Re: [Bacula-users] Disk setup for best performance on backups

2020-01-24 Thread Jason Voorhees
Sorry for the late reply guys, I've been busy these last days. I really appreciate all the responses you made to this thread. I'll read carefully all of them and take into consideration for my deployment. Hope you all have a nice weekend! On Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 11:55 AM Josh Fisher wrote: > >

Re: [Bacula-users] Disk setup for best performance on backups

2020-01-22 Thread Josh Fisher
On 1/22/2020 10:52 AM, dmaziuk via Bacula-users wrote: On 1/22/2020 2:19 AM, Radosław Korzeniewski wrote: Unless you are using BEE GED or other similar functionality you should never use the SSD in your backup solution as it will be a pure waste of money. I'm running a bunch of jobs in paral

Re: [Bacula-users] Disk setup for best performance on backups

2020-01-22 Thread dmaziuk via Bacula-users
On 1/22/2020 2:19 AM, Radosław Korzeniewski wrote: Unless you are using BEE GED or other similar functionality you should never use the SSD in your backup solution as it will be a pure waste of money. I'm running a bunch of jobs in parallel and spooling them on an ssd. Works pretty well for t

Re: [Bacula-users] Disk setup for best performance on backups

2020-01-22 Thread Radosław Korzeniewski
Hello, pon., 20 sty 2020 o 16:57 Jason Voorhees napisał(a): > - Does it matter a lot choosing XFS instead of ext4 as filesystem? > IMVHO, yes. :) > - How can I know the amount of IOPS needed for my local disk? > You can calculate the value based on required throughput and expected block size

Re: [Bacula-users] Disk setup for best performance on backups

2020-01-21 Thread Josh Fisher
On 1/20/2020 10:56 AM, Jason Voorhees wrote: Hello guys: I'm planning a Bacula deployment on AWS in the following weeks. I have some doubts about disk performance for Disk based backups. See https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/disk-performance.html Based on the idea that

Re: [Bacula-users] Disk setup for best performance on backups

2020-01-20 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 2020-01-20 10:56, Jason Voorhees wrote: > > - Does it matter a lot choosing XFS instead of ext4 as filesystem? It is worth noting that even Red Hat, long the champion of ext*, has officially abandoned it and will do no further development on it. (And frankly, it didn't come a day too soon.)

Re: [Bacula-users] Disk setup for best performance on backups

2020-01-20 Thread William Muriithi
Hi > I'm planning a Bacula deployment on AWS in the following weeks. I have some > doubts about disk performance for Disk based backups. I use tapes, so you should take my response with a grain of salt. Question though, how do one protect the backup from being damaged if one is compromised and

[Bacula-users] Disk setup for best performance on backups

2020-01-20 Thread Jason Voorhees
Hello guys: I'm planning a Bacula deployment on AWS in the following weeks. I have some doubts about disk performance for Disk based backups. Based on the idea that Bacula writes data on big files (i.e. 100 GB each volume), what technical considerations should I have for the underlying storage de