Agreed sas drives are the way to go, just built a backup server with 10 300gb sas running in a raid 50, going to hopefully replace 2 backup servers that were using SATA storage.
On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 7:57 AM, Stephen Vaughan <stephenvaug...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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/ >> >> 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 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > 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/ > > -- 43.036801, -78.948532 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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/
