Hi Chris, The storage will be iSCSI (over gigabit), and offsite backups will be done via an archive done once a week. Does that sound sane?
Gerald ----- "Chris Baker" <cba...@intera.com> wrote: > > I backup well over 3 TB of data from over 30 sources, workstations and > servers. Fortunately, we have gigabit switches now. Most computers come with > gigabit network ports by default. We use an external drive enclosure which we > switch out weekly off-site connected on an eSATA port. We also two network > ports in the backupPC server, and they are teamed. So, our server has a 2-Gb > connection. > > Three backups at a time is a good choice. If you try more, they start to slow > each other down. I also recommend using eSATA over USB or Firewire. Backups > are going all the time, and nobody seems to notice that some bandwidth is > being used for backups. > > I have also noticed, for whatever reason, that machines with gigabit ports do > only a little better than the ones with 100Mbps ports. > > I did notice that a few users still had little 10Gbps switches in their > offices. These switches were a major slowdown. I replaced them. > Chris Baker -- cba...@intera.com > systems administrator > INTERA -- 512-425-2006 > > > From: Gerald Brandt [mailto:g...@majentis.com] > Sent: Wednesday, December 23, 2009 12:01 PM > To: General list for user discussion,questions and support > Subject: [BackupPC-users] How big is your backup? > > > Hi, > > I've been doing backups with BackupPC for quite a few years, mainly backing > up 2 or 3 servers. > > I've recently installed BackupPC at the office and am backing up 6 servers > right now, with room to grow. The current backup (Veritas BackupExec) keeps > around a year of data, which is close to 2.5 TB. Since I plan on phasing out > Veritas for BackupPC, I'm looking at similar sizes for my data. All my > backups will be via ssh/rsync and Samba/Windows shares. > > How many servers and how much data do you backup using BackupPC? > > Gerald > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take > advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, > 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and > get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers > http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list > BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: > http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: > http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
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