Dan Langille wrote: >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 > >Henrik Johansen wrote: >> Hi list, >> >> I have some questions regarding disk based backups that I hope some of you >> could answer for me. I am currently managing 100+ UNIX systems that are >> backed >> up using a variety of scripts which I really would like to replace with >> something >> solid, flexible, scalable and easy to manage. >> >> Bacula seems to be heavily centralized around tape and my head hurts a bit >> from >> trying to figure out how to do efficient disk baseed backup for 100+ clients >> without >> shooting myself in the foot :) > >Why do you conclude it is highly centralized around tape?
I am not concluding anything? When going through the manual I found that a lot was written about tape and less about disk, hence it *seems* more about tape then disk - at least to me. >> All our UNIX boxes follow a 3 week rotation with 1 full backup every week >> and >> incrementals in between but I would like to be able to change this on a per >> client basis. > >You can. > >> My plan is to have a redundant pair of directors and 3 storage daemons >> running >> off 3 seperat Solaris ZFS backends. > >What will you do with the two directors? Will both be active? Depends. I will start with an active / passive configuration and go from there. >> What combo of pools / volumes do people recommend ? A pool per client ? A >> pool per >> backup type, eg. full, diff, incr ? Seperate volumes per client perhaps ? > >It depends upon your goals. Do you want to do concurrent backups? How >much data will you be storing at a given time? Yes, concurrent backups is a must. Well, our UNIX boxes eat ~2 TB each week. >- -- >Dan Langille > >BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference : http://www.bsdcan.org/ >PGCon - The PostgreSQL Conference: http://www.pgcon.org/ >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (FreeBSD) >Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > >iEYEARECAAYFAkn2XWAACgkQCgsXFM/7nTyV9wCfVmbxea5duShN2meIgnLC9qnb >BvsAn2+vMSvPmJ5WmTAcEM5ft/o6lsgw >=1bE7 >-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Med venlig hilsen / Best Regards Henrik Johansen hen...@myunix.dk ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Register Now & Save for Velocity, the Web Performance & Operations Conference from O'Reilly Media. Velocity features a full day of expert-led, hands-on workshops and two days of sessions from industry leaders in dedicated Performance & Operations tracks. Use code vel09scf and Save an extra 15% before 5/3. http://p.sf.net/sfu/velocityconf _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
