Quoting Kern Sibbald :
> Hello Graham,
>
> Thanks for your "Full disclosure".
>
> To answer your question: a *well* tuned Bacula community Director can
> probably handle between 1000-1500 "normal" size jobs per 12 hour backup
> period. A normal job is a normal Linux or Microsoft server that would
Kern> 3. Run read/write disk tests on your USB disk (note: this will
Kern> destroy any existing data).
This isn't quite right. You can run read-write tests on a quiescent
filesystem (ie unmounted) without problems:
badblocks -svn /dev/sd?
will scan the entire disk using non-destructive read
Hello Graham,
Thanks for your "Full disclosure".
To answer your question: a *well* tuned Bacula community Director can
probably handle between 1000-1500 "normal" size jobs per 12 hour backup
period. A normal job is a normal Linux or Microsoft server that would
include a few terabytes (say up to