase the max runtime. > > My opinion is that the Internet is not yet fast enough or robust enough > for full backups of multi-terabyte systems. I would store fulls to local > disk and then rsync to GD. It should be feasible to store incrementals > directly to GD. However, if none of the filesystems are robust enough, > then I would table the whole idea until they are. > >> If you agree, that just leaves writing to local storage and doing a >> command line transfer at the end, and the reverse for restores. Is there >> any support for managing the transfers (both backup and restore) without >> manual interaction? >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> _______________________________________________ >> Bacula-users mailing list >> Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
