Consider looking at SAS drives.. On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 7:47 PM, Peter Vratny <usenet2...@server1.at> wrote:
> Gerald Brandt wrote: > > How many servers and how much data do you backup using BackupPC? > > There are 89 hosts that have been backed up, for a total of: > * 580 full backups of total size 5596.07GB (prior to pooling and > compression), > * 529 incr backups of total size 943.57GB (prior to pooling and > compression). > > Except 2 or 3 these are all Linux Servers. We use a Dell PE840 with 8GB > RAM and a RAID-10 (md) of 4 1TB SATA Disks. Right now we are running > into performance troubles (backuptimes getting > 1 day) > > Most of the times, the performace bottleneck is the disk-speed (we ve > got large amount of small files). Raid-10 did its thing but now we > reached the end again, see the i/o wait: > > http://blackdog.ps1.at/~peter/pics/backup/pun1/<http://blackdog.ps1.at/%7Epeter/pics/backup/pun1/> > > ys > Peter > > -- > "Wer nichts zu verbergen hat, hat bereits alles verloren" > http://klicklich.at > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > 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/ > -- Best Regards, Stephen
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