Re: [Bacula-users] Hardware Specs & Sizing for Bacula?

2016-02-20 Thread paul.hutchings
UTC Time: February 19, 2016 10:02 PM From: a...@mssl.ucl.ac.uk To: paul.hutchi...@protonmail.com CC: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net On 19/02/16 19:10, paul.hutchings wrote: Alan thanks, I omitted that we have a Spectra LTO6 library which would be SAS attached to the server in question b

Re: [Bacula-users] Hardware Specs & Sizing for Bacula?

2016-02-19 Thread paul.hutchings
2 AM, paul.hutchings wrote: For example if I were to suggest box with dual 8 core E5 CPUs, hardware PERC RAID card with 1GB cache, 48TB of 7.2k SATA in RAID6 and 32GB (or more) of RAM running as a SD I actually use a Raspberry Pi with attached USB disks as an SD. I have about a dozen cli

Re: [Bacula-users] Hardware Specs & Sizing for Bacula?

2016-02-19 Thread paul.hutchings
is is dumb/obvious to most of you :) Original Message Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Hardware Specs & Sizing for Bacula? Local Time: February 19, 2016 6:58 pm UTC Time: February 19, 2016 6:58 PM From: a...@mssl.ucl.ac.uk To: paul.hutchi...@protonmail.com,bacula-users@lists.sourcefor

[Bacula-users] Hardware Specs & Sizing for Bacula?

2016-02-19 Thread paul.hutchings
We're new to Bacula and are still considering if it's viable for us. Our test environment is quite small (it is a test environment) and when I read the docs I'm not sure how recent they are when they relate to hardware specs. For example if I were to suggest box with dual 8 core E5 CPUs, hardwar

[Bacula-users] Windows backup throughput with small files?

2016-02-15 Thread paul.hutchings
I'm still new to Bacula and I'm doing some testing of Windows performance. If I have a client which I know has a good disk subsystem and which has good ethernet connectivity to the director/storage director, and a mixture of file types ranging from folders containing a few huge files through to

[Bacula-users] New Bacula user - Looking for some feedback

2016-01-30 Thread paul.hutchings
Hi, hoping I can ask for some fairly generic and possibly specific feedback here please. We currently us a very well regarded commercial product to backup our environment. Good product but licensing is prohibitive. Our environment is pretty simple I think. We have some VMware boxes running 5.5