Hi there, I'd just like to share my experience with a hardware upgrade. I've got a Dell PowerEdge 2900 here with a Quad Core Xeon E5310 @1.6GHz, 2 GB memory and hardware RAID5 (questionable decision, but that's another story). I was pretty unhappy with the overall performance of the system for some time.
The server is backing up 23 servers, the largest task being 120 GB in about 2 million files, followed by three servers with 30-40 GB in about 200,000 files. It managed to back up about half of these servers during a night - during the day it's preparing tar.bz2 for tape archiving via bacula. Overall, the machine was rather I/O bound doing heavy I/O all the time with a lot of waiting time. Because we upgraded another internal server (memory's rather cheap currently), we added another 4 GB to the server and now it manages to handle almost all server backups during a night. :-) So I'm rather satisfied again and will postpone the RAID5->RAID10 conversion for some time. :-) Bye, Tino. -- "What we nourish flourishes." - "Was wir nähren erblüht." www.craniosacralzentrum.de www.forteego.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
